The future of Doctor Who has been uncertain since Disney+ declined to renew its partnership with the BBC following the cancellation of the Ncuti Gatwa era in 2025.
Just make everything from Jodie's time to Gatwa's into a bad dream that Rose had, that ends with her thinking she regenerated into the Doctor as the dream ended, and then she wakes up. There. I just fixed traditional Doctor Who for you. You're welcome. ~Dr. Jordan Avon
You have to remember that these reboots are done by people who hate the original, hate the viewers, and hate Christendom. I'd say these reboots are working exactly as intended.
Of all the looted and burning hulks of franchises scattered along the post-apocalyptic highway serving the Hollywood machine, Dr. Who may be the most desecrated and destroyed of all.
I never cared for the show at all, but I do empathize for its fans. Hopefully their dear Doctor can have a well-deserved sleep for the next decade or two to regenerate that far too fallow field.
The only thing that would save Dr. Who would be a restart with a new Doctor awakened from his torture at the hands of an evil Timelord, that for some years he had been under that villain's control causing havoc while experiencing the bad seasons as delusions.
In this, the first season would be the Doctor regaining his true self and righting what wrongs he could across worlds and timelines that remember him, and hate him.
It'd be more than just ignoring, than wiping clean the slate, pretending that the trash was never made.
For that reason among others, it shall not be these days.
The BBC, the party cannot admit fault.
Even if they could, they have not the power to, that and truthfully there was always a bit of that crowd to Dr. Who.
It was just that the poisons hadn't reached their logical end, and the lingering nobility of Christianity had not yet been expunged from the Brits.
To fully regenerate the Doctor at this point, to make a good entertaining show that doesn't break the chain of history would require skill and a refutation of the humanist poisonpills of the Enlightenment that is quite beyond the ghouls who hold the IP.
IP rights, however as people like the Dark Herald have noticed, do not confer ownership of myth.
Some may think the Doctor lost, but people can still watch the old, read the old and in theory read fanworks.
In poor stewardship, the bird has flown from the BBC.
A reboot most definitely shall not bring back that to roost.
Whittaker onward needs to be relegated to either not cannon (like the Peter Cushing films), or an aborted timeline like they did with the Master's Paradox Machine plot. That should cut out the worst of the cancer.
Or you excise Capaldi onward and start with a "new" regeneration cycle "1st" Doctor that they later admit is the 12th.
I'm one of the tune out folks- watched every series (that was released in the USA, so I've not seen some of the 1st and 2nd Doctor stuff) through Capaldi. Suffered through one season of Whittaker, and haven't watched any of the new crud since. Big Finish gets an occasional purchase, but zero of the Whittaker material (which hopefully solves that outright since I doubt they'll commission stuff that doesn't sell well enough.
These cultural flagship shows are like giant warships in the age of sail. Their foes board them, replace the crew, raise a new flag - and repurpose them.
It’s one of the Left’s successful tactics, and so frequently done. That these franchises are wrecked matters not at all. They were used and sacrificed to serve higher goals than Art or Profits. The Revolution must advance!
I grew up watching the Tom Baker Dr. Who episodes, and I remain convinced that the only way to do Dr. Who is on a shoestring budget.
I'm talking a $5000-$6000 budget per episode. I'm talking monsters made out of cardboard and spray paint. I'm talking episodes shot in old Welsh quarries. The actor playing the Doctor needs to be a nine-fingered alcoholic scraped up out of a Yorkshire pub. He needs to have heart disease and halitosis, and he needs to have read, at most, half of Hamlet, fifty years ago.
Here's an idea: how about a complete reboot of the BBC?
Just make everything from Jodie's time to Gatwa's into a bad dream that Rose had, that ends with her thinking she regenerated into the Doctor as the dream ended, and then she wakes up. There. I just fixed traditional Doctor Who for you. You're welcome. ~Dr. Jordan Avon
"The problem is that reboots rarely work."
You have to remember that these reboots are done by people who hate the original, hate the viewers, and hate Christendom. I'd say these reboots are working exactly as intended.
Go woke, get broke.
Nobody wanted Poopchutey Gatwa as Dr. Who. Nobody likes queers.
Of all the looted and burning hulks of franchises scattered along the post-apocalyptic highway serving the Hollywood machine, Dr. Who may be the most desecrated and destroyed of all.
I never cared for the show at all, but I do empathize for its fans. Hopefully their dear Doctor can have a well-deserved sleep for the next decade or two to regenerate that far too fallow field.
I hear that Kurtzman is free to be the show runner. I think he’s the perfect choice!
The only thing that would save Dr. Who would be a restart with a new Doctor awakened from his torture at the hands of an evil Timelord, that for some years he had been under that villain's control causing havoc while experiencing the bad seasons as delusions.
In this, the first season would be the Doctor regaining his true self and righting what wrongs he could across worlds and timelines that remember him, and hate him.
It'd be more than just ignoring, than wiping clean the slate, pretending that the trash was never made.
For that reason among others, it shall not be these days.
The BBC, the party cannot admit fault.
Even if they could, they have not the power to, that and truthfully there was always a bit of that crowd to Dr. Who.
It was just that the poisons hadn't reached their logical end, and the lingering nobility of Christianity had not yet been expunged from the Brits.
To fully regenerate the Doctor at this point, to make a good entertaining show that doesn't break the chain of history would require skill and a refutation of the humanist poisonpills of the Enlightenment that is quite beyond the ghouls who hold the IP.
IP rights, however as people like the Dark Herald have noticed, do not confer ownership of myth.
Some may think the Doctor lost, but people can still watch the old, read the old and in theory read fanworks.
In poor stewardship, the bird has flown from the BBC.
A reboot most definitely shall not bring back that to roost.
It was the Valeyard all along!
After several hiccups, he regenerates again. As his original self, the First Doctor. We have a reboot that is not a reboot.
Whittaker onward needs to be relegated to either not cannon (like the Peter Cushing films), or an aborted timeline like they did with the Master's Paradox Machine plot. That should cut out the worst of the cancer.
Or you excise Capaldi onward and start with a "new" regeneration cycle "1st" Doctor that they later admit is the 12th.
I'm one of the tune out folks- watched every series (that was released in the USA, so I've not seen some of the 1st and 2nd Doctor stuff) through Capaldi. Suffered through one season of Whittaker, and haven't watched any of the new crud since. Big Finish gets an occasional purchase, but zero of the Whittaker material (which hopefully solves that outright since I doubt they'll commission stuff that doesn't sell well enough.
As long as RTD has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with it, that will be a strong beginning.
These cultural flagship shows are like giant warships in the age of sail. Their foes board them, replace the crew, raise a new flag - and repurpose them.
It’s one of the Left’s successful tactics, and so frequently done. That these franchises are wrecked matters not at all. They were used and sacrificed to serve higher goals than Art or Profits. The Revolution must advance!
I grew up watching the Tom Baker Dr. Who episodes, and I remain convinced that the only way to do Dr. Who is on a shoestring budget.
I'm talking a $5000-$6000 budget per episode. I'm talking monsters made out of cardboard and spray paint. I'm talking episodes shot in old Welsh quarries. The actor playing the Doctor needs to be a nine-fingered alcoholic scraped up out of a Yorkshire pub. He needs to have heart disease and halitosis, and he needs to have read, at most, half of Hamlet, fifty years ago.
Just redo the Matt Smith ending and have Susan take up the mantle of The Doctor. The die after 12 regenerations.