You have to laugh at petitions like this.... well, laugh or despair at the futility of fandom, humanity, existence etc etc. - ThreadSky

jeffgoddard.bsky.social • 9 days ago

You have to laugh at petitions like this.... well, laugh or despair at the futility of fandom, humanity, existence etc etc.

Reposted from Andrew Hsieh

WTF is this garbage anti #DoctorWho petition? 🤣

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felipefelop.bsky.social•9 days ago

Why have they put the decision maker as Netflix. Netflix has nothing to do with the Doctor?

markledsome.bsky.social•9 days ago

The writer of this petition is a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain.

felipefelop.bsky.social•9 days ago

I call them the Hard of Thinking.

stephenhawkwind.bsky.social•9 days ago

The grand philosophical questions like 'why is my tax bill so high?'

Honestly, there are some Garth Marenghi premises that hold together better than some Doctor Who.

stephenhawkwind.bsky.social•9 days ago

Bob Holmes: preach, mate, this is gold.

paulvcooke.bsky.social•9 days ago

How do these lunatics have so much time on their hands? And why are they not ashamed of exposing their misogyny and racism?

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

Because they've been given free licence by the current pervading politics, which hides neither. Proud bigots are the worst.

I really do hang my head in shame at this world on a horribly regular basis.

paulvcooke.bsky.social•9 days ago

Its grim.

paul2626.bsky.social•8 days ago

I thought this would be about getting rid of Ncuti, until I read it and discovered they really want to go back and re-do Chris Chibnell also. This is current, and not just something from back in 2017 isn't it? I mean, write your own fanfic, guys, like people had to before the reboot.

sihart.bsky.social•9 days ago

Somedays I despair of fandom. Retconning the end of Twice Upon A Time can just fuck off.

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

It's the only bit I enjoyed.. 👀🤣

sihart.bsky.social•9 days ago

And don't think we don't know what they're actually saying... Arseholes.

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

We, The League of women and non white men haters, have launched a petition to make Doctor Who a middle aged white man.... again. 🤦🏼‍♂️

scott1gray.bsky.social•9 days ago

I think it's important to remember that genuine Doctor Who fandom always loves Doctor Who (even the bits we don't really like – in fact *especially* the bits we don't really like).

The twerp who wrote that is from another group entirely: dull, humourless, unimaginative and always angry.

sihart.bsky.social•9 days ago

It's true. His proposition for the show sounds so utterly dull.

chriswilliams-dink.bsky.social•8 days ago

The 'Comment under the article' people have done a better job than Micheal Grade ever could over the past few years. This'll end up as a Clickbait news story with a headline starting with "Fans backlash.."

Absolute shower

helenrandle.bsky.social•9 days ago

That's a lot of words to say that they don't like that The Doctor became a woman.

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

Isn't it just. Although judging by what we've discovered I suspect she used ai to actually 'write' this.

dalesmithonline.com•9 days ago

I mean regardless of anything else, why were they directing the petition at Netflix?

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

I'm going with either, stupidity, gross misunderstanding or distinct lack or research/bone idleness.

dalesmithonline.com•9 days ago

"Dear ITV: I'm writing to say how much I disliked the last seven years of Doctor Who. Just what do you intend to do about it?"

fitgeekuk.bsky.social•9 days ago

Quite. The bloody start of it should be retconned instead ;)

dalesmithonline.com•9 days ago

I've spent more time than its worth trying to parse "The decision to have the Doctor regenerate into a character, and then regenerate again" into the actual ending of TUaT. Thought there was some kind of twist I'd missed.

markledsome.bsky.social•9 days ago

Maybe this eejit meant “caricature”? That’s often their complaint - Jodie’s Doctor somehow isn’t “Doctorish” enough for them - despite their inability to coherently explain exactly what that would even mean.

dalesmithonline.com•9 days ago

🤷 I'm definitely signing, anyway. I won't rest until Netflix sort this out.

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

Do you think they skipped Jodies era and went straight to David Tennants return?? Cos that's how my brain interpreted it. Haha

dalesmithonline.com•9 days ago

"I loved the return of Tennant: why oh why oh why couldn't THAT show runner stay on for longer?"

quiteamess.bsky.social•8 days ago

Right I mean it should obviously be rebooted at the *beginning* of Twice Upon A Time...

grahamward.bsky.social•9 days ago

There are wars going on, climate change and polluted drinking water, etc, etc. and these people get upset a tv show isn’t exactly as they want it?

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

Priorities... 🤷🏼‍♂️

grahamward.bsky.social•9 days ago

I googled the name of the one who started that petition. 🫣

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

🤣🤣🤣😬🤣🤣🤣🤮🤣🤣🤣

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

Of fucking course.

Plus, you created nothing shelli, nothing.

paulburley.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yeah, screw all the injustices in the world, it all starts here: a nerd's subjective grievance about a fictional character. JFC.

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

The sheer amount of time and effort that went into writing that petition that could have been spent doing literally anything worthwhile tells us everything you need to know, sadly.

markcockram.bsky.social•9 days ago

Fuckadoodledoo!

“We need to go back to the dark storytelling, get rid of the humour…” it’s like season 18 all over again! 🫠

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

Am I seeing Mathmagical slander here.... 👀👀🤣

markcockram.bsky.social•9 days ago

The AI “art” is the icing on the this particularly shitty cake.

scott1gray.bsky.social•9 days ago

Jesus, the AI image. "Make Doctor Who looks like he comes from Eton and the actor's name is Marmaduke."

andydrewz.bsky.social•9 days ago

I thought it was Jimmy Carr..

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

Oh yeah, that's the whole other 'gimme a fucking break' of this hideous waste of life. Using some shoddy AI to really sell the point that the 'author' is a grade a dicksplash.

flightred50.bsky.social•9 days ago

This 100% reads as an AI article, and you can totally tell that the guy who got the AI to write it wanted to make it seem as reasonable as possible, hence it just being a load of waffle about nothing.

To be fair though, that sums that particular sect of "fans" perfectly

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

She is an AI 'author' apparently. Ha.

touristcol.bsky.social•9 days ago

Not "focussed on profound philosophical issues"?

Demons of the Punjab
Rosa
Can You Hear Me?
Dot and Bubble...

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

It's really not hard to counter, is it? Utter guff from the disgruntled right.

touristcol.bsky.social•9 days ago

Utter guff from a right twat

stoverfandango.bsky.social•9 days ago

If it weren't for the GenAi image at the start, I'd assume that this was written by an NMD 7 years ago.

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

It deffo has that vibe doesn't it. I don't think they enjoyed the last series.... 😬

marcusscarman001.bsky.social•9 days ago

I might sign it as 'A.N. other Sexist and Racist esquire'

gibbspaulus.bsky.social•9 days ago

Oh yes, a dedicated fan writer, steeped in the lore. Because we’ve not had those for the past two decades.

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

Possibly too much to be fair. Gone are the days when jobbing producers get hearded into the Doctor Who office, given a budget and told, crack on.

fitgeekuk.bsky.social•9 days ago

Do we know which of fandom's skid marks wrote this?

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

No, but I'm gonna snoop and see if I can find out. Haha

fitgeekuk.bsky.social•9 days ago

Looking forward to the results of your investigation

jeffgoddard.bsky.social•9 days ago

... I spent too much time on this. Haha.

fitgeekuk.bsky.social•9 days ago

I'm now trying to decide if she has 8 friends or 8 pseudonyms

jonarnold.bsky.social•9 days ago

Might be the chap pictured in the screenshot there.

I love that we’re at Day of Action levels without the show having gone off air.

docfilth.bsky.social•9 days ago

No, the picture is an AI shot of the actor Tom Sturridge, the unwitting “star” of this shitty fantasy.

I doubt he had anything to do with writing this.

jonarnold.bsky.social•9 days ago

Ta. No, I can’t see him having anything to do with this sordid NMD fantasy either.

drwhonovels.bsky.social•9 days ago

I mean it's impressive (in a perverse sense) that the petition specifically decries the casting of Whittaker and Gatwa without ever coming out and saying THE DOKTOR SHOULD N3V3R BE F3MALE OR BLACK. But that's literally their only argument.

I take great pleasure in not signing.

gallifreysmwpod.bsky.social•8 days ago

That is some of the dumbest things I have ever scene and that is saying something.

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