I have loved Dr Who since I was literally a baby (some of my earliest memories are my parents watching Tom Baker’s Doctor on PBS and the music). I hope this moron is what finally ends this show. Maybe after a number of years someone who actually cares can take over. Can’t believe how they have destroyed something that used to be must watch tv for me. At least classic who is on Pluto and Tubi and I still have episodes of those I haven’t seen
Personally I was more upset when they made David Tennant's doctor gay, and then retconned it as if he was always gay, in preparation for the entrance of this... Thing.
Which is frankly pretty bizarre, given that Tennant literally played Casanova, shacked up with at least two of his female co-stars (and ended up marrying one), and was voted one of the "sexiest men alive", by women, at some point. In fact I don't recall him ever playing a gay character before, despite working with Russell T Davies on multiple previous occasions. So that's just... Pure sacrilege, to me. I also can't think of any previous evidence of the Doctor being gay, canonically, whatsoever, prior to Jodie Whittaker...
I hate to go all "Not My Doctor", but I don't consider Cutty Cat-waah to really be the Doctor, canonically. Frankly, everything since "The Timeless Child" has felt like some sort of weird fan fiction, so that fits.
If they want to destroy everything that made the show good in the first place, as you point out, then they may as well just call it something else at this point, given that it bears no resemblance to what the vast, vast majority of fans knew and loved.
But of course, they won't do that, because they would rather destroy what we enjoy, instead.
I stopped with The Husbands of River Song. It just worked as an ending point for so many plot points even though the Doctor would obviously go on to do more things after.
You don't even need to get meta about this and talk about Tennent. Both the actual Doctor and his regeneration clone were written to be in love with Rose which is why the clone goes off to live with her in the other dimension at the end of the series with Donna, while 10 gets left heartbroken he won't be able to actually stay with her.
While the whole idea of th Doctor and companions being together like that is a stupid point the newer series ran with hard because modern audiences need relationship drama, the point remains that Tennent's version of the Doctor was repeatedly shown to be interested in women.
First Rose, then the French Queen, and later again Elizabeth the First.
I have loved Dr Who since I was literally a baby (some of my earliest memories are my parents watching Tom Baker’s Doctor on PBS and the music). I hope this moron is what finally ends this show. Maybe after a number of years someone who actually cares can take over. Can’t believe how they have destroyed something that used to be must watch tv for me. At least classic who is on Pluto and Tubi and I still have episodes of those I haven’t seen
Personally I was more upset when they made David Tennant's doctor gay, and then retconned it as if he was always gay, in preparation for the entrance of this... Thing.
Which is frankly pretty bizarre, given that Tennant literally played Casanova, shacked up with at least two of his female co-stars (and ended up marrying one), and was voted one of the "sexiest men alive", by women, at some point. In fact I don't recall him ever playing a gay character before, despite working with Russell T Davies on multiple previous occasions. So that's just... Pure sacrilege, to me. I also can't think of any previous evidence of the Doctor being gay, canonically, whatsoever, prior to Jodie Whittaker...
I hate to go all "Not My Doctor", but I don't consider Cutty Cat-waah to really be the Doctor, canonically. Frankly, everything since "The Timeless Child" has felt like some sort of weird fan fiction, so that fits.
If they want to destroy everything that made the show good in the first place, as you point out, then they may as well just call it something else at this point, given that it bears no resemblance to what the vast, vast majority of fans knew and loved.
But of course, they won't do that, because they would rather destroy what we enjoy, instead.
/endrant
I totally agree. I stopped watching with Jodie. Had stopped after Capaldi’s second season and then decided to give Jodie a chance and was done
I stopped with The Husbands of River Song. It just worked as an ending point for so many plot points even though the Doctor would obviously go on to do more things after.
I only watch the third season for Nardol.
Everything about 10's relationships with Rose.
You don't even need to get meta about this and talk about Tennent. Both the actual Doctor and his regeneration clone were written to be in love with Rose which is why the clone goes off to live with her in the other dimension at the end of the series with Donna, while 10 gets left heartbroken he won't be able to actually stay with her.
While the whole idea of th Doctor and companions being together like that is a stupid point the newer series ran with hard because modern audiences need relationship drama, the point remains that Tennent's version of the Doctor was repeatedly shown to be interested in women.
First Rose, then the French Queen, and later again Elizabeth the First.