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From: Melissa Hollingsworth <thetruemelissa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [NEWS] RTD has no idea if Billie Piper is the next Doctor
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2025 07:04:58 -0700
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Verily, in article <xn0p7yzb7mnwwup001@post.eweka.nl>, did 
blueshirt@indigo.news deliver unto us this message:
> 
> I think RTD is just an out of touch old Queen doing what he
> wants to do because it's jolly good fun in his mind and fuck the
> fans if they don't like it. So let's insert every trendy cause
> into episodes because that's what he thinks Doctor Who should be
> about in 2025, a political bandwagon. Have your messaging
> wrapped inside a good story if you have to show how trendy and
> right-on you are... but start with the story, not the message.
> RTD is all about big ideas, that then fall flat. His ego is
> destroying the thing he created.

IMO, this is what he always wanted the show to be like. He didn't want 
to revive Doctor Who; he wanted a gay, sex-soaked reboot of Doctor Who. 
At the time the BBC wouldn't let him, so he created Captain Jack 
Harkness as a *different* guy banging his way across time and space.

Now, the show has aged and is fading. The BBC's willing to let RTD do 
his thing as a desperation move to juice it along a little more. 

If they cancelled it gracefully, they might be able to revive it again 
in another twenty years. If this goes on too long, though, then the 
whole show could become a permament laughingstock.


-- 
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always 
depend on the support of Paul.
--George Bernard Shaw