Oh man. Just first two minutes is a train wreck
"Not my doctor. I'm selling all my merchandise. After the Christmas special I'm done"
"They're doing this to drive this show into the ground and have BBC cancel it"
So much ignorance
Jodie Whittaker is the 13th Doctor
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Oh man. Just first two minutes is a train wreck
"Not my doctor. I'm selling all my merchandise. After the Christmas special I'm done"
"They're doing this to drive this show into the ground and have BBC cancel it"
So much ignorance
Yeah I suppose it's a fair point, but the Doctor being this "avuncular grandfather" figure hardly feels like a defining personality trait to me, so I'm fine with skipping it this one time (and I'm not sure it's something I felt that strongly with Eccleston or Tennant anyway).
Or who knows, maybe Whittaker is a strong enough actress that that quality will still end up coming through. Smith often managed to project an "old man" vibe even though he wasn't even remotely old, so I don't see how anything should be ruled out just yet.
It's a shame, but it's because society itself is pretty sexist. The ratings have dropped before but no one blamed it on the Doctor being a man.
I think the ratings dropped because the writing wasn't that good. Moffat should have left after Matt Smith left. The relationship between The Doctor and Clara was toxic. Though I do feel Capaldi clearly didn't catch on the way previoius Doctor's had.
The ratings have been crap, failing, collapsing, destroying the show since Smith (he's too young), Capaldi (he's too old), fans will always think there's a problem because it's not exactly, EXACTLY what they want.
The Facebook page "Rory Williams is the New Chuck Norris" said it best:
It's the last paragraph that really needs to be paid attention to. If you don't like it and don't want to watch it, fine. Just instead of ranting about it, do something productive. Be like the Doctor.
Also, this...
It's the last paragraph that really needs to be paid attention to. If you don't like it and don't want to watch it, fine. Just instead of ranting about it, do something productive. Be like the Doctor.
Also, this...
The ratings have been dropping since Capaldi came on board. Was that ageism?
I'm excited about Doctor Who for the first time in a long time. While this past season has been a big improvement on the last couple, the show's been comfort food. This opens up loads of possibilities. Even just seeing how she reacts to a guy companion crushing on her, the flip of almost every companion of modern Who, is fascinating.
Bring it on.
Bring it on.
No doubt Twelve has left the toilet seats down.
As someone who's been watching since the late 1970s or so and watching fervently since the early 1980s, I'm provisionally very happy about this. I don't know her work, but plan to start becoming acquainted very shortly.
I don't know how lightly they'll treat the gender change. (For comparison, Eleven's youth was for the most part barely referenced, if at all.) Presumably 13 will have the same Plot Armour enjoyed by previous incarnations, so the Doctor won't have lost anything she needed. I'll be interested to see how this version approaches problems, how she reacts to being a woman for (perhaps) the first time in a life spanning 2000 years plus, how the Doctor/companion(s) dynamic will be affected, what the Doctor/Master relationship (if any) will be like and ditto the Doctor/TARDIS relationship.
As someone who's been watching since the late 1970s or so and watching fervently since the early 1980s, I'm provisionally very happy about this. I don't know her work, but plan to start becoming acquainted very shortly.
I don't know how lightly they'll treat the gender change. (For comparison, Eleven's youth was for the most part barely referenced, if at all.) Presumably 13 will have the same Plot Armour enjoyed by previous incarnations, so the Doctor won't have lost anything she needed. I'll be interested to see how this version approaches problems, how she reacts to being a woman for (perhaps) the first time in a life spanning 2000 years plus, how the Doctor/companion(s) dynamic will be affected, what the Doctor/Master relationship (if any) will be like and ditto the Doctor/TARDIS relationship.
Nothing makes a person criticizing something look more thoughtful, smart, reflective, analytical, witty, and deep than complaining about political correctness and social justice warriors. Except for absolutely everything.
I should have said if the ratings don't improve and drop any further.
Cos, the doctor regenerated, duh!
Level headed, calm and far from being a sinister response. Well handled as usual.
How can anyone even watch crap like that? I'm not talking about anything that's being said, I'm talking about the video format of constantly changing the screen to display whoever happens to be talking at the moment, especially when more than one person talks at the same time. It's worse than watching a strobe light.
Go watch the rooftop scene in WE&T again, which in retrospect is pretty clearly there for this reason. The Doctor doesn't care what gender he/she is, so the only changes in the character will be the same ones that would naturally occur if Kris Marshall had got the job instead.
TV ratings in how we measure them historically have been collapsing in general for the last several years, people watch less TV than they use too. Doctor Who is also a show now 12 years old since it's 2005 return so it's natural to see a declining viewership even if all of TV wasn't suffering a huge erosion. I do think we will see a ratings spike come 13's time though how long will it last, nobody knows?
Yeah I don't think I've used my account since about 2001 over there............
Initially I wasn't that enthusiastic about the prospect of a woman Doctor, however Jodi Whittaker was excellent in Broadchurch (particularly S1) and I'm quite excited to see this new incarnation of this always-changing character. In fact, I kinda wish Moffat wasn't dragging out Capaldi's regeneration to the Christmas episode so that could instead be her first full episode.
On a side note, can we read anything into the fact that it's the pre-Moffat-era TARDIS exterior at the end of the clip? I wonder if we'll be going back to that prop again.
On a side note, can we read anything into the fact that it's the pre-Moffat-era TARDIS exterior at the end of the clip? I wonder if we'll be going back to that prop again.
Ugh. I guess I can understand why they might see her as a bit "straight and boring" from her previous roles, but after watching a few red carpet interviews where you can see her real personality, she actually seems to have the same kind of really fun and lively energy about her that Tennant, Smith and Capaldi do.
So it seems very likely that same spirit will come through in her Doctor much like it did with theirs. And it's laughable to think the BBC or Chibnal would choose someone who was boring to watch.
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