Russell T. Davies is so horribly insecure that he needed to make the second season of his new Who run open with an episode aimed at owning his critics.
I have said many times I don’t want to cover the show and generally I don’t but after seeing some unexpected sources calling it preachy I couldn’t resist seeing it. Don’t worry for my mental health folks I won’t make a habit of watching the show and this will be the only episode covered. I might write a Cinema Issues post if the series gets cancelled and with ratings like these and RTD talking about the show going away for years or being paused it sure seems like I’ll get to write that.
What is there to say about the new episode, well Doctor Babes cries, shocker I know. It was the same old same old crying, dancing, lacking any form of masculinity, but now he has a new companion that I have affectionately called Space Karen. She of course is a girl boss woman of colour who won’t let the already passive and submissive Doctor get away with anything and already thinks she knows better than him, because she is a woman. As you can imagine she is insufferable from the get-go and this only gets worse as it goes on.
Space Karen gets the episode’s worst and possibly best line about them being on a planet of incels. It is funny that even with all the private education in the Doctor Who writers room they don’t actually know what the term means and just use it as a way to say men they don’t like. Of course this is also a double whammy as it is RTD getting to try and own his critics and call them names through his show, as he hasn’t realised yet that unless they have to for some reason, like writing reviews, don’t watch it anymore.
They try and push some cutesy robot stuff that might entertain you if you’re 5 or have the mind of a 5 year old as most of the fans of the current run do, but it is meaningless.
Overall, more of Doctor Babes being fabulous but now with a new friend Space Karen to scream at him for being born male this regeneration, geez I wonder why folks aren’t watching BBC. At this point the show died a long time ago and what is happening now is RTD in his sick and perverted way is doing a Weekend at Bernies style situation with the corpse in order to cash his check from Disney
0/5
Pros.
None.
Cons
What even is this anymore, this is a sick defilement of a once beloved franchise, there is so much wrong with it that I am going to break from conventions and not write a cons list, the whole thing is a con.
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