Hasn't this show tanked, because of exactly that? The once great BBC dramasTypical BBC PC bollocks.
The show is more concerned with box ticking and political agenda than staying faithful to to the character and storylines.
It's fucking shite.
By ramming it down peoples throats they are achieving exactly the opposite response to what they,hopefully,desire.Hasn't this show tanked, because of exactly that? The once great BBC dramas
and TV specials have now gone, and are replaced with this PC shit, which is
making folk turn off in droves, They're not stopping though, each new output is becoming more unwatchable, their biggest audience over Christmas was 5 million, which is pitiful.
I remember as a kid getting the Radio Times and TV Times every Xmas to organise the viewing - not easy to avoid clashes with a household of 7 and no video recorder, even if there were only 3/4 channels. Last year I bought a guide and found very little to watch on broadcast TV and this Xmas I have watched zero hours of the main channels, just sport, one movie on Amazon and one Netflix series.Hasn't this show tanked, because of exactly that? The once great BBC dramas
and TV specials have now gone, and are replaced with this PC shit, which is
making folk turn off in droves, They're not stopping though, each new output is becoming more unwatchable, their biggest audience over Christmas was 5 million, which is pitiful.
By ramming it down peoples throats they are achieving exactly the opposite response to what they,hopefully,desire.
However,i suspect those that make these decisions are too arrogant and narrow minded to care.
The more I watch Capaldi the more I think that’s why he was chosen to be the final classic doctor. He very much channeled all the previous in his performance and twice upon a time was really the end of this version of the show. Chibnall has rebooted it in the hope he starts the ball rolling on the next 50 years. If it continues the nest doctor will also have to be female to ensure Jodie isn’t a one off. I think she plays the part brilliantly and far more alien than previous incarnations. Just let down by the writing. Looking at the casting as well I’m concerned it’s pietering out like the JNT era was going before Cartmel almost rescued it. John Bishop reminds me of when they put Ken Dodd in it.I was always a bit meh on tenant at the time, I think partially because he came after Eccleston who, for me has still been one of the best of the rebooted doctors and also because they did the whole love story bit.
Not that I am saying the doctor cannot fall for someone as we know he had a grand daughter so must have had kids, but I much prefere how moffat did it with River Song, where it was mainly implied and she was in and out of the show so the focus was on the doctor and the weekly story/series arc not them two.
Looking back tenant was a very good doctor and I didn't mind smith, but Capaldi was probably the most classic doctor like but let down by terrible storylines
This is what let me down in the latest story. I was hoping it was being used as a springboard for Torchwood to return.Superb post by Aba452.
I would add that Torchwood took the Dr. Who concept and developed it successfully into a more adult orientated story.
It’s seems an easy get out to criticise it.Irrespective of who like it and doesn't. Keep seeing that it's been ruined by being P.C. Any chance anyone could explain what that is and why it would be a bad thing ?
Irrespective of who like it and doesn't. Keep seeing that it's been ruined by being P.C. Any chance anyone could explain what that is and why it would be a bad thing ?
Don't see anything wrong with that though, think both his predecesors did the same. Whether you dislike his writing, or lack of immagination has nothing at all to do with a social message and saying it because it's PC is a bit meeaningless, as is the term PC in general.Chibnal likes to put in a social message with little nods to the present news stories going about.
Mainly because he has no imagination.
Don't see anything wrong with that though, think both his predecesors did the same. Whether you dislike his writing, or lack of immagination has nothing at all to do with a social message and saying it because it's PC is a bit meeaningless, as is the term PC in general.
You actually missed a big turnaround then, McGann(1 movie), Eccleston, Tennant(very, very good) and Matt Smith were all excellent.Grew up with Tom Baker and loved it. Peter Davidson was poor, Colin Baker was awful and Sylvester McCoy was beyond shit. Never watched it since.
I'm guessing you do actually know what PC means, in small measures it's of course not a bad thing but not when it's constantly (every bloody line) rammed down your throat. It's turned it into a political statement and not light television as it should be.Irrespective of who like it and doesn't. Keep seeing that it's been ruined by being P.C. Any chance anyone could explain what that is and why it would be a bad thing ?
That’s I guess my point though I watched it and didn’t think it was particularly good even compared to some recent Chibnal ones, some of which have been fine but admittedly not as good as Moffat who probably wasn’t as good as Davies.I'm guessing you do actually know what PC means, in small measures it's of course not a bad thing but not when it's constantly (every bloody line) rammed down your throat. It's turned it into a political statement and not light television as it should be.
I've not seen this Christmases special, I was thinking more of when Whittaker started as the new Doctor. We watched the first 2 or 3 episodes and then just gave up. Never watched an episode since and I grew up with it from Troughton if not Hartnell.That’s I guess my point though I watched it and didn’t think it was particularly good even compared to some recent Chibnal ones, some of which have been fine but admittedly not as good as Moffat who probably wasn’t as good as Davies.
I just didn’t watch it and notice it was being overtly ‘PC’,What in particular was a message or messages in it that you thought was being pushed. As I say I it must have passed me by I just thought it was a bit lame as a story.