Goodbye, Doctor

[EddMarkStarr]

Its been a long journey that started in 1963, but I feel the time has come to say goodbye to the Doctor Who I've grown to admire.

 

[unloadonme]

Great video.

I haven't watched Doctor Who since the days of Matt Smith, but I have kept half an eye on developments. As the video says, the producers have been accused of being woke by casting first a woman and then a gay black man in the role. The producers responded by suggesting that viewers who didn't like it could fuck off because others would be along in droves to replace them. Well, they were half right and audience numbers have fallen substantially.

There seems to be a theory in media circles here that the only way to make the white majority more accepting of the 4% of Britons who are black (yes, it really is only 4%, see link below) is to include black actors in just about everything. It's almost as if advertisements aren't allowed on TV any longer unless they feature at least one black actor and unless every couple is mixed race. What's happened to Doctor Who therefore comes as absolutely no surprise.

Will there be another series? I can't imagine Disney throwing more money at it, but Doctor Who is something of a British institution and the BBC is likely to come under pressure not to drop it completely. They should though forget the politically correct diversity brainwashing and stick to telling stories which leave the kids so scared that they hide behind the sofa like I used to do.

Population of England and Wales

According to the 2021 Census, 81.7% of the population of England and Wales was white, 9.3% Asian, 4.0% black, 2.9% mixed and 2.1% from other ethnic groups.

www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk

 

[NotHardUp1]

Great video.

I haven't watched Doctor Who since the days of Matt Smith, but I have kept half an eye on developments. As the video says, the producers have been accused of being woke by casting first a woman and then a gay black man in the role. The producers responded by suggesting that viewers who didn't like it could fuck off because others would be along in droves to replace them. Well, they were half right and audience numbers have fallen substantially.

There seems to be a theory in media circles here that the only way to make the white majority more accepting of the 4% of Britons who are black (yes, it really is only 4%, see link below) is to include black actors in just about everything. It's almost as if advertisements aren't allowed on TV any longer unless they feature at least one black actor and unless every couple is mixed race. What's happened to Doctor Who therefore comes as absolutely no surprise.

Will there be another series? I can't imagine Disney throwing more money at it, but Doctor Who is something of a British institution and the BBC is likely to come under pressure not to drop it completely. They should though forget the politically correct diversity brainwashing and stick to telling stories which leave the kids so scared that they hide behind the sofa like I used to do.

Population of England and Wales

According to the 2021 Census, 81.7% of the population of England and Wales was white, 9.3% Asian, 4.0% black, 2.9% mixed and 2.1% from other ethnic groups.

www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk

It's happening here, too.

And mixed race couples are perfectly well accepted, even here in the the deep South, but that doesn't make commercials effective.

This sort of overkill of inclusion is indeed ONE of the reasons why Trump has succeeded, as there is apparently no other way to act against the onslaught of heavy-handed woke-ism.

Sure, more minority actors need opportunities, and that's fine to addreess in writing more roles, but social engineering via broadcasting isn't helping the cause. It's doing the reverse. Accuse everyone of racism enough times, and you eventually create new forms of racism as reactions to the attacks.

Until the left finds a new go-to for political attacks, all the result will be is a more moderate Republican will be elected, not a Democrat.

The poisoning of fiction in cinema is doing it no favors in an era in which theaters are struggling, and home streaming can quickly filter out the nonsense.

No objections to telling new tales of whatever race and mix of cast, and science fiction does that the most often, most credibly. But, retelling existing myths and historical accounts, changing the races and sexes of the characters, is simply telling a lie, not creative retelling. And it goes both ways, hence "cultural appropriation" accusations. You can't have a white woman play a downtrodden blues singer in the 1920's and have her story be a true one if trying to depict what blacks faced in America in the 1920's. Likewise, you can't have a black man play Glen Armstrong and be telling a historical tale about NASA and how the Apollo program fit within the America of the 1960's.

In opportunity, race should be no impediment, but cinema and TV are not bereft of societal context. You can't have Meryl Streep portray Cecilia Chiang and flee China to found The Mandarin restaurant in San Francisco in the middle of the 20th century. It simply doesn't work in modern cinema. It is rightly seen as a racist approach to acting. The reverse sadly becoming acceptable, to use racism to replace historical figures in movies with minority races to simply make it more PC. It makes garbage entertainment.

 

[NotHardUp1]

When people's first reaction is "Doctor WHAT?", you know you've jumped the shark.

 

[rareboy]

Maybe she is? Maybe not?

Doctor Who fans spot a HUGE problem with Billie Piper's reveal

The actress is well-known to longtime Who fans, having previously played The Doctor's companion Rose Tyler, and The Moment interface in the show's 50th Anniversary Special.

www.dailymail.co.uk

There's no surprise here that Brits want 'their' Doctor to be a white cis het guy. Meanwhile, the franchise has tried to explore how to build their fan base to appeal to more female viewers
and international markets where the non-white population is actually greater than 4%. Like a lot of the rest of the world that makes up a huge market for Doctor Who.

The reality is that the male demo didn't like a flamboyant gay black actor gushing in the role. And we noticed that they ended up straightwashing him pretty quickly.

And tbh he really didn't get solid story lines. It was almost as though the show runners and writers didn't know what to do with him and really didn't give him solid or memorable companions.

But maybe getting Billy Piper back in the mix will get the older audience back again just to see what they do with the next iteration.

 

[unloadonme]

And tbh he really didn't get solid story lines. It was almost as though the show runners and writers didn't know what to do with him and really didn't give him solid or memorable companions.

One would think that the principle Doctor Who writer, Russell T Davies, would know what to do with a gay doctor, if not a black one. What's needed are stories about the doctor avoiding being exterminated by daleks or whatever, rather than some sort of diversity box-ticking exercise.

 

[Vannie]

No worries. I'm a Doctor!

Everyone get in line! Pull your pants down to your knees!

*dims lights*

*puts on sexual healing song*

 

[NotHardUp1]

^ The Tardis is suddenly a lot smaller inside than it was . . .

 

[EddMarkStarr]

Great video.

I haven't watched Doctor Who since the days of Matt Smith, but I have kept half an eye on developments. As the video says, the producers have been accused of being woke by casting first a woman and then a gay black man in the role. The producers responded by suggesting that viewers who didn't like it could fuck off because others would be along in droves to replace them. Well, they were half right and audience numbers have fallen substantially.

There seems to be a theory in media circles here that the only way to make the white majority more accepting of the 4% of Britons who are black (yes, it really is only 4%, see link below) is to include black actors in just about everything. It's almost as if advertisements aren't allowed on TV any longer unless they feature at least one black actor and unless every couple is mixed race. What's happened to Doctor Who therefore comes as absolutely no surprise.

Will there be another series? I can't imagine Disney throwing more money at it, but Doctor Who is something of a British institution and the BBC is likely to come under pressure not to drop it completely. They should though forget the politically correct diversity brainwashing and stick to telling stories which leave the kids so scared that they hide behind the sofa like I used to do.

Population of England and Wales

According to the 2021 Census, 81.7% of the population of England and Wales was white, 9.3% Asian, 4.0% black, 2.9% mixed and 2.1% from other ethnic groups.

www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk

There's something almost magical in watching the beginnings of a series like Doctor Who from childhood. The show introduced concepts that I only understood in my later years. This is what made Doctor Who special, not talking down to the audience.

In what must be the greatest fluke in entertainment - there were countless movies and television shows that seemed to fit nicely into the Doctor Who puzzle, as if all of entertainment was a mosaic and the individual pieces add up to a clearer understanding of The Doctor.

How strange the way other movies fell into the Who Universe!

 

[smokeshadow]

IIRC, the original pilot episode was scheduled to premier on 22 November 1963; but, was postponed a week due to the JFK assassination

 

[LeicsDom]

What's needed are stories about the doctor avoiding being exterminated by daleks or whatever, rather than some sort of diversity box-ticking exercise.

Which is where previous show runners Chibnell & Moffett went wrong. Go woke, go broke. They lost legions of viewers by having too obviously PC storylines