Dr Who

(08-05-2022 21:59 )*Kal-El* Wrote:  

(08-05-2022 17:59 )Rammyrascal Wrote:  Interesting choice & wish him all the best. I too can't wait to see the Daily Mail brigade kicking off at this

The right wing YouTubers at the moment are a having field day at the moment

what's been said?

Probably the best Dr ever for me anyway was Tom Baker he had everything humour, serious and even talked to himself, not forgetting he liked jelly babies.



Also being the longest serving Dr on television it will some doing for any future actor who will take on the role. The special effects today would of made the classic Dr Who brillant.

Tom Baker is definitely one of my favourites.
Peter Davison is also special for me, being in another of my favourite childhood series, All Creatures Great and Small.
More recently, I don't recall seeing any Jon Pertwee episodes, before some were recently on Forces TV.
He's another favourite actor from childhood, for playing Worzel Gummidge.

I wish they'd bring the jelly babies back!! (But not the Bassett type monster that probably gave some of us too many nightmares!)

I'd love to see K-9 make an appearance though

^^^ that Tom Baker pic with "laryngitis" hit K9 lol is my earliest memory of Doctor Who as a little 'un Destiny of the Daleks. Tom was probably already out of control by then but still good fun at that age

(08-05-2022 14:27 )skully Wrote:  ^ Just checked and yep, those wishing him well in the comments are getting massive down votes.

No clue who he is, after a search he seems to be pretty well liked. The Dr shouldn't be stifled by race or gender, not really. Good luck to him with this, if the actor pulls it off and the writing is improved, then it could be a winner. The only time race changing a character should be a real issue, is if it's a person/people in history, but even then there is some wriggle room, but fantasy should be open to everyone.

Anyone seen him in anything. Any good?

I agree.
Nonetheless, it's easier to single out long-running series to hijack, for crass political point-scoring, than for people to create new series with 'diverse' casting.
I'm old enough to remember when black peoples (I avoid using 'people of colour') appearing on tv was still something of an event.
However, I didn't necessarily agree with the notion of my being 'represented' by the black people I saw on tv, even back in the 80s.
When I preferred 'No Problem' to 'The Cosby Show', the latter being for some, a more 'positive image' of black people, but yet another show about middle-class Americans.

I enjoyed what I saw of the Christopher Eccleston episodes. His being an actor with a similar intensity and gravitas to Tom Baker.
From what the former has said, he might have been around longer, but for an irreconcilable rift with Russell T. Davies.
Matt Smith, a less familiar actor, also had a similar manic energy about him.
But I rather lost interest, partly because I don't rate Russell T. Davies.
I thought Queer As Folk was brilliant, but everything since has been less hit than miss for me.

Too many castings in recent series, not just the title role, seem like box-ticking to me.
Opting for lesser-known, younger actors, the latest is barely-known, can mean the character and series can be moulded in ways that fit an agenda, that is less specifically dramatic.
Particularly if like Jodie Whittaker, you're not an actor who seems to be suitable for leading that series, if any series, other than a soapy type, or for children.
There are many other, established actors, female or male, black or white, young or older, who could really impose themselves and make the role their own: Lenny Henry, Idris Elba, Richard Ayoade, Sophie Okonedo, and Miranda Hart, are just some names off the top of my head.

I don’t have issues with the Doctor regarding race, age or gender, first the Doctor can regenerate into anyone so what’s the issue but most importantly it’s if the character well written and given the characterisation that to me is the most important thing with any lead character in a show.

I'm sure given RTD's speckled track record on racism, there's nothing to worry about

This guy when he means doubling down namely two black actors then says r.i.p, me am prepared to someone a chance to prove themselves but say it’s dead even we‘ve seen anything is wrong. I‘ll judging it on the writing and the performance.

^ Could also be due to her being trans (just googled her name), because that really sets some people off online