Same teeth still not ginger! 😅

A hah! Thanks for the tip - me & the good wife are Dr. Who fans.

I can't help but feel that this is a stunt to try and drag back all the viewers like myself that gave up on the show because of what chibnall did to it.

They really need to jettison all the hackwork he did. Turning the Doctor into an immortal basically ruins the character.

I think so too. Chinball (no typo there) was non-simphatic to me from the moment he flashed his EGO in an interview, where he listed a few of his own deductions, of what is wrong with 'Doctor Who'...The one that had a massive fanbase, and was successful all around. Yup, he criticized what was working. Then he got the chance to prove his point...Task Failed Spectacularly!

I did rewatched all the episodes from Eccleston-Tennant-M.Smiths and some of the better ones from Capaldi as well. Those were entertaining. Gave Jodie's doctor a chance (3 episodes), but I was bored, and I am very against Wokeness since it's a bad thing and a direct enemy of Escapism, the very reason what I enjoy in entertainment.

Doctor Who is now just another "Go Woke. → Go Broke!" franchise for me. I'd wish it would returned to the glory days, but for that, Chinball-Jodie's run should be avoidable/skippable. Just take over from where Capaldi left, and pretend what was after never was...or at least make it so, that the audience can choose...Woke companies sadly NEVER retcon their BS, since it's a source of income (HAH-barely!) a form of investment, and their virtue signalling propaganda. They will never fully erase what was done...but they could make it so, that we just skip that era, and pretend it never was. It could work...I mean, I could have fixed Star Wars episode 9 easily and in a way, that Ep 8 would be fully accepted, with all it's craziness.

I hope things turn out good for Docotr Who. But as of yet, my interest level in it is at Apathy. I wish for DW to soar high once more! I'll be keeping my eyes open, and hoping...

I don't really buy into the whole "go woke, go broke" thing. I mean, there are any number of good shows out there with strong female lead characters. And I totally adored the recent Ms. Marvel series. That was some good stuff. A female Doctor... that could have worked, except that the job was handed to the least capable person in the entire industry.

No, my problem with chibnall is that he's a hack. His writing has always been mediocre at best, and ranged from just adequate to.... well.... "the worst piece of television ever written" as I call it, aka the Cyberwoman episode of Torchwood. Putting him in charge of Doctor Who seemed like a statement of intent from the BBC: "We've given up on this show."

That he then proceeded to go on to vandalize the show's entire history with his fanwank just proved to me that I was right. The BBC stopped caring about Doctor Who and handed it to whatever talentless loser they could dump it onto. I blame Moffatt for that. The show was not in a good place under his stewardship. By the end of his run I was basically hatewatching the show, waiting for him to leave in the hopes that someone who knew how to make television would be put at the helm again.

BUT.....

Anyway, the show is wrecked. Any glimmer of nostalgia has been brutally murdered. And to top it off he made The Doctor immortal, removing any stakes the show once had. I keep mentally flashing back to that scene in Terror Of The Zygons, Tom Baker patches an alien circuit by running the current through his own body with the off-hand comment "Is half-power lethal?"

He didn't know if it was going to kill him. But he did it anyway. because the stakes were high and he had to do something.

A character who places themselves in danger and puts their life at risk for the sake of others is a hero. That is the very nature of adventure. And the more risk the hero has to endure, the more the story resonates with the audience. A good character doesn't just get you to cheer for their successes, but also to feel the pain of those moments when they fail.

And now The Doctor no longer has a life to risk.

Thanks to chibnall, The Doctor has been retconned as an immortal godlike being. Not a timelord. Not from Gallifrey. And completely free from the threat of death. Stakes have gone out the window. Daleks? Cybermen? He might as well be taking a walk in the park for all the "danger" he'd have from them now.

Immortal godlike beings just make for really boring stories. There has to be an element of danger to overcome. A threat. A risk.

DC comics found that out the hard way with Superman. They had to invent Kryptonite because of it.

So, erasing chibnall's era isn't just a good idea, it's an absolute necessity. The show is no longer dramatically functional thanks to the damage that he inflicted upon it.

Now that RTD has taken over again, he needs to address this and he needs to fix this, and he had better do it fast.

Or nothing else he does with this character is going to matter at all.

Okay, I know at least one show which is somewhat woke, but it's kind of working: Invincible.
1. Main character's best ♂ friend is gay. And He even has a ♂ love interest who he had sex with in the past and their love to each other gets them out from a deadly situation. But aside of that, they don't go full pride gay and everyone should just accept it. They act normal and react normal. The gay ♂ just works! He's gay, yeah...but also a normal highscholler, and a human. Totally good characters...who happen to be gay.
2. ♀ main-ish character is one of the strongest hero in the whole series (Molecule Man / Mr. Manhattan level of OP) and fights an Earthquake-power having villain, who is a feminist and majored in Woman Studies with a minor in African Dance, but saying so much they continue top fight. The woke joke just happened mid fight, but then they continued and concentrated on what's important: Staying alive, since both of them could kill the other in every second. The scene in question...for mood-making - Both epic action and sfx, and working woke-jokes as villain-hero talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWafqqBxUUw
3. Amber...sadly, that ♀ was always too woke, and the show did a race change to her too. She's the only one who brings things too far, but even with her around, the show is damn good!

Give it a watch, if (you didn't already) you are a fan of superhero stuff!

Also, the BEST working gay character for me is Captain Jack Harkness (actually bi) and Angel Dust. Both of them gay, but owning it naturally, and don't make a fuss about it, and doing their own thing. Totally entertaining characters to me.

Eh.. to me, from what i've seen.. Jodie's doctor... is kinda meh? somewhat okay.. somewhat not? I think the whole.. 'not including old villains' at first bit was a dumb choice..

and not to mince words or anything.. but to be honest.. its probably the 'republicans' having poisoned the well on it.. but whenever I hear people talk about "Woke" this or "Woke" that.. my mind just goes to ignore-the-hecc out of it mode.. Cause most of the times i've heard it in recent times... its been basically hijacked by the 'other' side and used as a derisive term to call 'everyone else' to separate themselves from the others..

I wouldn't be so salty about it too, if so many franchises weren't so obviously filled with garbage.

Best thing is just to ignore it entirely and do what is tons of fun to you! Quality entertainment is where life is at!

Yeah.. you ever watch the owl house at all? (now that's fairly quality stuff right there!)

Sadly nope. If it is half as good as Gravity Falls, I'll give it a watch.

Is that the case: a new Doctor that just happens to look identical to the 10th Doctor? Or is he the 10th Doctor somehow returning from wherever vanished Doctors go?

Now personally, I would've made these 3 Tennant specials stories of events that were never "dramatized" during his original go-round as the Doctor (the same way the spin-off media (comics, etc.) come up with original Dr. Who stories featuring whoever's playing him/her at the time.)

Personally, the series lost me when Capaldi took over from Matt Smith; he was just way too dour a character to warm up to.

When it was announced that Tennant was stepping back into the role, I was hoping so hard that this meant a partial reboot was in the offing.

I would be fine with losing Smith, Capaldi and Whittaker if it meant also losing all of chibnall's continuity vandalism.

Something has gone freakishly sideways with the regeneration shown: not only is it David's face and body, but the costume "regenerates" as well into a different costume. Not what the previous Doctor was still wearing at the time, as has been established to be the norm for regenerations, but also not one the 10th doctor wore previously, just something new that Doctor would choose, in keeping with his style.

Wrong...very wrong.

Apathy is Death! ~ Darth Traya

I will see if Doctor Who can be saved or not...as for now, I am giving my attention (and money) to more deserving entertainment...books. I am waiting for the woke-era to die out fully, due to lack of financial funds, and deserving entertainment getting funded over virtue-signalling, big corpos.

I agree that the decision to bring back something familiar is an effort to attract viewers. The new series has always been kind of woke; more recent scripts have simply been less organic and more clumsy about it. The people who complain about wokeness are usually the same who complain about other action taken to further social justice and resist the direction of our culture to become more thoughtful, inclusive, kind and fair. The Doctor would not agree with that sentiment.

To me, I don't mind actual true becoming-more-inclusive.. its just more often i'm hearing it used in the negative and perjorative.. and the word being used has become a turnoff so to speak?