A Reddit post published this week claims AMC Global Media, Sony Pictures Television, and BBC Studios are preparing to announce a full reboot of Doctor Who.
Dr Who has never needed a reboot. The Regenerations always heralded new cast, new crew, new stories, without having to start over.
The only reason you want to reboot is make it for modern Audiences and destroy what made the show great.
Star Trek didn't need a reboot either. The new ships always heralded a new crew, a new cast, new stories.
Star Wars could have done the same, but didn't.
Battlestar Galactica' reboot was done right. Set the story the way it was always meant to be, not as a friday night campy show.
If they do reboot Dr. Who, I won't watch it. It'll be dead to me, just like every other show I liked and book series that I read. Someday, this useless destruction has to stop.
If you want a good show set for modern audiences, create your own stories, give them original characters, and see if they gain an audience.
Skinsuiting classics sucks, it shows bad writing, and even worse ethics.
If they truly want to see any close to the shows previous success under the days of Eccleston, Tenant and Smith then all the ideological; modern audience mindset has to go period. Its toxic , it does not work and just keeps sucking money away for nothing. Even the all powerful BlackRock eventually backed off pushing DEI b/c you can burn cash but for just so long no matter the cause.
Additionally they have to undo the damage that was caused starting with the female doctor and that can be done w/o an actual hard reboot or close. They do this by treating everything after Peter Capaldi's transformation into Jodie Whitaker. They do this by showing that everything starting with Capaldi's transformation into the female DR never happened, it was all in the doctors won mind. Turns out some radical offshoot of the Darlecks kidnapped the DR while he was going thru the transformation process and imprisoned his mind while they ran experiments on him in an effort to break thru his mental defenses and access some secret he's got buried very deeply.
This would be an easy way to explain the non-sense we saw from the first child BS to Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor. Little since Capaldis transformation has made sense in the traditional DR Who universe and that's b/c it wasn't real but false memories implanted in an attempt to access something else. It would be a great way to undo all the damage and reset the bogus backstory of the DR.
This alone will not guarantee a ratings return but what it will do is generate strong word of mouth as former DR Who fans hear about this and decide to give it a try. Most want a return to the traditional DR Who and I bet most would give something like this at least a try.
Whatever they do it must include undoing the post Capaldi days and undoing the BS back story that woke idiot came up with that destroyed the WHO Verse. A hard reboot could work too but the above would allow for fixing the existing damage w/o loosing all of the existing history. It also avoids the common escape trap used to get people of traps they've written themselves into where things like time travel and alternate universes are used. I know the "It was just a dream" is also a worn out excuse but this wouldn't be one of those but a variation on that which has plausibility.
Get McGann back. Do a season (or however long he's game to play the role) then we are back to the races. There was some good stuff in NuWho, but with McGann you can excise the rot without having to do anything confusing. Just pretend that it never happened at it was an alternate timeline. Throw in a few lines to get that "half human" gaff to go away.
Or do a Time War thing where the Daleks trace back through the Doctor's timeline and fix (kill) the 15th, 14th, and 13th Doctors in various stories (before they are resolved). Undoing every abomination, err, patch to the timeline story by story of those three would be a fitting fix tp RTDs (stuff).
Is it wrong of me to think they’ll find a way to F it up if this turns out to be true?
It's not wrong of you to think this. They've proven it everytime they've rebooted something.
"Doctor Who... the hell cares?!"
-Crow T. Robot
It's been almost 30 years and that little golden puppet's words have become prophecy.
Dr Who has never needed a reboot. The Regenerations always heralded new cast, new crew, new stories, without having to start over.
The only reason you want to reboot is make it for modern Audiences and destroy what made the show great.
Star Trek didn't need a reboot either. The new ships always heralded a new crew, a new cast, new stories.
Star Wars could have done the same, but didn't.
Battlestar Galactica' reboot was done right. Set the story the way it was always meant to be, not as a friday night campy show.
If they do reboot Dr. Who, I won't watch it. It'll be dead to me, just like every other show I liked and book series that I read. Someday, this useless destruction has to stop.
If you want a good show set for modern audiences, create your own stories, give them original characters, and see if they gain an audience.
Skinsuiting classics sucks, it shows bad writing, and even worse ethics.
I would be happy if everything after Capaldi was shown to be a nightmare sequence invoked by one of the Doctors adversaries like Omega or the Rani.
What if the 13th was a disguised Valyard (as was the 14th and 15th)? I mean the Master had some elaborate disguises over the years...
I think the BBC should be razed to the ground with flamethrowers.
Let it die a peaceful death.
If they truly want to see any close to the shows previous success under the days of Eccleston, Tenant and Smith then all the ideological; modern audience mindset has to go period. Its toxic , it does not work and just keeps sucking money away for nothing. Even the all powerful BlackRock eventually backed off pushing DEI b/c you can burn cash but for just so long no matter the cause.
Additionally they have to undo the damage that was caused starting with the female doctor and that can be done w/o an actual hard reboot or close. They do this by treating everything after Peter Capaldi's transformation into Jodie Whitaker. They do this by showing that everything starting with Capaldi's transformation into the female DR never happened, it was all in the doctors won mind. Turns out some radical offshoot of the Darlecks kidnapped the DR while he was going thru the transformation process and imprisoned his mind while they ran experiments on him in an effort to break thru his mental defenses and access some secret he's got buried very deeply.
This would be an easy way to explain the non-sense we saw from the first child BS to Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor. Little since Capaldis transformation has made sense in the traditional DR Who universe and that's b/c it wasn't real but false memories implanted in an attempt to access something else. It would be a great way to undo all the damage and reset the bogus backstory of the DR.
This alone will not guarantee a ratings return but what it will do is generate strong word of mouth as former DR Who fans hear about this and decide to give it a try. Most want a return to the traditional DR Who and I bet most would give something like this at least a try.
Whatever they do it must include undoing the post Capaldi days and undoing the BS back story that woke idiot came up with that destroyed the WHO Verse. A hard reboot could work too but the above would allow for fixing the existing damage w/o loosing all of the existing history. It also avoids the common escape trap used to get people of traps they've written themselves into where things like time travel and alternate universes are used. I know the "It was just a dream" is also a worn out excuse but this wouldn't be one of those but a variation on that which has plausibility.
Get McGann back. Do a season (or however long he's game to play the role) then we are back to the races. There was some good stuff in NuWho, but with McGann you can excise the rot without having to do anything confusing. Just pretend that it never happened at it was an alternate timeline. Throw in a few lines to get that "half human" gaff to go away.
Or do a Time War thing where the Daleks trace back through the Doctor's timeline and fix (kill) the 15th, 14th, and 13th Doctors in various stories (before they are resolved). Undoing every abomination, err, patch to the timeline story by story of those three would be a fitting fix tp RTDs (stuff).