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- BBC America
- Dec 25, 2023
- BBC America
- Dec 25, 2023
Summary "I'm the Doctor, run for your life!" The Ninth Doctor came and conquered and died saving the universe and his companions from the cursed Daleks. Regenerating for the ninth time, the Tenth Doctor is here to show you more of the secrets and dark sides of this universe. Past, Present, Future and beyond! Saturday 19th March 2005, saw a Who ...
- BBC America
- Dec 25, 2023
- BBC America
- Dec 25, 2023
Doctor Who
Season 14
16 Seasons
Season Premiere: Dec 25, 2023
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Summary "I'm the Doctor, run for your life!" The Ninth Doctor came and conquered and died saving the universe and his companions from the cursed Daleks. Regenerating for the ninth time, the Tenth Doctor is here to show you more of the secrets and dark sides of this universe. Past, Present, Future and beyond! Saturday 19th March 2005, saw a Who ...
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
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22% Positive
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6% Mixed
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1 Rating
72% Negative
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As a life long fan of doctor who I'm sorry to say the new doctor is even more cringe worthy than the last. Specials 1 - 3 were pretty good and shows the writers are capable of telling a good story. However special 4 is offensively bad. I don't understand why the writers are so determined to tank the show.
I'd say try and watch the first 10 minutes see how long you can last. Though this season doesn't deserve even that. To save doctor who I'm afraid we may need to abandon it for at least a couple of years. I wish there was something I could spend money on to help the show improve without encouraging what it's become.
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SEASON 14
Referring to the special specifically here, typical modern TV where the areligious writers who in another timeline would be preachers are instead writing television. Even if the storyline was good (its not, its basically copy paste from previous seasons), it would still bring the review down several letter grades. Even if one agreed with the messages being preached, I don't understand how one can enjoy this. They don't show it, it isn't subtext, they just blatantly say it to the audience. How can you like being treated like an idiot? That looks exactly like what these showrunners want to do. Treat us all like idiots. I have some pride, so I won't be around to watch this trash.
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SEASON 14
Mainstream media will probably hype this new season for being "woke", while independent reviewers will criticize it for it, while being gaslit because their legitimate storytelling and acting concerns are being called racist, transphobic, or misogynist. Normally, politics shouldn't play a role in a review. But how are we supposed to write a review of a production that overlays modern cultural messaging at every chance without at least mentioning it? So I have to write that I am a leftist, a Marxist even. I'm pro femininity, pro rights for all minorities, for stronger recognition of their interests. My whole life is full of the modern problems and how politics fail at it. Do I need to face the same problems when watching a movie? Absolutely not. I watch movies to escape those problems, for a short moment at least. My only reasonable explanation for how certain decision makers misinterpret their co-responsibilities in the modern cultural war is that they kind of think that politicians are the target audience. I'm sorry, but the vast majority of the potential audience are well aware of the problems, but all they can do is vote. Reminding them over and over again that either (1) their opinion is validated, or (2) their world view is biased and wrong, will not change anything. Even politicians aren't much different in that they already think to know best, or in that they simply act opportunistic and corrupt how it suits. The choice to put culture or politics first in such a production is counterproductive. You will not change people by shoving a message into their face. It's too late for that.
My review wouldn't be this bad though if they at least got the messaging right, if they at least wouldn't sacrifice other priorities for it that are essential for a compelling screenplay. This production goes so far that it partially rewrites the whole legacy, the whole history of previous seasons. But for what end? To be reminded that disabled people, or women, can't be evil, that our memory must fool us if we ever had a bad experience with a disabled person or woman? It's a discriminating bias either way.
Is this legitimate critique though? I think it is. Because it's not woke. It's pseudo woke. It's the purest hypocrisy. And if I despise something more than people who just ignore our modern problems, it's the hypocrites who claim to work in your interest while actually having the opposite effect.
Show, don't tell. It's a basic principle in storytelling, but that also applies to messaging. How do you convey a potentially political message, so that it incentivizes conservatives to rethink their possibly outdated views? It doesn't work by taking the head teacher's role and "educating" them on how things are supposed to be, how great women, trans, disabled or people of color are. You, the decision makers, are just playing into their existing mindset in which these criteria play a role to begin with, when actually they should not. So you are the ones giving them a chance to make pseudo arguments. But this gives you the chance to alienate the critics who have a problem with anything that relates to your pseudo woke decisions, maybe that's what you want.
Instead of "educating" us by literally telling us about your perception of culture, which as mentioned is biased to begin with, perhaps give "showing" a chance. Challenge our existing world views, ideas, biases by subtly showing us the mirror. That's what storytelling is supposed to be. Show us alternative universes, scenarios where our biases came to fruition, and which negative effects emerge from it. Let the story "show" us ideas that remind us of our own identity, our own role in the world. Show us how our role in this world contributes to problems, but don't make the storytelling about said problems, about this world, its culture.
Do I need to remind you that viruses are bad? Do you want to read more about viruses, pandemics, or imperialist wars? Of course, because that's the only superficial messaging I can think of. And btw, this actually affects many people in devastating ways, much more devastating than our modern gender politics, which are still legitimate concerns, but still not as devastating as losing someone, and all the cruelties that happen in war. Still, nobody wants to be reminded of the same problems over and over again. You're just reminding us of our own helplessness, while triggering those who will never change their views regardless. Divide et impera; you're contributing to it. You're part of the same system you supposedly criticize.
Empowering is something else. Empowering would be to motivate us to change, to influence politics by more than voting, by making us realize all our filter lenses, and putting some of them off during a screenplay. But you can't just realize that by showing people their ugliest side without alienating them. Especially if this ugly side is just another filter lens. Where's the subtlety in that?
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