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#DoctorWho Spicy Take #125:. Anita Dobson would have been good as another villain, but she shouldn’t have been The Rani. Archie Panjabi was better in the role, but she had little to work with.
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#DoctorWho Spicy Take #124:. The Story and the Engine, while decent, is not nearly as good as many DW fans claim it to be.
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#DoctorWho Spicy Take #123:. Anybody who says Pete McTighe is the best candidate to replace Russell as showrunner is verifiably insane and should be walled off from the rest of society
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#DoctorWho Spicy Take #122:. You can discredit the opinion of somebody who calls the Whittaker era “woke” right away. If anything, the Capaldi era is far more “woke”.
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#DoctorWho Spicy Take #121:. The Night of the Doctor is kinda overrated. It’s not bad but it’s not nearly as remarkable as people make it out to be.
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Tbh I’ve noticed that some people who insist they are one story do it to shame people who like Heaven Sent but not Hell Bent. Then they can say: “They’re both the same story! You can’t like one but not the other ya big doofus.”.
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By that logic Face the Raven is part of the same story, and The Rebel Flesh / Almost People is part of the same story as A Good Man Goes to War because it leads into it. Also a lot of the second Doctor’s run could be considered one continuous story.
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#DoctorWho Spicy Take #120:. Heaven Sent and Hell Bent are two separate stories with their own beginning, middle, and end. Just because their names rhyme and one has a cliffhanger ending leading into the next, doesn’t make it a real two-parter.
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If the goal is to relaunch Doctor Who and make it the success it once was, it might be easier to simply start again and create an easy to grasp jumping on point for new viewers since, let’s face it, 2023 was anything but a good jumping on point.
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Also, since I think it bears mentioning, new audiences might be put off by just how convoluted the timeline has become. The continuity, in its current state, is a nightmare to get your head around, and trying to fix that would require dedicating a lot of runtime to it.
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Making a hard reboot, prequel, or spin-off doesn’t mean “discarding 60 years of history” and I’m not sure why so many people on here seem to think it does. Two universes can collide as they have in comic books for decades.
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Or, alternatively, we could see a spin-off with an alternative universe version of the Doctor (think Shalka Doctor) with a unique personality and different set of character traits from what we’re used to. That could allow for the show to go in a COMPLETELY new direction.
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People have misunderstood me by assuming I want a reboot that covers all the ground we’ve already trod. The whole point is that I want something FRESH. That doesn’t mean all lore / history has to be discarded, though. I would love a rebooted series with Jo Martin or Paul McGann!.
I just don't understand this opinion at all. Doctor Who's strongest aspect is its history & legacy. What would a hard reboot even look like? Would you want the Doctor & Susan in the junkyard again? If not just use a regeneration to soft reboot. What is gained with a clean slate?.
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#DoctorWho Spicy Take #119:. I used to be against this idea but the past few years have swayed me: Doctor Who needs a hard reboot. It needs to wipe the slate clean of all the baggage and over convoluted storytelling that has bogged it down for years. Logo by @StarfleetDesign
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IMO It’s also absurd to suggest the show becoming cliche is going to help it get higher ratings. Many shows that have dominated pop culture did so because they felt fresh and new when they premiered, not because they chased trends and copied better, more successful shows.
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I think this is totally off the mark. The idea that a show can’t have a deep lore and be popular at the same time is crazy to me. As much as I don’t like FNAF as a franchise, it’s proof that in many cases deep lore makes something MORE popular. It’s not a trade-off.
Like Spider Man and Peter Parker, Doctor Who has two lives. A deep lore show for fans, or a light entertainment show for the public . It can't be both. It's either high popularity and cliche or high quality and niche. In my opinion, its survival depends on picking a side
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#DoctorWho Spicy Take #118:. The 11th Doctor’s era peaked with its very first episode and never reached those heights again
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…extremely easy to defeat (just put a reflective surface behind it). The creature never feels like a serious threat to The Doctor in the same way it did in Midnight and the conflict in The Well feels a lot more forced. TLDR; It shouldn’t have been the Midnight entity at all.
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…characters naturally suspicious of each other. Nobody could be trusted, and even The Doctor’s charm couldn’t help him. In The Well, the creature hides behind people and kills anybody who walks behind them which feels a lot less interesting to me and ultimately ends up being….
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It’s not an issue that they changed the midnight entity, especially since so much time has passed, but it’s no longer a natural driver of conflict in the same way it was in Midnight. Originally it was trying to learn about humans in order to replace us, and that made the….
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