It's been confirmed that series 14 will actually be known as season 1
https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/russell-t-davies-confirms-that-doctor-who-series-14-will-be-rebranded-season-1-2362786/.
I can understand this will be to help gain new fans but can also see it causing confusion.
Classic who has seasons rather than series. Will this be new new who?
My first thought was "eh?".
My second thought was "if it cancels out all that timeless child rubbish and the flux supposedly having destroyed most of the universe it may be a good thing". I would like to see more of Jo Martin though.
It will probably be a soft reboot I presume. Callbacks to previous stuff but in a way that isn't too much for new fans
shareWould be nice to see then an alternative story on how the Tardis became a police box. Or at even better bring back David Bradley as first Doctor and let him just transform alternatively into the new doctor.
shareI think having the 1st doctor come would just confuse things more. New fans would be who's that etc.
Just having it continue on but kind of feeling new would make more sense. There's a few points like this in the show e.g. series 5, series 10 etc.
Why are the BBC trying to disconnect this series from Jodie Whittaker's NURSE Who season? Is she not "Da bestest evarrr" and "stunning and brave"?
shareI knew someone would post the usual.
The fact is new who is nearly 20 years old so I think this will help. No matter how good a show is, the longer it goes on, the harder it is to get newer fans
Your sexism is really sad.
Hate the Jodie Whittiaker seasons. That's totally cool. There were plenty of reasons not to like them, but to fall back on the sexist "NURSE" Who is lazy, sexist, and really pathetic.
Go cry about it, then.
shareWhy would I cry about it?
shareYou said my sexism is really sad, you seem like a crybaby.
shareCalling out crappy behaviour does not make one a crybaby, but thanks for your opinion.
shareshes crying too because i started a thread calling for the appreciation of gorgeous women. whining how im objectifying them. this persons got issues
shareRemember when Matt Smith's era "rebooted the universe"? in the actual show I mean.
Maybe a similar event will take place that resets things. IDK...
Let's all just admit. The show has run too long and sucks now. There is not a damn Thing they can do to make it relevant again. There is almost 45 years worth of Dr. who. No one cares anymore....
shareI disagree.
I wasn't a fan of Chibnall's era but RTD has came in and is already doing a lot before the main shows returned.
People are excited
It's all rehashed dalleks, robohumans, wiping angels and few more tropes anyway.
Just let it fucking die already, like they did with SG, Supernatural, etc.
We don't know what it'll be when the new doctor steps in.
The show can do so much. I think one day it'll disappear for a while again but the future looks exciting right now to me
“ It’s time to encounter the Daleks once again, but this time in a way you’ve never seen them before. As part of the 60th anniversary celebrations of iconic series Doctor Who, one of the show’s most renowned tales is undergoing an out of this world update as it receives an artistic colourisation.‘
We do know …
That is not a new episode they are just showing a special of the first ever daleks episode in color for the first time which most fans are really excited for.
In the UK we now have all of classic who apart from the very first serial as well as the spinoffs and some new stuff on iPlayer
Under Chibnall the show was badly promoted and yet RTD was giving us information well in advance without spoiling certain stuff.
I feel the show has a new lease of life
I doubt it. Will see.
shareAgreed. It's completely played out.
shareAgreed. It's completely played out. We are closing in on 900 episodes of Dr. Who. All of one character. Boring...
shareThen don't watch if you find it boring
shareI haven't
shareThen why come on here?
shareTo discuss...
shareBut there's no discussion.
I've never understood why people go on boards when they dislike something but each to their own
I agree, too many people go on boards to complain about lack of diversity in old episodes of Doctor Who and other shows. If they don't like something, they should just keep quiet.
shareBut then you complain about what you call too much diversity on the new who board so what's the difference?
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To discuss why something I used to love now sucks donkey balls....
shareI find your lack of imagination disturbing.
sharePersonally, the very last Doctor Who episode I ever watched was the 2017 Christmas special. I like millions of others wasn't prepared to follow the sex change Doctor. It's quite obvious that they should make a new cut of the 2017 Christmas special, adding and extra 30 minutes in which Peter Capaldi (the 12th and last Doctor) doesn't regenerate but dies a final glorious death. It could end with a little timelord girl standing in front of the graves of the 12 Doctors and imagining that she could one day do the things the doctors did. That way they could have closure for millions like me. Then they could make the sex change Doctor the the very first Doctor of a completely rebooted era from 2018 onward for anyone who wants to watch it.
It's never gonna happen and the sooner people accept this the better.
I always saw the doctor as a male character so wasn't originally keen on the idea of a female doctor but during the build up to series 11 I realised I'd been finding the show had started to become a bit repetitive so I got excited thinking about where the show could go now.
I wasn't a fan of the era but I loved the fugitive doctor. I do feel a lot of people are saying the idea is bad based on the way the era was run
I think it's because of the new deal of Disney+ screening it internationally.
In 2005, when it had been off the air for 16 years, they rebranded it into "Classic Who" and "Nu Who", so the 2005 was called Season 1 despite the showing first airing in 1963. Because Doctor Who is primarily is a primarily meant as a kid's show/family show, it made sense. In 2005 there were kids that wouldn't remember the show that ended in the 1980s. After such a long absence, it made sense somewhat that they'd need to re-establish the characters for a newer audience that might not be familiar with what had gone before. For the most part, it worked too. When the Daleks, Cybermen, The Master etc all came back for the first time, a fan familiar with the older work could enjoy the episodes, whilst at the same time there was enough explanation as to who these characters were to catch the newer fans up to speed.
I guess the thinking is sort of the same here. There'll be a lot of new fans internationally due to the Disney+ deal, and a lot of younger kids who weren't alive in 2005 watching for the first time. The downside, of course, is that there hasn't been any kind of gap. Ncuti Gatwa isn't starting again in the same way that Christopher Eccleston did. Having David Tennant do the 60th Anniversary episodes, then next going; "Oh yeah. This is Season 1, by the way." when the next episodes air, will jar existing fans. Does this mean they have to reintroduce who all the characters are again?
I suspect, in reality, it won't mean anything. And people will keep referring to it as Series 14, rather than Series 1 anyway.
No one cares, really. What's dead is dead. They killed their golden chicken and will never recover.
That show had its time. It can go to to hiatus. And then have revival in 20 years.
I thought the same a few times doing Chibnall's run but seeing everything that is happening, it's a good time to be a fan.
I'm a little bit worried what will happen when RTD leaves again and hope they don't just repeat the past e.g. Moffat comes back.
Maybe RTD will have put the show into a good enough place to have interest for other show runners
I just don't really care anymore. This show died when they went full on woke propaganda after Capaldi left. He was the last Doctor as far as i'm concerned. And no amount of sad desperate casting of old favorite Doctors and characters or rebranding to season one can bring me back. You killed your cow BBC. Stop trying to milk it.
shareThe thing is the show was always woke though.
Look at the possible anti abortion message in kill the moon etc.
I've said it many times, but for me the show has always been political Chibnall just didn't write the political episodes good.
Some of it you could even argue where anti woke. I mean In spyfall part 2 the doctor turns off the masters perception filter and basically uses his skin colour against him and throws him to the Nazis
We also have the doctor wanting to let the spider suffocate rather than mercy killing it and also the fact kerblam seems to side with the cooperation
The show had woke elements but with first changing the Doctors gender then race and altering over 50 years of history to cater to diversity agendas it went from having woke elements to just plain being a woke show.
shareBut your taking 1 thing..
Like a while back someone called series 12 anti white yet I reminded them the master was Indian, Lenny Henry was a villain and you had Graham as the voice of reason but it was still anti white according to the poster.
I was unsure about a female doctor originally as I saw the doctor as a male character but realised I was judging the character as a human when they are alien. I don't think the first female doctor worked at least for me but there's potential as the show at the time was getting samey