https://www.thetimes.com/culture/film/article/jodie-whittaker-doctor-who-toxic-town-netflix-cglkllxcl?region=global
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/arts/article/who-facing-axe-star-ncuti-gatwa-ratings-683dwnkfj
The show has not prospered since Whittaker left. Ratings have fallen and last week there were reports Doctor Who might be axed.
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i always assumed doctor who was a franchise for women because i have never met a single male fan of it nor have i ever seen men discuss it online outside of culture wars sjw casting discourse
like okay sure maybe the original black and white 1890s version of the show with those silly trashcan killer robots was for men but since the 00s "reboot" it was clearly something aimed at women
so having a female lead would clearly kill it because women want their guy doctor in lead role, it would be like rebooting supernatural and giving it two sisters as main characters, whoops there goes 90% of your dedicated audience
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It's a show for children that freakish adults couldn't let go of like Harry Potter
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My dad described it as Star Trek for literal r-slurs.
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Am i OOTL ?
This is a show you watch with your kids between agea 5 and 10.
It is Blippi with aliens and a "assistant" character is just for the Doctor to talk to the audience.
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Yep. I heard great things about the show; watched it, and was devastated by how shit it was. Then I read a bit about it on Wikipedia and discovered it's basically just high-brow bright colors Cocomelon shite.
The writers put an insane amount of work into it; ms the end result is, yeah, something I want my kids watching about as much as I want them watching Blippi or Spiderman X Elsa on YouTube.
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The first couple of seasons were just a basic scifi show with moral themes. By season 5 the show was basically a carbon copy of Wishbone the dog.
Are women literally children?
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don't blink!
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I know one male Dr Who fan and hes little different from your average commenter/poster on front page subreddits.
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Pretty much. !kino, I watched Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor when I was a kid, and it was a fun, campy sci-fi show. David Tennant's Tenth Doctor, on the other hand, mostly found success with the proto-Tumblr crowd, and that's been their target demo ever since. Instead of casting a foid, they should've done away with the pretense and cast a gorgeous male pop star as the Doctor and some generic, homely, personalityless "everygirl" as his companion. It's what the audience wants, even if they'll never admit it.
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Uhh, Donna Noble? Saying Oi doesn't make her not generic.
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Everyone I know who was into Dr. Who was a newly converted Teeabo to British TV from Sherlock taking over Tumblr (female, obviously)..
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