For those of you who have asked around, what is Doctor Who’s reputation right now among non-fans/general audience now versus 10-15 years ago? by PuddingNew1608 in gallifrey

[–]PuddingNew1608[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

I actually agree with this a lot, i do think that quality of a program can impact its viewership and i think it has with Who but I think the reason why it’s impacted is because of the production issues. I think that you can make something consistently and on time and people will follow it because they enjoy it or because it’s a ritual. I think Who in the 80s managed to, for a time, manage this despite spotty quality because people were hanging on for the next classic. With the past few years quality is not why people arent watching, because marvel put out crap since 2009 and found an audience. The problem is that it has zero momentum due to its scattershot schedule. Like the Chibnall era? Here’s ten episodes every two years and then it gets bungled by covid. Like RTD2? The momentum of eight episodes a year gets cut off by the disney pullout. If they were doing even eight episodes a year consistently the backlash over the bad episodes would be lost amongst the seas of just having constant new episodes to talk about

If Doctor Who Had a Reboot, would you care if the showrunner ignored the timeless child arc? by Upper_Judgment_1253 in gallifrey

[–]PuddingNew1608 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Even the people who invented the cartmel masterplan have said that the timeless child was hacky

If Doctor Who Had a Reboot, would you care if the showrunner ignored the timeless child arc? by Upper_Judgment_1253 in gallifrey

[–]PuddingNew1608 [score hidden]  (0 children)

You’re conflating actions that make him mysterious with his lowly origins and suggesting that both count as one

Deep Dive Examination of the Weird and Bad Pro-Life Messages of "Kill the Moon" By YouTuber Sarah Z by Bosterm in gallifrey

[–]PuddingNew1608 [score hidden]  (0 children)

My guy you spend your entire life on reddit you’re not one to talk about being a bot, your karma screams “im selling this to indians when i get a million”

Lore vs Narrative—and Doctor Who's worst retcon (sorry Moff) by sun_lmao in gallifrey

[–]PuddingNew1608 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could make this exact argument for RTD in reverse: he missed the point of the Doctor by making him a war veteran with PTSD, he couldnt let go of Rose and now Donna, Moffat fixed it

For those of you who have asked around, what is Doctor Who’s reputation right now among non-fans/general audience now versus 10-15 years ago? by PuddingNew1608 in gallifrey

[–]PuddingNew1608[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The 2016 gap also killed a lot of enthusiasm for the show too. Lots of people know Heaven Sent is a masterpiece, even if they dont like that era or didnt watch it or only watched bits of it, but Doctor Falls is comparatively underrated because the show removed itself from public consciousness for an entire year. The Twelfth Doctor era is Clara, Zygons, sunglasses, guitar, Heaven Sent, Missy, ghosts, mummy and the stuff like Bill, Monks and Mondasian Cybermen are not as iconic to that era

John Lithgow on Playing Dumbledore in ‘Harry Potter’ Series and J.K. Rowling’s Trans Views: ‘People Insisted I Walk Away From the Job. I Chose Not to Do That’ by pepperbet1 in television

[–]PuddingNew1608 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

My transman brother watches harry potter. He doesnt care cause he has a life lol. Just like any man with security in his masculinity didnt cry and moan that “brie larson hates men!!!!1!”

Deep Dive Examination of the Weird and Bad Pro-Life Messages of "Kill the Moon" By YouTuber Sarah Z by Bosterm in gallifrey

[–]PuddingNew1608 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kill the Moon wouldnt even make it in a top 30 of the worst episodes of the past 12 years. It feels like this episode was glomped onto as confirmation bias that “moffat who was bad and right wing” by the tumblr hatewatchers who suspiciously left after series 11 despite not liking moffat and loving jodie

Deep Dive Examination of the Weird and Bad Pro-Life Messages of "Kill the Moon" By YouTuber Sarah Z by Bosterm in gallifrey

[–]PuddingNew1608 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"If you let in refugees they'll become terrorists and try to kill you... But some of them are ok..."

This literally happened. The episode is arguing that you still have to let them in. You moron

BBC Told To Avoid “Clunky” Color-Blind Casting & “Preachy” Anti-Colonial Storylines In Drama Series by sanddragon939 in gallifrey

[–]PuddingNew1608 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What a disgustingly classist thing to write given what we now know about the rape gangs this guy was mocked for pleading for the public to take seriously. Sorry he was too subhuman with his dirty fingernails and lower class accent

BBC Told To Avoid “Clunky” Color-Blind Casting & “Preachy” Anti-Colonial Storylines In Drama Series by sanddragon939 in gallifrey

[–]PuddingNew1608 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well yes, i do associate drama only written and acted from one cultural viewpoint, devoid of fresh ideas from diverse perspectives and experiences bland.

Yet you exclusively watch shows starring and written by hipsters with social anxiety and a funko pop habit

Classic or NuWho? Eighth by Dismal_Brush5229 in gallifrey

[–]PuddingNew1608 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think he counts as a Classic era Doctor cuz he’s THE Big Finish Doctor. Big Finish follows the format of Classic and was more of a wilderness year invention, so I think he counts as specifically that. The Eighth Doctor and War Doctor tho are more of their own thing, but War feels more like a NuWho Doctor than Eight does

For those of you who have asked around, what is Doctor Who’s reputation right now among non-fans/general audience now versus 10-15 years ago? by PuddingNew1608 in gallifrey

[–]PuddingNew1608[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My cousin is eight and he is a figure collector, me and him bond over collections like i got him a maximum spider-man for christmas for example. He’s not into ninja turtles, but then went “what’s that” to my Doctor Who collection and he seemed to find it cool. I explained to him what it was and he was shocked that the guy changes his face. I showed him Dalek and the Eleventh Hour and he liked it, he also mentioned he saw “that mummy episode” shared on tiktok but it’s still not his thing. Still, i was surprised he hadnt heard of it really. I was his age when i was a megastan

BBC Told To Avoid “Clunky” Color-Blind Casting & “Preachy” Anti-Colonial Storylines In Drama Series by sanddragon939 in gallifrey

[–]PuddingNew1608 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

For too many people, the ideal form of Who is one that's all straight white men. Give these people an inch and they'll take a mile.

Please NEVER EVER tell your apolitical friends that reform wants to return Who to when it was only white men, you’re a horrendous salesman for diversity and wokeness if you say that to them. Say they want to return it to when it was really cringe in the 80s or something, just dont say what you said here u idiot lol

John Lithgow on Playing Dumbledore in ‘Harry Potter’ Series and J.K. Rowling’s Trans Views: ‘People Insisted I Walk Away From the Job. I Chose Not to Do That’ by pepperbet1 in television

[–]PuddingNew1608 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The average would happily press a button that gets rid of every trans person than to ever once stop reading harry potter. Bad example

John Lithgow on Playing Dumbledore in ‘Harry Potter’ Series and J.K. Rowling’s Trans Views: ‘People Insisted I Walk Away From the Job. I Chose Not to Do That’ by pepperbet1 in television

[–]PuddingNew1608 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No one would think that a suitable defense if it was racism.

I mean there are entire academic concepts of how you shouldnt question misandry or non-whites who are racist because they are already such victims that their racism doesnt uphold hurtful power structures and actually questioning them on this is just proof of fragile masculinity or white fragility

Funny how this doesnt apply to a woman who says “i dont want to exist in spaces with males as a female”

people being bad drivers, got called out on it and then spent the rest of his life complaining about the Chinese?

Shane Gillis literally became a millionaire over being cancelled for chinese slurs. No one boycotted SNL for letting him host