I kinda hope they make it decent again, but I'm more inclined to believe they're gonna put the show on indefinite pause.
@alyx It's the BBC. They're going to make it woke to the walls, BBC journos are going to complain about the public not liking it and decrying the original audience as all the -ists in the books and because of the BBC being propped up by the TV licence scheme, they're not going to face any consequences or be held account to any reasonable extent.
My uncle is a massive Dr. Who fan, one of the biggest I know. He watched the original series growing up and was ecstatic when it was revived in 2005. But he's really disappointed with the show as of late and it's all because of the writing. He couldn't care either way about the casting choices or any of the diversity politics because he's normally quite a liberal guy. But he hates how patronising and blatant the propaganda is. It's like that with a lot of other people I've talked to as well.
Fuck the BBC. It's just a mechanism for the London bubble to talk down to the rest of the country. From atop their ivory tower propped up by a TV licence that has been neither needed nor wanted for several decades.
@alyx nah, bringing up the BBC in conversation just makes me go full ancap. I really enjoyed the David Tennant series when I was young because some of the aliens used to scare the everloving shit out of me. The Matt Smith series got a bit too quirky for my liking and I didn't really care too much the Peter Capaldi series because I had kind of gone off television by that point. I just see this trend far too often in entertainment. A once widely enjoyed and largely apolitical show getting sacrificed on the altar of intersectionality especially since it's one of a select few British TV dramas that are popular internationally.
Don't worry. It's ok. It was a great show and it's normal to get a bit heated about things you like.
I've never watched the really old stuff. Just from 2005 onward. I have considered searching for the classics, but from my understanding there are a good number of lost episodes, and I get a bit autistic about not watching something to completion. I'd rather not start the old Who, than watch it, but always know that I can never actually watch all of it.