The Rogue storyline proves that New Who has a writing problem that has nothing to do with being too woke, and, in fact, at least in parts more with being not woke enough. What reason could there be to hint at, introduce, develop, carry out, end, and bury a love interest all within one single episode, if not as concession for people against those story line to be able to avoid it altogether? Disney isn’t actually progressive, they never were, and where corporate pride/POC representation is implemented it’s because the cost calculation tells them it pays off, not because they actually represent any of those values.
The Doctor would never give up on anyone. Heck, in the next episode he cried more about some random guard post than the man who proposed to him. Until he at least attempts to get Rogue back I will have to assume the Doctor has either been replaced by some kind of doppelganger, or the writers at Disney lack the balls to actually portray a modern and gay Doctor after all.
rockerface@lemm.ee 1 day ago
If they think Doctor Who has “gone” woke, they have not been watching.
I remember Captain Jack Harkness flirting with anything that moves, regardless of gender identity or species.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
They had a black astronaut in 1966.
anomoly_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Pronell@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Unfortunately his behavior continued on set. Creepy dude.
But his character wasn’t meant to be, and I need to remember that from time to time.
nadiaraven@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh damn, that’s unfortunate
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 day ago
I have to disagree a bit here, the recent writing has tried to very heavily shoe-horn it in, whereas in the past it was much more naturally present.
I think the worst one for me (before I quit watching) was with the enormous spiders in the hotel run by a very Trumpian figure.
“Trump” wanted to just shoot the enormous spider, but the Doctor stopped him saying “no weapons, ever”. The spider then died an agonizing death caused by suffocation on-screen mere seconds later. Her offspring was lured and locked into a storage room with food, after which they would surely either cannibalize themselves or starve. Actually shooting them would’ve been a mercy at that point.
When presented with the Doctor’s solution versus the “Trump” solution, I felt more sympathy for “Trump”. And I fucking hate that guy. That’s when I knew the writing just wasn’t for me anymore.
There’s a reason even the more diehard Whovians, who are very much considered “woke” are tuning out. It’s not the cast, it’s the writing.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 day ago
The Doctor has been pretty anti-gun for as long as I’ve been watching. Honestly I just felt the Chibnal era lost a bit of magic, less campy/extreme/wild ride feeling to it. The first new season I thought was pretty decent.
rockerface@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I have to admit I kinda stopped following the series after Capaldi left.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Arachnids in the uk was 7 years ago, with a different cast, a different show runner, hell a different production company and channel.
So if it was the one that made you quit watching, how can you opine on the current run?
Dragonborn3810@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So that was during Chris Chibnalls era of running the show, which is, well, shit (good video about it, its long though: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8_A7n83Rh0 )
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I’m laughing at the “people just hate the bad plots” my bean i am a classic who fan. I have been since it was still on the air. I have seen shit that would melt their tiny minds.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Ken Dodds on fire off the shoulder of Butlins.