The Doctor

[Coin]

On 10/28/2025 at 6:13 PM, ThaOGDreamWeaver said:

 

(You do gotta wonder, though: if the Disney and the BBC had gone all-in and licensed the Doc to Marvel Studios rather than D+... can you imagine the crossovers?)

 

 

I've always felt, at the risk of getting political here, the current climate over in the US and Disney's famous ability to fall over in a small gust of political wind, that Doctor Who was never going to work for Disney

 

I mean, a gender-changing alien in a homosexual kissing scene, coupled with a major character being transgender as well, alongside some seriously unsubtle "woke agenda" stuff from RTD (which I approved of, but it did feel at times that RTD was doing it all as a giant middle finger to the haters rather than being part of the storyline!)

 

Disney were never going to be comfortable with that! 😄 

[Darmian]

41 minutes ago, Coin said:

I mean, a gender-changing alien in a homosexual kissing scene, coupled with a major character being transgender as well, alongside some seriously unsubtle "woke agenda" stuff from RTD (which I approved of, but it did feel at times that RTD was doing it all as a giant middle finger to the haters rather than being part of the storyline!)

I'm completely on board with all of the above, except I found RTD2's (because it feels like a different man was behind 2005 -2010) giant middle finger as you put it, incredibly condescending to the point of stupidity. Frankly though, I'd prefer it if it WAS a middle finger rather than what I actually think, which is a delusional bubble of his own making that anything he put into Who was a Good Thing^TM and that any criticism of it was by his definition practically fascism.

 

Case in point.  Even before RTD's second tenure proper we had a little mini episode where the 14th Doctor arrives on Skaro where Daleks are being made for the first time.  Leave aside the continuity of all that (The Time War does a lot of heavy lifting in handwaving) but Davros appears.  Fully able to walk.  RTD's reasoning?  We shouldn't associate wheelchair users with evil.  I mean what?  Ok, I've watched Who a long time.  I know that character.  Always been in his travel device.  Never once did I or anyone that I know of assume that meant wheelchair users are evil.  That particular guy was evil. Nothing to do with his wheelchair. If anything this takes agency AWAY from wheelchair users!  And as some pointed out, it now means that an actor with a wheelchair cannot play the role!  Cack handed.  Perhaps well meaning but nonsense.  Of course saying this was terrible apparently.

 

And then it goes further. 

 

So D+ having issues?  Yeah, they were going to have them.  But a completely incoherent set of reasons from RTD and Bad Wolf wasn't going to help. Sorry, rambled a bit there.

Edited 5 hours ago by Darmian