Doctor Who

Exactly, well at least one true fan above (seems very fond on him) and another who want to "not talk" about the BBC's PC BS as if that will make it go away.

I watched zero of JW apart from the Xmas special when one handed it over to the other, it will never be like Eccleston-Smith again.
 
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As you've seen him in a role before, what sort of Dr do you think he will be most like? Are we thinking a David Tennant/Matt Smith era return to form, or more a Colin Baker/Sylvester Mccoy tryhard wackiness
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It's hard to say. If he got the role he may bring out a different persona than the way I've seen him act as he played a very obviously gay character in Its a Sin and having seen him be himself on Google box he is quite effeminate.

However he may not play the Doctor that way
 
He might be really good, who knows. He was really good in "its a sin" but its very hard to take anything from an effeminate gay man playing an effeminate gay man in a tv show about gay men. Thats not showing off a range of acting ability.

As others have pointed out, there is no reason he couldn't be a great doctor. The problem is that we know the show is trying to push a very blunt agenda and I think he will be a victim of that. He will inevitably be a gay or trans doctor and we will end up with a load of smack you in the face social commentary throughout the series.

I would love to be wrong though. It would be nice for Doctor Who to be good again.
 
The actor/actress is largely irrelevant when the scripts and stories are so bad and if Capaldi can't carry the show, no one can.

Read some of the comments in the article for my own amusement, anyone who likes him or has said anything positive has been downvoted to hell :D
 
It's still only a rumour and is based on something RTD said while promoting Its A Sin. He said "I think he'd make a Great Doctor, don't you?"

Also the guy is gay but that doesn't mean the Doctor would be.
 
yep - Any new series needs to accompanied by some neo woke BBC advise for writers, Chibnall didn't succeed, maybe due to BBC woke demand, but, RTD -
it's a sin, with its dramatisation wasn't a realistic portrayal, the half episode I watched felt like a parody with gratuitous music, intimacy co-ordinators ....
perhaps he's lost it , or that's the bbc with an eye on the usa market, so, the mould of productions like The Crown.

Restoring it, as an adult oriented show could help.

were the europeans watching it ... well, they are fixing that now.
 
I don't care about someones sexuality, gender, colour, etc, as long as they are good in the role. They are called actors for a reason. They act in character. It's a fictional character anyway. But, given how the BBC have behaved recently, I do wonder if he is being considered for box ticking reasons. I gave up on Doctor Who when Jodie Whittaker took over as she wan't able to carry the role with such bad writing. I loved the David Tennant and Matt Smith eras. I thought the writing during Peter Capaldi's era had got really bad but he was a strong enough actor with enough presence to still make it interesting to watch. But I've given up on it now with a combination of poor writing and poor actors.
 
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They are called actors for a reason.
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You would think that wouldn't you but thats not the case any more. Play someone who has a different heritage to yourself and you are white, boy you are in trouble. Play a gay character as a straight man? I wouldn't. Dare to play a disabled person or someone with any sort of difficulty and you might as well be a nazi.

You would think that a job that is quite literally pretending to be someone you are not wouldn't have an issue with a straight man playing a gay man or an english actor playing a spanish character but that is where you are wrong. An actor should be exactly the same as their character in as many ways as possible so as not to offend.

As I said above, Oli was good in "Its a sin" and he might be a great doctor but I would be utterly stunned if he played a straight doctor and honestly I would be massively surprised if he doesn't play a trans doctor and that is a main there for an episode. Its been a long time since the BBC cared and focused mainly on the content of a show and the quality instead of themes and agendas.

As with all Doctor Who, I'm sure I will watch it at first to see what its like but I have little hope at this point.
 
So I guess all the confused 10-16 year olds now have a new roll model to look upto.

Zero interest, but then the writing has been horrendous since Tennent, some nice little Gems with Capaldi but mainly down to him being a great actor.
 
It's not the actors per se, it's the scripts. I only made it 4 or 5 episodes into the Chibnall era before I gave up. Now I started watching Doctor Who when Tom Baker was making the roll his own. I watched it all the way through to JW's Doctor but it had been getting worse and worse too much solved by hugs and warm feelings. The sudden and pronounced further deterioration under Chibnall just made it unwatchable. Too many producers seem to be being picked for their politics over the aptitude.
 
Jodie was terrible, but getting rid of her fixes nothing if they keep Chibnal, because he was also the source of the script problems. The BBC diversity quotas on the production also mean things are costing twice as much and taking three times as long because the production staff are not being picked on skill, talent and experience, but on the colour of their skins. You see the same thing in other big US TV productions like Loki where the writers have no experience in the relevant area, but tick a diversity quota box and follow the agenda driven groupthink over good stories and characters.

It's hard to believe that Doctor Who was once one of the BBC's biggest, most profitable worldwide IPs, and they've let it be destroyed like this in the space of a few years.
 
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Nothing has been confirmed yet, I won't believe it until the BBC announce it.

However, I have little confidence in any new actor playing the part until Chibs leaves. He's so bad that nobody can do the role justice while he's still there.

I've said it before, the best thing that can happen to Doctor Who is for the entire Chib/Whit era to get trashed from canon and they just pretend it never happened.
 
That's never going to happen. Also Chib may be showrumner but many of the stories were written and/or directed by other people. Not all blame lies with him.

Well technically it does as he probably hired them.
 
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