Dr Who… Awesome News If You're A Fan

So it's inclusive but not if you are straight, white and male. Got it. It's like the whole Star Wars Sequels when they tried to turn the fanbase on itself by trying to make it look like a racism thing rather than a "This storyline is rubbish" thing. Classic squirrel behaviour.

I'm not having a dig at you personally here....

I don't care if the Doctor is male, female, black, white, asian, gay, lesbian, transgender, straight, binary, non-binary, gender queer or whatever. I care that the stories and acting are good. It's obvious that Ncuti is a colourful character who's going to bring a new slant to the role in the same way that every other doctor has and he's obviously got plenty of acting ability to deliver a great Doctor. The plot lines for the first two episodes have been dreadful and babies and someone who steals music is not what Doctor Who is about.

I can live with colourful characters, like a drag queen for example, if that character supports the narrative of the story but to add a colourful character just for the sake of it is annoying and pointless.

Maybe I'm old (started watching Dr Who in the 1970's) but as it stands at the moment, I'm not encouraged by what I've seen so far in terms of narrative.

A bunch of grown men watching Doctor Who, period.

The inclusivity metric they are failing on is the one where the original description of The Doctor succeeded. In the original casting he was described as "A crotchety old man".

Being gender and colour aware is seen as fine, but the part calls for someone who is old. He is as he points out 900.

Indeed, it should have more 3 hour long stories about Marco Polo or the Romans...

Is it too much to hope that they will do a story about a gay Cyberperson ?

Just to balance out the presumably mainly straight white middle aged male population on here, my daughter is now 22, is autistic, recently diagnosed with ADHD, and gay; she grew up with and loved Tennant, enjoyed Capaldi...
...and thinks the new stuff, from Jodie onwards, is dreadful - entirely down to the clunkiness of the writing forcing a tick into every box that she should, in theory, be applauding.

I could never get into 9, too dark.

Just watching the second episode. I think Ncuti could be a really good Dr. But what utter rubbish this is thus far. It isn’t Who.

Edited to say:-
The bouncing apprentice though still isn’t enough to make it watchable! The ending is so sad and pathetic.

What utter utter rubbish. Whoever signed this off at the BBC should be sacked.

Dr Who is an institution of British TV. This series and particularly the second episode has taken a huge great turd on top of it.

Just watched the second episode myself, and honestly I thought it was brilliant. Fun, fast paced and funny.

Maestro was a fantastic villain, unhinged and scary enough while still being PG friendly.

The only thing that stuck out to me was Ruby mentioning her mum’s girlfriend and then the song for her mate who had a girlfriend too. It’s just pushing that aspect too hard.

But I love the new Doctor, he’s a breath of fresh air.