It's funny how despite the long hiatus it had before Christopher Eccleston came on, it was in a nice position, still fondly regarded with lots of nostalgia.
It wavered a bit under Matt Smith as they tried to do a complex time travel plot that didn't work out and wavered more under Peter Capaldi who was a great actor saddled with terrible writing but didn't truly fall till the female doctor then the black gay one.
Now unless they retcon those latter two, no matter how long you wait it WON'T bring back the audience.
Doctor Who was fine up until Chibnall. Sure it had plenty of wonky moments in it but overall it was a fine family science fantasy adventure that educated in fanciful ways and started conversations about morality and tinkering with situations that had massive knock-on effects.
The death of William Hartnell and popularity of the show allowed it to explore identity and knowing right from wrong as someone almost entirely differently. Allowing for fresh perspectives and takes on situation from new eyes and minds along the years.
When it came back on the air in 2005 it was rushing for the pop culture, early ADHD audience who got a wide range of experiences on a mostly sugar rush diet which lasted for a good 12 years.
The BBC, under the weight of diversity and pompous hubris, decided to change tactics and have more companions, diverse in character, and take away focus from the Doctor (Now a woman) and tackle considerations of modern society a little ham-fistedly. Not mentioning that Rosa Parks was one of many black women sitting in the white area of a public bus showed that edumication wasn't it's motivation but preaching was. The politic minefield that is Kashmir was glossed over as if an antiquated poem from bygone days. The concept of corruption in a post-scarcity consumer society had the customer as the terrorist and all the while the new companions were doing things which contradicted actions firmly laid out that they couldn't, or wouldn't, do in earlier episodes.
The janky writing led to the Doctor not being as important to the already established story by having children tortured and murdered for an incredibly long time led to the creation of the identity of the peoples who the Doctor considered their own. A living martyr who had died countless times at the hands of those who they had considered family. All beacause they had found a baby in a basket by the river (To expand upon that metaphor in a science fiction setting).
As so with that the BBC decided to get additional external funding (From Disney) and bring back the team behind the original reboot and the Casanova show. Before you know it the Doctor is even less important but the fact that he's now a black man, and gay, was the central pivot point in the story. Forget about the stories or the actor playing the central part. He's black, and gay! Now if you don't like the Doctor you are a homophobic racist as well as a misogynist. Forget about snot monsters, farting spaceships and talking babies - no! A gay black dude saved them from the hegemonic elite or that time and you are part of it whether you like it or not.
From there we got better stories than Jodie's Doctor did, but not by much. The Doctor now cries as often as he can (When he's in one of the 8 stories) and a half-assed mystery box which is sold as being completely fresh but actually all dwells on an older Doctor story which most of the audience won't have seen.
Finish it up with a censored man actor who can't speak outside of the black and gay narrative they've been told to use and a suicidal fat Irish woman who dies at Christmas despite not being in the story much and here we are today.
To use a Doctor Who type analogy; the mind virus attacked those who were most open to fighting inequality, the most tolerant and accepting of new ideas, those with a passion for understanding the ramifications of small actions across the wide ranges of the future and the implications of ignoring certain things. It attacked that certain that it could win. Now everyone involved in that attack is seen as the racist, homophobic, misogynistic (And dare I say paedophilic) bullies that they are and the BBC and Disney are off to lick their wounds and pretend that Jimmy Savile and Michael Laney never existed. Looking to travel through the annals of time and Correct the Record with bare faces.
Thankfully the body which the mind virus tried to attack had experienced a fine family science fantasy adventure that educated in fanciful ways and started conversations about morality and tinkering with situations that had massive knock-on effects. It didn't stand a chance.
The Dr. Who revival was unadulterated kiddie-level soft science fiction focused on scoring cheap laughs and thrills.
That's not to say that it deserved being hijacked by proglodytes in wigs, but it was always one of the lamest 'science fiction' shows on television. They could have used the budget for something good.
Tom Baker will always be peak Doctor Who. He’s old enough now that they could reboot the entire series and cast him as the original Doctor traveling through space and time with his granddaughter. Probably the only way to save the series, but the wokies in charge will never do it.
The Critical Drinker lost any respect I might have had for him when he reviewed The Last of Us part 2 and suggested you weren't allowed to have an opinion on it unless you played it.
We get bitched at and blamed for if we buy the games unseen, we get bitched at and blamed for if we do our research ahead of time and skip over shit I'm not going to enjoy for one reason or another.
You can't fucking win with some people, but it atleasts lets me know who to ignore.
It's still my personal canon that Capaldi's regeneration into Jodie was actually the Rani teleporting into the Doctor's place.
He was ported away, and everything since Jodie was The Rani having narcisistic reality-altering adventures... including the invention of 'The Timeles Child' concept; a fiction she invented to make herself feel special.
One day, The Doctor will return and break her free from the Heaven/Hell she's constructed around herself.
It's funny how despite the long hiatus it had before Christopher Eccleston came on, it was in a nice position, still fondly regarded with lots of nostalgia.
It wavered a bit under Matt Smith as they tried to do a complex time travel plot that didn't work out and wavered more under Peter Capaldi who was a great actor saddled with terrible writing but didn't truly fall till the female doctor then the black gay one.
Now unless they retcon those latter two, no matter how long you wait it WON'T bring back the audience.
Dude, I loved the time travel seasons. Matt Smith is one of my favorites.
Weird thing. There's a guy who tests AI on Twitter, and he's found that Capaldi shows up usually when the test prompts say Doctor Who.
Doctor Who was fine up until Chibnall. Sure it had plenty of wonky moments in it but overall it was a fine family science fantasy adventure that educated in fanciful ways and started conversations about morality and tinkering with situations that had massive knock-on effects.
The death of William Hartnell and popularity of the show allowed it to explore identity and knowing right from wrong as someone almost entirely differently. Allowing for fresh perspectives and takes on situation from new eyes and minds along the years.
When it came back on the air in 2005 it was rushing for the pop culture, early ADHD audience who got a wide range of experiences on a mostly sugar rush diet which lasted for a good 12 years.
The BBC, under the weight of diversity and pompous hubris, decided to change tactics and have more companions, diverse in character, and take away focus from the Doctor (Now a woman) and tackle considerations of modern society a little ham-fistedly. Not mentioning that Rosa Parks was one of many black women sitting in the white area of a public bus showed that edumication wasn't it's motivation but preaching was. The politic minefield that is Kashmir was glossed over as if an antiquated poem from bygone days. The concept of corruption in a post-scarcity consumer society had the customer as the terrorist and all the while the new companions were doing things which contradicted actions firmly laid out that they couldn't, or wouldn't, do in earlier episodes.
The janky writing led to the Doctor not being as important to the already established story by having children tortured and murdered for an incredibly long time led to the creation of the identity of the peoples who the Doctor considered their own. A living martyr who had died countless times at the hands of those who they had considered family. All beacause they had found a baby in a basket by the river (To expand upon that metaphor in a science fiction setting).
As so with that the BBC decided to get additional external funding (From Disney) and bring back the team behind the original reboot and the Casanova show. Before you know it the Doctor is even less important but the fact that he's now a black man, and gay, was the central pivot point in the story. Forget about the stories or the actor playing the central part. He's black, and gay! Now if you don't like the Doctor you are a homophobic racist as well as a misogynist. Forget about snot monsters, farting spaceships and talking babies - no! A gay black dude saved them from the hegemonic elite or that time and you are part of it whether you like it or not.
From there we got better stories than Jodie's Doctor did, but not by much. The Doctor now cries as often as he can (When he's in one of the 8 stories) and a half-assed mystery box which is sold as being completely fresh but actually all dwells on an older Doctor story which most of the audience won't have seen.
Finish it up with a censored man actor who can't speak outside of the black and gay narrative they've been told to use and a suicidal fat Irish woman who dies at Christmas despite not being in the story much and here we are today.
To use a Doctor Who type analogy; the mind virus attacked those who were most open to fighting inequality, the most tolerant and accepting of new ideas, those with a passion for understanding the ramifications of small actions across the wide ranges of the future and the implications of ignoring certain things. It attacked that certain that it could win. Now everyone involved in that attack is seen as the racist, homophobic, misogynistic (And dare I say paedophilic) bullies that they are and the BBC and Disney are off to lick their wounds and pretend that Jimmy Savile and Michael Laney never existed. Looking to travel through the annals of time and Correct the Record with bare faces.
Thankfully the body which the mind virus tried to attack had experienced a fine family science fantasy adventure that educated in fanciful ways and started conversations about morality and tinkering with situations that had massive knock-on effects. It didn't stand a chance.
The Dr. Who revival was unadulterated kiddie-level soft science fiction focused on scoring cheap laughs and thrills.
That's not to say that it deserved being hijacked by proglodytes in wigs, but it was always one of the lamest 'science fiction' shows on television. They could have used the budget for something good.
The budget was already in the BBCs hands, that hope was long gone.
True.
Tom Baker will always be peak Doctor Who. He’s old enough now that they could reboot the entire series and cast him as the original Doctor traveling through space and time with his granddaughter. Probably the only way to save the series, but the wokies in charge will never do it.
Can't stand this guy's voice but if I listen in 1.5 speed I can cope
The Critical Drinker lost any respect I might have had for him when he reviewed The Last of Us part 2 and suggested you weren't allowed to have an opinion on it unless you played it.
We get bitched at and blamed for if we buy the games unseen, we get bitched at and blamed for if we do our research ahead of time and skip over shit I'm not going to enjoy for one reason or another.
You can't fucking win with some people, but it atleasts lets me know who to ignore.
You don't need to be a chef to know the food is rotten.
It's still my personal canon that Capaldi's regeneration into Jodie was actually the Rani teleporting into the Doctor's place.
He was ported away, and everything since Jodie was The Rani having narcisistic reality-altering adventures... including the invention of 'The Timeles Child' concept; a fiction she invented to make herself feel special.
One day, The Doctor will return and break her free from the Heaven/Hell she's constructed around herself.
Because the Doctor makes people better.
Pretty sure they based a Stargate character on 'The Rani'.