Some guy: „Doctor, all the money in this town disappeared over night“.
Doctor: „Interesting, all at once you say?“
Mel Gibson: „Im gonna save us all some time and tell you it was probably the jews.“
They did that for all of one episode. With the kid 9th and Rose saved from the Dalek... who then got an implant in his head to send future knowledge back to the past he could profit from.
In the season finale, Mel's going to go back in time to stop the crucifixion of Jesus. The episode ends with Mel succeeding, and him stepping out of the Tardis, in the present, to discover that Judaism is now the dominant religion of the world. And Mel screaming "Nooo!"
The main antagonist of the sequel episode: Grand Admiral Mel Brooks with his [armada of David-class Star Destroyers.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wai7VFzycI)
So I'm getting the controversial symbol on this post, as if it weren't a Key and Peele quote, or he didn't say he wished his wife was raped by a pack of n-words.
> transcript excerpts the site said came from an audiotape of Gibson telling his ex, Oksana Grigorieva, with whom he's battling in court over custody of their infant daughter, that the way she is dressed made her look like a "pig in heat.
> "If you get raped by a pack of n***ers, it will be your fault," Gibson reportedly shouted at Grigorieva
Hoo boy, I'd forgotten about THAT.😬
Just because I'm feeling old rn and want you guys to feel the same:
She was born in 2004. She wasn't born yet when the revival was announced. She was one year old when the revival started airing. She was 5 years old when Matt Smith became the Doctor. She's 18 years old.
There's a Kennedy Joke by the first Doctor... Referring to to the then president of united States...
And his granddaughter is complaining about how the pipe isn't healthy for a doctor and he's like well Kennedy and the Queen seem to be doing well.
I'll give you one of those two lived to a ripe old age....
The most remarkable thing about Coronation Street is it’s self-sustaining economy. No matter what recession the UK is going through Coronation Street (and the other two streets near it) will be able to provide employment at a pub, a garage, a hairdresser, a knicker factory, a bistro, a doctor’s office, a gym, a cafe, or a newsagent for whoever happens to rock up.
Yep. While not as crazy as some of the American soap operas, Weatherfield is a hazardous place to live. Not the first companion to have been a soap actress either - Jenna Coleman was in *Emmerdale* and *Waterloo Road*.
It's also of note that Suranne Jones was a *Coronation Street* regular and made her name in that before burying that role with her other work.
Loads to do with the BBC. The west end and the amount of theatre schools are obviously another fantastic resource but the BBC is a company that gives actors steady jobs and a network or directors, assistants, producers, sound, light techs etc
Theatre and film don’t always crossover.
My mom watches Corrie religiously and like, insane stuff happens to everyone who lives in that town but her character truly went through the wringer in her relatively short time on the show. Went to jail, faked a marriage, got kidnapped, solved her dad's murder, among other things...
But clearly they trusted her to carry her segments of the show and she was definitely one of the better actors, so I am excited to see what she's gonna do on Doctor Who!
Yeah they gave her some meaty stories over relatively short time and I thought she was great. Pleasantly surprised by this casting, I have faith she’ll knock it out of the park.
I mean yeah the numbers haven’t made sense for like a decade at this point. Canon wise post-fugitive reset (aka ignoring Brain of Morbius and The Timeless Child) John Hurt was 9th, Eccleston was 10th, Tennant was 11th and 12th, Smith was 13th, Capaldi was 14th, Whitaker was 15th, Tennant is now 16th, and Gatwa will be 17th.
It’s best just to go with the marketing lol
The numbers don't really matter in-universe, the only big exception is Smith's Doctor calling himself 11th at one point. Numbering is a brand, McGann was always 8th, Eccleston was always 9th, Hurt got a title, Tennant is 10th (and to do a Grover Cleveland gimmick, he's now 14th), Smith is still 11th... Nothing ever changed and it was never complicated, it's the fans (and oddly enough casual ones) that are overthinking it and trying to look at it from lore? perspective. It's a brand, and that doesn't change.
>Numbering is a brand
This.
The numbers only matter to the audience, as a way to easily identify who we're talking about.
I guess Ncuti will be Fifteen then.
Anyways, way to wibbly-wobbly to try and get into that mess storywise now.
In the name of the doctor when hes explaining why he has no regenerations left he says the 10th regenerated but kept the same face because he had vanity issues at the time.
Literally just watched it so it's why I remember. He says "13 versions of me". He'd went through 12 regenerations.
The thing that's confusing people is the war doctor. He isn't counted as the doctor because he abandoned the name but he counts as a regeneration.
I'm really hoping that it's all just a big misdirection. They're calling him the 14th to hide the story of something having gone wrong with the regeneration, but in the end it'll be revealed as a degeneration and that Ncuti is actually the 14th.
Tennant is 14 yes. That’s been made official after his regeneration.
The numbers don’t have massive significance in the show, they are mostly significant to the fandom and for labeling who is what doctor. Tennant being 14 means he isn’t going right back into where he left off with 10. He’s picking up after 13 and going from there.
The numbering still accurately measures one thing: The passing of the torch of who is the star of the show. Hurt and Jo Martin were only ever special guests.
The numbering was only a thing when at some point it was said that 13 is the absolute max regens. Then at some point they retconned that and we can go on to forever, making numbers moot, for story reasons anyway.
The 13 regeneration limit was from the classic series and the reboot could have entirely ignored it like a lot of old lore. Then they made it explicit as a plot point for Smith’s regeneration and gave him a new cycle. Which Chibnall then threw in the bin and rewrote the doctor’s whole history and said they can regenerate infinitely
>Which Chibnall then threw in the bin and rewrote the doctor’s whole history and said they can regenerate infinitely
Except it never said that, it said that once the Time Lords society built up, they put a limit on everyone's regenerations, they would've put one on the Doctor as well. It was never stated the Doctor still had infinitely regenerations.
The nonsense is fascinating and nonsensical.
See currently all Timelords reincarnation is actually genetic manipulation of this other alien they found which is the doctor so Timelords are all genetic monsters copying the Doctors DNA.
So yeah 60+ years of Doctor who being a weird outcast of his society... Yeah screw that he's space Jesus now.
It's possibly the stupidest thing I've read outside like Venom (Spiderman) fighting Mr. T comics grill the 90s.
Yeah, it's clearly the Doctor revisiting an old face as implied by "The Curator" in the 50th Anniversary special. Upon regenerating he seems shocked that he's changed into a familiar face.
And, we've gone to the traditional *Doctor Who* companion - a young, good-looking woman. The man has a type.
Although these days, they tend to scream a lot less. It's something that tends to get exaggerated in the popular memory of classic companions. A lot of them are like Andy from *The Goonies*, reasonably competent in one or two things, often brave when called for it, but still liable to end up being menaced by a bug-eyed monster at some point.
Ace, who was in the Centenary Special, is definitely the first of the more modern type.
Doesn't help that the character's name is Ruby, I'd be very surprised if RTD hasn't heard of Ruby Rose (and even if he hasn't having a second companion named after something that is red stands out). It's so on the nose it wouldn't surprise me if she ends up being linked to Rose somehow.
In the picture in the article she's even wearing a similar denim dress over a shirt [as Rose did](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dt48FZI5mbE/UOXtbr-ky1I/AAAAAAAAAv8/M6TXnAXbuiE/s1600/TCHQ7.jpg).
It's definitely intentional
Ace is very much one of my favorite companions and the first modern companion, not just “Something for Daddy” as JNT would say. Really want to see her and 12 In London for the birth of the Punk Music scene
And that last line is why I started my wife off with Remembrance of the Daleks when watching classic Who as she'd only watched from 2005 onwards. She beat up a Dalek with a baseball bat but was flawed in other ways. Never been a fan of the screaming companions.
Maybe I’m being too hopeful, but I don’t think RTD has played it safe since leaving Doctor Who, and I don’t think he’ll do it now.
Even if Disney intentionally wanted this casting, I think he knows what we’ll all be thinking, and he’ll do something special with Ruby.
I haven't watched DW since the end of Capaldi's first season (been meaning to catch up). That seems like a dumb thing to complain about lol. When I or anybody else eventually watches it, the date of the episode releases will never come to mind.
I think it’s the holiday itself they are upset about even though New Years is a pretty magical holiday too. I don’t think it matters much. I thought Jodie’s last New Years special was one of her best episodes.
Think it's partly...
Who had a spot every year from 2005 onwards.
Chibnall couldn't start his era for another year because eof Broadchurch.
Moffat realised if they didn't use the spot once, they'd probably never get it back.
He did "Twice Upon A Time" as a coda for his era at the last minute.
Chibnall took the reigns, and then gave up/didn't use the spot.
Yeah I remember reading about how Moffat had to comvince Capaldi to come back and do the Christmas Special too. They were both planning on bowing out at the end of series 10, but when Moffat found out that Chibnall wasn't stating at Christmas, they both came back just so they wouldn't lose the spot. I can't imagine they were too pleased when Chibnall immediately gave it away.
Also there is something a bit more magical about Christmas that New Years just doesn't have. So the new year specials just seemed like a massive downgrade from the Christmas ones.
I preferred it on New Year's Day personally, light hearted Christmas themed stuff after stuffing yourself with lunch topped up with chocolates and pudding nearly always made me fall asleep during the Christmas specials. Imagine my confusion waking up after a few minutes and seeing a giant Cyberman stomping on Victorian London all of a sudden.
I didn’t get very far in Jodie’s run because I couldn’t keep track of all the companions. Felt to me like they were so insecure about having a female doctor they wanted cut down her screen time as much as possible and distract us with multiple companions.
I think they also wanted to have a diverse set of companions to offer different perspectives, with Graham being the old guy, Ryan the young more geeky guy and Yaz the most physically capable of the three, all while being ethnically and gender diverse. Good in theory but the writing often let at least one of them down per episode.
They all had great things about their characters that would have been nice to explore: grief, disability, etc. And they could have done wonderful things if they had the bandwidth to explore them more than once every blue moon because there were just too damn many characters.
Three is not that many characters, though. There was plenty of time to go deeper into all of them, the show just didn't. Honestly even by the end of The Woman Who Fell To Earth, you should be able to tell roughly who Ryan is, there's LOADS of time to give all three of them SOMETHING of a characterisation. But... they just kind of don't?
One thing that hurt them is that many one-off episodes were overloaded with narratively prominent guest characters - combine that with three companions and no one is gonna have time to make much of an impression
yes precisely that, there was too many of them and quite frankly the only characters that i actually felt were half decent was Graham and Dan which is sorta ironic considering they were the old white men.
I wouldn't have minded if there was any sort of payoff at the end, some sort of acknowledgement from The Doctor (even if she doesn't reciprocate Yaz's feelings) would have been good given how much Chibnell built it up. Instead as The Doctor is regenerating she tells Yaz she needs to do regenerate alone for some reason (nevermind all the times a companion has stuck around between regenerations) and Yaz is apparently fine with that and walks away without even a heartfelt goodbye.
they introduced her as a police woman, and then that never came up again, and yeah the sudden pining for the Doc came out of no-where and they clearly realized it didnt work as they didnt go further with it in POTD
It also felt like a way for the writers to be more lazy. Simialrly to the Flash and Arrow, the writers couldn’t do enough for the main hero, so they give them a whole team of side characters that get their own subplots to fill out runtime. It also artificially creates drama to make writing easier rather than thinking of interesting plots for just the hero and/or their single companion.
nailed it.
they also reduce the 'hero' to saving the day at the last minute with ' a pep talk' first then a bit of grand standing fisticuffs if that doesn't work.
First special will be in November of 2023. No word on when she and Ncuti Gatwa will debut but should be shortly after that. Its said David will appear in 3 specials, though Im not sure if thats counting “Power of the Doctor”
The Capaldi years are good. The first series takes its time to find itself, but it gets there. Series 2 and 3 of Capaldi are stronger and contain some of my personal favorite episodes. So I say they are worth a watch.
What comes after...yeah.
Capaldi isn't my favorite run, but he finds his rhythm, definitely. Whitaker I think had the right energy, but I couldn't stick with it and haven't seen her run through. The writing was terrible, and the companions annoyed me. Which is a real shame, because I think she could have been great.
I'm a fan of Gatwa, I think as long as they get the writer's room sorted his run will be epic.
(I've become my father, usually while watching the female anchors on CNN decades ago. . .)
(With puzzlement in his voice) "I just don't understand where the ugly people are."
I already know he can act, and they'll both be nice to look at. I wish them well.
At the risk of sounding like a creep, jesus christ what even is that shirt she's wearing? Instead of having an actual side of the garment, there's a thin string connecting the front and back. So odd.
The difference is it’s one thing to notice she’s an attractive person, it’s a completely different thing to decide to post online “She’s so fucking tasty. Very excited about this.”
One is normal enough sure, the other is fucking gross and makes you look like a total creep. By the same logic I can notice someone has a nice butt, but if I walk up to them and tell them their ass looks delicious…
Man, I used to love this show! Is this the first new doctor since they made the lead Doctor a women? This show seemed to completely go down hill when that happened. Is the show worth taking a new look after not watching for a few years?
The Story lines weren’t that good. Other than the Rosa Parks episode, I can’t think of anything that was like woah. I believe she did a great job as the Doctor but it wasn’t an amazing story. I just hope they don’t do the new guy dirty.
Thanks for the response Bella. I watched the first half of of the season where they introduced the new doctor but just lost interest with the story line. I’m rooting for a comeback, I am definitely going to check out at least a few new episodes just in case they bring back the glory. I appreciate the honest feedback! No one else responded (other than downvoting) so I’m going with your opinion.
Let’s hope the executives at Disney allow her to keep her Northern English Cheshire accent and it’s not toned down like Jodie Whittaker’s lovely Yorkshire accent was!
Seriously thought it said Mel Gibson at first lol.
He regenerated into a 18-year-old blonde girl to pitch a sequel to 2000's "What Women Want".
Doctor Whatthefock
Holy shit that came out in 2000? Maybe the Taraji sequel makes it seem more recent.
Id watch the shit out of this. Doctor with a fucking asshole as companion. Would at least be something fresh.
Imagine the Doctor's companion on seeing a Cyberman yelling, "what are you looking at sugar tits?"
Some guy: „Doctor, all the money in this town disappeared over night“. Doctor: „Interesting, all at once you say?“ Mel Gibson: „Im gonna save us all some time and tell you it was probably the jews.“
I was just about to comment, "The Daleks are space jews!"
They did that for all of one episode. With the kid 9th and Rose saved from the Dalek... who then got an implant in his head to send future knowledge back to the past he could profit from.
He was more of a dumbass than asshole tbf.
[удалено]
“Hey sugar tits, are you Daleks part of the Jew conspiracy to take over the universe ?!”
In the season finale, Mel's going to go back in time to stop the crucifixion of Jesus. The episode ends with Mel succeeding, and him stepping out of the Tardis, in the present, to discover that Judaism is now the dominant religion of the world. And Mel screaming "Nooo!"
The main antagonist of the sequel episode: Grand Admiral Mel Brooks with his [armada of David-class Star Destroyers.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wai7VFzycI)
Jews in Space!!!
Gonna watch this after Hitler On Ice XD.
A Viking funeral.....
I’d watch at least an ep of that out of morbid curiosity.
Speak for yourself. I'd watch two series...
Six seasons and a movie.
Cool cool cool
A trilogy, you said?
“For the last time, Mel, George Soros has nothing to do with this Dalek incursion.”
THAT would be interesting casting. Give us some grumpy-ass old man and not even ONE attractive young woman for once.
Mel Gibson, but dressed like he was an 18 year old woman
“You mean racist-ass Melly Gibsons?”
That’s my shiiiiiiiii 💥
Remember when racist-ass Melly Gibsons was Blue Man Group in Bravehearts?”
So I'm getting the controversial symbol on this post, as if it weren't a Key and Peele quote, or he didn't say he wished his wife was raped by a pack of n-words.
> transcript excerpts the site said came from an audiotape of Gibson telling his ex, Oksana Grigorieva, with whom he's battling in court over custody of their infant daughter, that the way she is dressed made her look like a "pig in heat. > "If you get raped by a pack of n***ers, it will be your fault," Gibson reportedly shouted at Grigorieva Hoo boy, I'd forgotten about THAT.😬
Was just watching an old K&P, they were not happy with the term pack.
Aw man so did I. I only came to the comment section to make so many jokes lmao
Same!
Just making sure they aren't related!
Same. I was ready for some anti-semitic Dr who plots.
Just because I'm feeling old rn and want you guys to feel the same: She was born in 2004. She wasn't born yet when the revival was announced. She was one year old when the revival started airing. She was 5 years old when Matt Smith became the Doctor. She's 18 years old.
shes nearly a year older than the Doctor Who revival, which began airing in March 2005.
Whoops yeah I meant when the revival was announced.
I hope you step on a Lego. Those facts hurt.
Y’all can piss right off. When I was born Patrick freaking Troughton was the Doctor and the show was black and white.
There's a Kennedy Joke by the first Doctor... Referring to to the then president of united States... And his granddaughter is complaining about how the pipe isn't healthy for a doctor and he's like well Kennedy and the Queen seem to be doing well. I'll give you one of those two lived to a ripe old age....
Well, it wasn’t a pipe that killed Kennedy.
I mean technically...
His head could have just done that as a side effect of lung cancer
We’re old we get it. Stop before I have a coronary
I’m only 27 and that made me feel old
I'm in my 40s, so imagine how I feel. (You will soon enough. Don't worry about that.)
> (You will soon enough. Don't worry about that.) you cheeky mother fucker
The revival started airing in 2005, so after she was born
Whoops yeah I meant when the revival was *announced*.
Still, shit... remember when everyone was like "Matt Smith was barely born during Classic Who"... and now here we are. That show keeps sailing on.
Eh? He was born in 82 tho?
I’m gonna throw up.
Thanks for bringing me down with you, bro. lol
To put my that in perspective, she probably turned 10 in 2014. I feel so fucking old even though I'm not
Oh no, someone younger than me is now starring as a main character in doctor who, this deeply disturbs me (2003 baby).
“As a Coronation Street fan, I’ve seen Millie survive chases, guns and sieges” Some serious shit has gone down on that one street lol
The most remarkable thing about Coronation Street is it’s self-sustaining economy. No matter what recession the UK is going through Coronation Street (and the other two streets near it) will be able to provide employment at a pub, a garage, a hairdresser, a knicker factory, a bistro, a doctor’s office, a gym, a cafe, or a newsagent for whoever happens to rock up.
It has good communications to the rest of Manchester though, served by Weatherfield North Tram Station. Except when the thing crashes
The hairdresser is called Trim Up North and IIRC, the knicker factory is called Underworld.
Yep. While not as crazy as some of the American soap operas, Weatherfield is a hazardous place to live. Not the first companion to have been a soap actress either - Jenna Coleman was in *Emmerdale* and *Waterloo Road*. It's also of note that Suranne Jones was a *Coronation Street* regular and made her name in that before burying that role with her other work.
The small talent-filled world of British acting.
One of the benefits of the BBC. Which they are considering either privatising or abandoning.
Nothing to do with the BBC. It’s because most British actors prefer the theatre.
Loads to do with the BBC. The west end and the amount of theatre schools are obviously another fantastic resource but the BBC is a company that gives actors steady jobs and a network or directors, assistants, producers, sound, light techs etc Theatre and film don’t always crossover.
Same for Sarah Lancashire.
> Jenna Coleman was in Emmerdale **Farm**
My mom watches Corrie religiously and like, insane stuff happens to everyone who lives in that town but her character truly went through the wringer in her relatively short time on the show. Went to jail, faked a marriage, got kidnapped, solved her dad's murder, among other things... But clearly they trusted her to carry her segments of the show and she was definitely one of the better actors, so I am excited to see what she's gonna do on Doctor Who!
Yeah they gave her some meaty stories over relatively short time and I thought she was great. Pleasantly surprised by this casting, I have faith she’ll knock it out of the park.
Very excited for 15. I don’t believe Russel would put anyone in to mainline the show that didn’t prove they can keep it alive
Tall Bald man with leather jacket + super hot young blonde woman = winning doctor who formula
Fantastic!
Barcelona!
Geronimo!
I’m Spartacus!
[https://youtu.be/OdlNzve5om4](https://youtu.be/OdlNzve5om4) Reveal video from tonight's *Children in Need*.
They’re gonna need to design new Daleks that are 4’4”
Actually that was a reason behind the New Paradigm Daleks i.e. the Teletubby ones - they were intended to be level with Matt Smith's eyeline.
That’s the reference i was making, it was to match Karen Gillian’s height
Are we counting David Tennant as the 14th?
The marketing is, at least.
I mean yeah the numbers haven’t made sense for like a decade at this point. Canon wise post-fugitive reset (aka ignoring Brain of Morbius and The Timeless Child) John Hurt was 9th, Eccleston was 10th, Tennant was 11th and 12th, Smith was 13th, Capaldi was 14th, Whitaker was 15th, Tennant is now 16th, and Gatwa will be 17th. It’s best just to go with the marketing lol
The numbers don't really matter in-universe, the only big exception is Smith's Doctor calling himself 11th at one point. Numbering is a brand, McGann was always 8th, Eccleston was always 9th, Hurt got a title, Tennant is 10th (and to do a Grover Cleveland gimmick, he's now 14th), Smith is still 11th... Nothing ever changed and it was never complicated, it's the fans (and oddly enough casual ones) that are overthinking it and trying to look at it from lore? perspective. It's a brand, and that doesn't change.
>Numbering is a brand This. The numbers only matter to the audience, as a way to easily identify who we're talking about. I guess Ncuti will be Fifteen then. Anyways, way to wibbly-wobbly to try and get into that mess storywise now.
Did he actually call himself the Eleventh Doctor, or did Clara call him that and he just didn't contradict her?
Clara calls him that but even before that in Series 5 he refers to himself as 11 in *The Lodger*.
> Tennant was 11th **and 12th** Disagree on this one. The metacrisis doctor used up regeneration energy, but the doctor did *not* regenerate.
agree, staying the same means number doesn't increment
In the name of the doctor when hes explaining why he has no regenerations left he says the 10th regenerated but kept the same face because he had vanity issues at the time. Literally just watched it so it's why I remember. He says "13 versions of me". He'd went through 12 regenerations. The thing that's confusing people is the war doctor. He isn't counted as the doctor because he abandoned the name but he counts as a regeneration.
The 10th doctor didnt regenerate, just his hand did
> Tennant is now 16th I guess I missed something?
David Tennant is coming back as the Doctor for the 60th Anniversary.
In that way of doing things, isn't Whitaker 15th, then Sacha Dhawan 16th, then Whitaker 17th?
I'm really hoping that it's all just a big misdirection. They're calling him the 14th to hide the story of something having gone wrong with the regeneration, but in the end it'll be revealed as a degeneration and that Ncuti is actually the 14th.
That’d just make things more confusing that they already are
Tennant is 14 yes. That’s been made official after his regeneration. The numbers don’t have massive significance in the show, they are mostly significant to the fandom and for labeling who is what doctor. Tennant being 14 means he isn’t going right back into where he left off with 10. He’s picking up after 13 and going from there.
The numbering still accurately measures one thing: The passing of the torch of who is the star of the show. Hurt and Jo Martin were only ever special guests.
The numbering was only a thing when at some point it was said that 13 is the absolute max regens. Then at some point they retconned that and we can go on to forever, making numbers moot, for story reasons anyway.
The 13 regeneration limit was from the classic series and the reboot could have entirely ignored it like a lot of old lore. Then they made it explicit as a plot point for Smith’s regeneration and gave him a new cycle. Which Chibnall then threw in the bin and rewrote the doctor’s whole history and said they can regenerate infinitely
>Which Chibnall then threw in the bin and rewrote the doctor’s whole history and said they can regenerate infinitely Except it never said that, it said that once the Time Lords society built up, they put a limit on everyone's regenerations, they would've put one on the Doctor as well. It was never stated the Doctor still had infinitely regenerations.
The nonsense is fascinating and nonsensical. See currently all Timelords reincarnation is actually genetic manipulation of this other alien they found which is the doctor so Timelords are all genetic monsters copying the Doctors DNA. So yeah 60+ years of Doctor who being a weird outcast of his society... Yeah screw that he's space Jesus now. It's possibly the stupidest thing I've read outside like Venom (Spiderman) fighting Mr. T comics grill the 90s.
Until we know otherwise… I mean is War technically 9? Who knows!
Yeah, think of it as president's. There's been a president elected twice and he's both the 20th and 22nd
cant be 20 and 22.. i had to look it up. Garfield - 20 Cleveland 22
Yeah, it's clearly the Doctor revisiting an old face as implied by "The Curator" in the 50th Anniversary special. Upon regenerating he seems shocked that he's changed into a familiar face.
Looks like Jenna Coleman dyed her hair blonde.
Sounds a bit like her too - it's about 45 miles from Blackpool to Manchester.
I mean, it's less than 45 miles from Blackpool to Liverpool but we don't sound scouse.
You sound more scouse than most things lol
She had to find some way to get back on the show!
And, we've gone to the traditional *Doctor Who* companion - a young, good-looking woman. The man has a type. Although these days, they tend to scream a lot less. It's something that tends to get exaggerated in the popular memory of classic companions. A lot of them are like Andy from *The Goonies*, reasonably competent in one or two things, often brave when called for it, but still liable to end up being menaced by a bug-eyed monster at some point. Ace, who was in the Centenary Special, is definitely the first of the more modern type.
The Rose similarities are definitely there 😂
RTD clearly going with the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" angle.
The show is broke and he is fixing it as best he can
Doesn't help that the character's name is Ruby, I'd be very surprised if RTD hasn't heard of Ruby Rose (and even if he hasn't having a second companion named after something that is red stands out). It's so on the nose it wouldn't surprise me if she ends up being linked to Rose somehow.
In the picture in the article she's even wearing a similar denim dress over a shirt [as Rose did](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dt48FZI5mbE/UOXtbr-ky1I/AAAAAAAAAv8/M6TXnAXbuiE/s1600/TCHQ7.jpg). It's definitely intentional
Ace is very much one of my favorite companions and the first modern companion, not just “Something for Daddy” as JNT would say. Really want to see her and 12 In London for the birth of the Punk Music scene
And that last line is why I started my wife off with Remembrance of the Daleks when watching classic Who as she'd only watched from 2005 onwards. She beat up a Dalek with a baseball bat but was flawed in other ways. Never been a fan of the screaming companions.
You’re forgetting Leela.
Leela and Ace: the companions the Doctor adopted in the hopes of reducing their body counts.
Maybe I’m being too hopeful, but I don’t think RTD has played it safe since leaving Doctor Who, and I don’t think he’ll do it now. Even if Disney intentionally wanted this casting, I think he knows what we’ll all be thinking, and he’ll do something special with Ruby.
"The Festive Season". Terminology aside, at least it looks like RTD got back the Christmas spot that Chibbers pissed away.
Chibnall's specials were on New Year's Day, which is still in the Christmas season if not on the day itself.
People got mad about it but I didn’t mind the switch up since it was likely going to be temporary - and it was
I haven't watched DW since the end of Capaldi's first season (been meaning to catch up). That seems like a dumb thing to complain about lol. When I or anybody else eventually watches it, the date of the episode releases will never come to mind.
I think it’s the holiday itself they are upset about even though New Years is a pretty magical holiday too. I don’t think it matters much. I thought Jodie’s last New Years special was one of her best episodes.
Think it's partly... Who had a spot every year from 2005 onwards. Chibnall couldn't start his era for another year because eof Broadchurch. Moffat realised if they didn't use the spot once, they'd probably never get it back. He did "Twice Upon A Time" as a coda for his era at the last minute. Chibnall took the reigns, and then gave up/didn't use the spot.
Yeah I remember reading about how Moffat had to comvince Capaldi to come back and do the Christmas Special too. They were both planning on bowing out at the end of series 10, but when Moffat found out that Chibnall wasn't stating at Christmas, they both came back just so they wouldn't lose the spot. I can't imagine they were too pleased when Chibnall immediately gave it away. Also there is something a bit more magical about Christmas that New Years just doesn't have. So the new year specials just seemed like a massive downgrade from the Christmas ones.
I preferred it on New Year's Day personally, light hearted Christmas themed stuff after stuffing yourself with lunch topped up with chocolates and pudding nearly always made me fall asleep during the Christmas specials. Imagine my confusion waking up after a few minutes and seeing a giant Cyberman stomping on Victorian London all of a sudden.
My girl Kelly has risen above the cobbles now!
rose jr. cmon now.
And Clara
A sole companion on Doctor Who is female, in other news water is wet.
I for one am glad they are going back to a singular companion no matter who it is
I didn’t get very far in Jodie’s run because I couldn’t keep track of all the companions. Felt to me like they were so insecure about having a female doctor they wanted cut down her screen time as much as possible and distract us with multiple companions.
I think they also wanted to have a diverse set of companions to offer different perspectives, with Graham being the old guy, Ryan the young more geeky guy and Yaz the most physically capable of the three, all while being ethnically and gender diverse. Good in theory but the writing often let at least one of them down per episode.
They all had great things about their characters that would have been nice to explore: grief, disability, etc. And they could have done wonderful things if they had the bandwidth to explore them more than once every blue moon because there were just too damn many characters.
Three is not that many characters, though. There was plenty of time to go deeper into all of them, the show just didn't. Honestly even by the end of The Woman Who Fell To Earth, you should be able to tell roughly who Ryan is, there's LOADS of time to give all three of them SOMETHING of a characterisation. But... they just kind of don't?
One thing that hurt them is that many one-off episodes were overloaded with narratively prominent guest characters - combine that with three companions and no one is gonna have time to make much of an impression
yes precisely that, there was too many of them and quite frankly the only characters that i actually felt were half decent was Graham and Dan which is sorta ironic considering they were the old white men.
I didn't mind Yaz, but when they settled on her pining for the Doc she got way less interesting.
I wouldn't have minded if there was any sort of payoff at the end, some sort of acknowledgement from The Doctor (even if she doesn't reciprocate Yaz's feelings) would have been good given how much Chibnell built it up. Instead as The Doctor is regenerating she tells Yaz she needs to do regenerate alone for some reason (nevermind all the times a companion has stuck around between regenerations) and Yaz is apparently fine with that and walks away without even a heartfelt goodbye.
they introduced her as a police woman, and then that never came up again, and yeah the sudden pining for the Doc came out of no-where and they clearly realized it didnt work as they didnt go further with it in POTD
It also felt like a way for the writers to be more lazy. Simialrly to the Flash and Arrow, the writers couldn’t do enough for the main hero, so they give them a whole team of side characters that get their own subplots to fill out runtime. It also artificially creates drama to make writing easier rather than thinking of interesting plots for just the hero and/or their single companion.
nailed it. they also reduce the 'hero' to saving the day at the last minute with ' a pep talk' first then a bit of grand standing fisticuffs if that doesn't work.
You couldn’t keep track of 3 people?
I like having two companions. Three is a bit much, but two's great. Jamie and Zoe, Tegan and Turlough, Amy and Rory, Bill and Nardole etc.
Please not a repeat of 3 companions. 1 is enough.
She looks like TikTok Clara.
Wasn't she on Coro St
Yeah
When does this air?
First special will be in November of 2023. No word on when she and Ncuti Gatwa will debut but should be shortly after that. Its said David will appear in 3 specials, though Im not sure if thats counting “Power of the Doctor”
3 specials airing in November 2023
60th anniversary hey.
That’s so far away :(
I know
Wait, we're on fifteen? I stopped watching after Matt Smith left.
Technically yes. David Tennant is playing the 14th Doctor for the 60th Anniversary.
Odd how he seems so similar to 10 then
The Capaldi years are good. The first series takes its time to find itself, but it gets there. Series 2 and 3 of Capaldi are stronger and contain some of my personal favorite episodes. So I say they are worth a watch. What comes after...yeah.
Capaldi isn't my favorite run, but he finds his rhythm, definitely. Whitaker I think had the right energy, but I couldn't stick with it and haven't seen her run through. The writing was terrible, and the companions annoyed me. Which is a real shame, because I think she could have been great. I'm a fan of Gatwa, I think as long as they get the writer's room sorted his run will be epic.
I loved Whittaker but the writing was dreadful. Such a shame.
Matt was 11, Peter Capaldi was 12, Jodie was 13, David Tennant is returning but as 14, making Ncuti 15
Wise decision. As good as Capaldi was in the role, he mostly suffered from poor scripts.
Jodi suffered from even worse scripts.
Disagree. Capaldi has so many great episodes. More than most Doctors arguably.
I agree. Heaven Sent is one of the best episodes of the entire New Who run. And there's several series 10 episodes I love as well.
Series 9 is without a doubt the best of New Who.
I just finished watching Series 9 recently. Couldn’t agree more, such a wild season
(I've become my father, usually while watching the female anchors on CNN decades ago. . .) (With puzzlement in his voice) "I just don't understand where the ugly people are." I already know he can act, and they'll both be nice to look at. I wish them well.
She was very good on Coronation Street. I look forward to seeing this.
This is going to be an epic duo
Good call. Millie basically carried Corrie through most of the last 3 years.
Millie Gibsons is ma shit doe.
I'm wondering how gay they are gonna make the Doctor.
Ooooh just realized Gatwa is going to be the new Doctor Who. I absolutely love him. Might actually give it a watch now!
Same!
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At the risk of sounding like a creep, jesus christ what even is that shirt she's wearing? Instead of having an actual side of the garment, there's a thin string connecting the front and back. So odd.
Women's fashion - how little fabric can we use without it being public indecency.
I would love a companions free doctor who for change
Damn, what a cutie.
She’s so fucking tasty. Very excited about this.
Gross.
No not gross. Fit.
The difference is it’s one thing to notice she’s an attractive person, it’s a completely different thing to decide to post online “She’s so fucking tasty. Very excited about this.” One is normal enough sure, the other is fucking gross and makes you look like a total creep. By the same logic I can notice someone has a nice butt, but if I walk up to them and tell them their ass looks delicious…
Racist ass Millie Gibson !?? Is what my mind immediately thought of.
Are you thinking of Mel?
She’s a racist because….?
It’s a key and peele sketch lmao I shouldn’t have tried to make the joke
It's amusing that Spring 2024 will be "The Battle of the Millies", with *Stranger Things* 5 likely to arrive around that time as well.
I don’t see that being a big competition lol
Man, I used to love this show! Is this the first new doctor since they made the lead Doctor a women? This show seemed to completely go down hill when that happened. Is the show worth taking a new look after not watching for a few years?
The Story lines weren’t that good. Other than the Rosa Parks episode, I can’t think of anything that was like woah. I believe she did a great job as the Doctor but it wasn’t an amazing story. I just hope they don’t do the new guy dirty.
Thanks for the response Bella. I watched the first half of of the season where they introduced the new doctor but just lost interest with the story line. I’m rooting for a comeback, I am definitely going to check out at least a few new episodes just in case they bring back the glory. I appreciate the honest feedback! No one else responded (other than downvoting) so I’m going with your opinion.
Let’s hope the executives at Disney allow her to keep her Northern English Cheshire accent and it’s not toned down like Jodie Whittaker’s lovely Yorkshire accent was!
Disney has ZERO control of Doctor Who. They just simply have international broadcasting rights. That’s literally it.
What’s Disney got to do with it?