#RIPDrWho Russell T Davis continues Dr Woke

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[–]OuroborosTheory 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

that sounds like bioessentialism--male and female brains? yikes, totes transphobes, do better sweaty

[–]Nintendogirl2[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Which is ironic considering Rose is trans, and a large chunk of the plot is trans propaganda. But the writers tried to have their cake and eat it too, by somehow simultaneously pushing extreme feminism.

[–]wylanderuk 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Meh stopped watching it about 3 to 4 episodes into Peter Capaldis run as the stories sucked ass.

Which is a crying shame as I thought with good material he would have been a fucking excellent Dr Who.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly the same for me. Was a fan of Capaldi from The Thick of It and he was fantastic as the doomed Civil Servant in Torchwood:Children of Earth, and then they give him The Doctor and the shittiest scripts.

[–]Ferretman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wow....a trans (actually male) companion and a Doctor who is supposedly gay? The Doctor isn't supposed to be much of ANYTHING, really.....this is horrific.

Doctor Who ended when Capaldi left the show, I guess.

[–]Femaleisnthateful 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I never watched Dr Who? Is this a parody of some kind? I'm vaguely aware it went to shit when they cast a female Doctor who didn't seem to even appreciate the franchise, but I don't recall what happened after her departure.

[–]Nintendogirl2[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Unfortunately this isn't parody. The actor David Tennant and writer Russel T Davis ran the show from 2005 to 2010. Because the writing was much better then, some fans assumed things would get better with their return after the removal of actress Jodie Whitaker and writer Chris Chibnall. Instead the old crew doubled down on all the wokeness in the latest episodes.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Disney.

Disney is heavily involved in producing this shit because following the dreadful ratings of the Chibnall/Whitaker era the BBC were considering putting Who back in the cupboard for a decade or two.

[–]QueenBread 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Offensive to men AND more so to women, just to make sure it's complete crap.

[–]JulienMayfair 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I can't watch Doctor Who anymore. I quit when Jodie Whittaker (who was never a great actress to begin with) took over. All watching it now does is ruin the memories of it I had from the times the show was good.

There was always some wokeness coming from Russell T. Davies, but he's now gone off the rails, along with much of the BBC. It's descended into ever-increasing over-complication and the rewriting of characters, all the worst of modern screenwriting where every character is resurrected and modified to fit the latest so-called plot and the latest diversity agenda demands.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I never saw her episodes but I caught a random one on tv with her and just wasn't interested at all.

I stopped watching at some point into Matt Smiths run, show was getting to be quite crap then and I really disliked how they handled it trying to tie things together into these big epic serialized season stretching plots that just weren't satisfying at all. Give me monster of the week.

Like you had excellent episodes like "Blink", then they run out of ideas bring that monster back and run it into the ground by ruining everything that made it scary in the first place. When your whole monster works around being a creepy statue that can only attack when you aren't looking at it don't fucking have it move on frame in the camera. Dumb fucks. It was so much scarier as a low budget monster.

Feel that popularity and budget kills these sorts of shows. Similar to star trek. Make them work out of a shoebox and they somehow get creative and make good TV. Throw them a CG budget and they just assume sparkle sparkle special effects can distract the audience from whatever trainwreck of a plot they vomit out.

Is it so hard to do monster of the week? Like even the og star trek did the fucking gender swap episode when it was dying in the last season but even though it's garbage it's still entertaining to watch Shatner play at being a woman and just throwing a temper tantrum in the most overacted nonsense ever.

[–]JulienMayfair 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with you that Doctor Who had largely run out of plot ideas. The thing they forgot from the classic Who like Troughton - Baker was that a big part of the charm of the show was its quirky British-ness. The modern writers decided to take the Doctor from being an eccentric space wanderer to being a superhero who always has to be running around like a maniac. People didn't watch Doctor Who for flashy Sci-Fi; they watched it for how Tom Baker or David Tennant could deliver a witty line.

[–]Nintendogirl2[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Transcript for those without Twitter:

The Doctor: "But...we've still got to fix you two, because the metacrisis might have slowed down, but that thing is wrapped around your cortex."

Donna/Rose: "Yes, we know. We know everything. Thanks. And you know nothing. It's a shame you're not a woman any more, because she'd have understood. We've got all that power - but there is a way to get rid of it. Something a male-presenting Time Lord will never understand. Just let it go. And we choose to let it go."

[–]alladd 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

LOL "male presenting"

So if David Tennant puts a cheap wig on and calls himself Krystal Tits he can suddenly have the same knowledge as them and they'll have to shut the fuck up.

[–]Nintendogirl2[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

To make things worse, this Rose is a biological male.