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Could an American write Doctor Who? - Babylon 5 creator throws hat in the ring
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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9686994" data-attributes="member: 7023840"><p>Well I suppose I should post this here.</p><p></p><p>Warning- do not read if you haven't seen the most recent season of Doctor Who!</p><p></p><p>[SPOILER=" DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU'VE SEEN THE MOST RECENT SEASON OF DOCTOR WHO!"]</p><p>I am a big fan of nuWho, and have seen all the Doctors and episodes. I was SO EXCITED for Ncuti Gatwa's turn as the Doctor!!!! I love the actor, and I really loved the way he portrayed the Doctor.</p><p></p><p>...but, well, I was having some Jodie Whitaker deja vu. In other words ... loving the <em>Doctor</em>, but not quite as in love with... you know ... all of the episodes. The first season of Gatwa was really enjoyable, albeit uneven.</p><p></p><p>And then I saw the second season aired, and I binged it. And I felt ... even moreish on my opinion. The Doctor was SO GOOD, but the writing was very uneven... and, IMO, worse than the first go-around. And the season (series) finale with the Rani was deeply unsatisfying from a pure ... well, plot and comprehensibility standpoint.</p><p></p><p>But the real kick in posterior was that I hadn't been following any news, and for the first time in my memory, I was genuinely shocked by .... THIS IS WHY THIS IS IN SPOILERS ... the Doctor's regeneration. HOLY ECCLESTON, BATMAN, THEY ONLY HAD GATWA FOR TWO SEASONS??????? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cry:" title="Crying :cry:" data-smilie="15"data-shortname=":cry:" /></p><p></p><p>And don't get me started on Rose. I genuinely like Billie Piper, but she had her run.</p><p></p><p>Basically, all of it (waves around) encapsulated everything I grew to hate about RTD. Okay, hate is a strong word. I am forever grateful for the amazing work he did bringing nuWho back. But by the end of his run, it was ... dire (IMO). The bombast, the callbacks, the cutesie reveals ... it was all to much. And it feels like S2 was derailed by the same things that plagued the later RTD years. The loss of Gatwa and the Rose reveal was just the cherry on the (again, IMO) turd sundae.</p><p></p><p>I dunno. Maybe it's time for another hiatus and, at some point, we'll get nunuWho. But I'm not sure I want another RTD season.</p><p>[/SPOILER]</p><p></p><p>To bring this around to the subject of the post- I think Doctor Who would lose something if an American was to be the main writer. But I would rather JMS write for it and helm it than RTD continue on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 9686994, member: 7023840"] Well I suppose I should post this here. Warning- do not read if you haven't seen the most recent season of Doctor Who! [SPOILER=" DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU'VE SEEN THE MOST RECENT SEASON OF DOCTOR WHO!"] I am a big fan of nuWho, and have seen all the Doctors and episodes. I was SO EXCITED for Ncuti Gatwa's turn as the Doctor!!!! I love the actor, and I really loved the way he portrayed the Doctor. ...but, well, I was having some Jodie Whitaker deja vu. In other words ... loving the [I]Doctor[/I], but not quite as in love with... you know ... all of the episodes. The first season of Gatwa was really enjoyable, albeit uneven. And then I saw the second season aired, and I binged it. And I felt ... even moreish on my opinion. The Doctor was SO GOOD, but the writing was very uneven... and, IMO, worse than the first go-around. And the season (series) finale with the Rani was deeply unsatisfying from a pure ... well, plot and comprehensibility standpoint. But the real kick in posterior was that I hadn't been following any news, and for the first time in my memory, I was genuinely shocked by .... THIS IS WHY THIS IS IN SPOILERS ... the Doctor's regeneration. HOLY ECCLESTON, BATMAN, THEY ONLY HAD GATWA FOR TWO SEASONS??????? :cry: And don't get me started on Rose. I genuinely like Billie Piper, but she had her run. Basically, all of it (waves around) encapsulated everything I grew to hate about RTD. Okay, hate is a strong word. I am forever grateful for the amazing work he did bringing nuWho back. But by the end of his run, it was ... dire (IMO). The bombast, the callbacks, the cutesie reveals ... it was all to much. And it feels like S2 was derailed by the same things that plagued the later RTD years. The loss of Gatwa and the Rose reveal was just the cherry on the (again, IMO) turd sundae. I dunno. Maybe it's time for another hiatus and, at some point, we'll get nunuWho. But I'm not sure I want another RTD season. [/SPOILER] To bring this around to the subject of the post- I think Doctor Who would lose something if an American was to be the main writer. But I would rather JMS write for it and helm it than RTD continue on. [/QUOTE]
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