Saiyan-Rox
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Yada yada didn't watch
The madlad actually did it
The madlad actually did it
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Doctor Who | The Power Of The Doctor (Open Spoilers)
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StealthGoblin
Banned
Episode was fine. Good riddance to the lot of them. Not sure how I feel about Tennant.
DeafTourette
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ManaByte
Gold Member
We get him back for three specials. So it’s better than nothing.
Badlucktroll
Member
I liked Peter Capaldi alot
Wildebeest
Member
Peter Capaldi was perfect casting, but his scripts not so perfect. It's not like the UK doesn't have any good science fiction writers to help them come up with ideas that don't stink, but the BBC seem weird about how they do it.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
The fact he won't come back for a special shows you how much he hated where the role was going for him.
Such a shame too cause he really could have been amazing.
strange headache
Banned
Please, don't be crap
FunkMiller
Member
High hopes RTD can turn the show around from the utter fucking trash it has become under Chibnall. Great to see Tennant back. I hope we can get Smith and Capaldi back for the 60th. It’ll be good to have Doctor Who back to being half decent again.
Krathoon
Member
Back to some David Tennant hammy acting.
What they need to do is reboot the universe somehow. The Flux trashed most of it.
It still does not make sense how the Earth is doing fine without no moon and other planets in it's solar system.
It is all Chibbed up and he did not bother to address it.
Maybe I missed something and the embodiment of Time reset things.
What they need to do is reboot the universe somehow. The Flux trashed most of it.
It still does not make sense how the Earth is doing fine without no moon and other planets in it's solar system.
It is all Chibbed up and he did not bother to address it.
Maybe I missed something and the embodiment of Time reset things.
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DKehoe
Member
Wait what? I haven’t watched Dr Who in a while. What happened there?
Saiyan-Rox
Member
An event called "The Flux" destroyed the universe.
Except earth.
Not sure why I haven't watched since the first season of Jodie.
Krathoon
Member
The Flux came through and destroyed most of the universe.
FunkMiller
Member
RTD will retcon most of Chibnall’s pathetic bullshit, I’m sure of it. Big red reset button during the anniversary specials.
DKehoe
Member
I know Dr Who tends to do a lot of shit and then handwave it away but when your show is about a guy traveling the universe it seems like a bad idea to destroy most of the universe.
Krathoon
Member
It is like Chibnall did not look up any physics. All the planets have gravitational pull on each other. If you destroy them, it changes the orbit of the Earth.
FunkMiller
Member
Also…
you just fucking watch the ratings absolutely SOAR with Tennant’s return, and suddenly all the little twats who bleated on about them not mattering during Whitaker’s run will suddenly change their minds.
you just fucking watch the ratings absolutely SOAR with Tennant’s return, and suddenly all the little twats who bleated on about them not mattering during Whitaker’s run will suddenly change their minds.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
Tenants return only to last 3 episodes apparently (specials) with the new guy taking over after
Trogdor1123
Member
Ok, where do I subscribe to get this now?
Trogdor1123
Member
Who is “the new guy”?
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
I like Tennant (Matt Smith is the GOAT, however) but I don't believe that they'll be able to capture the tone of his original run, or restore the show to its roots even with RTD involved.
The problem to me is that the nature of its fandom relationship changed. It was still very niche in the Tennant days comparatively (outside the UK, belonged only to a smaller set of nerds) and that was in its favor, because the show didn't feel the need to constantly pander to some expanding audience of idiots on social media, Tumblr, Twitter etc asking for all kinds of nonsense to be injected into the show. The best way to run a show is to completely ignore all input from fans and just write something original that has no interest in pleasing everyone, and they could still do that in the earlier era.
But now it's too big, and the BBC also treats it as a special vehicle for all their usual trendy political bullshit. So I don't think it can be saved. The best thing to happen would be for it to recede into a niche show again that very few people watch, and then start to be something different and intesting again, instead of worrying about nonsense like "representation."
The problem to me is that the nature of its fandom relationship changed. It was still very niche in the Tennant days comparatively (outside the UK, belonged only to a smaller set of nerds) and that was in its favor, because the show didn't feel the need to constantly pander to some expanding audience of idiots on social media, Tumblr, Twitter etc asking for all kinds of nonsense to be injected into the show. The best way to run a show is to completely ignore all input from fans and just write something original that has no interest in pleasing everyone, and they could still do that in the earlier era.
But now it's too big, and the BBC also treats it as a special vehicle for all their usual trendy political bullshit. So I don't think it can be saved. The best thing to happen would be for it to recede into a niche show again that very few people watch, and then start to be something different and intesting again, instead of worrying about nonsense like "representation."
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
Unfortunately, it's likely that the chose him because the next representation after "woman" is "black and gay"
Sybrix
Gold Member
Serious question:
Who watches this? How does it have such a huge fan base? Is it the history of it?
Was at my mother-in-laws last night and it was just on in the background, it has the most idioitic looking characters ever, the CGI is on par with a bad Science Channel movie, the acting is cringe worthy.
I can't understand why it's so popular.
Who watches this? How does it have such a huge fan base? Is it the history of it?
Was at my mother-in-laws last night and it was just on in the background, it has the most idioitic looking characters ever, the CGI is on par with a bad Science Channel movie, the acting is cringe worthy.
I can't understand why it's so popular.
FunkMiller
Member
It was good up until about eight or so years ago. Had a devoted following, based on great leading men, some really creative science fiction, and decent budgets for the BBC. Then things...... changed.
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ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
It has always been incredibly campy. But at one time, it embraced being a children's science fiction program (one whose greatest tradition is a yearly Christmas special), a show that is watchable by the whole family, and that combines fantasy and weird imaginative places.
Somewhere along the line, it lost that identity. I think David Tennant's run and a large portion of Matt Smith's time was still decent family television (for instance, the "A Christmas Carol" special with Matt Smith was fantastic, we still watch it each Christmas), but it gradually fell prey to the new generation of very-online fans on tumblr etc who embraced the show, and it also felt the need to push the envelope in stupid and predictable ways.
So what was once a lighthearted fantasy-scifi romp for all ages became an overblown mess with adult themes and ridiculously complex continuity plots, and then when they switched show-runners and put in the woman, it became another predictable political vehicle for the BBC, lecturing the audience each week with obvious faddish social themes and losing all inventiveness.
It's basically trash now. I don't know how it could be reborn.
strange headache
Banned
Wait he's only there for 3 episodes?
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
And I’m back out.
strange headache
Banned
Yeah they only put him in there to bait people into watching this show again.
FunkMiller
Member
sobaka770
Banned
It's more than Tennant though. The original showrunner is back with quite a bit of clout over the direction of the show as well. I'm cautiously optimistic. The Tennant Who had some terrific moments.
Thank God for that, because current showrunner ran the whole thing into the ground. Did Chibnall even do anything if notice apart from first season of Broadchurch?
Thank God for that, because current showrunner ran the whole thing into the ground. Did Chibnall even do anything if notice apart from first season of Broadchurch?
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
I should watch this again.
FunkMiller
Member
Its much better on a repeat watch.
ape2man
Member
why because it made the docter ... THE chosen one? And not some bloke in a telephone booth
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