ValueSubtracted@startrek.websiteM to Doctor Who Social Club@startrek.websiteEnglish · 13 days agoPeter Capaldi Thinks 'Doctor Who' Has to Become Less Important to Survivegizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
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minus-squareValueSubtracted@startrek.websiteOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 days ago it had become a show for a younger audience. It arguably always has been, though I think the degree to which that’s the case has fluctuated over the years.
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 days agoIt deliberately went for a more grown-up audience in the Pertwee years, but found its way back younger with Baker I.
minus-squareValueSubtracted@startrek.websiteOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 days agoI think it “matured” throughout the new era as well, with RTD seemingly hitting a hard reset to being more kind-friendly in the Gatwa era. At least, I think that’s what he was going for.
It arguably always has been, though I think the degree to which that’s the case has fluctuated over the years.
It deliberately went for a more grown-up audience in the Pertwee years, but found its way back younger with Baker I.
I think it “matured” throughout the new era as well, with RTD seemingly hitting a hard reset to being more kind-friendly in the Gatwa era.
At least, I think that’s what he was going for.