Comment on ‘Doctor Who’ Ratings Dive, Supercharging Uncertainty About Future Of Sci-Fi Series

• p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Worst parts of Whittaker’s run were:

    • 1. 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.
    • 2. 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).

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    • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I see the sympathy for the Dalek style episodes more as tolerance paradox and highlighting paralles with the Doctor.

        I find that daleks also suffer from the inverse ninja law, and generally the more daleks in an episode the less compelling and engaging they are.

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  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You may or may not be “some right-wing hack”, but you proudly display the intelligence of one

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