On this day, about sixty two years ago, the very first telecast of Doctor Who aired on BBC television. I never saw that first story in any way, shape, or form. Maybe one day, I can rectify that, but for now, I just want to talk not about the wonderful program Doctor Who that has endured six decades, but rather the bludgeoned two year parody I refer to as Doctor Boo.
Actually, I don’t want to talk about that show, either… but I felt it’s as good a time as any to catch up on any news regarding the show’s future that doesn’t involve Big Finish or an abortive children’s television fare.
Well… Disney pulled the plug. After the next miniseries involve the Sea Devils (oops, I mean, Homo Aquas, because calling them devils are racists and humans are the real villains, as decreed by Marble Mouth Davies), the BBC will only have one piece of Doctor Who on the telly and that’s a Christmas Special written by RTD, who will no doubt try to make sense of this Billie Piper thing. Is this something special or is she just the next Doctor? Because if she’s the next Doctor, then just say so. Otherwise, whatever story you have to tell has better be amazing because otherwise, you may as well hand in the keys and walk away, because you can’t write a good story to save your ass.
Is it really such a bad thing that Doctor Who takes a pause from the telly? Are we really anxious for new stories going forward? Have we not witnessed – either up close or from afar – how much of a mess these last few series have been?
Did you catch Jodie Whittaker’s recent take on Big Finish? My word, what a wonderful series of stories they’ve crafted. Would I say that this rehabilitated Jodie’s Doctor? Not really, since Jodie was never the problem in the few stories I’ve seen her in; she was just the Doctor surrounded by garbage stories written by garbage writers dangling garbage narratives that went nowhere. We ain’t gotta worry about that here. You want more 13th Doctor? Go listen to some Big Finish. Listen to a lot of Big Finish. Big Finish does Doctor Who better than most of the numbskulls running the TV side of things these days.
How much of that stuff have you listened to? Hell, how much of the old show have you actually watched? 62 years of continuous material in some form or fashion is a lot to digest. Hell, Star Trek doesn’t have nearly as much content to consume in its six decades of existence, so you could pretty much catch up on that in a few months time. But Doctor Who? There’s probably some William Hartnell thing that was lost to the annals of time and space recently discovered and turned into a cheap Flash cartoon for Blu-Ray or something. You’re bound to find something that’s old but new to you.
You wanna know something? I’m okay with no new Who on TV these days. The shit they’re putting on simply isn’t good. Oh well, another franchise to the pile of franchises that could have gotten strong runs and didn’t because the people running simply hadn’t a wanking clue.
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