I really do wonder if they are actual fans of the show who have been around since the old series or just people looking for something to rage at for the sake of it. Some people just need to find something to yell at.
Jodie Whittaker isn't even the first female Doctor. Joanna Lumley got there first.
I don't necessarily agree with this argument. However I like to give both sides of a debate the opportunity to be heard, rather than completely dismissing one side.
Post by Fire Demon on Jul 27, 2017 18:38:53 GMT -6
Yeah so two random youtubers......OK I wonder how old these guys are. Did they grow up with the original show or only the reboot?
Sorry but I grew up with the show from the 70s 80s and I accept the change. I'm happy for a new spin on Doctor Who and while these guys have their own unique point of view how about they give her a chance.
Yeah so two random youtubers......OK I wonder how old these guys are. Did they grow up with the original show or only the reboot?
Sorry but I grew up with the show from the 70s 80s and I accept the change. I'm happy for a new spin on Doctor Who and while these guys have their own unique point of view how about they give her a chance.
I watched the reboot only and have no problem with a female Doctor. I'm more worried about the people at the helm.
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Yeah so two random youtubers......OK I wonder how old these guys are. Did they grow up with the original show or only the reboot?
Sorry but I grew up with the show from the 70s 80s and I accept the change. I'm happy for a new spin on Doctor Who and while these guys have their own unique point of view how about they give her a chance.
I watched the reboot only and have no problem with a female Doctor. I'm more worried about the people at the helm.
Well the new showrunner seems like he will be good. He's done other shows which have turned out good. So I'm happy to give them a chance.
Here are things I'd like to see and things I would like changed...
Let's see more alien worlds. Actually alien worlds. Not here is a place where human decedents settled. We could see more alien races (that aren't hostile monsters). We could see new cultures and environments.
No more Companions of Cosmic Importance. You know Impossible Girl, Bad Wolf, The Girl chased by a crack in time etc.
Daleks, Cybermen and The Master reused over and over again. Can we have a good solid break from these three? If we haven't seen them for a while then they return, this would be amazing. I want to be excited by these classic villains. I'm cool with bringing back some other Classic Who or New Who villains. Better still introduce some new villains.
No more school related stuff. Please. You have all of time and space to explore. Why are we going back to school?
Don't make a big deal about The Doctor being female. If every episode we have someone commenting about The Doctor's gender or someone banging on about women's rights I will face palm. I like the fact that she is a woman.
Take time to develop stories and characters. We could have a series of stories that are 2-4 episodes long. Quite often we have a lot of minor characters whose only purpose is to be killed off. Let's get to know them a little better before they're killed.
Currently playing: Persona 5, Life is Strange: Before the Storm, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Shuyan Saga, Child of Light (and that won't even make a dent on my backlog)
Currently playing: Persona 5, Life is Strange: Before the Storm, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Shuyan Saga, Child of Light (and that won't even make a dent on my backlog)
Well, now seems like a great time to bring this thread back to life. Has anyone been watching Doctor Who recently? The following video contains spoilers that may scar you for life. Watch at your peril!
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I loved the finale and yay the Morbius Doctors are now canon. They should have followed the Cartmel Master Plan more closely though, I rather liked that.
I'd say it was a nightmare but Chibnall's run has been... just so dull. I find it hard to think anything opinion wise about it at all.
I loved the idea of the lone cybermen back in Villa Diodatti or however you say it. What a fantastic redesign of the cybermen both conceptually and physically. I love dropping the robot thing they've acquired over new who and remembering that they're augmented humans. Dude was scary and intimidating (that death he causes is dark af for Doctor Who) and it got me excited as hell to see what the race of cybermen is like that he comes from. Desperate enough to allow emotion to run rampant. What does that make the rest of them like? what are their goals now, given that traditionally supressing emotion is half of their whole point? What are their motives?
Oh they.. they just want to destroy all biological life? despite being part biological themselves? And running counter the finer points of literally every cyber story ever? Neat... *sigh*
And the lone cybermen is written out of the final episode because the writer's have no idea what to do with him, lost in their finale circlejerk that they forget what the starting point of the plot even was.
Villa concludes weirdly and it's all downhill from there. Nothing the lone cyberman represented or was is relevant to anything in the end, and the semi three parter just degrades into yet another long running franchise with new writer's possessing it late into its life cycle, determined to retcon its history because they're so desperate to leave their mark on the franchise and their writing talent alone isn't enough to do it. With that just awful Master actor hamming it up in the worst, least Doctor Who way possible to boot. (For the record I never liked Simm's master much). Exposition central from there and Jodie's doctor and companions just being so flat means I am having little to no fun watching the show anymore. Jodie has no agency, she does nothing, everything that happens in these episodes is just given to her and anything she comes close to achieving is always robbed by another character anyway. Just another in a series of humiliations for the show.
In the meantime I am revisiting Capaldi's era and loving it!
'I understand it, it's on wikipedia' Rah: 'However Bjorn is worthy of death. It's fucking Björn.'
Have not been keeping up with Who for a long ass time now but yeah. Chibnall run is just so bland. I was really looking forward to a female Doctor but again as I have always said bland is always worse than being bad. So it just takes away from it all.
And Capaldi's run was a delight even after the great Matt Smith. He feels like an end of the era of Who in so many ways too.
Nothing beats a jelly-filled donut.
Edited by That Goat [Mar 10, 2020 15:18:02 GMT -6]
