Doctor Who

Still watching it, but from Capaldi's tenure it's stopped being a show I watch when it was airing. Capaldi could have been a good Doctor Who but the scripts were pants and have gotten worse and worse. I dislike Whittaker's portrayal of The Doctor and her favourite "fam" irritates the crap out of me. Didn't mind her in Broadchurch but really don't like her as Doctor Who, though I am persevering in the hope either the writing gets better or she gets replace (preferably both).
 
checjb said:
I used to love Dr Who but gave up shortly after Capaldi came in as the stories were terrible (despite PC's best efforts). The Whittaker stuff doesn't interest me at all, again because of story choices and poor characters.
Click to expand...
I gave up during his second series but started to lose interest during Smith's tenure when the writing seemed to fall off a cliff, probably around the time Moffat became lead writer.

I don't really have an opinion on Jodie as the Doctor, she's been fine in everything else I've watched, but I can't see Doctor Who appealing to me in the future unless another service or network buy the rights.
 
My New Years resolution is to stop watching shows I used to love but have become crap. I have to accept that they aren’t going to get better. Doctor Who and Star Trek used to be good, enjoyable escapism and now just annoy the hell out of me. There is so much good tv that there is no excuse for watching crap like this and I just do it to wind myself up.
 
Feek said:
I’ll try it again when there’s a writer/show runner who actually cares and doesn’t destroy sixty years of history.
Click to expand...

Its the BBC, if you think it’s going to get better I think you might be disappointed. The BBC is more concerned with politics and social issues than making good content. There was an opportunity to have the first female doctor be something different in a positive way and they have made a mess of it. The problem with allowing a left leaning luvvie to control these things is that very few have any sort of self awareness and cannot entertain the idea that people don’t like their output for any reason other than bigotry. They lap up the positive comments as validation and ignore the negative feedback as nothing more than the intolerant of society not boing open to anything different.

Its genuinely astounding how many films and tv shows that have been received negatively by their fan base have simply doubled down instead of making any changes.
 
I watched the first episode of The Watch last night, the difference in production quality betwixt that and Dr Who is laughable (both BBC shows). Although thinking about it, Dr Who is more comparable to His Dark Materials, but even then the difference in quality is evident.
 
FlamBango said:
It needs to go independent and produced on Netflix or Amazon. Give the writers some freedom.
Click to expand...

Writers freedom is not the issue. It’s giving it to the wrong writers and letting them do whatever they want. Doctor who has rarely been amazing. It’s been really good at times and alright at others. It was campy escapism that you could enjoy and occasionally you got a really deep and well conceived idea that they executed well. It’s just recently degenerated into virtue signalling trash with all the subtlety of a bull in a China shop. People can forgive you bad props, plot holes the size of a bus etc if the core is good and its enjoyable. Doctor who is not enjoyable anymore.
 
Infidelus said:
Still watching it, but from Capaldi's tenure it's stopped being a show I watch when it was airing. Capaldi could have been a good Doctor Who but the scripts were pants and have gotten worse and worse. I dislike Whittaker's portrayal of The Doctor and her favourite "fam" irritates the crap out of me. Didn't mind her in Broadchurch but really don't like her as Doctor Who, though I am persevering in the hope either the writing gets better or she gets replace (preferably both).
Click to expand...

I'm the same, the issue is they've always gone for someone charismatic or, well, to put it bluntly odd i.e. Silvester McCoy, Tom Baker I can't remember exactly what was stated but thats the jist of it. Jodie was picked because of PC reasons which is rife at the BBC atm but she has no personality other than "nice".

Tombstone said:
Well, Jodie Whittaker appears to have quit as Doctor Who, so will be interesting to see what they do with it, will it go into hibernation for a few years or will they immediately go onto a new Doctor and if so, who will it be?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowb...ittaker-QUITS-Doctor-3-years-sci-fi-show.html
Click to expand...

Knowing the BBC probably black, LBGT female...
 
Gerard said:
Yup, was thinking that at the start if she can use it to go back to arrive earlier why can't she use it to stop the Daleks being re-made on Earth? Suppose technically that is a question that can be made about just every storyline when a Time Machine is to hand. There's probably been some elaborate reason for it in the past i suppose.
Click to expand...

Yeah that was explained elaborately back in Tom Baker's days you can't cross your own timeline, subsequently picked up again during Tennant's tenure (or was it Smith's, can't remember) but basically altering your own personal history is a no-no creates paradoxes that potentially break the universe or whatnot. Which is not actually such a bad concept its based on the Grandfather Paradox originated by H.G. Wells I believe what if you went back in time and prevented your own grandparents from meeting/hooking up (an idea taken and run with in the Back to the Future movies) which is often given as one of the reasons time travel to the past will never be possible as it would create an unresolvable paradox.

fez said:
It’s just... boring. I gave up about 2/3rds of the way through the episode because I just didn’t care. They’ve done a fantastic job of making me care so little about the companions that anything that tried to play on my emotions for them just grates.
Click to expand...

The build up was quite good grow the tension, dalek stolen technology being used for security robots (not a bad idea, what could possibly go wrong?!) but then in the latter half its completely squandered by throwing it all away, doctor whisks up fake tardis that all the daleks zoom into like a herd of drones, bam all over.

So if you could do that with the second lot of daleks why not just do it to the first? And never was a character so badly wasted as Cpt Jack where did he disappear to at the end? Or maybe I simply stopped watching by that point glossed over by some awful attempt at emotional touchy feely nonsense that I couldn't care one iota about. Good build up, zero effort ending.
 
Last edited:
That reminds me, anybody else find it strange how the Doctor seemed perfectly happy to sentence a TARDIS to death. Pretty sure it's mentioned before that they're actually sentient. As for a new Doctor, what's Jarvis Cocker up to these days?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom