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Article #112274Re: [NEWS] RTD has no idea if Billie Piper is the next Doctor
From: doctor@doctor.nl
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:46
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2025 22:46
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In article <xn0p7zfyo23jgeh001@post.eweka.nl>, Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote: >Melissa Hollingsworth wrote: > >> Verily, in article <xn0p7yzb7mnwwup001@post.eweka.nl>, did >> blueshirt@indigo.news deliver unto us this message: >> > >> > I think RTD is just an out of touch old Queen doing what he >> > wants to do because it's jolly good fun in his mind and fuck >> > the fans if they don't like it. So let's insert every trendy >> > cause into episodes because that's what he thinks Doctor Who >> > should be about in 2025, a political bandwagon. Have your >> > messaging wrapped inside a good story if you have to show >> > how trendy and right-on you are... but start with the story, >> > not the message. RTD is all about big ideas, that then fall >> > flat. His ego is destroying the thing he created. >> >> IMO, this is what he always wanted the show to be like. He >> didn't want to revive Doctor Who; he wanted a gay, sex-soaked >> reboot of Doctor Who. At the time the BBC wouldn't let him, >> so he created Captain Jack Harkness as a different guy banging >> his way across time and space. > >If RTD wanted a gay sex-soaked reboot, he should have just gone >away and written a new show about a gay sex-soaked alien visitor >to Earth. Without the baggage of "Doctor Who" and its eras past, >that new show might have worked and been a big hit on Channel 4. > >> Now, the show has aged and is fading. The BBC's willing to let >> RTD do his thing as a desperation move to juice it along a >> little more. >> >> If they cancelled it gracefully, they might be able to revive >> it again in another twenty years. If this goes on too long, >> though, then the whole show could become a permament >> laughingstock. > >I'd rather the BBC didn't cancel Doctor Who. My preferred option >would be the show carries on, I can then choose not to watch it >if my enjoyability level goes downhill enough and "Doctor Who" >is just throwback gimmicks and in-your-face messaging to the >detriment of its entertainment value. > >I would never stop others from enjoying the show. I'm sixty in >two weeks time, if Doctor Who in 2025+ ain't for me I can live >with that. I always hope for the best... but these days, I >expect the worst. But I always want to see "Doctor Who" live >on... Cheers old mate! -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor@nk.ca Ici doctor@nk.ca Yahweh, King & country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising! Look at Psalms 14 and 53 on Atheism ; All I want to hear from JEsus Christ is WEll done Good and Faithful servant
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