This piece will talk about Doctor Who and how a show for children is in the process of being turned into a platform to push progressive propaganda to children, who don’t really have any sort of concepts about sexuality and gender roles and what not, when most families are just tuning in to watch a science fiction show about an alien going on adventures.
So before we get into this a disclaimer, as all of you who have read my reviews before will know I am a fairly centrist person politically, there are insane and bad people on both sides of the divide and I don’t think anyone should be hated regardless of their political affiliation, race, gender, sexuality or any of the rest of it. Though I am a harsh reviewer as is my custom I just want good shows that I can enjoy and that aren’t trying to be insidious, as is current year Doctor Who.
Personally, I think Who peaked with David Tennant and has been going down hill ever since, it is well known that the BBC almost cancelled it during the Whittaker tenure, and as many of you will know based on my reviews written then the overt progressive message which amounted to Whittaker turning and lecturing you ruined those seasons for me and drove me off the show. What these creatives don’t seem to understand is that people want escapism and not for their shows to get into hot button contemporary issues. Anyway, I returned to the show, against my better judgement, for the specials and my my the pronouns scene was every bit as bad as the Whittaker era rants, couple that with the Davros incident and how Russel T. Davies handled that and yes I knew things were only going to get worse.
When Davies came back I was hopeful he made some of the best seasons of Who after all, but then I started reading his interviews. In his Who absence Davies had made It’s A Sin a heavy LGBTQ+ show that was lauded, and it seems he has returned to Who to make season two of that show rather than a season of Doctor Who. The issue with this is that Who is a family science fiction show, It’s A Sin was a drama made for a different crowd, the two things are chalk and cheese. Yet Davies seemingly doesn’t understand that, he thinks that the current fans of Who are bigots and he wants to make all of the LGBTQ+ fans of the show feel heard and seen and so now will only appeal to them, if they exist. To call fans bigots when Captain Jack was a popular character is nothing short of nonsense.
Anyway, the new doctor has seconded this by not just calling fans bigots, he has also called them Gammons, UK slang for racist hicks, and told them to touch grass whilst giving a long speech about white mediocrity. I ask you who is this show for and why has the BBC allowed it to be made, it seemingly is going out of its way to alienate any possible viewers it can. It is the same tactic being deployed over and over again, they set up the narrative early on that the fandom are bigots so that when no one watches it or there is a backlash they can go see bigotry as though that will boost viewer counts, its to try and redirect blame from a disaster in the making.
In the same interview the new doctor also said that he wants to defeat a monster by twerking it to death or something like. This is symptomatic of the problem with new new Who this is trying to appeal to TikTok kids who don’t even know what Who is.
I’ll try and keep this brief as I know this will be the most controversial section of this piece. I think it is wrong for a family science fiction show to try and sexualise kids, now let me explain RTD has said in an interview that he wants to use these seasons to create a new religion and to make new generations of kids aware of the LGBTQ+ community, which is fine of the surface. There are also comments, from the new doctor saying that this is the ‘’gayest’’ season yet and it makes you think why does a kids show need to be straight or gay. Indeed the Rubicon was already crossed under Whittaker when the female doctor had romantic feelings towards her female companion. It feels like the show is trying to push sexual themes and what not onto kids either overtly or subliminally and I think that’s wrong. I think that there is no need for Doctor Who to be anything other than family friendly entertainment, it doesn’t need to be straight or gay, black or white, or any of these things it just needs to be fun and it seems like this go around that has been missed.
One has to wonder how far the BBC will let the boundary be pressed and what they will attempt to show in order to push boundaries and if it will even be suitable for families anymore.
If it is not yet clear, this new season of Who is not for you, who I assume is a fan, it is either for kids that don’t know it exists, or it is for marginalised people that have always been very welcomed in the Who community and who already feel seen, this is no longer Who, it is the adventures of the message and co.
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