Doctor Who’s second season is adding a mysterious new nurse with a familiar face.
        • Tamo240@programming.devEnglish
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          4 months ago

          I think what you’re trying to say is that the social commentary has lost a lot of nuance, as well as the general quality of the writing going down, in which case I agree. Kinda toeing the line of the ‘everything is woke now’ crowd though, to which I would say you haven’t seen/understood much Doctor Who if you think social issues are only recently a part of the stories.

          For the record the Rosa Parks ep was one of my favourites for Jodie, but it’s a low bar.

    • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I am hopefully going to get the chance to talk to Jodie in the next couple of months(Denver fan fest), and I am going ask her how she tolerated the writers for her episodes. (I have a bit to figure out how word that nicely.

      She is probably my second favorite Dr to Tennant, FWIW.

            • haverholm@kbin.earth
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              4 months ago

              He played a character on a TV show 20 years ago. That doesn’t in any way obligate him to “show up as the Doctor” for fan events, nor does it indicate his “dislike for the show”.

              There is certainly a twat at play here, but it isn’t Eccleston.

              • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                4 months ago

                He also has done a bunch of conventions and returned to play the Doctor for Big Finish multiple times lol.

                As far as I can tell he has no problem with the role or the fans, he just has a beef with the BBC/Russell T. Davies over how he was treated.

  • Riley@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Damn, this thread is the most “no one hates Doctor Who more than Doctor Who fans” type beat I’ve seen in ages. God forbid our favourite television show get another season.

  • Tenebris Nox@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 months ago

    If the rumours that DW is going to be put on hiatus for 10 years and the sets taken down and production staff let go I can only say… it’s about time.

    The (original) show was never about cartoony, fizzed-up comic action without subtlety or nuance that tried to pick up the audiences of Strictly and Love Island. It didn’t need a budget of $1 million per episode. It didn’t need Disney. Time for a rest and then a regeneration.