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Re: [NEWS] RTD has no idea if Billie Piper is the next Doctor

#112274
From: doctor@doctor.nl
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!
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