No, we watched as it used to be great TV with lots of thought gone into it that you could analyse to the nth degree. Now it's just crap throw away stuff, even my kids said it's not like it used to be and got bored.It’s a childrens / family Saturday evening light entertainment show. Fairly enjoyable bit of fun, much better than the old Ken Dodd days. Do people watch just so they can over analyse over think it and come onto bluemoon and moan about It?
We watched it with our children the only thing all 4 of us watched,they’ve grown out of it but we still watch it for a bit of entertainment, not the same as watching it with the children but it’s fine. I’m sure young families and children watch it and enjoy it still. It is what it is, not to be taken too seriously.No, we watched as it used to be great TV with lots of thought gone into it that you could analyse to the nth degree. Now it's just crap throw away stuff, even my kids said it's not like it used to be and got bored.
Yes they’re all too nice and PC now. Need one like John McClane I reckon.Like the new doctor and assistant but it's the stories for me that ruining it! Want it more serious and dark!
It is an extremely nerdy TV show that, like most nerd culture in the post Big Bang Theory world, became a heavily controlled and marketed by a corporation desperate for a hit in its Worldwide division.
These committees only know how to throw out one type of show and this is it:
1. Tokenist diversity. Have an Asian, a woman, a Black, a trans, a gay or lesbian or a queer. Do absolutely nothing of value with them or their identities apart from the odd throw away line acknowledging their diversity and how rough it is. Do not make Asianness a central part of their character unless it is totally Asian like a bad Goodness Gracious Me sketch. Hire Black women and remove all blackness from their character so they are white middle class well maintained women who happen to have Black skin.
2. Reinvent history to be the way that is convenient for a 2020s TV show and not the way it was. This includes internal history such as lore or characters. Again, in no way do you approach or challenge difficult situations. Ignore racism, ignore massive injustices, ignore culture of rape and fear and brutality. Do however make heavy handed social commentary that is attempting to be relevant to today in the worst way.
3. The writer must have an insert character. The writer and the writing committee must have a way to preach their utopian progressive unsubtle platitudes to the audience. Again, there can't be any depth or nuance to this nor can the audience be trusted to get it without big neon signs and flashing arrows saying THE POINT. Unless the writer is conservative and then this inappropriate.
4. You must never bow to the cult fans. Instead you should mock and deride them for being cult fans of the show that you created. "Fan service" is done by referencing things that happened in the past via offhand comments that will confused the fuck out of the rest of the audience. Appeal directly to a global social media market. Create clippable moments, gifable lines, get your hashtags out for the lads. Everything has to be an action show, especially shows that are not action shows. Get big flashy lasers firing at things. Make lots of noise. Pretend you're making a show that will keep the attention of a 6 month year old baby.
5. Flanderise every aspect of the show. Light entertainment has to be insultingly stupid or hilariously melodramatic. Don't tell small stories with interesting payoffs. The entire world has to be at stake every time and then the entire solar system then entire galaxy then entire universe then the multiverse then spacetime itself. Remember when the Doctor was an anonymous traveller randomly walking around Aztec cities who helped out due to a moral courage? Now he has to be literally God. An all powerful entity who is feared and revered by every culture in the Universe and is the most important person who has ever lived. Everybody has to be a super genius. Those who are not have to be Biblically stupid.
6. Have zero confidence in your own show. Constantly explain the plot and mechanics over and over again because you don't trust the audience will follow the show. Make whiplash changes to tone within a single doctors run because your Instagram post only got 300k likes. Make the Doctor's character and motivations change on a near weekly basis.
next episode is writtwn by moffat so high hopes a proper sci-fi and serious storyLike the new doctor and assistant but it's the stories for me that ruining it! Want it more serious and dark!
So what your saying is it's an official Disney show now?It is an extremely nerdy TV show that, like most nerd culture in the post Big Bang Theory world, became a heavily controlled and marketed by a corporation desperate for a hit in its Worldwide division.
These committees only know how to throw out one type of show and this is it:
1. Tokenist diversity. Have an Asian, a woman, a Black, a trans, a gay or lesbian or a queer. Do absolutely nothing of value with them or their identities apart from the odd throw away line acknowledging their diversity and how rough it is. Do not make Asianness a central part of their character unless it is totally Asian like a bad Goodness Gracious Me sketch. Hire Black women and remove all blackness from their character so they are white middle class well maintained women who happen to have Black skin.
2. Reinvent history to be the way that is convenient for a 2020s TV show and not the way it was. This includes internal history such as lore or characters. Again, in no way do you approach or challenge difficult situations. Ignore racism, ignore massive injustices, ignore culture of rape and fear and brutality. Do however make heavy handed social commentary that is attempting to be relevant to today in the worst way.
3. The writer must have an insert character. The writer and the writing committee must have a way to preach their utopian progressive unsubtle platitudes to the audience. Again, there can't be any depth or nuance to this nor can the audience be trusted to get it without big neon signs and flashing arrows saying THE POINT. Unless the writer is conservative and then this inappropriate.
4. You must never bow to the cult fans. Instead you should mock and deride them for being cult fans of the show that you created. "Fan service" is done by referencing things that happened in the past via offhand comments that will confused the fuck out of the rest of the audience. Appeal directly to a global social media market. Create clippable moments, gifable lines, get your hashtags out for the lads. Everything has to be an action show, especially shows that are not action shows. Get big flashy lasers firing at things. Make lots of noise. Pretend you're making a show that will keep the attention of a 6 month year old baby.
5. Flanderise every aspect of the show. Light entertainment has to be insultingly stupid or hilariously melodramatic. Don't tell small stories with interesting payoffs. The entire world has to be at stake every time and then the entire solar system then entire galaxy then entire universe then the multiverse then spacetime itself. Remember when the Doctor was an anonymous traveller randomly walking around Aztec cities who helped out due to a moral courage? Now he has to be literally God. An all powerful entity who is feared and revered by every culture in the Universe and is the most important person who has ever lived. Everybody has to be a super genius. Those who are not have to be Biblically stupid.
6. Have zero confidence in your own show. Constantly explain the plot and mechanics over and over again because you don't trust the audience will follow the show. Make whiplash changes to tone within a single doctors run because your Instagram post only got 300k likes. Make the Doctor's character and motivations change on a near weekly basis.
Aye.Always with the running around, running down corridors, running, endless running...