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On 2024-06-11 19:26:32 +0000, Blueshirt said:

> The Doctor wrote:
> 
>> In article <xn0omxhmdara3wn005@post.eweka.nl>,
>> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The Timeless Child is going nowhere, you'd want to start
>>> getting used to it... move on.
>> 
>> The Timeless Child deserved to be rubbished!
> 
> Yes it did. BUT... it was still part of the show.
> 
> The McCoy era deserved to be rubbished, BUT... it was still part
> of the show.
> 
> Like any long running TV show Doctor Who has been good, average
> and bad... that's the way it goes. But even so, it's ALL Doctor
> Who.
> 
> That's the point that YOU are not getting.

Yes and no.

Although "reboots" do usually re-use the same or similar names and are 
echnically in the same franchise, they are in reality completely 
different shows. The most obvious example being "Battlestar Galactica" 
- there's the real Glen Larson original version, then the horrible 
"Galactica 1980" version, and then there's the awful Moore-Ron "reboot" 
version. (There is also a planned movie version which will be different 
again, and an even sillier planned movie that will somehow supposedly 
link the two very different versions while ignoring "Galactica 1980").

The problem with Doctor Who is that the main character's ability to 
regenerate so they can replace the actor, makes it harder to spot the 
"reboot" attempts.  The gender-swapping and now race-swapping are two 
of the more blatant "reboot" attempts within Doctor Who franchise, 
mainly to appease the Politically Correct / Equality brigade ... 
because as we all "know", there were never any female nor black actors 
on TV shows before about 2010,  :-\

"Reboots" are never a good idea, and simply a sign that the creator 
doesn't really know what to do. Another term covering a simialr sudden 
change is often "jumping ths shark", named after an episode of the US 
sitcom "Happy Days" when they decided to make big changes to the format 
becauser they had run out of sensibly fitting ideas.