I read a story awhile back that the BBC intends to move forward with the program even without Disney, but after this I find that really hard to believe. Ultimately they just had the US streaming rights and were footing the bill for some of this awful looking CGI, so it's not like it's impossible for the show to continue. But they already went down to 8 episodes, so what's next? 4 episodes a season? Every season is just a single story?
She basically only existed so that the BBC could publish promotional material featuring "all" of the Doctors and have a single black face so it wouldn't just be a picture of white people, I don't think there was any care beyond that.
One theory I'm seeing is that 15 and Piper-Doctor are going to die off the way poojeta Rani did, and that they're going to have to bring back Tennant (again) and he'll regenerate into another Doctor, so that 15 and Piper-Doctor are like offshoots. I wonder if Tennant would agree to do it though, he's shamelessly woke and already tarnished his own reputation with the 60th specials anyway so I'm sure he'd come back again so he can regenerate into a non-binary Paki in a wheelchair to win the day for diversity and inclusion.
i can easily see David Tennant coming back considering Good Omens had its 3rd season nuked because of the gaiman rapes. he's out of work anyways.
I went to check the comics where she is and instead of trying to copy the actress she is just Amanda Waller but with gayer clothes
WTF is that her now?
I can see it just for the social angle, without Disney it's not like they can afford him but he'd probably take a paycut just to spite the right wing boogiemen and continue to undermine his legacy by making the Doctor gayer and more retarded.
She's gotten a lot of awful, aggressive plastic surgery/botox/lip fillers over the years. She looks horrible. They haven't even started filming new specials or anything yet, she's not going to look the same by the time they get round to it unless she schedules all new injections right before filming.
Capaldi was the one who sword fought with a spoon.
OMG are those images all supposed to be the same person?
I actually felt the opposite; the whole Flood thing was somewhat intriguing but as soon as Panjabi was on screen she hammed it up appropriately and made Dobson look less interesting, even if she took some cues from Michelle Gomez's Missy.
she unironically looks like a nigger now. between the lips and the eyebrows she just looks like a light skinned nigger in a weave.
I really don't know who would take the job. So far it's just been a nepotistic free for all with all the showrunners being friends, so it would be down to someone that's friends with Russel. I suppose the BBC could go over his head and try to find someone serious, but they haven't had an issue with the endless trash the show has been for the last 12 years anyway, why would they start now? Even then, the reputation of the show is in the gutter. It has been total nonsense every series now with constant retcons and new mystery boxies that are left unexplained and old actors coming back. It's a narrative clusterfuck. Who would even want it at this point? So much of RTD coming back to me seemed to be about the BBC's inability to find anyone else to do it, which was why he was given so much creative control over the re-revival, and he hasn't improved matters at all.
The only silver lining is that it seems to be a stunt casting with her playing some other character and not the Doctor or taking over the role for the next go around.
There seems to be two most likely directions. Disney seems to have bought it with expectation that it would be come a franchise and expanded universe (because of course they did), but with the hostility towards it now, that's a none starter. Because unlike the BBC, Disney is at least aware of the cultural backlash and has already made changes. I expect Disney has told them to wait for a while, then see if it's viable to invest in it again alongside spin offs and other nonsense and yes, changes to the format and requests to tone down (or simply censor) the progressive stuff for international audiences. If that doesn't happen they'll wait longer or end the deal.
Eccleston has always been incredibly bitter about how he was treated though he's not given details. If he knew then the team who made the first 3 series were this incompetent, then how did it do so well?
I've also heard a lot of rumors that episode was written for Matt Smith which is why it has such a goofy moment, but I think it worked out in the end. It was one of Capaldi's early episodes and allowed him to show that he could still be funny as the Doctor even though he's grumpier and more alien. I think it's one of the funniest episodes of the entire series, it's one of my personal favorites. It reminds me a lot of the Third Doctor story The Time Warriors which is the first to feature Sarah Jane Smith and predominately revolves around a medieval castle, a really fun one. Sarah Jane is fierce from go, you can tell she's going to be a fan favorite right away.
What strikes me as well is how much damage was done to these three brands, all virtually facing identical issues of overbearing progressive hellwashing and clueless executives who seem to loathe the thing they're in charge of. Even if people didn't care for a particular Doctor at any given moment, they still had the brand to engage with, books and comics and things. But the awful shit from the TV series is even sinking into those things now. And it's hard to be enthused for something that goes beyond just not caring for it, but something that's become awful and even resents you as an audience member. Why get excited for books audios when you just know the Fugitive Doctor is going to get hamfisted in there at some point, or Donna's son, or the obnoxious wheelchair lady from UNIT?
They might I mean might do Big Finish audio stories with her in the meantime. I mean it's possible I suppose? Does Billie Piper even have much of an acting career at this point? Speaking of Big Finish audios I wonder which nuWho Doctor will eventually do them after they realize their careers are over? Eccleston? Smith? Whitaker? Capaldi? Or Gatwa? Tennant somehow is the most famous actor Doctor ever but he seems a good sport about his Who career and could return in Big Finish in a decade I'd imagine?
There's a lot of complicated baggage with the fact that the BBC is a public entity meaning that they don't really have profit margins or anything to deal with like a private entity. Not that that stopped the likes of CBS or Disney from shitting on the sci-fi properties they own or anything, but the BBC in particular has certain governance goals like diversity mandates. That's actually one reason why Isaac Newton was played by some half black half Indian guy or whatever in Wild Blue Yonder, because otherwise the episode would have been nothing but white people and they can't have an episode of a program that's entirely white.
Whitakers first big finish series is set to come out in July. Eccleston has been doing them for a while now, I think just because big finish started doing Shakespeare as well and he loves Shakespeare so he basically agreed to do some Doctor Who in return for getting to do Shakespeare. Smith has expressed no interest in returning to the series unless he can play a villain of some kind and Capaldi was quite adamant that he wouldn't return under any circumstances so I guess we'll see.
The UK is never regaining its cultural identity bud. The only cultural identity it has left is that they love sodomy and brown people.
