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I am going to go with miscast....
I think the Doctor, whatever the gender, is completely miscast. Can we really believe that there is 2000 years of wisdom behind those eyes and that Yorkshire accent?
Or that she could ever have been born on the planet Gallifrey?
Jodie's performance, also, seems to me to too easily fall back on a series of mannerisms and pulled faces.
Add to that a huge lack of presence and charisma, to the point where the companions have to collectively point out that she is in charge and I think this was a huge mistake in casting.
To be honest, it has now reached the stage for me where anything after 1989 has been dismissed. And only the Target books count.
Brutal, I know, but I think that since the fans took over the asylum the show and all it's peripheries have mutated into a thing with a few good moments but otherwise forgettable nonsense.
I think there is also something to be said of that old style of production and creation that was done on a wing and a prayer, with barely any budget or time. Wonderful, imagination capturing things still resulted.
Now it all seems to be clever-clever writing, glib companions with smart alec dialogue in the face of jeopardy, who are not remotely excited that they are travelling through time and space with an alien and a showrunner's tendency to rewrite the mythology and dna of the show, to the point where one of those sassy and glib companions told him which Tardis to nick.
No thanks.
The comic strips etc of the classic era also get a kind of affectionate pass for me even though they are not technically canon, simply because of their nostalgia value.
Big Finish started as a nice idea, but seems to have descended into well made releases designed to make sequels to every classic show and extract our money from us.
So, no thanks to them as well. (Although I did appreciate their doing both the stage plays and NIGHTMARE FAIR, MISSION TO MAGNUS and THE HOLLOWS OF TIME from the lost season 23.