Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 19:53:38 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Dr. Who Review | Season 14 Premiere "Space Babies" is So DAMN AWFUL It Nearly Makes My Head EXPLODE! References: <29pc5jp3p8s94kg49cf5ukgbedrp64frlt@4ax.com> <199594186.738703270.565263.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 19:53:38 +0000 Lines: 61 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-hlYAYRAhRIAli1kV4cXhPumhCKXjCLlbhgYm5YOnBET4DGRCRFIZxPWmcbKLaoE7ElmRbQR6uLbWF/9!ntgNyXOOjf5NGgklVBWjqoahdoiDn+qzVyAUNku6MzAZ7o9KMWLkfSi8DmHFro/Tbj11fL3f/t1j X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4513 On May 29, 2024 at 12:41:46 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" wrote: > BTR1701 wrote: >> In article <29pc5jp3p8s94kg49cf5ukgbedrp64frlt@4ax.com>, >> shawn wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 13:02:38 -0700, BTR1701 wrote: >>> >>>> In article >>>> <707707518.738580846.093511.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>, >>>> anim8rfsk wrote: >> >>>>> Re: Dr. Who Review | Season 14 Premiere "Space Babies" is So DAMN AWFUL >>>>> It Nearly Makes My Head EXPLODE! >>>>> Callum Williamsh >>>>> May 25, 2024 at 1:28?PM >>>>> Ncuti Gatwa isn't playing The Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa is playing himself. >>>>> RTD has become ideologically compromised. It's hard to reconcile that >>>>> it's the same writer who came up with this drivel previously wrote such >>>>> bangers as Utopia, Midnight, The Waters of Mars, Turn Left, The Stolen >>>>> Earth and Journey's End. The 'message' first, everything else secondary >>>>> or not at all. This isn't Doctor Who. The hiatus can't come quickly >>>>> enough. >>>> >>>> I see that the they/them who is playing the Doctor now is blaming the >>>> fans for the fact that ratings are cratering. >>> >>> That's correct. The people that have been watching DR WHO for years >>> are the fans. If they don't like what the show does they stop >>> watching. Still a fan of the show but just not watching what they are >>> making at the moment. Change what they are making to something the >>> fans like and they will likely return. >>> The problem they are having is (and they stated this was their >>> purpose) they are making the show for a wider audience that wasn't >>> interested in the show. Since they weren't interested they aren't >>> watching. Maybe they will eventually, maybe they won't, but for now >>> those non-fans aren't watching and many of the fans aren't watching. >>> It's a winning decision by Disney and the BBC to focus on the message >>> (DEI is great) instead of putting the story first. >>> >>>> He says they're "-ists" and "-phobes" and that's why the show is tanking. >>>> It's the fans' fault, not the fact that we now have a Doctor who prances >>>> around in a dress and frets about pronouns. >>> >>> It's the same thing that the Star Wars people are saying as to why >>> their shows aren't doing well. Everything wrong with the viewer ship >>> numbers is blamed on toxic fans. No one steps up to say maybe the >>> stories just aren't that good and that's why people aren't watching. >>> ANDOR shows that if they write a good story people will watch. Movies >>> like ALIENS and even TOMB RAIDER show that if they write a good story >>> with a female lead people will watch. >> >> Don't forget TERMINATOR. Ripley is great and all, but I've always >> thought Sarah Connor was the most iconic female action hero. She had the >> biggest transformative arc, from serving burgers at Big Buns to mother >> of the resistance. > > Jennifer Lawrence is the movies first female action hero. Just ask her. Yes, I forgot. Reality must bend before woeness.