I tried watching Jodie Whittaker. It wasn’t that she was (and still is, I assume), a she, it was the stories. I gave up in the middle of the Rosa Parks episode. I haven’t watched since. I wanted more “Blink”, not a history lesson.
Historically, Doctor Who is a history lesson. It was sci-fi for kids that also aimed to teach them something about the world. It was whole raison d’être for the BBC at that time: to educate, entertain, and inform. So from that perspective, the Doctor Who that’s just pure sci-fi is the aberration.
I did respect what Chibnall was trying to do with those episodes, but it’s just a shame that his writing was so shit.
I tried watching Jodie Whittaker. It wasn’t that she was (and still is, I assume), a she, it was the stories. I gave up in the middle of the Rosa Parks episode. I haven’t watched since. I wanted more “Blink”, not a history lesson.
Historically, Doctor Who is a history lesson. It was sci-fi for kids that also aimed to teach them something about the world. It was whole raison d’être for the BBC at that time: to educate, entertain, and inform. So from that perspective, the Doctor Who that’s just pure sci-fi is the aberration.
I did respect what Chibnall was trying to do with those episodes, but it’s just a shame that his writing was so shit.