Making it cheaper, won’t fix the fact no one is watching.
This week against the cries of us being stupid and wrong, we were proven right in our assessment of Doctor Who. It wasn’t in fact a stunning and brave success story with better ratings than ever before, and Disney leaving with their money mattered. Who knew, we did, but the Doctor Who fans wouldn’t accept it.
Turns out telling your main demographic, straight white men that they aren’t welcome anymore and that you’re making a show for the LGBTQ+ community isn’t a great way to get your show another season. The fact is the LGBTQ+ community is less than 20% of the world’s population as such you shouldn’t cater big franchises to them as they aren’t enough for the returns. Individual low budget small films or programs sure but not major franchises.
RTD, the cast and the BBC got high on their own supply and thought that they were making revolutionary content that would save us all from the imagined “far right” when in fact all it did was destroy the brand. People got sick of the constant white man bad narratives, and guessing how many drag characters would be in it week to week.
Right now it’s not officially cancelled as they haven’t said that but then again do they need to. It has no showrunner, it has no actors, it lacks the funds it needs to keep going, they couldn’t even make a Christmas special and AMC their new American partners are more interested in the straight white male era of Doctor Who not what it became.
For those of you who will screech it’s always been woke, there is a difference between presenting different view points left and right in programming and having you make up your own mind. As there is with teaching you moral lessons as relevant to the plot. Whereas modern Who feels the need to pause the episode turn to the camera and then give you a 5 minute speech about why white people are evil, or possibly if it’s feeling adventurous why straight men are bad.
This will always be remembered as the era when RTD said you couldn’t have a disabled person play a villain as it would be ableist and so changes the entire cannon of the show.
Hopefully it dies for the final time and RTDs career meets the same end as the Duffers and the Game of Thrones Duo.
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