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Reboot the First Doctor with David Bradley playing the part of William Hartnell's Doctor and directed by Terry McDonough, produced by Matt Strevens and writers like Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent and David Wolstencroft, Doctor Who for intelligent fans and all who love quality television dramas. I know Bradley is 82, but he is still acting in films, even if someone like Strevens produced a short series of quality with writers like Brackley, Vincent and Wolstencroft with McDonough as director this could save the artistic quality and character of Doctor Who from the downward trajectory it’s on at the moment under Russell T Davies.
Until the BBC reforms it’s best for Dr Who to be taken off air. It’s no longer about writing a good adventure story. It’s about today’s Culture Wars. He, him, she, her, they, them, z etc.😢 “ Doctor, I let you go”
Yes I hear farage has mentioned it, it’s been mentioned by Tories - it’s being owned by the left - it’s being used as a battlefield for politics and culture wars sadly. I shall embark on my first political saloon tomorrow with David tennsnt etc
The difficulty in coming back from this as opposed to rebooting the show after 1989 was Doctor Who was on the rise in 1989, a Doctor and companion who were popular with fans and the story ended on a positive note. Now we have a show runner and Doctor who are hated and laughable stories with nothing to recommend them.
Polarising is just a polite word for dividing. Splitting into groupr or sections. And that man thinks he is inclusive! He's a joke! That comment at 1:29.00 sums up the man. He has a god complex. Maybe he beieves he's part of the pantheon of Gods?
Three ideas of why this DW is a dailure... . I believe the greatest cause of this dire series was the fact it was written by a drama queen who is in full drama queen modus operandi these days. Hence the soapie-like subplots, the over-acting and excess of everything we don't want in DW. The other aspect is the the narcassism - note in many reports how often RTD usesthe pronoun 'my' and in contexts such as 'my voice be heard...''it's my world...'. The is half a sentence he gives away the third point. 'I don't put much thought into it...Nothing is ever censored or challenged.' Well it should be. It's called a script editor and who has a job of challenging the writer. For goodness sake it's how you make good television. One could conjecture that there is a fourth componenet and that is RTD's mammoth ego and his desire to put people especially fandom into groups of the right and the wrong with no nuance whatsoever.
RTD has said i and the producers feel strongly about xyz, so either no one feels like they can call him out or they all feel the same way either way it cant be a good thing
Had my most enjoyable weekend since the beginning of May. Why? No Dr Who! That was the reason. I didn’t watch something that hurt or upset me. Life is better when it’s off air.
@@noblerees1I actually liked Jodie, I just thought she was badly served with the scripts and the Timeless Child retcon. I absolutely abhor Gatwa as well as the current scripts though. Other Doctors have always realized they need to be ambassadors for the show while Gatwa tells fans to touch grass and accuses them of racism and homophobia. Though Tennant is starting to be just as odious.
This Doctor is so "meh" that a lot of the viewers are going to "disparu"! Oh, they already have. Great analysis by the panel. I suggest a Sense Sphere on all the great Doctor Who things that could happen if the TV show was rested for a decade. I'm always reminded of Simon Guerrier's bold claim that the last hiatus was the best era of Doctor Who.
Jesus christ: 'if things are polarizing, we're in a healthy position'. This is deep delusion. RTD really has gone, if not heading for the funny-farm mad, power-mad. I share Nick's bitter sense of disappointment. Stabbed in the back by someone you trusted.
Robert, I think RTD took advantage of the rapturous ovation that most fans gave after hearing the news of his return. After all that ego juice, no wonder that he probably thought the audience would automatically love everything he did, and that he could get away with anything without blowback.
Thank you Brendan & the panel, what a treat to see Disparu. I'd watch the puppet's any day over Disney Who! 8 episodes, lazily written with no pay off; a wet fart of a Doctor, a dying franchise, flush it down the toilet! RIP Dr Who.
Thank you for your support . I just remembered we had share footage from our Spanish holiday. Heavily edited yes but the full leisure hive sequence I did was so cute
Really great discussion, and brilliant to have Disparu on the panel. I've loved his reviews of this past series. I think Gary really hit the nail on the head in saying that RTD is writing Doctor Who now simply for himself and his peers. Precisely the same can be said for modern Star Wars, Star Trek, and most of the BBC's output. These are people living in wealthy, elitist bubbles, be it London or LA, virtue signalling their extreme left-wing activism for the applause and approval of each other. To them, it isn't extreme - they think apologising to each other all the time for their whiteness, using the wrong pronouns, failing to check their privilege, and all the other nonsense that goes with their ideology is perfectly right and proper. We, the audience, are expected to simply lap up the sermonising delivered from on high by our 'betters', and they despise us for rejecting it, and so the divide continues to grow. For Doctor Who, alas, these beliefs include the idea that men are inherently toxic and so cannot be seen to be aggressive, proactive, or heroic. Unfortunately, the concept of heroism itself is no longer understood by these people, hence why even when the Doctor was a woman, she was just as useless.
Glad you enjoyed the stream, and I agree 100% with every one of your well-made comments! I hadn't connected the 'toxic masculinity' concept with the 'anti heroes" one, but it makes total sense.
@@gar535 Cheers, Gary! Yes, I struggle to think of a male hero in genre tv or film that hasn't been deliberately emasculated (and therefore rendered 'safe') at this point - Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi, Captain Picard and Obi Wan Kenobi in their respective eponymous shows, and of course the Doctor himself. Perhaps even calling him a 'madman' in a box would be too threatening for RTD at this point.
You are right as is Gary. The need for an echo chamber to just follow the group think is so sci fi really when I seek a range of views so we can debate. The truth is that Is not happening because it’s hard to find views contrary to the criticism of this series
If this is the "Post-Therapy" Doctor then I think Tennant needs to go cross his own timestream and choose a different therapist because he has turned into a self-centered, unlikeable jerk IMO. NOTHING likeable in this Doctor at all but don't worry - I won't shout about it ;)
Can Mel wake up & say "Ive had the stangest dream" Yes its all been a dream RTD loves soap so bam total reboot. Keep Mel the rest was a bad bad dream.. or nightmare including Jodies era its all been a dream. Unfortunately it was anything but.
Definitely tired.. Cool team today great work agree so much with what you all say love I'm not alone❤.. he's so Eric from Sex Ed.. & yes still lotsss to talk about the Who past &... well future.. Cheers
Fab stream, great panel as always and nice to see disparu. Well it's over for yet another season, 40 in real money. I've seen about 32 all told, On Air, for me continuously, missing the odd one. Even today I try to find the magic in Who. This season has been patchy to say the least. I joke about it because I'll cry if I don't find a release. 😄 My last excitement for the show was Capaldi's first season, from then on anticipation set in. It's been a long trek with Jodie, 14 and now this era with a signage of roadworks ahead now. There's still all that back catalogue to rest on and enjoy, still don't know what to do for It's future. As a collector to I'll seek out the past, still lots to mine. Don't worry I'm still hooked to The Sense Sphere 😊 and Congratulations for 900 🎉🎉🎉
It is more like ooh ooh boo boo this version of Doctor Who ended up being turned into Mary Sue playing Doctor Who and to quote another reviewer" from the way he acts is this actually Doctor Who's granddaughter?", questions upon questions
Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner - what makes good Doctor Who? Indeed, the latter had not even watched an episode of classic Who before RTD showed her some episodes in 2003 before production of the new series revival. She is clueless.
My expectations weren't exactly high for the return of Russell T Davis but from that 60th anniversary episode onwards it's just gone from bad to bloody awful to total and utter crap...
Time Scales on wheelchairs: Wow. So what you are saying is you didn't know what the correct way to think was, so you source out a 'correct' person and got them to give you the socially acceptable answer. Sorry Dude, but outside of Boardway no one really takes them seriously. They are this elitist group of arts loveys who make content for the upper levels of the social-economical cake. The fact you had to repeat this person's name after introducing them shows how well known they are outside her own circles. You also fail to mention this persons relationship to Doctor Who which, in context of the question, is of mild importance. It would be like going up to a men's rights activist who had never seen Star Wars and asking what his views were on single father Vader. You would be very likely to get a (heartfelt) statement on how difficult it is in modern society for men forcefully removed from their children to reconnect to them while totally ignoring the important bits of character background where Anakin blew up the Death Star. Sorry Time Scales but the views of your Broadway friend are nice, but you are on the panel and it would be nice to hear what YOU think, cause what I am hearing now is that you are more concerned about complying with the correct answer so you don't get dog piled on Twitter.
The Pre transmission attacks launched on the fans by Gatwa were a colossal error. The lack of quality in the “specials” characterised by the poor writing, the ill conceived “Bigeneration”, the nonsense of “I’m more”(You can say that again!), the duplicated TARDIS, the change of sexuality of the character following the change of sex, the Historical blackface, the McGuffin of Ruby which had no resolution, “Space Babies” sheer awfulness, the imposition of pronouns, the reduction of the character of the Doctor to an entitled crybaby, the desecration of Pyramids of Mars…. Someone please make it stop.
I’ve not even watched the last two episodes, as this was the sort of thing I was afraid of, and it now seems to be quantum magnitudes worse than what I had expected. Russell T Davies has not one single original idea in his head. Much of the NuWho stories are kernels of classic, who appropriation, but they’re different enough to be a little more unique. This third first series is his finally doing what he had intended to do all along with NuWho. Oh, the fact that he would change the context and meaning of stories written by other people is disgusting.
I’m a younger doctor who fan, I started in tenants first era but I am now finding myself more inclined to the classics. I watched the original pyramids of Mars and I found it such a good episode and story, making sutekh my favourite antagonist in doctor who and appealing to my interest in history . I now have a massive appreciation for old doctor who and will continue watching it until new doctor who improves.
It has been an open secret that the BBC has had real problems attracting the under 35's for many years now - largely due to them not catering for the younger generation. Claiming Doctor Who is a great success in this regard though is clear cope... Release the Audience Appreciation figures Bad Wolf, *what* are you shielding Davies and Co from?
