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Having had time to think about it, the poor writing quality is the main reason I'm annoyed by the gender swap. It was telegraphed so blatantly, along with all of the poor attempts at signalling gender politics in that video up there ^^ (however badly that guy put it, they are actually there), that it just seems...clumsy as hell.
If, however, they hadn't done any of that apart from the guard having a bit of a moan about her last body being a man (perhaps minus the "How do you cope with all that ego?" jab), and then - right at the end - had ol' Doc say, "Y'know what? I fancy a bit of a change..." - that would've been excellent. It fits with the character's whimsy, and it wouldn't have dumped the massive (conflicting) expectations on Jodie Whitaker which have essentially set her up to fail in terms of the show's ongoing success.
That's not even my overall concern, though. The show itself needs a serious smack round the chops - it's dropped off a cliff in terms of quality, even without the gender issue involved. That's highly unlikely to happen now, for the reasons I gave in my previous post...I could be wrong, but I don't think I am (obviously). I desperately want it to be good, but I think we all know it probably won't be.
Then, of course, there's the whole "I want this to be an educational show for children" bullshit, which...well, let's just say I don't have a lot of confidence that it's going to be worth watching. Kids' shows nowadays look more like Peppa Pig than Chocky, and that gives me a sad face.
Obviously there's a chance it's being run by the producers (like the godawful DCEU) and that won't be fixed by bringing in Chibnall & Whittaker. Or it's possible (and I think likely) that they gave Moffat too much control before realising he's an ideas guys, not an execution guy, so a new gang could be very good.
It's true that Ghostbusters was a complete trainwreck, but it is fair to say that a lot of the criticism was from incel types who just hate on anything that involves women who won't sleep with them (ie anything with women), which isn't to say it didn't deserve critique for being such a shit movie, but it did stop a lot of genuine criticism being taken seriously, and there is probably a risk that the same might happen here if it isn't good. Who knows?
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Goddammit.
They probably outsource it to 10,000 monkeys typing on 10,000 typewriters
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Not all Writing-In-A-Big-Group is a good plan... look what happened with Lost. And for every Breaking Bad or Sons of Anarchy there's a thousand Friends or Rosanne shows...
Writing teams often product just as shitty a show as a single writer, just like one good writer could beat a whole team of useless hacks
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All the poorly made macguffin plots would be fine if the show had a few more racial epithets?
"Save me doctor"
"I'm no saving a negro faggot!"
Would that line help make Doctor Who better for you?
And before you get all puffy that post says to just cut the PC crap, and that the PC twaddle resulted in poor scripts. The PC twaddle which made a quip every now and then. Out of hundreds of lines of twaddle you fixate on the PC bits (presumably you're aching to call that neighbour of yours all sorts of names as soon as "PC" goes out of fashion, I'm sure he'll get on a banana boat back to bongo bongo land lickety split!)
Whilst I agree that some of the comments are a little heavy handedly PC they're also in the extreme minority of poorly written lines - you yourself brought up that shitty egg/moon episode earlier. The PC twaddle didn't make that happen, and even with the occasional faggot/nigger/wop comment the episode would be shit because the whole premise is shit... (why were there massive creepy spiders by way of an immune system? why did the dragon lay an egg bigger than it, etc...).
I know we live in a time where sometimes people will suggest that the queers can leave the shadows, or that the blacks can get jobs, or that women have a place in society, and that that is scary for some... but is *that* really what made Doctor Who shitty for the last couple of years, or is Doctor Who being shitty for a few years a good excuse for your to pop off about that Arab neighbour of yours
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It's interesting to see Who through the ages. Look at Sylvester McCoy's era. The writers then were young anti-Tory types for the most part and they gave excellent storylines that did address political and societal matters. Remembrance of the Daleks dealt with race and racial supremacy really well for instance. The difference now is that there isn't that subtlety when it comes to incorporating so-called PC stories. Who in the past did not treat its audience as stupidly as the recent scripts have. Personally I think American shows treat their audiences as having the intelligence to not need everything spelled out in black and white.
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Trailer 2... Not that its helping much The production style seems pretty different, dare I say more American..
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