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 23:03:07 +0000 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! From: Ubiquitous X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.12N (x86 32bit) Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 19:01:39 -0400 References: <29pc5jp3p8s94kg49cf5ukgbedrp64frlt@4ax.com> <199594186.738703270.565263.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Message-ID: Lines: 60 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-WnncAlpTIJxkrBAm0Nm2m3yKAyQKSsi7lNmUwzAD5jaPyeNUbrfYe7B7vWcTFacToDy1HL6KcrycHHE!f+xMCYPQU3SG8gqoxOqb0DC1LseC8P3VR0qSnHiRYnH7tBCGzl8= 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: 4347 atropos@mac.com wrote: > On May 29, 2024 at 12:41:46 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" wrote: >> BTR1701 wrote: >>> shawn wrote: >>>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 13:02:38 -0700, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>> 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. Heh. -- Let's go Brandon!