I say FORGET IT!
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| From the good ol' days when a Doctor Who Christmas special really MEANT something. |
The BBC announced today that Doctor Who is still viable somehow and that there will be a Christmas special next year. But according to the article, Russell T. Davies is still in charge of the show.
Like I said, forget THAT!!
As long as Davies is calling the shots, this show is dead and it's not regenerating. Although I will confess that the twisted little "id" creature within me is harboring morbid fascination about what the '26 Christmas special will entail. Because the last time we saw anything of Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa's dress-wearing Doctor (either the Fourteenth or Fifteenth, does it really matter anymore?) transitioned to Rose Tyler, again played by Billie Piper. It was a cheap stunt born out of desperation and all it did was paint the saga into a corner with no way out.
As I said last time that the subject of Doctor Who was brought up on this site, the series needs to go away for awhile. Maybe a long while. Like, five or ten years, much like the "wilderness years" between 1989 and 2005. Then brought back with an ENTIRELY new showrunner and production team. Have it be people who truly get Doctor Who and what has made this show so beloved. Make sure that they're committed to characters and story first, WITHOUT any ideological agenda (which in my opinion is at the heart meat of what killed this show, Davies was determined that it would be a platform for his personal beliefs and unfortunately he wasn't the only one). Have the rebooted series jettison or at least thoroughly retcon away all that "Timeless Child" bull$hit (I'm being polite) and establish that the Doctor is always intended to be a male character. There is a dynamic in this show between the Doctor and his companions and that must NEVER be tampered with. I think the Doctor can be portrayed by a woman, playing against gender, but it has to be someone special (I've always thought that Tilda Swinton would make a terrific Doctor). Or at least do NOT have the Doctor wearing a kilt, or whatever the h-ll that was that Gatwa's "Doctor In Name Only" was dancing around in.
It sounds like extremely invasive surgery. And it is. It will even require some amputations. But the subject is beyond repair by normal procedure. Doctor Who is NOT coming back anywhere close to the statute it had twelve years ago at the height of the Matt Smith era, and even the Peter Capaldi period (which despite some problems I really did end up liking a lot), without VERY drastic measures being taken. It can't stay on its present course and it's insanity to believe it can go any further. The BBC must fire Davies, learn from its mistakes, and let the show rest for awhile, and start anew.
That's the only way to make sure that there will again be a Doctor to save the universe every Saturday for the children to enjoy watching. And I would love to see that again too, for that matter.
2 comments:
Greetings from Missouri! Chris have you looked at your posts? For this year to date you have posted more than any year since 2013. What do you think that means for you? It means you're as much a real writer as you ever were. If you didn't know already.
Dear Monty,
Want to know something wild? I haven't looked at that part of my own blog in, I can't remember when. Whenever I've needed to refer back to something I have previously posted, I use the search function on the opposite side of the page and go from there. Until you mentioned it, it must have been at least a year since I paid any attention to how many posts I've made in the past year.
Wow. Oh wow! I saw that and had to manually check to see if I wasn't hallucinating. It's true though, they're all there. For 2025 so far I've published 136 posts. That's the first time since 2015 that I've posted in the triple digits. The most posts since 2013 (with 276 posts).
Maybe I'll break 150 posts by New Year's Eve :-)
I suppose, factoring in where I am today compared with where I was in 2014-ish, maybe it is a metric that shows I have come a long way as a person? I like to think that's what is shining through the stats. So much bad happened a dozen or so years ago, culminating in Dad's passing. He is the one who most wanted me to write a book about my life. And now that's done and that was one chapter of my life completed, and I really have all this time wanted to find my chops as a writer again...
Maybe that's what the posting frequency means to me especially. Maybe. Thanks for bringing it to my attention :-)
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