Doctor Who (2024) (Page 3 of 3)

The budget was much smaller back in 2005, way smaller for everything in the show; and it’s pretty easy to pick episodes/stories that are simply “silly” or “cheap”.  I could probably go through the whole of Who episodes and pull out more “bad” than “good” stories.  But we were more forgiving back then maybe because “good” Sci-Fi was so unusual.
The Chase for instance and The Krotons, both were like they were because the money ran out before that season was over.  This was a common occurrence; the shows budget being blown on the early stories and there being nothing left over for the final ones.
Plot holes are also a common occurrence; one example being in The Angels Take Manhattan.  The Doctor can’t go to New York to rescue Amy and Rory, so why not go to another town/city and get to New York the “long way”?
I agree that the current series is also not “my thing” particularly, but there are normally a couple of episodes that I can enjoy, Boom and Dot & Bubble for example, so I’ll keep watching if only for those one or two episodes.

How can they be on Season 2, and still Next Episode has it listed wrong?

It's Doctor Who 2023, NOT 2024.

There is a 2024 series, like Doctor Who Confidential, called Doctor Who: Unleashed.

The real series is named 2023!

thetvdb•com search?query=doctor+who+2023

Please fix it already!

Updated it to '23.

Made sense to name it 2024 when it started airing (the regular episodes) in '24 and it was confusing to have it named '23.

Now it makes more sense to use the real premiere year (even though it only aired specials during '23).

Yet another Disney "go woke, go broke" failure.  We all knew this would happen when Disney got involved.

It was bad enough when they slashed the budget a couple  years earlier - dropping the music composer, half the writers and so on... The stories slid something horrible even before Ncuti Garland was signed up as the doctor.

Who fans are plenty forgiving of a LOT: We grew up with cellophane wrapper aliens FFS - but taking the show from sci-fi to magic with wooden Goblin sky ships where ropes are technology and knots are the coding... right passed aliens and into Gods... animated characters like its Who Framed Roger Rabbit... the inability to maintain a premise throughout one episode...

Then pile on poorly done WOKEness... You can be progressive without everything seaming like they're beating you over the head with it in every scene.  Not to mention all they had to do was look at the data.  The numbers show that those episodes were the most hated... and the episodes that barely had the Doctor at all (like '72 meters' that focused on the story and characters) were the most popular.  Huh?

They need to leave it 5-10 years, purge the woke writers from Disney and the BBC, retcon everything since 2018, then it might have a chance to regain mainstream popularity.

I used to be a huge fan as a kid, was a member of the Dr Who fan club back in the 80's. I've since become so disgusted with what it has become, I've sold my vintage novel collection from the 80's and I've noticed a large number of other fans dumping their collections over the past few years as well.

Right there with you 100%
In that spirit of hope I've been following this current incarnation.  But last nights s02e07 was just unwatchable, even on the basis of "fast forward 10 mins, check to see what's going on, FF 10 mins, does the magic fantasy bs. end and now become the story?"  etc.  And I couldn't do it: It was just THAT bad.  Horrible ... well... everything.  Terrible acting, body movement, green screen flying that was worse than Flash Gordon or original Wizard of Oz.

It was just so fraking horrible I couldn't even make it to the end even with jumping 10 mins at a time then peeking in on it.

in my opinion every doctor since 2005 was a great doctor except for the Ncuti. I loved 9th 10th 11th and 12th doctors. Even the female doctor was good but suffered bad writing. Ncuti just doesnt have a character except for being woke. it is sad how a show falls like this.

Had to watch the ender much like the week before: FF 10 min, get a 1-2min status, FF 10min, get a 1-2min status.
Which makes sense since it carried over from episode 7.  There are listed as parts 1 and 2.

Gawd how bloody awful.  That's all I can say.

One positive comment:

Then the big reveal:

But wow - they just really want to beat that girl-boss thing until they do finally destroy the show, huh?  Russel Davies just *will not* give in to writing a decent season with a male doctor, do things like they did for 2005-2008 or so just to get viewer numbers and income back on track, then give the girl thing another go.  I think he's scared that if they tried it and it WORKED it would be the nail in the coffee for this Doctor Woke junk. He can't afford that confirmation.

one of the problems with Ncuti he looked like some one from "The Black and White Minstrels" I wont say the G.W word.