iank wrote:lol They're only making it easier and easier to drop this shitstain of a program. Worthless cunts the lot of 'em.
That's an interesting point actually. We're all so furious at this really more because of the people behind the decision than anything else.
I mean we all think a female Doctor is a poor idea creatively for well explored reasons by now that I won't repeat. Still this isn't the first time an idea has happened in a show that I or I'm sure anyone here doesn't like, but I personally have never really been angry at something I don't like in a tv show before.
I didn't like the Buffy/Spike romance for instance. I thought it was cliched, undermined both characters, was extremely out of character for both Spike and Buffy, bogged the show down in soap opera mince, and wasted Spike's much more interesting series 4 characterisation (IMO when you look at Crowley in Supernatural, that's the way Spike was originally headed after series 2, 3 and 4. A self serving, snarky Demon, who only cares about himself, and regularly switches sides for his own benefit, but they threw that away and basically made him Angel mark 2, Vampire in love with Buffy, gets a soul, gets tortured a lot, mopes a lot etc.)
However I never felt angry at that. I just accepted it and moved on. This however always makes me angry because of the poisonous motives behind it.
To start with as we all know it only happened because of a vicious smear campaign against Moffat, second there is the fact that anybody else who even expressed their opinion about it was viciously slandered too like Peter Davison (and Sylvester McCoy back in 2015.) Then there was the obvious misandry and anti white feeling behind it, the public slander from the likes of Gary Russell and Colin Baker of people who had fucking supported them for decades and given them their careers, and the fact that an obvious agenda was taking over every square inch of the franchise, and anyone who even acknowledged that was insulted.
Really Doctor Who is more than just a show that got crap or lost its way. Its a toxic brand now.