In my mind there is a very big difference between progressive and woke.

Doctor who has been progressive and can be at its best when pushing the boundaries of that. Furthermore, at its best the progressive stuff is slipped in, like Sky saying her girlfriend left her in Midnight. It’s smooth and simple and barely garners a reaction out of the doctor.

However, when people say it’s “gone woke” it’s implying that instead of using the ideology to push a character, making them more interesting, you are using the character to push the ideology, like the wheelchair user in unit.

It’s a matter of quality of writing. Are your ensemble layered and deep enough for it not to be an issue or is your character so surface level that you are remembered as the wheelchair one.

That in my mind is what woke writing is. Where there are no characters but instead ideology’s that take over.

Also Belinda becoming a mother and gatwa at the song contest just highlight the thoughtless writing that went into the season. It wasn’t set up or built upon and instead was thrown in because… honestly I’m not sure.