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Wtf, Doctor who has always been "woke". Captain Jack Harkness was one of the first bi/pan characters I ever saw featured in a positive light on TV. That was in 2005, twenty years ago! I'm sure there are many many older examples too.
It's been 'woke' ever since they introduced the idea of timelord regeneration.
Regeneration as seen consists of the doctor 'dying' and being transformed into a completely different person, with different body features, tastes, gender, etc.
The doctor has been trans since the first regeneration!
Dr Who started when I was a nipper, I'd hide behind the sofa! It's now an institution, and cash generating worldwide for the BBC. They'd be silly to cave in now!
The first storyline I remember watching was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Celestial_Toymaker
Playing games that try to kill you, but you use the games to kill your opponents instead!
Pretty scary for us children at the time.
Thing is though, two/three seasons is the norm for the modern Doctors… so totally understandable if either they, or he, don’t want to bang on too much about what happens next. That’s how it works.
I hope he doesn’t actually leave. He’s awesome. He has so much energy, almost as much as Tennant. It’s so nice to watch an actor who is able to express more than one emotion and facial expression.
There were some bad effects during that era (Auton dustbin), but in general I thought they were generally well done. It definitely won't be a disaster if it returns to that.
This is so ludicrous. The Sun is a horrible little rag that stirs up this nonsense. Dr Who is ingrained in the British Psyche and is beyond such stupidity.
The right's fear of "wokeness" is such a dumb thing to fight against. Of all the problems in the world, how people THINK or REFER to each other should be low on the list. I for one think of all Republicans as little tiny babies with no emotional intelligence. I treat them as such. Is that wrong? No.
Yep, the amount that got upset that they could even come back as a woman.
Funny thing there is, there wasn't anywhere near as much outrage when the Master regenerated into Missy, but the moment it's the lead character, they loose their minds.
They probably didn’t watch that season lol. These snowflakes are just a bunch of sad babies. NONE OF ThIS MATTERS when there’s a fascist coup happening and the possibility of WW3. But let’s worry about doctor fucking who woke shit lol I swear
Oh I've seen people saying for a while, and have fully adopted the idea that most of these people are outrage tourists, just looking for the next thing a grifting 'influencer' is going to tell them to be triggered by.
Are they mad because he's black or because he's gay? Or is it because he replaced a woman? It's gotta be that last one from the routinely pro-feminism conservative media, right?
Nice ... but if certain aspects of the story are true, what the (hell) is going on at BBC?
They've been doing a lot of caving to conservative talking points lately.
Someone should tell them the Tories are no longer in power.
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Phew! I love Ncuti's take on playing the Dr I'm ancient enough to have see the very first episode back in 1962. Any long running series needs to evolve and attract new viewers, especially young ones, to survive and thrive.
Dr Who was advocating feminism since the 1960s, Climate Awareness since the 1960s, Racism since the 1960s etc.
I you watched The Green Death in 1973 and didn't get the anti-capitalism and pro-environmental narrative you were probably just too young to get the message.
They might have glanced at some publicity stills, but became experts on the show as soon as they saw a black lead and knew that it was wrong... Yeh, the people screaming that DW is woke and thus ruined don't get it.
I seem to remember them crying the same thing about a female Doctor, despite the precedent from the Classic Series that Time Lords can change sex during regeneration.
Well, the regeneration story two years ago with a villain trying to force the Doctor back into a male form while allying with space Nazis and also being based in Russia could be read in a certain way...
It's kind of a doctor who thing it's kind of like what Doctor Who's always been about even if the British are a little slow about it much better than America right now lol
You know. I'd love to see @George Takei in a Doctor Who episode either going up against Ncuti Gatwa or helping at his side. I love this Doctor. I've also loved the other ones. But I love this actor's performance. That is the heart of the Doctor - solid banger performances.
Ainda não assisti todos os episódios e todos os doutores. Mas dos que eu assisti, esse foi o pior. Não o ator. Ele é excelente. Mas os roteiros dessa temporada... fracos. De qualquer forma, fico triste com o anúncio.
Was going to mention that but character limits. Sarah Jane Smith was also an independent career woman which was pretty progressive for the time. But they were companions and not the star. For some bigots having the main character not be a cishet white man is practically treason
1. Tom Baker
2. David Tennent
3. John Pertwee
4. Ncute Gatwa
5. All the rest I have seen.
6. All the ones I never saw except for rare clips
7. A staph infection
8. Colin Baker
I adore Doctor Who and have almost every dvd 📀 and vhs!
Ppl who criticize the show don't get it!
I'm glad a gazillion gallifreyans are added since Jodi Whittaker...
(Look--> a woke cyberman!)
I AM SO JEALOUS! Long story short, I've only just began enjoying it. I absolutely LOVE it but have no idea how to access the shows from before the Dr changed into David Tennant (maybe 2 episodes?) but remember seeing episodes from when I stayed with friends.
Why are you jealous? My actual first purchase was from China. I didn't know it was wrong and now it's a fancy paperweight.
I started to write down questions that were actually continuations of things that showed up in Classic Who.
I love it and totally got my husband hooked (on new who) with Blink.
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Funny how it's always those who scream about freedom of speech suddenly become snowflakes and call everything "woke" and want it cancelled/silenced. They are too stupid to see the irony.
The supposed free speech champions never really cared about freedom of speech. They just wanted the freedom to spread lies and hatred. Then when it's anything opposing this, they'll shut it down.
Weird how some people seem to think they can just say something that isn't true... and then it comes true.
Like, you'd think they'd learn pretty quickly whether or not attempting to bend reality with words actually yields the desired result. But they've been trying this for a while now.
Do you remember the preamble of the constitution George? I memorized it in the seventh grade did you? We need to tell everybody what it says again because they forget. Have a nice day George.
Woke is often said in scorn.I try to imagine what such people are really like: I think they lack empathy, therefore do not love. Love this planet; love the wildlife for what they are rather than a capacity to kill & make money; care for fellow man.
So only woke people care about environment & planet
There's a million legitimate things to hate about what Davies did to the show w/out blaming "wokeness".
The stellar calibur of the actors was the prime mover for making the show work, if it dies it will be because nothing short of putting an ACTUAL Dr.Who fan incharge vs an armchair whovian could.
I'm just afraid of some hack writers getting a hold of the franchise and pitching some trite "will they or won't they" sexual tension crap with his companion.
Everyone in the world is not a racist. I live in Canada. I can see my neighbours are from all over the world. It's always been like that in Canada. I love our diversity and power of people.
Good to see at least somebody, albeit not in the US, standing up to people whose self-concept is so fragile that they absolutely lose their minds when they even see someone or something different.
I don’t think Conservatives in the US understand that globally their positions are shared by an extreme minority. The rest of the planet was woke decades ago.
I guess they figured they were able to speak their bullshit into existence in the US, so they'd try that crap elsewhere. Good on the BBC for telling the bigots to take a long walk off a short pier.
Sorry Mr Sulu but, yeah, they totally fucked up Dr Who...and just because a majority of viewers chose to vote with their channel changers is no reason to call them names.
It really isn't woke ..I mean is it? Attacking someone because they don't share your taste in entertainment?
Name calling? Baad!
What the trolls fail to realize, and my apologies for generalizing, is that during the David Tenant and Matt Smith eras, a massive swath of younger, female fans started watching, and that demographic is far more tolerant than they are.
As a (then) younger female fan myself who got into it with David and Matt, whose grade school daughter got into it, and has picked it back up again away at college, yep.
I love me Dr Who. I have always liked how progressive it's been and inclusive yet I honestly think the BBC have done the cast dirty with some frankly terrible writing. They removed all the weight in those later Matt Smith episodes by just ignoring it affects.
I've been a Doctor Who fan since I was a kid and started watching it in the early 70s. These so-called fans seem to not comprehend that the Doctor never had a gender so we never knew if he would regenerate into a woman or a man. It's very simple, you don't like it, don't watch it.
I love sci fi. But sci fi "fans" these days seem far more interested in putting women and people of color in their place than they are exploring the speculative elements of culture and technology that sci fi has been about for a couple hundred years now. What a bunch of losers.
I haven't watched much of either Star Trek series, but I know Captain Kirk was rather infamously a womanizer who slept with pretty much every female alien on the show.
But was Next Generation particularly misogynistic? Picard seems 10 billion times more likeable than Kirk.
In Kirk's defense, usually the women are coming on to him, or he's been manipulated/mind-controlled.
What solidifies the misogyny for me was the last episode,where we learn that in this amazing, inclusive future, women can't be starfleet captains. And Kirk is to learn 'the pains of being a woman'.🙄
Hold up and check your social history. First off, Roddenberry wanted a woman as the 1st officer, and the execs freaked. Second, Uhura was wearing what was, at the time, a sign of female independence - the miniskirt. Nichelle was massively popular: the bosses threw out most of her fan mail.
It was socially advanced for its time, )which is still more socially advanced than our current MAGA-stuck in the past-culture) but definitely seems dated now
I can’t say why the show isn’t clicking for me. I love the Doctor and his performance. There’s something missing for me.
But still watching regularly because I want to support their efforts and waiting for that wow episode that every doctor has.
1st X-mas special was close for me, loved the song #
Imagine having an IP so good that it has lasted over 50 years and then ruining it to the point of it being cancelled. What a mess these producers and story writers push our way. Not only Dr who George, check out section 31. Absolute pish.
The show has always been woke, whether it’s fighting against polluting companies or promoting feminism or vegetarianism - or just captain Jacks right to be Captain Jack.
That said it has been awful lately. 2010-2017 was peak Who, these days I’m mostly in it for the classic blu-ray sets.
Oh, good. I really love this Doctor. (Not that I had a problem with other ones or anything, but we needed a good dose more of the lighthearted stuff just lately, if you asked me. :) )
I find it hilarious that they apparently never actually *watched* Dr. Who. They think Dr. Who fans would have big issues with their perception of 'woke' 🤦🏻♀️
I'm not exactly fond of the Timeless Children thing either but how did it "destroy" the character? It's had basically zero impact on anything so far. Did the Doctor being "half-human on [his] mother's side" destroy the character too? #DoctorWho
The doctor being who they were and their success was what made them different from other timelord. Their philosophical perspective, moral code, and sense of duty to others.
Turns out now they owe their success to the fact that they are a superbeing from another dimension.
That was a little silly I though (also no longer true with the new story development) only made the character more fallible though not some super invincible being.
Just as a reminder: the show began, in 1963, with a woman and a homosexual Asian behind the camera. Its resurrection in the 21st century was due to a homosexual.
I don’t quite see how Dr Who is woke. It’s mostly about the Dalek who want to exterminate. But these MAGA & conservative snowflakes are triggered by anything that’s not like the Dukes of Hazards - slightly misogynistic, all white and very simple
Not really. For most of the show’s run The Doctor has mainly been portrayed as Asexual.
Still a queer identity though, and the first director was a gay asian, and it was produced by the first female producer for the BBC, so your point still stands regarding diverse and inclusive.
I guess you're right on that.
The Doctor is described as a time and space traveling tramp, most happy, akin to Sherlock Holmes, when there is a mystery that needs to be solved, not love or sex.
Oh my..Don't fall for distraction the markets are starting to react get out if you can military personnel you now serve a king your constitutional oath requires you to come home and remove that King
The Murdochs are horrible people. Stop watch Fox, reading Wall Street Journal, New York Post and books from Harper Collins. Why don’t people understand that we support these businesses you give your money to the Murdochs.
Wow these twits just think they can just do anything and things will go their way. Am glad the BBC has shut them down. If they leave more will come to view
No it would be more Disney who tries it as they already have started changing things bowing to Trump so just a matter of time. BBC will have to consider taking it back and should.
Pretty much agree. The scripts for the shows with Jodie Whittaker were especially execrable. Every episode seemed to consist of the Dr delivering a continuous, breathless monologue. A running commentary on what she was doing and why.
The last series, while not great, was at least an improvement.
Dr Who has been a woman AND David Tennant, so what exactly is anyone’s problem (I liked both, by the way). Good for BBC. I notice they can cast actors in various roles in a truly evolved way.
The problem is accusing others of a backlash against the show becoming to 'woke' has been used and is still being used to hide from and deflect honest critism of the recent direction programme has been taken, particularly in story telling and character developement.
no real Who fans have a problem with his Gayness or Blackness. We just wish the writing would improve. And less reliance on effects and fancy cinematography.
I don't think they will ever realize it's a good thing. That would involve critical thinking, and they don't know how to do that. They also don't know what facts are.
I love people seething over the gay kiss because like. Hello? Captain Jack? Torchwood?? If you include the expanded universe I'm pretty sure Doctor Who has had a main character of a gay catboy from the future
His Christmas special was awful. The second one was a bit better but still not good. Lately it has felt as bad as season 24, not Ncutis fault, but he also can’t save it.
Hey, if it's legible, I'll read it. Constructive criticism can be awesome. I once knew someone who spite watched/reviewed almost every episode of 'Code Geass' b/c they hated it. I ended up using that idea in a quickly done Paint cartoon. And yes, I read every review that dude put up b/c funny.
As an avid Doctor Who fan, I shan't need to watch them all again. Most of the episodes are stored somewhere in this brain.
Troughton was my favourite Doctor until a madman named Eccleston revived the old trickster Time Lord.
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The Doctor does not fear illegal aliens...
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Actions speak louder than words! We need a solution not continue talking about the problem!
Regeneration as seen consists of the doctor 'dying' and being transformed into a completely different person, with different body features, tastes, gender, etc.
The doctor has been trans since the first regeneration!
I'm enjoying Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor Who run.
Playing games that try to kill you, but you use the games to kill your opponents instead!
Pretty scary for us children at the time.
BTW, I consider "woke" to be a compliment.
I also smile knowing that the dude bros miss out on such fantastic and fun storytelling because of their bigotry and stupidity. Their loss.
But Dr Who will survive with them or without them.
Funny thing there is, there wasn't anywhere near as much outrage when the Master regenerated into Missy, but the moment it's the lead character, they loose their minds.
“There are no black British people”
Otherwise, I'd say yes to both Black and gay, and even some to Scottish.
They've been doing a lot of caving to conservative talking points lately.
Someone should tell them the Tories are no longer in power.
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Being 7, I thought he was the Doctor, and asked him where the Tardis was
He said it was just outside, around the corner but I couldn't find it
The chameleon circuit working?
I LOVE Ncuti (it’s not that tough folks, if you can say Takei you can say Shoo-ti) even more ❤️
I you watched The Green Death in 1973 and didn't get the anti-capitalism and pro-environmental narrative you were probably just too young to get the message.
https://archive.org/details/the-green-death
Most great sci-fi/fantasy/comics have been “woke” for DECADES.
I expect we'll see the same thing as soon as Social Security Checks stop going out, or Medicaid or Medicare get cut.
I say , yes!
These people do this before every season, basically, and you would think the press would just ignore it by now lol
However it has always been on the forefront of social change as all good science fiction should be
I was not ready for "sexy Doctor Who" at first
Number 2: Jon Pertwee
Number 3: William Hartnell
2. David Tennent
3. John Pertwee
4. Ncute Gatwa
5. All the rest I have seen.
6. All the ones I never saw except for rare clips
7. A staph infection
8. Colin Baker
Not a Colin Baker fan
Ppl who criticize the show don't get it!
I'm glad a gazillion gallifreyans are added since Jodi Whittaker...
(Look--> a woke cyberman!)
I started to write down questions that were actually continuations of things that showed up in Classic Who.
I love it and totally got my husband hooked (on new who) with Blink.
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11 years girl suicide death
“They were going to call immigration so they could take her parents away and she would be left alone,”
This horrifying tragedy is awful, I feel so bad for her grieving parents.
#JocelynnRojoCarranza
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Like, you'd think they'd learn pretty quickly whether or not attempting to bend reality with words actually yields the desired result. But they've been trying this for a while now.
Make it a stopping point of discussion that must be defined before allowing them to continue.
"Until I know what you mean by woke, I don't understand the point you are trying to make."
Better to just ignore it, I'd say. But since I'm a blue speck in a red state, that might just be my survival instincts talking...
So only woke people care about environment & planet
google the team in my profile and you will see what
lying
hateful
untruthful
horrible bastards they are!
The stellar calibur of the actors was the prime mover for making the show work, if it dies it will be because nothing short of putting an ACTUAL Dr.Who fan incharge vs an armchair whovian could.
But if the DOCTOR is gay, or straight, that crosses a line. The Doctor is, and always must be, asexual.
Yea, they have so much hate that seeing tolerance makes them angry.
They were always the the smowflakes though, I agree.
They also created "cancel culture" lmao
Hopefully I can still find it elsewhere 🤞
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GurEwGCqMB8
Sigh.
It really isn't woke ..I mean is it? Attacking someone because they don't share your taste in entertainment?
Name calling? Baad!
And the right wing bought that?
They are more dumb than we thought.
Get your news from International outlets like the BBC
It is now nothing but a spreader of RW propaganda.
Other parts of the Beeb are OK, but politically the organisation does not serve as an impartial teller of truth.
It’s a comic
But was Next Generation particularly misogynistic? Picard seems 10 billion times more likeable than Kirk.
What solidifies the misogyny for me was the last episode,where we learn that in this amazing, inclusive future, women can't be starfleet captains. And Kirk is to learn 'the pains of being a woman'.🙄
https://soycrates.tumblr.com/post/107354427153/hey-dont-tell-me-what-to-do-the-great-shatner
The original series had the first televised interracial kiss, which was a pretty big deal back then.
But still watching regularly because I want to support their efforts and waiting for that wow episode that every doctor has.
1st X-mas special was close for me, loved the song #
That said it has been awful lately. 2010-2017 was peak Who, these days I’m mostly in it for the classic blu-ray sets.
Just like Star Trek and xmen , Doctor who has always been woke
If anyone's woke - it's the doctor.
Turns out now they owe their success to the fact that they are a superbeing from another dimension.
PTHHHHH!!!!
Lately also it seems like every episode is either about Dialeks, Cybermen, or the Master. Series is losing creativity.
WOKE = Whatever Offends Klansmen Easiest.
Sad!
Take Capt. Jack Harkness, for example, if it was a sentient being, "cute" and had a pulse he wanted to sleep with it...
Still a queer identity though, and the first director was a gay asian, and it was produced by the first female producer for the BBC, so your point still stands regarding diverse and inclusive.
The Doctor is described as a time and space traveling tramp, most happy, akin to Sherlock Holmes, when there is a mystery that needs to be solved, not love or sex.
The source of the ridiculous rumor was The Sun, of course.
The Murdoch family and their evil empire really are despicable.
The last series, while not great, was at least an improvement.
Probably around the time they realize this is a Good Thing.
Because for a human being worth anything, that former felt like Russel Davies reached out of the screen and punched you in the chest. In a needed way.
Long may it live and prosper
I'm cool with it, just not my prefered direction.
You want to cry about it, I want a 5 page 'book report' on each episode describing in detail where the bad show bad-touched you & why.
Single spaced.
Troughton was my favourite Doctor until a madman named Eccleston revived the old trickster Time Lord.
I was not disappointed in Tennant but I prefer the actors getting their full story told when possible.