17-07-2017, 09:51 AM
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Re: The New Time Lord
I'm not really a fan of Dr Who but only because the writing has been so bad for so long. that's a shame because I love a bit of Sci-fi normally. Whenever I see the trailer for the new series, I think it looks great but in reality, I only last one episode.So now we have a new Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, (a very good actress) and a new writer who has worked with Whittaker before in Broadchurch. I'm hoping the storylines will improve and am more than willing to give Jodie a chance.
17-07-2017, 10:05 AM
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Re: The New Time Lord
All this pandering to the feminist lobby etc is just silly imo.Dr Who is a franchise unfortunately. Prior to this is was and has been one of THE best Sci Fi / adventure series of all time. When it was relaunched and made over everything changed. Suddenly, a series that had previously been centred on locations around the universe became ostensibly centred around London (wtf?!) as if the rest of the country didn't exist. The relaunch came with massive franchising. £millions made from the sales of books, toys, DVD sets and all manner of WHOish merchandise. This is no a HUGE business and that is why DrWho changed from what it was to what we have now.
Putting a female in the lead role simply panders to a different part of the public in order to widen the audience and bring in more revenue. Frankly it's patheitc.
Only a matter of time before DrWho is a full blown transexual who can change him/herself at will to be a man, woman, gay, lesbian, bi sexual free loving hippy.
I wonder what the female contingent would say if we took some core female lead series and replaced them with a man?
Al McBeal anyone?
Biffy The Vampire Slayer
How about we rewrite the Hunger Games films (a poor rip off as they are from the much better and original Battle Royale)rwith a male protagonist instead of the lame Katniss Everdeen?
How about we remake the Alien films without the female Ripley and instead put in a male substitute?
Silence of The Lambs without Clarice Starling
Tomb Raider with a male hero instead of Lara
This entire situation is farcical. imo the producers of DrWho deserve to lose a ton of viewing fans for doing this.
Why the hell didn't they just spawn a new off shoot series in the same universe with a female time lord who has her own identity? Would have worked fine. Lots of potential for cross overs and so on.
What next?
Will we see Vorderman and Riley from Countdown replaced with some male hunk? Yeah let's do that and see how the ratings change !
It's a sad state of affairs TBH. How long I wonder before they give us a new version of Superman with the assinine Louie Spence in the lead role?
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