May 22, 2024 10:33 PM
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2024 01:55 AM by C C.)
So claims the video at bottom.
When Gene Roddenberry introduced the diverse cast of Star Trek back in the 1960s, he was voluntarily going against the grain of the industry. That was legit rebelliousness, that was the kind of ministry on the screen that you could be potentially criticized for and punished for by advertisers and the establishment, instead of being rewarded as a saint.
Today, it's just mundane conformity to the propaganda and demands of the current entertainment industry.
In the long run, I don't know whether there's any significance to the numbers of the new Doctor's opening episodes or not. The guy in the video does compare such to the ratings for the debuts of past Doctors. But if there is truly a persistent landslide drop, it seems a tad unfair for the viewers to finally become enraged at the woke agenda when it's merely a trans-racial Doctor who is still male.
Whittaker's transgender Doctor was the truly radical one, which kind of disparagingly screamed that they had no confidence in introducing a separate Time Lord who was female. The latter had to be placed on the shoulders of an existing male character in order to survive in the ratings.
The Doctor actually acquired a daughter in a 2008 episode. She would have been a perfect EDI or DEI complement to the familiar Time Lord, with any young or older actress (including Whittaker) being able to play her years later due to the regeneration nature of Gallifreyans.
With respect to the general idea of a trans-racial Doctor, that could have (and should have) just as much happened in the 1970s as now. Having that long line of "privileged" white men playing the character and then suddenly there's a woman Doctor followed by a Black Doctor (followed by an Asian Doctor followed by an Arab doctor?) just highlights how much it really is just the showrunners opportunistically wanting to receive their halos from the Church of Woke.
Personally, I stopped watching Doctor Who in the middle of Peter Capaldi's run. Not because I disliked Capaldi's portrayal of DW (he actually reminded me some of Tom Baker), but because the Woke gospel subtext became so thick and stifling you could barely breathe. It was like watching Davey and Goliath on a Sunday morning.
I mean, it's no big deal if a heavy background ambience of either religious or social justice preaching is what you're looking for in the first place. But that's not what a viewer traditionally expected to get when watching fictional programming like DW.
Doctor Who rating crater. Show loses millions of viewers. ... https://youtu.be/ONfNytwE1Ag
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ONfNytwE1Ag
When Gene Roddenberry introduced the diverse cast of Star Trek back in the 1960s, he was voluntarily going against the grain of the industry. That was legit rebelliousness, that was the kind of ministry on the screen that you could be potentially criticized for and punished for by advertisers and the establishment, instead of being rewarded as a saint.
Today, it's just mundane conformity to the propaganda and demands of the current entertainment industry.
In the long run, I don't know whether there's any significance to the numbers of the new Doctor's opening episodes or not. The guy in the video does compare such to the ratings for the debuts of past Doctors. But if there is truly a persistent landslide drop, it seems a tad unfair for the viewers to finally become enraged at the woke agenda when it's merely a trans-racial Doctor who is still male.
Whittaker's transgender Doctor was the truly radical one, which kind of disparagingly screamed that they had no confidence in introducing a separate Time Lord who was female. The latter had to be placed on the shoulders of an existing male character in order to survive in the ratings.
The Doctor actually acquired a daughter in a 2008 episode. She would have been a perfect EDI or DEI complement to the familiar Time Lord, with any young or older actress (including Whittaker) being able to play her years later due to the regeneration nature of Gallifreyans.
With respect to the general idea of a trans-racial Doctor, that could have (and should have) just as much happened in the 1970s as now. Having that long line of "privileged" white men playing the character and then suddenly there's a woman Doctor followed by a Black Doctor (followed by an Asian Doctor followed by an Arab doctor?) just highlights how much it really is just the showrunners opportunistically wanting to receive their halos from the Church of Woke.
Personally, I stopped watching Doctor Who in the middle of Peter Capaldi's run. Not because I disliked Capaldi's portrayal of DW (he actually reminded me some of Tom Baker), but because the Woke gospel subtext became so thick and stifling you could barely breathe. It was like watching Davey and Goliath on a Sunday morning.
I mean, it's no big deal if a heavy background ambience of either religious or social justice preaching is what you're looking for in the first place. But that's not what a viewer traditionally expected to get when watching fictional programming like DW.
Doctor Who rating crater. Show loses millions of viewers. ... https://youtu.be/ONfNytwE1Ag
