Summary
Doctor Who is dead.
The warning signs were there, the ending of the Whittaker era and the direction the show was heading in, bringing David Tennant back in a desperate attempt to win back old fans, the way Russell T. Davies has been treating the fans online, which in case you didn’t know was to attack them and tell them Doctor Who isn’t for them anymore.
I don’t know why I put it on, maybe I like to hurt myself. Anyway, I decided to give it a go after falling off early into the Whittaker era after the show stopped being about aliens, science fiction or fun and started being about preaching and the wider message of the BBC. Now I am not one of those people who hate the BBC out of hat, but I think that they have lost their way and are so keen to appear progressive that they have alienated all of their audience and now only appeal to a very slim group of people. Again though the term is loaded in the context of the culture wars the identity politics of the Whittaker era was the thing that killed in, according to insiders the show had such bad viewership that the BBC considered cancelling it twice. Yet the BBC in their infinite wisdom decided to double down. With the Doctor discussing his preferred pro nouns, and having to make every scene a soap box to preach out the very same things that killed the Whittaker era. This isn’t Doctor Who anymore.
The episode itself had one of the weakest plots I have seen from Who in a long time and felt far far worse than anything from the original Tennant era. Honestly if I wasn’t reviewing it I would have turned it off very early on. I think it is fitting Russell T. Davies was the person who brought Doctor Who back from the dead and now he is going to be the man to kill it. I don’t imagine it living much beyond the first season with the new Doctor, the one after Tennant, but again I am sure I will be told that the series isn’t for me anymore and I will be yet another fan driven away from the series forever.
When you have a creative for a show getting into arguments with people on X calling them all the names under the sun and being the exact opposite of professional you know you have a series the fans will love and support, not.
Overall, if you didn’t like the Whittaker era this is not the place to return to Who. Let’s wait for an era that undoes Whittaker and all this activist Who and goes back to how it used to be when it was fun to watch.
Pros.
Tennant tries his best
Cons.
It is preachy
It is too long
It isn’t fun or interesting
It is irritating
1/5
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