#RIPDrWho Russell T Davis continues Dr Woke

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[–]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.