I’m genuinely confused by this, the current season of Doctor Who has been excellent. The episodes have been memorable, I’m interested in the overarching story they’ve been building up, solid companions, and a great Doctor.
And they do this same thing every new Doctor. They just front-load the first few episodes with the same tired tropes and enemies we’ve already seen, as if we need to be re-introduced to the same bullshit.
Eccleston - A Dalek appears in the sixth episode in one of the worst episodes I’ve seen, and they make them a primary element of the last few episodes of the season
David Tennant - Cybermen in the sixth and seventh episode, and they make them a primary element of the last few episodes of the season
Matt Smith - Daleks in the third episode
Peter Capaldi - Daleks in the second episode (hey, can’t be worse than Kill the Moon), Cybermen in the last few episodes of the season
Jodie Whittaker - Daleks in the New Year’s special (I guess they tried to delay it?)
Ncuti Gatwa - No Daleks or Cybermen, so maybe they learned their lesson?
Unfortunately, like many companies chasing after trends in shitty ways, BBC really fucked up Jodie Whittaker’s reign by trying to jump on this woke bandwagon by hiring some of the shittiest soap opera writers they could find, to push every kind of topic around racist, sexism, etc. in the most heavy-handed and clumsy way possible. So much wasted potential when they brought in the first female Doctor.
And before you start downvoting me for somehow being some right-wing hack just because I said the word “woke”, let’s not forget that Jay Exci, a trans person, wrote a five-hour rant shredding every single episode of that season in detail.
Chibnal told her to stay in the dark about Doctor Who, and she wasn’t allowed to research the role and watch older episodes, etc.
The writers for the series being much more capitalism is fine, actually. Most bizarre is The Doctor thinking that Space Amazon is cool and based, and not being very working-folk supporting, and I think there were other less blatant occurrences in other eps. too, where Whitaker’s Doctor acted in very undoctery ways (the spiders episode).
Edit: I’ve just noticed you think Dalek is a bad episode, and therefore your opinion is objectively false. Dalek is a top tier episode, I do agree that later over saturation Dalek episodes, and the Cybermen episodes in New Who do tend to overdo and yet under explore them.
I’ve just noticed you think Dalek is a bad episode, and therefore your opinion is objectively false. Dalek is a top tier episode
Look, you can have your opinion, but I really did not like how the episode was trying to make me feel pity over a fucking overused and single-minded Dalek, when they could have just left them well alone. ST:TNG’s I, Borg expressed the concept of a robotic enemy adapting to the side of good way way way better than any Dr Who episode could.
Most of the RTD era, while it had some standout episodes, were way too campy for my tastes (Love & Monsters, Fear Her, that fat blob episode, the incredibly shitty ending to the Master). Matt Smith’s first two seasons were peak Dr Who, and it’s a shame Moffat couldn’t figure out how to write stories like that after those seasons.
I’m genuinely confused by this, the current season of Doctor Who has been excellent. The episodes have been memorable, I’m interested in the overarching story they’ve been building up, solid companions, and a great Doctor.
Let me guess. The Daleks? Or maybe the cyber men?
I gave up when lazy writing constantly pushed to the same boring for. A giant wheelie bin.
Really loved Blink with the Angels but I got so tired of it. Think I stopped watching around Matt Smith era and he was quite good.
And they do this same thing every new Doctor. They just front-load the first few episodes with the same tired tropes and enemies we’ve already seen, as if we need to be re-introduced to the same bullshit.
Disney invested money, but destroyed the marketing aspect, citing anything considered woke or DEI-related to be non-grata…
Unfortunately, like many companies chasing after trends in shitty ways, BBC really fucked up Jodie Whittaker’s reign by trying to jump on this woke bandwagon by hiring some of the shittiest soap opera writers they could find, to push every kind of topic around racist, sexism, etc. in the most heavy-handed and clumsy way possible. So much wasted potential when they brought in the first female Doctor.
And before you start downvoting me for somehow being some right-wing hack just because I said the word “woke”, let’s not forget that Jay Exci, a trans person, wrote a five-hour rant shredding every single episode of that season in detail.
Worst parts of Whittaker’s run were:
Edit: I’ve just noticed you think Dalek is a bad episode, and therefore your opinion is objectively false. Dalek is a top tier episode, I do agree that later over saturation Dalek episodes, and the Cybermen episodes in New Who do tend to overdo and yet under explore them.
Look, you can have your opinion, but I really did not like how the episode was trying to make me feel pity over a fucking overused and single-minded Dalek, when they could have just left them well alone. ST:TNG’s I, Borg expressed the concept of a robotic enemy adapting to the side of good way way way better than any Dr Who episode could.
Most of the RTD era, while it had some standout episodes, were way too campy for my tastes (Love & Monsters, Fear Her, that fat blob episode, the incredibly shitty ending to the Master). Matt Smith’s first two seasons were peak Dr Who, and it’s a shame Moffat couldn’t figure out how to write stories like that after those seasons.
You may or may not be “some right-wing hack”, but you proudly display the intelligence of one