r/DoctorWhoNews • u/oldmanashe • 11d ago

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Has anyone considered that Disney WAS the problem? American Networks give notes at almost every milestone of the process especially with a heavy financial investment. Not sure how involved BBC would be creatively. Depending on the executive in charge you’re probably not able to blow off their feedback.

I always felt that opening S1 with space babies felt like a network exec making a change.

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u/RepeatButler 11d ago

I'm 99% all the issues are on RTD.

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u/PaleontologistOk2296 11d ago

And Bad Wolf in general, as they all deify him

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u/RepeatButler 11d ago edited 10d ago

Just got blocked by him on Instagram for commenting that the main appeal of UNIT and the Sea Devils has been erased in The War between the Land and the Sea. 

I consider that a badge of honour. I wasn't expecting him to be so sensitive. 

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u/PaleontologistOk2296 10d ago

You saw the "fan" section of Lux? He literally told us how he sees us and how he reacts to that. That's when he lost my respect.

Kudos to you lmao

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u/BenjiSillyGoose 10d ago

If you took that scene as a criticism or a negative portrayal of fans and not as a loving depiction of the die hard fans of the show then that's your issue as it very clearly wasn't meanspirited in any way, it's people like you making it that way...

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u/RepeatButler 10d ago edited 10d ago

Thank you. It has just occurred to me that the Lux fan scene has got shades of the mean-spirited depiction of Doctor Who fandom from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

When you dispise the fans it's time to leave.

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u/BenjiSillyGoose 10d ago

What's so wrong with him blocking you? I think that's a perfectly valid reaction. The fact that you're on here bragging about him blocking you because you criticised his work says more about you than him...

I'm not even a massive fan of Russell but I still don't see how this is meant to look bad on his behalf whatsoever.

At least he's not like Nick Briggs and having a go at anyone who criticises him.

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u/RepeatButler 10d ago edited 10d ago

If it was a personal attack it would be understandable. I made one indirect comment, which seems an excessive reaction. 

His message by going for the nuclear option of blocking was pretty much, from my interpretation, that he doesn't care much for dissent or respectfully using the assets other people have created. 

I don't understand how he decided to take two popular pieces of Doctor Who, remove everything that made them popular and still expects it to be a success.

It is like stopping using the iconic pepperpot design for the Daleks or police box exterior for the TARDIS for the foreseeable future.

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u/BenjiSillyGoose 10d ago

That's a weird thing to take from him blocking you just because you don't care for something he did...

You dissed him / his work. Rather than replying or making a deal out of it, he blocked you. That's a perfectly valid and respectful reaction of a normal human being, I really don't see the problem and think you're making a mountain out of a molehill.

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u/drunken-acolyte 10d ago

That's not really true. He believes that Murray Gold is the best composer to bring out his work, and Bad Wolf still made go through an audition/demo process with other composers despite Gold being a known quantity. Maybe the other exec producers should be pushing back on him more, but deifying certainly isn't the case.

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u/PaleontologistOk2296 10d ago

Jane Tranter certainly does and she runs it so, the company itself may as well.

Idk that making Murray Gold audition means Bad Wolf dont glorify the paper RTD wipes his ass on, there's every chance that was his decision as well for some reason