'Doctor Who' Needs to Go Away and Think About What It Did
'Doctor Who' Needs to Go Away and Think About What It Did
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'Doctor Who' Needs to Go Away and Think About What It Did
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A well written summary of the finales plot and its flaws. Its full of spoilers in case people haven't see it yet.
Personally I think Doctor Who needs a long rest and a fresh start if it returns. I'd even suggest a hard reboot.
This current season has looked good but been a mess, and the finale is an incoherent mishmash of ideas and set pieces. There is far too much fan service and far too many ideas being crammed in that it just doesnt make sense.
The show has been in trouble for years. Both Ncuti Gatwa and Jodie Whittaker were good actors ill served by the writing. Peter Capaldi was also a good actor served by uneven writing but the show was still good.
Now its just a mess with convoluted plots, far too much fan service, and an inability to make an over arching season long plot work. Judging by the finale Gatwa leaving was probably unexpected and Billie Piper's casting seems like a desperate stop gap while RTD decides what to do next (in the 2 year gap already expected because he is making a spin off series this year into next).
I wouldn't be surprised if the Disney deal comes to an early end and Doctor Who is shelved for years while they decide what to do next.
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Dr Who is inevitable, if the BBC get to keep the rights to it. It's like Blue peter or east enders, a cornerstone of the BBC. It went away for 16 years and still came back, I doubt they can keep him locked up forever.
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The show was getting too focused on fan service way back in Matt Smith's time, already. It's unwatchable by neutral observants lately
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This is a great article, and it sucks because I think Ncuti Gatwa's first series was solid and I think the second was building to great finale... But the finale just didn't work at all.
Despite what's been said I think Disney already decided not to renew the deal. They probably said, "if you can reach some unobtainable goal, sure, but it's a one in a million and we've seen the finale."
I can only guess that the finale was supposed to setup series 3, and with the big pause coming Gatwa wanted out in order to pursue other projects and the show runner just quickly shoved all the plans for series 3 into one episode. The rest of the series was so well planned it's just so surprising to see such a rushed ending.
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