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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>
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Subject: Re: Save Doctor Who! Sack RTD
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2025 20:12:05 +1000
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On 4/06/2025 7:27 pm, Blueshirt wrote:
> Your Name wrote:
>> On 2025-06-03 19:17:30 +0000, Blueshirt said:
>>> The Doctor wrote:
>>>>
>>>> New showrunner with a new perspective.
>>>
>>> A new showrunner with no "Doctor Who" baggage.
>>
>> The problem is any new fool in charge will always come with
>> their own idiotic ideas about what Doctor Who "should be", so
>> we end up with an even bigger ridiculous ill-fitting mess than
>> we have now.   :-\
> 
> You'd expect any showrunner to have a vision for the show they
> are producing and make the overall feel of it their idea for
> that show. That's why you'd give them the job. But 'vision'
> shouldn't mean continually harking back to your previous time on
> the show as though that's all that counts. Bringing back David
> Tennant, Donna Noble and now Rose Tyler, is basically just
> "RTD's Greatest Hits: Volume Two". It's not really going forward.
> 
> I suppose we can consider ourselves lucky that John Barrowman is
> in acting purgatory or else a Captain Jack cameo would have been
> guaranteed!
> 
..... and what about Rose's boyfriend, Mickey, .... who, apparently, got 
himself in a lot of trouble following John Barrowman.
-- 
Daniel70