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Subject: Re: Dr. Who Review | Season 14 Premiere "Space Babies" is So DAMN AWFUL It Nearly Makes My Head EXPLODE!
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atropos@mac.com wrote:
> On May 29, 2024 at 12:41:46 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>   shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>>>>  On Tue, 28 May 2024 13:02:38 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>  anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

>>>>>>  Re: Dr. Who Review | Season 14 Premiere "Space Babies" is So DAMN AWFUL It Nearly Makes My Head EXPLODE!
>>>>>>  Callum Williamsh <callumwilliamsh1@gmail.com>
>>>>>>  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.

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Let's go Brandon!