clearspira wrote: ↑Thu Nov 29, 2018 9:26 pm
As an aside, I am hearing rumours that Jodie Whitaker has already quit the role. I do not know if this is confirmed or not, but if so, Jesus what a f- up.
If I understand the stories from the rumor mill, the rumors allege the showrunner is upset with the way the show is going (apparently because he's upset with a series a year), and Whitaker is leaving in solidarity, having worked with the showrunner on Broadchurch.
He's upset with a series a year? That does lend to what I was saying about bringing back the multi-episode stories. This creaky old show needs more than a lick of paint (the sex change). It needs a complete retool.
I still think its very embarrassing though to have her leave so soon. Eccleston did the same true, but it was a completely different time. The series felt fresh after not being on for so many years and was followed by Tennant who love him or hate him is considered by many to be the best. The next woman to play the role (and it will be a woman because politics) will have a sticky time of it if we get more of the same.
It's bad. Colin Baker's Doctor was supposed to be a shake-up and was something that was going to take time. What did they note get? Time, ironically enough, because Grade hated the show and wanted it gone. This series has been generally boring, which is something I lay at Chibnall's feet, but I had hoped that the current crew would grow on me. If it is to be the one season then we have to cast the Doctor again and just start over, and having such an irregular production schedule is not helping ratings - you lose your audience when they get tired of waiting.
I remember getting up in the morning to watch the TV movie (I think I was far more into Doctor Who back as a teenager in the 90s), I think I had recorded it the previous night. My vague impression decades later is that it was meh.
In terms of the production history when Chuck talked about Spielberg pulling out of the project I could not help but think they should have gotten his non-union Mexican equivalent...
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Worth noting that, despite anecdotally, a very lukewarm reception at best from... Pretty much every one I know in meatspace (and a fair number of folk online), the actual ratings for this season of Doctor Who are better than Capaldi's prior two seasons, and on a fair par with the series previously. (Very high at start (highest of the NuWho starts overall, by a bare margin), moderate drop-off there after.)
So - despite us, basically! - it does not appear to be a rating issue. Whatever it is must be something behind the scenes. It have also heard it said (again with nothing more than hearsay) that the BBC is unhappy with the new series; no idea why, but one marginal possibility is perhaps a bit of a lack of marketable doofers, with the apparent complete lack of any old antagonists.
(In my opinion, this is the new series' greatest failure. With no arc and no old villains to enjoy - and not even that being pushed as a thing - it's basically string of "filler" or historical episodes, none of which I personally ever got on with as much.)
clearspira wrote: ↑Thu Nov 29, 2018 9:26 pm
As an aside, I am hearing rumours that Jodie Whitaker has already quit the role. I do not know if this is confirmed or not, but if so, Jesus what a f- up.
If I understand the stories from the rumor mill, the rumors allege the showrunner is upset with the way the show is going (apparently because he's upset with a series a year), and Whitaker is leaving in solidarity, having worked with the showrunner on Broadchurch.
Durandal_1707 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 1:38 am
Given how many incels on the Internet have wet dreams about that, I wouldn't take online rumors as anything approaching fact at this point.
Yeah, remember when they were all so sure that Kathleen Kennedy was going to get the boot back in September?
And besides, I looked into it--the rumor comes from a sci-fi magazine and from what I can tell no other source has corroborated it. Looks pretty flimsy.
Hey now. I think Kennedy has made awful decisions, and I'm as pro-liberal as you can get. De-canonizing Legends was just a stupid business move. They should have done what Marvel did and tried to adapt some popular Legends tales to the big screen, but you know, they really wanna make the most money with the least amount of effort, so they just brought back the trio for A New Hope 2.0 to "rinse" the "bad taste" of the prequels out of the fans' mouths. Bleargh. Where's the logic in that? I hope they don't bring KOTOR or the Bane novels or Dawn of the Jedi or Tales of the Jedi to a movie format for this new train wreck of a canon. I'd prefer Legends be canon, thank you very much.
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Durandal_1707 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 1:38 am
Given how many incels on the Internet have wet dreams about that, I wouldn't take online rumors as anything approaching fact at this point.
INCELs are men and boys with virgin rage, AKA INvoluntaryCELibate. I gotta ask: do you actually know what an INCEL is or is it just a buzzword that you felt like using? Because I fail to see how there is a link between that and disagreeing with a character getting a sex change.
Durandal_1707 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 01, 2018 1:38 am
Given how many incels on the Internet have wet dreams about that, I wouldn't take online rumors as anything approaching fact at this point.
Yeah, remember when they were all so sure that Kathleen Kennedy was going to get the boot back in September?
And besides, I looked into it--the rumor comes from a sci-fi magazine and from what I can tell no other source has corroborated it. Looks pretty flimsy.
Kathleen Kennedy WAS in the firing line, the only reason she stayed was because no one wanted the job. They saw just how much controversy it was carrying and said ''thanks but no thanks, Mr Igor.'' By all accounts I've read she is now very much like the Queen: there but not there. Star Wars 9 is now effectively JJ Abrams's gig and no one else.
