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.
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.