One my cousins used to always give me the usual lines regarding the infestation of entertainment like "it's always been political/woke", "you are uncomfortable with female leads", "you are just mad because white males aren't in everything" along with all the other stuff everyone on here has heard.
The other day he called me after trying to watch the Obi Wan show on Disney plus and apologized to me because he said he couldn't unsee or unhear everything I had been saying. His preteen kids got bored with the show after one episode and he tried to keep watching but he said that it was blatantly obvious there was an agenda and that maybe I wasn't crazy when I said there was an obsession with diversity and less white representation.
I had already cancelled my disney plus when Obi Wan premiered but when someone told me that it was basically a Leia and Reva show I wasn't surprised. I remember hearing that it was originally supposed to be a show focusing on Obi Wan and Luke but the female showrunner said she wanted to include Leia (showing how clueless she was about the lore). It really made me sad to see so called star wars fans defending it by saying "well, it never said Leia had never met Obi Wan or him and Vader hadn't fought multiple times".
There is an EU book called Kenobi that is good. It is Obi Wan watching over Luke from a distance and getting reluctantly sucked into a skirmish between the Tusken Raiders and the local farmers. At least that author understood the lore he had to work with. Honestly Obi Wan could've been a massive hit.
Capaldi was a great actor. I got tired of Bill but never Capaldi. I gave Jodie a chance and stopped watching after the Rosa Parks episode. When I heard about Timeless Children I was furious. I’m with you about RTD. Considering the times we live in I have trouble believing it will be good.
I admit, I did watch Jodie's finale months later out of curiosity with bringing the other Doctors back, and what annoyed me was that it wasn't a terrible episode. It wasn't great, but it was at least passable, and it was annoying because it showed they were capable of something of acceptable quality and continually fucked it up over and over and over instead.
That would be annoying. Also I feel it is just spite to come out and have an endless amount of doctors. Also I never understood the need for a female doctor. They could’ve just done a spin-off with a female time lord
Missy was definitely testing the waters to see if they could get away with the whole gender change stuff for Time Lords. And that too sucks because they got really lucky by having an actress that did a pretty good job of the character. That said, they did do the predictable thing of trying to redeem The Master/Missy, but only for the female version, and once the Master regenerated again, he was back to being full blown evil because he was a man.
But yeah, going off with someone like The Rani, or a new original character, River, or even someone like Jenny from The Doctor's Daughter would have been better than this, and if I'm honest, better than Whittaker. She might be able to do other scenes really well, but even for the good episodes, her acting is still subpar for the type of shop Doctor Who ultimately is.