Doctor Who and RTD: The BBC, Disney, Bad Wolf Are All Indulging Russell T Davies
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Russell T Davies is constantly saying he will not explain decisions he makes yet blithely changing canon and Dr Who Lore at the same time. Has anyone else noticed this?
Often when he does give any comment it is to say the shalka doctor inclusion in Rogue and the Mrs Flood breaking the 4th wall is for a laugh. Is RTD operating this million dollar franchise to please his friends, have a laugh - it is the great indulgence of RTD to the detriment of the brand, the show, its future.
Time Agent Brendan pulls together a top secret dossier on RTD and Dr Who: The Great Indulgence.
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RTD needs to wake up and realise what he’s doing. Destroying previous writer’s work that wrote the show ten times better than him. He’s creating so many plotholes. The who franchise is a mess right now and now he’s talking about a spin off?? Fix the the main show! Dont run before you can walk! Love your Videos Brendan. Keep it up! ❤
Thsnks for your kind comments. I appreciate it. So where are you based?
@@noblerees1i live in the south of the uk. Have been a fan of Doctor who since i first saw Peter Davison’s fifth Doctor. Over the years i’ve gone back and watched all i could on the past Doctors. Watching Doctor Who in today’s era saddens me.
Would not be surprised to learn the real reason they changed Davros was they were missing a licence for something... ;)
Fantastic video. Your conclusions are spot on in my opinion. RTD is a law to himself and a narcissist of the highest order.
Aw thanks. High praise from
You. Any suggestions where I can go next ?
@@noblerees1 You have done a brilliant job in establishing your channel in a very short space of time. I don’t think you need advice on where to go next from me. You have an unique, distinct style from all other Who Channels. That’s the hardest thing to do and be. Original!👍
On future subjects to discuss after this RTD discussion? The Executive Producer/ Producer Phil Collinson. Bad Wolf executives Jane Tranter and Julia Gardner get a lot of fan attention but it’s Collinson that is responsible for the everyday running of the show. He must know that Ncuti’s first season was well below par compared to his previous work on the show. Was it just blind faith in his friend Russell that he didn’t question the quality of scripts? Was it fear? Unlikely, as he was Head Producer for Coronation Street in the past. Collinson has done some fantastic work over the years that it’s surprising that he’s allowed himself to be associated with a product this bad. Professional pride must kick in somewhere down the line. Unless, he’s just about the money. That’s my suggestion. A closer look at Phil Collinson.
He (RTD) is THE greatest Doctor who villain of all time.
Yes a mix of sutekh the destroyer, the urbankan monarch and the toymaker
@noblerees1 No, he's Professor Zaroff. As his plan to destroy the franchise cones to fruition, he breaks the fourth wall and screams maniacally, "Nothing in the world can stop me now!!"
The only difference is, Zaroff was entertaining.
One of the things to come to prominence at this stage is that Davies is (admitting basically!) that he isn't plotting. He isn't planning ahead with where the series is going season on season, and isn't thinking on the things he is putting into his stories - instead he is just throwing events and 'things' in there, and with no thought into what they mean, or where they will lead.
Chris Chibnall did it. He too threw all sorts of things into his seasons, was willing to turn the character himself inside out, upend the established history, and with no thought into what the endgame to these plot-points would be. He willingly left the series and left behind 'scorched earth' for the next Producer to deal with.
And Davies... is just doing what Chibnall did. Lots of 'Things' being thrown in, no respect for the history and well established character, and yet... in the end like Chris Chibnall I believe 'Doctor Who' will end up *breaking* him.
These people come into the show and assume they will be successful, that they can do no wrong, and therefore (paradoxically) can do whatever they like, as it will be successful anyway.
But this series and this character was well established long before they arrived, it's an institution, and is in fact far bigger then these people are - they are but ships passing by - while the series and the character are too well established to be so permanently abused as this.
The series and character *will* recover, eventually. A reset imposed by a coming Producer will set it back on track. But as with Chris Chibnall I see Russell Davies leaving this series under a dark cloud, and one that will follow them for a long time after...
Davies is *not* bigger that Doctor Who, he hasn't quite realised this as yet perhaps, but he will.
Wise words and counsel as ever from
You David. I seriously would love to get you contributing to the show somehow. I would love an in depth one to one chat
We fans want it to survive and thrive so it’s natural to us
Ps RT D has said Who is one of the most watched streaming: well we have recently watched from 2005 stopping when the great Capaldi changed to Doctor Karen because we miss the programme! Guess that is what many have been doing as saves getting DVD s out! Doubt they are watching post Capaldi.
I agree. Most streamed? Repeat viewing by same people?
Moffatt knew what he was doing when he brought in stories that needed to be watched several times to be fully understood.
"Pauline Fowler's not the mum of Martin Fowler, I've just come up with another mother"...I have to be honest, that sounds exactly like something Eastenders would do! But Doctor Who isn't supposed to be Eastenders. I'm doing a full body cringe at the now quite plausible scene of a companion yelling "You ain't my mother!" and the Doctor screaming "Yes I am!", through floods of tears. Cue end credits.
I caught myself out then as I never expected to say that either lol - things we say!
As usual, you're saying what most of us fans think!
I genuinely think RTD would get off to videos like this. He clearly loves winding us all up.
Cherish the thought I give him a quick fix or happy relief! Horrific!
RTD was obnoxiously rude about REG in the past, he’s got double standards and can’t make up for that.
Yes, I remember him being completely dismissive of E Grant as an actor/person in at least one interview - glad I'm not alone in remembering that...! The way he spoke of Grant was in a tone of near contempt.
He also ridiculed Hartnell for wishing the viewers a merry Christmas at the end of an intentionally silly episode of The Dalek Masterplan whose transmission date fell on Christmas day. The episode was designed, so that if people missed it in favour of Christmas fun, it wouldn't spoil the story.
I believe RTD watched Lost, like 100s of millions around the world, and instead of being annoyed at Cuse and Lindeloff's inability/unwillingness to pay-off years of their baffling bs his takeaway was "Great, I can just throw any old bollox into Dr Who and not bother explaining it".
All sizzle and no steak.
Yes he loves the hype and less disciplined about execution and delivery
It's that whole "mystery box" shite popularized by J.J. Abrams.
Lost actually did pay off its mysteries and the story generally made sense. Not at all like the current Doctor Who trash.
@@alfredvickers4054 If you think the ending of Lost explained all that went before (when the writers had explicitly denied that ending amid speculation in year one) then I don't know what to say to you.
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"the writers had explicitly denied that ending amid speculation in year one"
If you're referring to what I think you are referring to, that theory is wrong. The characters were NOT dead the whole time. The island was NOT Purgatory. Everything on the island, in the flashbacks, in the flashforwards, etc. really happened to the characters in the world of the show. ONLY the flashsideways in season 6 were showing the characters post-death. The show couldn't have made all this more explicit than it did. The finale even has the spirit of Jack's father plainly explain it all to Jack so that viewers wouldn't get the wrong idea. Yet many erroneously believe it to this day. Everything after the plane crash really happened to the characters.
Anyway, I was referring to the fact that mysteries are introduced, some of them answered, new mysteries are introduced to be answered later on, and so forth. Early on, there are questions like: What is the island? What is the smoke monster? What's in the hatch? Why did Jack see his dead father walking around on the island? What are the whispers in the jungle? Who are the Others? What are the numbers that keep showing up? Some of these are answered in season 2, some later in season 5 or 6, but they are all answered in the end. Later there are new questions, like: Who is Desmond? Why do the numbers have to be entered into the computer? Who is Ben Linus? What is the Dharma Initiative? What was the Incident? Who is Charles Widmore? These flashforwards show some of the characters off the island and back in civilization--how do they get there? Who is Jacob? Again, all of these are ultimately answered by the end of the series.
That's why I objected to the comparison. Current Doctor Who built up a mystery only to tell viewers it was nothing really. Who is Ruby's mother? No one important! Why was Ruby special? Because the Doctor and other characters (and the audience) thought she was, and no other reason. Why did it magically keep snowing? Don't worry about it, there is no answer. I've even heard that RTD has suggested he won't bother to give a clear explanation of who the Mrs. Flood character is or why she keeps addressing the audience. In contrast, Lost's mysteries were given substantive answers that made sense in the world established by the show. Doctor Who (like Lost) used to reward long-time fans for continuing to follow along, such as further explaining the Time War and giving it resolution, explaining what Bad Wolf meant, paying off the set-up for the Master's return, explaining the mystery of the disappearing planets & how/why Rose was back, explaining who River Song was, explaining who the Silence were and their motivations, explaining how there were many iterations of Clara, explaining about Trenzalore, even addressing and resolving the 12 regeneration limit established all the way back in the classic series! Now it seems viewers are punished for paying attention and caring. In current Doctor Who, nothing makes sense and many previous stories are undermined or outright contradicted, like how the Timeless Children storyline undermined the ending of Day of the Doctor ("Gallifrey Falls No More"), made Time of the Doctor addressing the regeneration limit retroactively meaningless, and acted like the Missy story arc in series 10 never happened, among other things. RTD is only making the problem worse.
Lost was never like current Doctor Who.
RTD reminds me of a pantomime villain - I just wish he could hear us booing. We had the comfort of Classic Who but he has tried to scupper that for us too. 😠
Yes plundering dr who classic treasures and defiling them
I've been rewatching Scream of The Shalka this week because of The GIT's (Great Intelligence - not) comments and it's disgusting his lack of regard for other people's work. He has become The Borg of Dr Who - your distinctiveness will be adfed to ours, resistance is futile! 😤
Well look out for our close to the knuckle puppet parody of bad wolf and RTD coming soon on our channel - a mini series
Very interesting what you have said. I jave just posted on my Instagram and twitter saying I'm done with nuwho I'm sticking with everything before The Star Beast. Yes I even prefer Jodie Whittaker to this rubbish. At least her stories made sense compared to RTD2 stories.
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Brendan, brilliant as usual! The Great Indulgence is a perfect. It reflects RTD in a very clear way. I take it one step further by revealing his malice towards the lifetime fans. Even casual viewers are dismissed.
Thanks- glad it hit a nerve. It’s hard to get it right isn’t it
Great video 👍
Thanks for that. Please do suggest topics and ideas
To quote Larys Strong in House of the Dragon s2e4 "That is a rich Indulgence..... but I believe it is a sin to deny your appetites" (sic Larys is not a nice man with others best interests at heart).
I missed that and I loved house of the dragons
@@noblerees1 I think RTD as The Great Indulgence would make a fine character in HOTD. Probably come to a very sticky end though!
@@robfellows4096 There was a phrase my grandmother used to say to describe someone full of their own importance: "He'll disappear up his own ar$e one day."
That seems somehow in keeping with the snot monster, farting spaceship shaped like a giant ar$e and other childish tropes of thevrecent series/season/car crash.
@@Benjiesbeenbetter. A very wise woman indeed!
& another thing you & others have commented - is that RTD needs someone to have the authority to say "Sorry Russell but that idea / script is crap". Like having a Terrence Dicks, Robert Holmes type script editor, but as I understand it RTD is effectively Bad Wolf who our BBC have outsourced their/our franchise to..
But...as our BBC broadcast this "family entertainment" show at prime time pre-watershed early Saturday evening, surely someone must watch it before agreeing to broadcast, & wouldn't they question the plotholes, the arguably divisive dialogue, question why a 13yo child is using automatic weapons, why children are working at UNIT as " essential personnel", the complete lack of an on-screen explanation for the 13-14yo Jason-Rose character in Star Beast, the Rouge storyline ???
As a Licence Fee payer I believe these are legitimate questions for our BBC to answer.
Yes before I scripted my show I did wonder if the contract meant RTD doesn’t feel like a BBC employee as his idea of transparency and public service has disappeared
I agree with all your points here. Well said. I’m not sure whether or not I’ll check out the next season because I’m tired of being disappointed with the writing. I may call it a day and stick to Classic Who. I think RTD is dragging back old enemies and characters from the past because he’s baiting older fans but not giving them anything good. Instead he gives us some real garbage enough to make you feel cheated and depressed. I agree that RTD is the destroyer. He needs to go but he won’t because he’s addicted to the power and won’t listen to any criticism. He’s a Urbankan, he’s Mestor & he’s Drathro rolled into one. Great video.
Thanks mate. Go on then what stories or eras would love us to discuss? Remember we have Malcolm hulkes biographer on Sunday midday
@@noblerees1 You could discuss the Hartnell era. I think it’s more creative than modern Who especially the alien worlds we see. Looking forward to hearing what Malcolm Hulkes biographer has to say.
RTD is just making shite up at a whim, and says screw us old fans
Yes I think we prepare all our streams with more care and attention to detail than present RTD. We are also more transparent and hopefully responsive to anyone we are grateful to find watches our content
@@noblerees1 thank you for your detailed videos and dedication to Who canon. This is much more entertaining than RTDs agendas
I love your video presentations. Well observed and constructed. You've vocalised how the majority feel. Thankyou.
That’s a lovely message to read- thanks. Any other topics you’d like me to cover?
Great video. By the way I love the opening music to your videos.
Thank you. I should reference them as I have paid for them and I get lovely feedback about the intros and music. Maybe it’s my indulgence but I like to bookend a show and set a vibe or tone
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Once he ran out of everyone else's ideas he had nothing left.
Plagiarist extraordinaire
@@noblerees1 So now he's copying Rian Johnson LMFAO
Mavity why is that funny
It’s not even clever is it
Feels like he's putting so little effort into this and turning it into a joke a plaything, disgusting. He's Mutley and Dick Dastardly all rolled into one, sniggering in the corner and his wild plans just do not pay off. RTD hides in plain sight laughing all the way to the bank. 💰 Our once beautiful show it's memories being flushed away. 😭
Great to see you Peter. I thought I’d lost you as hasn’t see you in thread. Hope you are well
@@noblerees1 Naa always around and getting to know your times now, sort of. 😄 Always crackin' panels and chat, serious or silly I'm in. 👍
I think he's on drugs 😂
Or should be.
Mavity mavity mavity, there’s no rationale for Russell T Davies Dr Who, its absolute twaddle. We need Doctor Who for grownups, played by David Bradley with stories written by screenwriter Ben Aaronovitch, directed by Andrew Morgan and someone like John Nathan-Turner to produce it, sadly, but John Turner is no longer with us.
You’re spot on / it’s immature it’s silly it’s nonsense / it’s dying
Maybe not David Bradley as he's in his 80s now but someone of that calibre certainly.
I utterly despite 'mavity'. Stupid. Sounds like McCavity from Cats. Thank goodness he didn't decide Daleks shoukd be 'barleks' in perpetuity...This whole series has been a self indulgent mess. I'm left leaning but this doesn't represent me. I loved Ncuti as Eric in Sex Education
..but he's shown that he is by no means a chameleon. I don't see The Doctor in him at all unfortunately. The Great Indulgigence...
@@nigelwalker6103 I think Bradley is the man for the job as he has already played Hartnell and the First Doctor in An Adventure in Space and Time, Twice Upon a Time, The Power of the Doctor and for Big Finish Productions audio stories.
@user-gx9yn1vx8x He's a great actor and comes from York, where I live. I've actually seen him years ago in the flesh back before he played Hartnell. I just think at 82, he's getting a bit old for a long run on a show like Doctor Who.
He was great as Hartnell and as the first Doctor.
It's strange, in a way, that he was already older than Hartnell ever lived to be when he played him in 2013.
Enjoying your vlogs & live streams Brendan. Thanks.
What I find really disappointing with RTD is that he wrote two of (IMO) the most watchable TV series, "The 2nd Coming" & "Years & Years" + helmed the DW 2005 reboot & wrote several good episodes.
Yet now he seems to have had a bet with Chiballs-up as to who could write the most DW plotholes....
Meanwhile I have thoroughly enjoyed Steven Moffats Douglas is cancelled that seems sharp, mature, clever
@@noblerees1 As did I. I thought the ending interesting, & could be viewed two ways.
EDIT. Could be interpreted two ways.
I personally like the idea of the Shalka Doctor being canon, but he would be either a future Doctor or (since he was originally meant to be the 9th Doctor) an alternate timeline that ultimately never came to be.
But, yeah. Just dropping him into the Doctor's past without explanation, just for a laugh, is stupid.
I am
Happy for the discussion but as you say we need some more careful planning or thought
He should give his salary income back if he doesn't want to do his job properly. He really has become a very nasty piece of work. He is nothing less than a narcassist. Don't throw out your DVD's and Blu Rays as he is going to apparently change the word gravity to mavity in any episodes where the word is gravity is mentioned. Unbelievable. I never found it amusing to begin with. I refuse to watch the next season. I promise you I will no longer watch his dogma.
It is shocking how he has clearly got away with shoddy, immature, illogical work
I've said it for ages now, the man HATES us, and I suspect he hates Doctor Who.
And there is no evidence to challenge what you say
@@noblerees1 when they show and tell who they are, believe them.
He won't stop until he retcons Hartnell into a black trans woman! 😂
I just doubt that's the case. I don't see any reason to ascribe malice to what he's doing. I think he's misguided, and genuinely thinks he's setting the show up for the future. I disagree with him, and I dunno, perhaps he'd label me a bigot for saying all my faults with the 15th doctor and this series, and that'd be annoying, but I do still think he wants the best for the show, and I guess doesn't think many of us who are very critical of this series are real fans or something.
I've not stated that very well, but hopefully I've got the point across. I'm so disappointed anyway. I have resigned myself to the show just being gone soon, and that'll be that, no wilderness years followed by a return, just gone. It's crap. I do think there's positive things in the new episodes, but they're drowned out by it being an incoherent mess, and the doctor not feeling like the doctor.
Looking at his old interviews, I always detected a kind of contempt like "I should be doing this, I can do it better! With a bit of comic book guy arritude. We gripe as fans, but we do it lovingly, I never get that from RTD.
There is one reason why RTD refuses to explain things, and it's staring us in the face: his explanations are narratively unsatisfying.
When the Doctor figured out in _Space Babies_ the reason for the bogey-man's creation, did we all have a collective "a-ha!" moment around our screens? Did our mouths drop agape when that same Doctor figured out that the slugs in _Dot And Bubble_ had to have come from inside Finetime because they were killing in alphabetical order? No his explanations suck. He's realised, whether consciously or not, that the audience wants less of them.
A very good concise observation and analysis of Russell T Davis there. He is a self indulgent writer now and sadly the writing is very very poor. The confusing stories and poor writing are turning away the viewers and turning off the fans. This is pretty self evident with the low ratings. I don’t think anything will change for season two which will probably be just as bad as season one. Disney are still quiet about funding season three. If they were very confident, then season three would’ve been funded after the final screening of season one. Watch this space .
Thank you my friend
He hasn’t changed from his first run. My heart always sank when his name appeared as script writer. I think the worst one was curing all a populations disease by dowsing your self in domestos and just touching one of them. I can hear his voice saying “oh it doesn’t really matter”. I expected his new run to be exactly as it is and stopped watching after the first special confirmed it!
I love the framing of this being that all of Doctor Who since November 2023 is essentially the physical manifestation of one man's mental decay. It's almost like it's one big sequel to 'The Invisible Enemy' where the cloned Doctor and Leela go inside the Doctor's brain and uncover the viral infestation that's destroying him.
I think you're on the money re: the laziness. The laziness of a man who has become too successful to try anymore, has nothing new to say, and so feels all this stuff is beneath him, but he's been given full control over it so he'll treat it as his plaything, a la Sutekh, "an amusing diversion". I would even argue that this laziness has become even 'lazier' than it used to be. Take his dystopian sci-fi drama 'Years and Years', which came out in 2019. The final episode ends on a Hollywood-style mystery box cliffhanger, but there never was a second series. Had the BBC simply not commissioned it? No, according to an interview with Davies I found online afterwards, he said he'd never intended to write a second series or explain his mystery box. Because it wasn't important, he said. What was important to him?
While I felt that 'Years and 'Years' does manage to convey the kind of dread that you'd want in a dystopian drama, it's basically a shopping list of London bubble lefty fears about the Right, ticking off every DEI concern one could come up with and communicated through sledgehammer-subtle speechifying dialogue. Not quite on the level of 'The Star Beast', but enough to make me realise this was not the RTD of 2005.
And this is what he had cared about: The Message was more important than the mystery, which was just there to titillate. Lazy though it was, however, he wasn't saying in the interview that it was all just being done for a giggle round the office, or a personal desire to stir up the fan base.
Now it's 2024, and that's *exactly* what he's doing with Doctor Who, just because he can, because he has nothing but contempt for us and Doctor Who itself, and because he's old, bitter, and wants to tear everything down to the dark, miserable world in which he now lives (inwardly-speaking). And the BBC are just going to keep right on letting him do it.
Thank you - and the truth is I take no relish coming to these conclusions, no delight in criticising someone who successfully brought back dr who
In 2005 and no enjoyment in stating that this is not dr who. But there is a point you just have to say what your own eyes see
@@noblerees1 Absolutely. To do otherwise is dishonest at best and gaslighting yourself at worst. Actually, these Sense Sphere discussions have inspired me to re-read The Writer's Tale, which I'm still poring through at the moment. That book alone reveals the stark difference between the RTD of 2007, when he emailing Benjamin Cook, and the one we have today. The man in that book is fired up and passionate about Doctor Who. He agonises over every aspect of it. He has a firm view of what he believes the show should be. He outright tells Cook that story comes before messaging, but that he accepts his bias will creep into the scripts as a matter of course. He writes and rewrites Voyage of the Damned (by way of example) again and again, determined to ensure the plotting makes sense, that the Doctor is proactive, that the tone is pitched properly for a family audience.
Now I personally didn't care much for VOTD or his overall take on Doctor Who - even here, I think he's too focussed on style, spectacle and soap opera over substance. His understanding of the show in my view is off. But I do see a man who's doing his job at full throttle and believes in himself, the show, and the viewing public. He knows he's making it for everyone. The man that we are discussing today is like the Valeyard version of Davies, a distillation of all the excesses he exhibited back then but without any of the positive qualities one finds in the book. No, we are justified in calling this out, because Doctor Who is our show as well. As soon as he and the BBC stopped thinking that way, it stopped being Doctor Who, because Doctor Who is for *everyone*. Or should be.
Hi Brendan, since I subscribed I've been making my way video-by-video through your content. I have felt very jaded by Dr Who for years now (since Cipaldi left). In fact, I gave up watching it at all after the first three or four Jodie episodes. I live in Ireland where we can't stream BBC due to licensing, so the classic Who that I loved growing up is very difficult to view. However, the music you used in a couple of the intros on your videos was the old theme tune that reminded me very much of that eerie, exciting intro from the Tom Baker ers ("my" Doctor). It got me so excited again about how eerie and surreal the show used to be that I went onto Amazon and bought 4 Tom Baker DVDs. I'm excited about Dr. Who again. I am also loving this CZcams show you do. It's great to have a resonably calm discussion among diverse people without all the shouting, narrow-mindedness and hyperbole of many other channels. One last thing: you guys never discuss something which all the talk about Pyramids of Mars brought back to me - how surreal Who used to be compared to now. The setting of the episode, a Victorian manor house filled with Egyptian artifacts and mysterious occurrences, contributes to a haunting and dream-like ambiance. The gothic atmosphere, combined with science fiction elements, enhances the surreal quality of the story. I remember watching Sarah Jane sneaking around the outside of the huge house where the conduit to an alien entity resided, and mummy robots patrolled, while on the road outside, people would have been going about their business completely unaware. It drew me in and fascinated me. Image of the Fendahl was another example, and Nightmare of Eden. Even the TARDIS interior itself, being so much bigger than the outside was surreal. Today there's nothing like this in Who. Everything alien has become so commonplace that there's no awe surrounding it anymore.
I do wonder if Russell's sister doesn't blink because she's taken something to help get her through his episodes without blurting out what she really thinks about his writing. I expect that those of us still watching could all do with some of the same. As the lady said about Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally, "I'll have what she's having."
A thought occurred to me at 28:14, when you showed the image of Sutekh sat on the TARDIS in space. I'm not going back to the episode to check, but wasn't that moment at some point after his dust had killed all life on Earth? In which case, why are all the electric lights still on across Europe below when everyone's dead? Oh, and there was me thinking that this was a modern classic. Just that one detail has ruined the whole thing for me now!
Many thanks once again, Brendan, for your expert analysis.
Time for Rusty Tin to go and pul the plug on a once great show. Just for the record my first doctor was Patrick Troughton, yes i have been watching that long.
RT D does not care. He has made lots of money and projected his very limited unpopular world view. God knows what junk has been filmed for season two but I guess more of the same or worse. ncuti totally outside any like views I could have ever have had for him. How dare this little fool charge so much at comicom. It was and will be awful. Have been watching since 1963 so not only should I touch grass but be under it supposedly!
Escapism as a story forgotten while his brief stories are slave to the political messaging and merely a platform for it
I wrote bad wolf, I hope they paid for it
He (RTD) chose a fantastic actor, Ncuti Gatwa, to take on the role of The Doctor, and did in fact come up with a few really great scripts, complemented by some amazing special effects. Why then, did he feel hellbent on pushing some sort of personal "agenda" that added nothing to the established canon and only served to alienate a huge number of fans? He showed his utter contempt of the fans with the atrocious "reveal" of Ruby's mother (after a huge build-up), and has publicly stated that he cares NOTHING about respecting established continuity. And to think I actually defended him up until recently. He needs to go.
What they did in the latest Matrix movie, they're doing to _all_ our beloved franchises. Deconstructing _everything._
That's so dumb. He's saying that it's "immensely creative" that he simply changed "gravity" to "mavity" and then isn't doing anything with it. Wow! So creative!
He also sets up strange mysteries and then refuses to resolve them. In the case of Ruby's mother, she was no one special. What about the snow thing? Just don't think about it!
And then there's the return of Sutekh, a story in which literally nothing makes sense. But you're supposed to just go along for the ride, don't question it.
This is most definitely not the same guy behind Series 1-4 of the modern series. What the hell?
I cannot believe that the man in the writers tale doing constant redrafts is the very same man doing season 1 and 2
RTD says the 14th Doctor is dead. He was sucked into a whirlpool and was eaten by a shark.
I read that - unbelievable
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Like his creation the Timelord Victorious RTD2 has turned into the Showrunner Victorious. Like Adelade said The Timelord Victorious is wrong, She even shot herself in protest to show how wrong it was. Now here we have Davies being the Showrunner Victorious, who is indeed very wrong. Ain't gonna shoot myself over it but he really needs to be stopped.
Well then, I’ve been unwell and I missed this one, haven’t watched yet but I’m not sure I need to in order to say, I agree with everything based on the comments and title alone.
RTD has figured out that the more he boasts about being gay and the more gay he makes the whole Dr Who franchise, the more the BBC and Disney love him and the more he can get away with. So, that's what he does. He's so far up himself, he must be inside out. He needs to make no effort at all and he'll keep being given the big bucks. Face it - Doctor Who is finished , has been finished since Chibnall was put in charge and IT WILL NEVER RETURN. So just stop watching whatever the hell this is.
Paul McGann doesn't count as a Doctor, according to one of RTD's fictional characters. I wonder if RTD himself is of that opinion. One could be forgiven for thinking that.
Discussing this is all very well, but having stopped watching the show, I feel you are simply feeding the troll.
I’m
Still watching. I’m
Still being vigilant. I am not leaving the playing field to RTD giving him free rein - speak
Truth to indulged power
@@noblerees1 He's got that anyway. You're just adding to the ratings. Let it go.
Why should we give any care about what his sister thinks. One person on the planet who happens to be your sibling. Is that his anecdotal approach to analysis? He's become an embarrassment. In many parts of the world 'grass' is slang for marijuana. Maybe they secretly meant go smoke a joint? As for the comments still unknown fro 73 Yards - I doubt vey much he actually knows what they are as they were probably never actually written. If Moffatt was to have written season two I might have considered given it a chance but sadly that didn't happen. Moffatt despite his humility runs rings around RTD.
One day a very controversial book will be released 'The RTD Years: The Drama, Division and Disgust. What really went on with the second coming of the Radical Revival.' What a read it will be because I have a very strong suspcion he is being a bully behind the scenes making everyone adhere to his every demand and whim. Remember narcassists don't see their own self-obsessed importance.
A book about this series or a new writers tale would be fascinating
It must be great to make money by creating a TV company bad wolf, remember this is a BBC show, he then profits from its sale to Sony.
What else has he made money on,, he doesn't care about the fans.
He has a lot of friends working on his shows?
Does he have links with Big Finish, Doctor who forums and other media.
My eailest memories as a child of Doctor Who were Yeti, I don't watch new who became it's completely crap. I was told years ago nobody would, remembers Romana, Leela, Rani, it was bordering on abuse, yet the same people now are praising the return of certain altered characters.
Bring new creators in with no links to any of these corrupt showrunners.
Fully agree with your point - did you see our recent midweek show on web of fear?
I believe that RTD sees his 2nd run as a chance to pay off the Sexually aware Doctor that he introduced with the Rose/Tennant will- he won’t -he snogathon with what he always wanted- a Queer Doctor so cool that he disregards the straight/Gay fans of old in favour of the new fundamentalist Religion of Omnitransism-or Bollox, as the rest of us call it. Chibnall started the ball rolling and he has failed to score with it, deliberately smashing Canon because in order for the New Religion to prevail, the old scriptures must be burned and the true believers will worship at the new effigy.
He has let WHO down-literally- the tyres deflated and the juggernaut veering off the road.
He’s taken the show off the road completely
RTD is coming across as entirely self indulgent, petulant and increasingly irrelevant.
Agreed
The latest season is not about The Doctor, its all about RDT. If a show needs a follow up show talking with the show runner to explain things, its failed. 50 years from now a person watching the show for the first time wont know they need to watch some other thing or read a internet article someplace to understand things. RTD just loves himself and is using the series to try to be relevant.
RTD never really cared about DW tradition. Even first time round he brought us burping wheelie bins and farting aliens. He brought a Doctor that looked more like a mature student from Salford polytechnic. The soap opera elements and vox pop references were utterly amateur. Back then he showed megalomaniac tendencies with the show. He should never have been given the job. What a missed opportunity it was. Now he is unchained. The show is gone. I accepted it back in 2005 but now there's nowhere else to go.
The gay kiss God in Australia we've had gay & lesbian characters & kisses since early 70s on shows No 96 , The Box & Prisoner what bothered me is a very stereotypical approach this Doctor is not modern as a gay man I eye roll when ever this Doctore does these dated types & 90a type gay dialogue ugh makes me gringe..
A full 1½ minutes of opening graphics. Sorry, don't have time for this. Tip: CZcams channels need to grab the attention quickly, it is the "fast food" of media.
I'm posting this lengthy comment to give constructive criticism. It's given with respect, I wish you luck with your future efforts
I appreciate your candour. We make shows for various reasons of course. Clearly my show if you watched it is not made for those with short attention spans. I know a longer opening graphic can be problematic for some online who like fast and speedy CZcams. I don’t consider myself a CZcamsr - just a former English teacher who is practising a new hobby. I’m always intrigued that some CZcams shows I see have a 60 second countdown then 30-50 sec graphics intro and no one says a word. All I know is this is down to people’s individual taste. I’ll check my analytics but my saloons always get my biggest views out of all my shows so in one respect its down to tone - I wish you all the best in watching whatever content feeds your soul
'A full 1½ minutes of opening graphics. Sorry, don't have time for this'
....You can't simply fast-forward past the opening titles and introductory?
@@davidmullen6011what’s yr thought David?
@@noblerees1 Thanks for the reply. Sorry if I sounded bad tempered, it was before my second cup of tea!
I had also had to sit through long adverts on LBC and my patience was strained.
I shall put the video on my watch again list