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So uh, hey. I’ve never actually watched any episodes of Doctor Who or anything, but I’ve seen this one clip going across Twitter today, and well….

Sorry about your show dying so gruesomely, everyone.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
So uh, hey. I’ve never actually watched any episodes of Doctor Who or anything, but I’ve seen this one clip going across Twitter today, and well….

Sorry about your show dying so gruesomely, everyone.
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Don't worry, it was already dead beforehand. The defecation of the corpse hasn't been pleasant, though, so the sympathy is appreciated nonetheless.
 
Rotollo 2 said:
you have me morbidly curious, which clip in particular?
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Feathers McGraw said:
I actually found this really sad. Doctor Who is often pretty shit, but the Tennant + Tate combo is something I have very fond memories of, to the extent where I even listened to one of their audiobooks just to relive it. Bringing them back so that the entire episode could be about her troon "daughter" is fucking revolting. I know the show has always been pozzed as fuck, but this was a new level of disgust for me.
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"Rose" already has a five o' clock shadow, troon falsetto creeping in, large hands, is as tall as David Tennant and that 0 curves skinniness real women starve themselves for. It's sad because having just watched it I think RTD did bring back the "old-Nu Who" feeling but the preaching really sours it. "DoctorDonna" was never about their sexes, if anything it was the combination of Time Lord intelligence and human compassion.
 
I hadn't really been paying attention to the casting, I knew a tranny was somewhere in the new stuff but I thought it was with the black gay doctor.
This episode showed up in my "streaming queue" and I made it 3 minutes and 41 seconds until the tranny appeared. And then deleted it and told my "queue" not to recommend Dr Who ever again.
 
Rotollo 2 said:
>male presenting
>when the doctor has been a woman before
Nu who really wants to apply human understanding of the universe to a species that would obviously have diffrent standards due to how regeneration works.
I love how men are being told to act by noted woman, Russel T. Davis
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Had this been a few years before coronaworld hit, the "male presenting" comment could probably be written off as a cheeky reference to that absurd corporate censorship speak everyone was making fun of when it started popping up in TOS shit. Unfortunately this shit's blatantly unironic politically brain poisoned lecturing equal to fucking infamous twitter webcomic "Blobby and friends" or probably more accurately the fucking colgate haired "anonymous asexual".
 
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I’m really glad I got off the Whotrain with the (50th?) Anniversary special. The one with Smith & Tennant teaming up and Smith having a quick cameo with the 4th Doctor.

I didn’t follow Capaldi for any specific reason at that point I was just working 60 hour+ weeks and so I didn’t have any time to be watching tv beyond sports. But it seems like everything went downhill when Karen Gillan left.
 
If nothing else this has inspired me to go back and watch Series 4 of the new series. I never watched most episodes of Series 4 because I was bored of the new series at that point. I picked who back up for Smith's Doctor and dropped it right after the 50th.
 
Solidly okay episode, don't mind the tranny shit until the asspull at the end, liked the unit cripple, thought DT and CT fit back into their roles perfectly
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
So uh, hey. I’ve never actually watched any episodes of Doctor Who or anything, but I’ve seen this one clip going across Twitter today, and well….

Sorry about your show dying so gruesomely, everyone.
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I watched a few. As an American from across the pond we have it on BBC but I watched online. The episodes I remember were weird. A fat green monster that absorbs people, people turning into dolls and lord only knows what else.

Doctor Who is that sci-fi show that, if it was made in the United States, it would had been cancelled years ago. It would have a solid cult following; which might had gotten a revival like the Twilight Zone in the 2000's but cancelled again because of low ratings.
 
Tootsie Bear said:
Doctor Who is that sci-fi show that, if it was made in the United States, it would had been cancelled years ago. It would have a solid cult following; which might had gotten a revival like the Twilight Zone in the 2000's but cancelled again because of low ratings.
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I mean that hypothetical US version a lot like the UK version of the show honestly.

They just refused to cancel the new series due to low ratings.

A part of me wants to know what would have happened if RTD had not accepted more money than god to come back
 
I haven't watched Who since the first half of Capaldi's era, so I decided to watch the preview on the genesis of the Daleks (and why they have a plunger-like appendage) a few days ago. I didn't really feel happy that Tennant was back, or that his presence would contribute a lot to the show.

It just felt regressive, like they were wiping away Smith and Capaldi's contributions to the Doctor's personalities and humanity. I liked Tennant's performance in Good Omens, but something about his performance here in NuWho2 felt... lacking. I'm not sure how to describe it. Reading this discussion about the tranny daughter and forced political flag-waving just makes me feel incredibly sad. Where did the love for the cosmos and the inspiration to travel across the stars and visit new places and peoples go?
 
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