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I don't think so, no. Even if you're maintaining it well and keeping it in good nick, a car only lasts so long if you're putting miles on the clock. Any show made now is bound to struggle to maintain the same level of interest if it's on (more or less) year in year out for over a decade imo. The original run lasted as long as it did because that was a different age of entertainment, where the only competition was whatever was on ITV at the same time. With streaming and the internet and catch up and the multitude of different shows that are made now, I don't think you can expect any show besides a soap opera to run as continuously as the old show did, because it's impossible to keep the public interested for that long when there's so much content now. Plus while Doctor Who has the advantage of being able to reinvent itself, there's still a basic format there. Doctor and companion flying around in the TARDIS and running into aliens. It's a more versatile format than most because they can go anywhere and the doctor can be anyone but any format is bound to feel tired after 11 series.
I'm not advocating another 20 year long gap or anything but a few years I think would do the show good. If they'd put it on hiatus when Capaldi left then bought it back for the anniversary in 2023 then I think the hype for it would have been massive.
I must say, if they put a new DVD of the 50th special, this should at least be on the bonuses.
While Jodie is the Dr then i'm not bothered tbh,its all PC and morals now,i don't want that on a Saturday evening.
Besides, from what I can tell, most of the "too PC" complaints came because of the historical episodes. Which I thought were the only decent ones. I thought it was nice that they were showing things like the civil rights movement and the partition of India on a primetime BBC One family show. Teaches the kids about these important moments in history.
So yeah, don't get the too PC complaints personally. My complaints were more to do how badly written it all was and how one note Jodie was.
I wish I could say the same. I'll give episode one a chance, but if that doesn't grab me then I probably won't bother again until Jodie's last episode (the regeneration ones always interest me). I'm getting the feeling that the current era might just not be for me.
Fair enough I found last series well scripted and loved the historical which were missing too long from the series imho. While Jody does not exactly rock my boat her first series was seriously different from the series before her and certainly had som excellent episodes. So I am interested what the new series brings.
Then there was that little matter of making the 1st Doctor into a sexist idiot, just to finger wag at the big nasty man, when the 1st Doctor was nothing remotely like what he was portrayed as in Twice Upon A Time. And even if, IF, he were sexist, I thought timelords had no concept of gender. :-? So which is it, Moff?
It's not a case of the show being "too pc", but the writers spunking their politics over the show, letting them take precedence over writing of the characters. I hope the show doesn't go away, but if it meant purging the current politics out of the show, then so be it. Maybe the problem runs deeper, and won't be solved until there is big changes at the PaedBC.
Now, good news : Missing episode Mission to the Unknown has been refilmed, and will be released on YouTube on october 9th 2019, at 5.50 PM GMT :
https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2019/10/02/recreation-of-missing-episode-mission-to-the-unknown-to-be-released-on-youtube/
https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2019/10/04/cardiffs-doctor-who-experience-is-being-dismantled/
Seeing that empty building (and learning that Eddie's Diner had closed down) made my last trip to Cardiff a bittersweet experience. Now, we won't even have that to remind us of all the good times we spent saving the Doctor (and the universe) and seeing all those wonderful props (including Bessie).
I think the first doctor was just being used as a metaphor for 60s doctor who/60s values in general to show how far things had come before the first female doctor. I found it funny but to be fair I'm not familiar with that era at all. I can see why fans of it would be rubbed the wrong way.
I don't get your issue with him decking the racist though. Why should the doctor care if that was what was socially acceptable back then. He's a time travelling alien. The norms and values of the time don't apply to him. That sort of thing should never have been okay, we should be ashamed of how that was actually commonplace, and there'd be no reason for an outsider to cut us any slack, especially when his mate was the target. It's not like we were less intelligent creatures back then. "It was the olden days" isn't an excuse, especially not for a time lord.
There it is. Imagine if they misrepresented Eccleston, isn't that why he didn't come back for TDOTD? Now i'm not suggesting the 10th Doctor would be shown as a racist, but if Eccleston had appeared in the 50th Anniversart special, and it wasn't in line with how he was portrayed on screen, you'd be less than thrilled. Heck, i'm not even a massic fan of the 1st Doctor. If they were goign to bring the characters back, the least they coudl have done was to respect Hartnell's portrayal. But if that is how they felt the 1st Doctor was, then I dread to think of how they would portrayed the 7th Doctor (travelling through time and space with a 16 year old girl). With would be ironic given it's a PeadBC show.
Right. The Doctor travells back to a period in the history of a planet that he knows intimately, and it shocked to find an attitude that was commonplace then. Even if he didn't check the scanners, upon exiting the TARDIS, he would have quickly beene able to ascertain the time period, and now what was, or was not, acceptable at the time. An attitude that wasn't a crime back then. The Doctor responds by phyically assaulting him. That is the problem. The Doctor assaulted him for doing nothing wrong. Saying "it was the olden days" is not an excuse. But saying "Oh, he's from a different time" also shouldn't be an excuse. It's no different with Bond and his treatment of women, especially in the 1960's. Yes, saying "that is how it was at the time" isn't an exuse, but guess what that is what it was like at the time. But they got the 1st Doctor so wrong.
He wasn't shocked by it. He had an understandably angry reaction to his friend being called all sorts of horrible stuff.
The guy didn't "do nothing wrong". He was a racist prick. It being socially and legally acceptable at the time to be a racist prick doesn't mean it wasn't still morally wrong, as I'm sure the people on the recieving end and the white people who did realise it was wrong in that time period would tell you were they still alive. I don't get what you thought his attitude would be? When he lands on Dalek planets he doesn't let them off because that's just how Dalek attitudes were at the time does he? Why should his reaction to humans be any different?
We should be ashamed of how disgusting attitudes used to be, "oh, almost everyone was like that back then" is not an excuse, and to a time travelling alien none of that matters anyway. Whereever he's landed that week is the present to him. What was he supposed to do? Not stick up for his friend because he knows things will be better but still not perfect in a couple of hundred years?
I loved it for the record. One of the biggest laughs of the series for me. Gives that whole speech about diplomacy but then can't resist just jawing him, as I assumed we all wanted to during that scene.
Not sure what you're trying to say with the Bond comparison either. Those films are genuinely a product of their time. Still isn't okay to slap women around but nothing that can be done about it now is there.
Doctor Who on the other hand is a modern show about time travel. He's interacting with the past, and he should get angry when he sees aspects of it that are wrong. If he landed in a 60s Bond film and Sean Connery slapped his companion I'd be fine with him decking him too.
Because back then, it wasn't a crime. As bad as we think it is today, and thankfully we have come.... some ways. It still wasn't a crime then, and for the Doctor to overreact in such a way, brings him down to our level. The Doctor is supposed to be above us, should show us a different way. What should he have done? Make a speech, that is one of the few bacic traits across the Doctors many regenerations.
How can you possibly compare humans to Daleks? Unlike humans, Daleks haven't evolved through time, they are constat in their genodical hatred for anything that doesn't measure up. We, thankfully, have evolved through time, attituded changing. There is no comparison whatsoever.
He did have a chance to wipe them out before they were fully created in Genesis Of The Daleks, but in that one famous scene, the Doctor pondered whether he had any right to do so. All he had to do, was touch two little wires together.
I agree with you, but again, saying that is how it was, is not an excuse, but a fact.
Well I hated it. I don't agree with Lord... Tothemanorborn or whatever his name was, but it was sooo out of character for the Doctor.
Ok, let me try and put it another way. Uh.... 60's Bond films have the attitudes prevalent at the time. Right? People, (generally non-Bond fans) complain about it. Now, I am not saying that I necessariy agree with the treatment of whoever. But those were the attitudes of the time, when the films were made. Now Lord... Suchandsuch was all the things you said, but he wasn't brought forward into our time, but the Doctor went to his time. The Doctor punching him, lowered the Doctor down to our level. the
So.... Conor McGreggor in the TARDIS? :-? Not sure if that is what Sydney Newman would have wanted, but it would be different. In between laying out Cybermen, the Doctor can try and fix the cameleon circuit.
And I guess what it comes down to is how willing to resort to violence we think the doctor should be, and how above us he should be. Personally while I get and like the fact that he's a pacifist, I'm a bit too cynical to think that approach always works. I prefer the doctors who are more willing to get their hands dirty if he has to and who aren't too sanctimonious and perfect about their pacifist side. Capaldi in particular had a couple of little scraps, plus he was fiercely loyal to his companions (watched series 9 recently and remember when he punched that timelord, stole his gun and shot him to bring Clara back? And that guy actually had done nothing wrong). So it didn't feel at all out of character for his darker/edgier doctor to me.
I also don't think he should be too far above us. Sure he should try to show us a better way and find a non violent solution to everything but it'd be boring if he always did. At the end of the day I think he had a very understandable reaction. He might be an alien but he still has emotions. I don't think of myself as a violent person at all, but if someone was hurling abuse like that at a mate of mine I'd have no problem hitting them and I wouldn't feel guilty about it in the slightest. Some people deserve it imo. Not saying he should go around fighting everyone he meets, but I do think sometimes reacting with force is understandable/justifiable, and that situation was definitely one of those times.
It would have been a different matter entirely. THAT is The Doctor. He could have belittled Lord Margoandgerry
*Which is up there with the 7th Doctor pondering the Ripple Effect in Remembrance Of The Daleks, and the 1st Doctors farewell speech to Susan in The Dalek Invasion Of Earth.
I get where you are comign from, I do, I just don't agree that was the best action for him to take.
I think it should be released, either as a DVD, or as an extra in a future set (either Classic" or "New"). BTW, if the Varga aren't a reference to Matango... Well, they should be.
http://merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/new-animation-to-be-announced-at-london-comic-con/
And I know that won't please everyone here, but there will also be a special episode next year for the new series :
https://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2019/10/12/director-revealed-for-doctor-who-series-12-christmas-special/
What Troughton era stories do we have remaining...?
The Power Of The Daleks
The Highlanders
The Underwater Menace
The Moonbase
The Macra Terror
The Faceless Ones
The Evil Of The Daleks
The Tomb Of The Cybermen
The Abomnible Snowmen
The Ice Warriors
The Enemy Of The World
The Web Of Fear
Fury From The Deep
The Wheel In Space
The Dominators
The Mind Robber
The Invasion
The Krotons
The Seeds Of Death
The Space Pirates
The War Games
Hhmm... we have had what 3 or 4 Troughtons in a row now, they could make animate another Hartnell story.
Coming 2020. Then were getting two releases next year. B-)
There are a few problems with that. The first one is the lack or photographic references for most of the third season (the producer decided against having telesnaps in order to keep the budget to a minimum). Then, in the case of historical, an (undeserved) lack of interest, plus the cost of doing costumes and sets. And some stories ("The Daleks Masterplan") are just too big to be animated. A shame, really.
Still, I'm glad to have another classic Troughton serial to look forward to. The only thing is that I'll have to make a little place on my Dcotor Who DVD shelves. But that's alright, I still have place.
And now, the announcement we've all been waiting for :
https://www.cbr.com/doctor-who-video-announcement/
The trailer for the new season, or the announcement of a Christmas episode ? Anyway, we'll know on november 23rd.
Well we did not get a Christmas episode last year so who knows they may ditch the New Year episode and bring it back to its rightful spot.
I love DW though if we are getting more of the same as last season, I just can't get enthusiastic for it.