JODIE QUITS!
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Is it official or just another "close sources say"?
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Good riddance. I hear she was insufferable and the quality of the shows has taken a nosedive, if that's possible. I honestly haven't watched the show since mid-way through the 10th Doctor's tenure. I couldn't take the cheesy, BS storylines after a while.
shareYeah? When was the last time you won a personality contest?
shareThen you’re in a fabulous position to make such a mean spirited judgement aren’t you sweet cheeks?
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https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/1420746545616408580
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BREAKING: Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall to leave Doctor Who in a trio of Specials, culminating in an epic blockbuster Special to air in autumn 2022 as part of the BBC’s Centenary celebrations.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57940451
I'm glad chibnall is also leaving.
I do hope the Ruth doctor becomes 14 but could complicate stuff. However I've found Chibnall's writing is poor and a lot of the messages aren't handled as good as they could. Was worried whoever took over Jodie would also suffer the same bad writing. The question is who will take over from him
Chibnalls leaving to.Guess their jumping the ship that they sank.There's only one crazy scenario that would bring me back to this series.Tom Ellis having just regenerated from Capaldi wakes up from a horrible regeneration induced dream about being castrated and sold out to wokism by an evil race of aliens known as the Chibnallians.Or a complete reboot.Wokeness and Chinalls retconning killed it for me.
https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/jodie-whittaker-leaves-doctor-who-1235030361/
they probably been told to leave. go woke go broke costs money and damages the brand
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9839723/Jodie-Whittaker-confirms-leaving-Doctor-bow-2022.html
Jodie Whittaker has confirmed she is leaving Doctor Who alongside showrunner Chris Chibnall, with the BBC revealing on Thursday that her departure will play out across a three-part special.share
In a new statement Jodie, 39, described her four-year stint manning the Tardis as being 'the best job I ever had', leaving fans devastated.
Jodie was first reported to have made the decision to leave in January, with reports released in the wake of the rumours stating that although viewership has been in decline for five years, Jodie and Chris' pairing attracted just half the audience that the Russell T Davies-led, David Tennant-fronted version of the show did.
The Telegraph reported at the beginning of the year that episodes were drawing in fewer than 5 million viewers.
The paper adds that such numbers are 'not dissimilar to when the show was axed in 1989'.
In comparison, more than 10million viewers watched David Tennant's Doctor Who finale in 2010, according to The Guardian.
However, October's Can You Hear Me? episode saw just 3.81 million viewers tuning in, which - according to website Cosmic Book News - was a 22% decrease since the first episode of Season 12, which aired ten months earlier.
That's what happens when they cater to political agendas.Political agendas don't keep these shows running fans do.I was only half joking about the all a bad dream scenario or a reboot.I could look past the terrible woke writing and maybe ignore the gender swap era if they started fresh.But there's no way to ignore Chibnalls now official canon shitty woke retconning of over 50 years of history.Capaldis last episode will always be the series finale for me.
With a time travel show, there are endless ways to undo this catastrophe. I would explain it all away by showing The Doctor's daughter, Jenny, discovering that Clara and Lady Me's joyride through time has caused a paradox that altered The Doctor's time line. Have a special where they team up and undo the mess Chinballs created. Make Missy the villain trying to stop them and the show is saved by "girl power" instead of ruined by it.
share"The Chibnallians." 😄😄😄
shareHow Doctor Who failed Jodie Whittaker: As the first female lead, she frequently took a backseat
https://collider.com/how-doctor-who-failed-jodie-whittaker/
The news that Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall are leaving the Doctor Who franchise after three seasons "comes as a relief — not because of Whittaker's departure, but because of Chibnall's, who as showrunner is ultimately responsible for what has been the most disappointing era of the show's modern incarnation," says Liz Shannon Miller. "And the reason why it's been such a letdown isn't hard to figure out: The show never really believed that a female Doctor who could serve as the lead." As Miller points out, previous Doctors had a single female companion. "Meanwhile, when Whittaker was first introduced as the 13th Doctor, she did so after crashing into the lives of Essex residents Graham (Bradley Walsh), Ryan (Tosin Cole), and Yasmin Khan (Mandip Gill), who then became her loyal 'fam,' game for ongoing travels," says Miller. While the trio made Doctor Who more diverse, they also took away from Whittaker as the Doctor. "They sucked up the oxygen, is the best way of putting it," says Miller. "The problem is that the typical Doctor Who episode is a stand-alone adventure in a new time period and location, featuring a brand-new supporting cast. This means these episodes require a whole lot of set-up early on, and there's frankly not a lot of screen time to spare on additional character stories. Dropping into that mix the Doctor and a companion (maybe two, if a boyfriend or Captain Jack was along for the ride) worked out fine as a rule. But three companions, all of whom were heavily featured in the plots for these episodes, meant that more often than not, the Doctor had to take a backseat on her own show.
Yeah I agree with that. Jodie is far from my favourite doctor and especially in regards to series 11 I felt she was too one note, mainly bubby. However in series 12 she did showcase a much more range of emotions.
Part of that problem was the companions. I feel having one less and also having a companion lite episode in series 11 would have helped to develop 13s character a lot more.
I don’t know, the last two seasons without Bradley Walsh is a hypothetical I don’t want to even want to consider.
As I’ve said numerous times before, I think the Chibnall / Whittaker era will be judged by history far less harshly than it was in its actual run. For me, it’s the period when Doctor Who stopped resting on its laurels and relying on references to the original series, and actually took chances and added to the legend of Who rather than being simply a tribute to it.
I dunno. While I preferred Series 12 to 11 it seemed everything was copied from previous Series, with a lot from Series 3.
For example there's the killer satnav in the opener that is like Atmos. The reveal in that episode that someone who didn't seem that important was the master in that episodes cliffhanger. The whole someone is a timelord but hiding as a human which was borrowed from the same Series and then the secretive doctor. Hell the timeless child is just a newer version of the Cartmel masterplan.
I do agree about Bradley Walsh was great. He was the voice of reason. While I hate arachnids in the UK the scenes of him returning to his empty house with the cobwebs was a great emotional moment. I didn't mind Ryan in series 11 but in series 12 he felt in the background and wooden.
Yaz is the one I probably take the most issue with because I feel she had the most potential. She's a probationary policewoman and this should have used. In fugitive of the Judoon the doctor I believe had to remind her. Like it would have made sense if she had skills that she'd got from the job that she could use as a companion but it rarely happened.