Same. I watched Capaldi at first but gave up on the show during his run and gave Jodie a chance but stopped watching. There are still a lot of classic episodes I haven’t seen
I knew a lot of people who hated Clara, including an ex, and the reason was because Clara was more or less the perfect manifestation of every fanfic Mary Sue companion out there but written and acted by someone else. This pissed off a lot of the tumblr tier fans whose own fantasies about being The Doctor's perfect companion were not only suddenly taken away from them and actually done as canon, but also made them look into the mirror about the whole thing which never ends well.
All of this is before even getting onto actual criticisms like the constant reliance on deus ex machina in a series finale to actually beat whatever big bad there is, which very quickly devolved into being either The Master or Daleks again as none of the showruners were actually that creative when it came to actual writing.
Seriously, look at the regeneration episodes.
Eccleston: Daleks.
Tennent: Daleks during the fake out episode that also brought back Rose briefly, The Master during the actual one which was also the second time a Tennent finale used him after bringing him back in the third new series.
Smith: Daleks.
Capaldi: The Master.
Jodie: Who cares at this point?
The new writers have always been far more interested in huffing their own farts and virtue signaling than actually writing something interesting that will be remembered outside of memes and tropes.
Same. I watched Capaldi at first but gave up on the show during his run and gave Jodie a chance but stopped watching. There are still a lot of classic episodes I haven’t seen
Capaldi was robbed by being given the worst writers, and saddled with the worst sidekick.
From then on, they've just been determined to totally kill the franchise, but not before giving it a good, long, hard struggle session.
Agree. Capaldi is a great actor but he came at the worst time when the bbc was really going insane
Peter Capaldi will always be my Dr. Who because he was the Doctor for the Lego Dimensions game and I love that game lol.
Clara, or Bill..?
I mean, I get the Clara criticism, but no way was she a worst ever candidate...
More just, "Yeah, you probably should have quit a while ago," if anything...
But yeah Bill sucked, lol.
I knew a lot of people who hated Clara, including an ex, and the reason was because Clara was more or less the perfect manifestation of every fanfic Mary Sue companion out there but written and acted by someone else. This pissed off a lot of the tumblr tier fans whose own fantasies about being The Doctor's perfect companion were not only suddenly taken away from them and actually done as canon, but also made them look into the mirror about the whole thing which never ends well.
All of this is before even getting onto actual criticisms like the constant reliance on deus ex machina in a series finale to actually beat whatever big bad there is, which very quickly devolved into being either The Master or Daleks again as none of the showruners were actually that creative when it came to actual writing.
Seriously, look at the regeneration episodes.
Eccleston: Daleks.
Tennent: Daleks during the fake out episode that also brought back Rose briefly, The Master during the actual one which was also the second time a Tennent finale used him after bringing him back in the third new series.
Smith: Daleks.
Capaldi: The Master.
Jodie: Who cares at this point?
The new writers have always been far more interested in huffing their own farts and virtue signaling than actually writing something interesting that will be remembered outside of memes and tropes.
Bill.
Clara was mostly an example of "enough with the Magical Companion that's the most important person in the whole wide whirled" bullshit.
It was a shame as I LOVED Capaldi in 'The Thick of it' and wanted some of that energy in his version of the Doctor.
Unfortunately he was saddled with such bad writing that never happened, I dropped it HARD after the moon episode.
And Bill was super annoying