The Dr got woke, time to regenerate...
I watched some Dr. Who in the late 60’s and was not impressed. I’ve not seen it since except a friend told me to watch the episode with the “angel statues” because it was awesome. I watched it and, still, was not impressed.
Nobody wants to see a female Dr. Who. If they wanted a female time lord, they should have used Romana. Changing genders on a male just pissed everyone off.
Died of wokeness twenty years ago.
Really jumped the shark when one of the soyboy Whos landed a role as Hamlet in a (formerly) pretigious theater compamny.
Um....WHAT?? They really DID this?
I’ve been a fan of the classic show since 1978, but not of new Who and certainly not of a female doctor. At an LA convention before the 13th “doctor” started, the producer told us that if we didn’t agree with his casting of the lady we were wrong. Well, apparently we were right.
Go woke- Go Broke
Why bother? I just enjoy the old 1-8 on Pluto TV.
I watched this when I was in college in the 70’s. Howe can it still be on?
Waiting for the first “that crazy black lady was NEVER even a time traveler” episode to restore canon. MUI whittaker was so lightweight they do not even have to write her out although her legion of woke companions will poof into nothing.
Pre-chibnall was pretty woke as well. You would think England was 40% black and it was a requirement that every white hot chick was required to have a black bf. But they did not plug that tokenism into the plots so no one really cared - it was like a mosquito flitting about.
Dr. Who jumped the shark after William Hartnell left…
Oldest son got me interested in this with the “Blink” episode, and we would binge watch when he was home from college on breaks. Loved Tennant and Capaldi, Smith was OK.
I tried with Whitaker, but didn’t make it through Episode 1. Sad.
BBC seemed to go out of its way recently to make the writing and acting as unpalatable and uninspiring as possible.
For example, the Belgian show, “Prof. T”, is a well-written and acted show, with serious topics, but also humor, and all the characters are engrossing, if quirky.
The BBC version is preachy, dull, and unwatchable after just a few minutes. And yet, BBC still charges for a TV license.
Thou hast conquered, O pale woketard; the world has grown grey from thy breath.
My girlfriend back in the Tom Baker era was a big fan. I watched it with her and found it interesting, but haven’t seen it since. One of my sons has been a fan of the show more recently, but I can tell he hasn’t been thrilled about how it has turned out.
EVERY true fan of Dr. Who KNEW that re-casting him as a female was the death knell. So glad that the 007 franchise did not bow to the “wokesters”. They should have listened to their REAL fan base and not the “padded pollsters”. Does anybody believe polls any more? This is what you get when you substitute wokism for REALITY.
Maybe they can just call Whittaker’s tenure as a “nightmare” sequence and have him wake up as Capaldi again. I liked him.
I liked the recent Dr Who series from 2005 to when the bitch became the new Doctor.
A common characteristic of the male Doctors was their humor. They could be silly, eccentric, stupid, and have fun. Matt Smith was a classic awkward nerd.
Unfortunately, a woman today CANNOT be portrayed as anything but hyper competent. It made things boring, and I stopped watching after the second woman-Doctor episode.
I can see it now: David Tennant’s 10th Doctor finally wakes up from the bad dream associated with the Master’s fob watch of the redhead obsessed 11th Doctor, the sad old guitar playing 12th Doctor, and the Jodie Whitaker 13th Doctor. He shakes himself off, picks a new companion and goes back to regularly scheduled programming.
If David Tennant is unavailable, there is always Kris Marshall, Ben Miller, Dylan Moran, and no doubt oodles more possibilities. Maybe someone from the Potter series.
Yep, Peter Capaldi was horrible as well.
So reboot to when it was more or less still good.