https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61371123
A small amount of moaning here so far:
https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/ukzuhn/ncuti_gatwa_is_the_doctor/?sort=controversial
Mainly people saying they couldn't give a frick because the writing is so bad they haven't watched it in years.
Really struggling myself to give a frick about this since wokewashing is a staple feature of almost all creatively bankrupt productions now, but I'm sure there's some nerds somewhere having a meltdown.
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Isnt this just the bong version of capeshit?
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I think it defies classification. It's a low budget children's show vaguely set in space that creepy adults get obsessed with.
Been circling the drain for a while now and has been paving the way to change the main character (who in 13 incarnations was always a white man) into, first, a woman and now a black man.
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Should've cast a disabled BIPOC trans woman to cover all bases. But I guess the world isn't ready for that conversation.
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Just like with bond, there's actually nothing wrong with any character becoming a black man.
It's them being a foid which surpasses believability, so this is actually a step in the right direction.
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Yea i agree. Tho i actually just chuckled to myself when i realize ive never seen a black doctor who fan ever
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Did you not go to college?
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No I wanted to make money so i went into trades
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Yea briefly. Why u ask?
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Don’t forget the scotsman right before the lady, absolutely fuming they’d go woke with that diversity hire
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You joke but Capaldi was cast when the head writer was Scottish, and that same write cast a scottish actress as his nemesis so it was like nationalist nepotism
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Pretty much. Its not high budget like Star Wars. Its not ethically well written like star trek. Its not scary like twilight zone. It coasts by on novelty
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It coasts by on badly written fanfic by teenage foids
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Watch Quatermass to see that the Brits of that era could do science fiction, Dr who is and always will be children's tv
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All sci fi is for children. Take the crime showpill
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Mobkino
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Not really, it's more like semi-ironic sci-fi
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It’s an r-slured show for r-slurred people.
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It’s a womens show. Casting a woman made zero sense to me
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Can't wait.
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while it's obvious he's been chosen for his skin colour, there's nothing particularly offensive about having a black Doctor since there's no reason he shouldn't be black in that particular universe.
though tbh I never really understood what was so good about Doctor Who, not even the 'good' ones.
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It was pretty fun when i was a kid, but i dont understand the appeal as an adult, i mean literally the main villans are walking upside down buckets lmao
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I only watched it for Jenna Coleman tbh
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I loved the Eccleston, Tennant, and Smith years, with the fantasy and world building and escapism. However the writing was awful through Capaldi's tenure and of course they went full r-slur with a female Doctor.
I stopped being upset at franchises going woke because that usually only happens when things have already gone to total shit and the "experts" will try anything to stop the haemorrhaging.
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Honestly it kinda takes the wind out of the sails of it being a black guy when a white woman did it previously. As bad as the new episodes was having a lady doctor felt… important? Now it feels like convenient that they go for a black guy next, like thats the runner up to a woman
Honestly yea it was never particularly good unless you had a really good actor in the part. I feel like they should have established that the men could change their face only into other men and same with women and have the doctor who character played by a black guy with #13. Ultimately tho, i wont watch it and dont care. BBC shows frick kids on their productions and im not gonna support that just so the shows can say the working class are scum
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This is news to you? Never heard of Saville?
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Yeah but is it endemic to BBC productions?
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Yea i think theres multiple instances where predators like Saville, Harris and Glitter were featured heavily on BBC shows. Not to mention actors like Barrowman and Noel Clarke from Doctor Who allegedly being male feminists or forcefully handsy
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It has always been for children, and the fanbasebare all children on some level.
Unlikely to make anyone properly seethe, there will just be performative outrage from the grifters.
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I remember back in like 2014 or 2015 people were seething over the prospect of a non-white or female doctor for some reason. I guess the show's been so shit since then that nobody really cares anymore, lol
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i know black people can be whatever they want if they just beleive but its a stretch to say you are something when you were born halfway across the world
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Burgers do it all the time, but in reverse.
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I think i said it before but black burgers literally visit africa once and make it their whole personality
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Blacks (like all other Burgers) don't have enough disposable income to just take a vacation and fly to Africa.
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You can blame America for that, normally you'd need a good 3+ generations and some local admixture before you start referring to yourself as being from the country you immigrated to.
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Idi amin was also scottish though.
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Even redditors can tell their being fed propaganda
Trans lives matter
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What shows by their standards does it feel forced?
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It’s everywhere random injected lesbian s*x scenes in a sci fi movie or show with no plot purpose at all
Trans lives matter
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Not that Ive ever given a shit about Dr Who, but why does it seem like the Brits are most aggressive about n*gwashing (thanks carp for adding that to my lexicon) than even burgerland when we have like >3x the ratio of kangz here than they do.
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No idea. You should see our adverts. They either feature happy black families or mixed-race couples (white woman of course).
The thing is, black people were (at the last census) 3% of the population here.
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to be fair, knowing how the average brit looks like, this makes a surprising amount of sense.
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The Weeping Angels and The Empty child were great, thankfully I didn't go through the slow torture of watching it turn to shit.
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Dont mind it, honestly. At least its a man who looks reasonably masculine and not a “non-binary” guy or another woman
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Ayo this neighbor didn't even open the fricking article
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I’ll concede him being gay makes me think theyll probably make him prissy but did you see the state of the other guy speculated to be the doctor? Olly Alexander I think? Like it was a legit ezra miller type, at least this guy could be salvageable if you put a trenchcoat or suit and tie on him
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They're gonna make him fabulous and make him wear those tiny woman jackets that dont even cover the stomach.
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Buckbreaking smh
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I actually would have liked to give Jodi (and this kid) a chance, I like her and I'm a kween myself but it's Capaldi who burned me so bad I erased this show from my memory. I know it has always been about moralizing but god darn, he made the lectures so much worse. I was in the middle of seething about the false moral equivalencies when I remembered it's a children's show and just stopped watching.
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Well i did find a black doctor who fan after all lol. Welcome back btw
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Globohomo strikes again!
Has The Blackening all along been a gay mayo's BBC dream??
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who cares? didn't everyone stop when (literally) Dr. Who became a women? also it's kinda cringe now ngl
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I don't mind the actor though, he's been ok in the stuff I've seen.
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I started hating it around Capaldi. Not sure if it got stale or if the writers stopped attempting any amount of subtlety when they tried to cram an agenda down the audience's throat.
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Eh as long as the writing is good I don't really care. Anyone seems better than the clusterfrick that was Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker. This bussy-enjoyer has a tough job to do in bringing the show back.
I think they're going to fail though because RTD only appealed to a niche audience. It was Moffat who really brought Doctor Who to it's highest highs, just like he did with Sherlock.
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I agree. I dont care if somethings woke or the diversity’s forced if the writing (as nebulous a term as that is) is good. Caring about that is the horseshoe theory version of progressophobia - where wokies on youtube complain that the forced diversity shit isnt forced enough or that its queerbaiting or whatever. Make your own shows if you hate mainstream shit, lets see what white male simulator 9000 looks like or crackas B racist: the movie. Probably dogshit, as bad as modern entertainment is theyre the one eyed man in the world of blind writers
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I objectively understand both sides of the argument. I understand why people would find her unattractive but also something about her weirdly African and Irish blend of features screams "get this walking stack of big titties and genetic diversity pregnant" from the animal part of my brain.
Snapshots:
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
ghostarchive.org (click to archive)
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This is me.
Doctor Who was my favourite tv show as a kid and i watched every episode of the 2005 relaunch. Sure, a lot of episodes were shit, but every season had one or two episodes that were some of the best written sci-fi on television. And overall it was a lot of fun.
Stopped watching four episodes into the female doctor's run because the drop in writing quality was astonishing. The guy who took over as showrunner had already written episodes of the show and most of them were shit.
Add two out of three companions being poorly written characters and a bunch of woke shit and i finally stopped watching.
Stopped watching a kid's show i was still watching well into adulthood.
Hmm.
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trans cuties > ncuti
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