Agreed. I love the new Doctor Who episodes, but Disney can still fuck off. I’ll buy it on DVD, later.
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MimicJar@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
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.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
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?
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 2 days ago
No, they’ve actually been doing The Gods of Chaos (Surekh, The Toymaker, and some new ones) along with The Rani.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 5 days ago
No Daleks. No Cyber men.
Now maybe they’ll appear later, but it seems unlikely.
But even if they do… That’s fine?
When I watch Star Wars, I expect Jedi to show up at some point. They don’t need to 100% of the time, but that’s the universe. In Solo we get a brief tease of Maul, which flips the expectation. In Andor season 1 Luthen gifts Andor a Kyber crystal, and his ship does a lightsaber-like spin move. In Season 2 we have the Force healer. In Rogue One we have Chirrut who repeats, “I am one with the Force, the Force is with me.”
When I watch Doctor Who I expect certain things. Obviously The Doctor, a companion, the Tardis, the sonic screwdriver. I expect to see long time enemies like Daleks, Cyber men or maybe The Master. The Doctor has a mysterious past involving Gallifrey. I know when The Doctor dies, he regenerates.
Is it all a bit of a trope? Yes. Is that fine? Yes.
IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Agree with many of those things and I don’t mind the occasional return to an old for, but Daleks were ridiculously overused and it wasn’t fine.
As for Star Wars, switched off long ago. It’s just Disney trying to milk it for a return on investment.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Disney invested money, but destroyed the marketing aspect, citing anything considered woke or DEI-related to be non-grata…
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
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.
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.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 5 days ago
Worst parts of Whittaker’s run were:
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
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.
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
You may or may not be “some right-wing hack”, but you proudly display the intelligence of one