A Corpse Is Defiled: The Second Death Of Doctor Who

Doctor Babes has left the building.

So as many of you know I have been pretty hands off with Doctor Who since the Whittaker era, I might write a Cinema Issues piece here or there about the declining ratings or review the Christmas special, but by and large I have checked out.

I am only here really to gloat. To laugh at the manbabies and shills who still defend it, I have shown up to the funeral and I am speaking some home truths.

So as many of you know the series has been bleeding viewers for a long time, since just before Whittaker, and that has only got worse. Disney came on board to fund and distribute the show on Disney + expecting a certain level of ratings, it has not provided them with that, and as such series three of the new run is looking increasingly like it is not happening. Disney want numbers, the BBC wants numbers.

Then there was the news this week that Doctor Babes himself has quit the show as he is running off to Hollywood to play even more stereotypical gay roles. He was perfectly fine in Sex Education but the various roles he has done since have just been variants on that, even his role in Who. It is not his fault he was such a terrible Doctor he was cast to tick a box and send a certain message and he was given bad scripts to work with, there is a level to this that is not his fault. I have a feeling that the BBC tried to claw this back and downplay it saying he hasn’t quit and that they are waiting to see how season two does, but of course they would say that they wouldn’t admit the series is about to be shelved as then people really would tune out the new episodes.

The BBC is wondering what went wrong, the blue haired people on Blue Sky like it why isn’t it massively successful, well the silent majority has spoken. Doctor Who has always been a progressive show but when you are hiring trans writers who have previously written books aimed at children that talk about the best apps for gay sex and positions for it, then you know things are in trouble.

Hopefully the failure of this show disgraces RTD, who let’s face it probably has some skeletons in his closet, and prevents him from ever coming near the franchise again.

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Doctor Who Christmas Special: Dr Babe’s Trip Through The Looking Glass

Summary

Dr Babes is back and crying once again.

There was so little merry about this that I consider how they can even call it a Christmas special, surely that is some form of false advertising.

If you didn’t like the new Doctor’s first series you won’t like this it is much more of the same, him dancing, him saying babes, him being sassy and then being strong by crying. Who needs brains and a sonic screwdriver when you have interpretive dance and crying.

Him being joined by one of the stars of Bridgerton just feels like the BBC once again desperately trying to get in a youth audience that has never even heard of Doctor Who, she was entirely forgettable. Turning her into the Star Of Bethlehem from the Bible was an unexpected twist that manages to spoil a centuries old story, all to prop up the BBC’s failing IP.

Having a future version of the Doctor show up just feels like more messing with the cannon for the sake of trying to get a cheap thrill, it shows a lack of respect towards the series and towards those that enjoy it. However, I would expect nothing more from the current day BBC.

Overall, more garbage paid for by an archaic and unjust tax.

0.5/5

Pros.

It makes for a good thing to laugh at

Cons.

The guest star can’t act

The star twist is stupid and doesn’t fit

The future Doctor idea is lazy and disrespectful

It is cringe

It is too long

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Cinema Issues: The Postmortem Of Doctor Who

Written by Luke Barnes

In this cinema issues article we are dissecting the first season of New, New Who and doing a post mortem to see what went so badly wrong with it.

So lets get something out of the way right quick, the series is in a bad way, I don’t care if you think it was some of the most stunning and brave Who ever, the ratings are a slow death. The Legend Of Ruby Tuesday and another episode this season both posted record low viewership numbers for the show, some of the lowest in the shows history. Look it up. Things are bad, and there is even talk that the filmed season batch of episodes may not get released as the BBC debates what to do with them, likely they will get released and the show will just be put on ice come this time next year.

Anyway, as the BBC starts to question everything and panic about its in development Who spin-offs, we will look at what went wrong with these episodes.

I think the main issue a lot of people had with these season was that fundamentally it wasn’t Who, never before have I seen the Doctor have so many dance numbers and act more like a local tiktoker trying to make it big than an alien. In addition the fact that the Doctor called everyone ‘babes’ constantly didn’t make it feel like Who it made it feel as though the Doctor had suddenly become another person.

Moreover, the series was heavily political with a number of controversial hot button issues forced in, just for the show to keep a desperate hold of its increasingly radically progressive audience. Some of it didn’t even make sense like when those people who not be saved by the Doctor because he was black and would rather die, what horribly on the nose message was that supposed to be pushing as it felt like a straw man argument. These ideas where repeated over the course of the season, the issue with clearly taking a side politically is that it then alienates your audience and makes you start to loose chunks of people. It is always better to present two sides and let the audience make up their own mind.

Furthermore, who at Disney or the BBC thought it was a good idea to allow cast and creators to attack the fans, whoever it was I would say is the most responsible for the bad feeling and reception to this season. This is mainly due to the fact of actors telling fans to screw off and then being shocked when their show has bad viewership, you do not treat your fans like that you just don’t. Yet these people look down on their fans and think they don’t need them, how wrong they are.

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Doctor Who, The Star Beast: The Day The Doctor Died

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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