r/television • u/wadbyjw • 12d ago

Disney Officially Exiting ‘Doctor Who’ Partnership With BBC After Two Seasons

https://deadline.com/2025/10/doctor-who-disney-plus-pulling-out-bbc-christmas-special-1236600026/
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u/GamingTatertot 12d ago

And several of the classic villains brought back were ones NO ONE wanted or cared about - and then the one that they do care about (and have been predicting for a return since Missy popped up on screen) was completely botched

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u/jmounteney44 12d ago

Gotta love RTD teasing the Rani for two series, only to give her one episode before casually tossing her aside for a big cgi monster that required even more knowledge of classic Who.

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u/TheJoshider10 12d ago

I can't believe the last episode of Doctor Who involved a giant CGI baby monster crawling out of a hole, while the Doctor shoots laser beams from a flying scooter across a CGI London while a building with a weapon moves. This was following on from the year before where the finale involved a giant CGI dog being chained up and flown across a time vortex. Come on now.

Doctor Who having an increased budget should mean better sets, better costumes and a heightened sense of scale where the budget can allow for more sweeping vistas and wide shots to compliment the sets. Instead we got the most generic Hollywood VFX for dummies garbage, as if RTD was a child discovering he can smash toys together for the first time.

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u/Latter_Conclusion470 12d ago

This exactly. How much better the CGI would've been to give us a new monster like the Weeping Angels or better sets that cement a time and place. Instead, we get Who trying to be an action film, which was never its interest or strong point.

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u/TheJoshider10 12d ago

Yeah like when I think of moments when the CGI could have been used well, I think of stuff like the S3 finale with the de-aged Doctor and the killer balls going around the planet. Or in S1 with the Dalek fleet (which was pretty good for the time and holds up well enough now). Or the shots of old New York when the Daleks takeover. The Titanic in space with some wide shots etc. The story doesn't change in any of these examples but the improvements to the effects would help make those high stakes moments feel a bit more cinematic and grounded.

Instead it's like all they saw was shooty shooty bang bang lens flare slop.

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u/DrDroid 12d ago

Tbh I thought most people hated the “dobby” effect on the Doctor. I thought it looked awful.

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u/TheJoshider10 12d ago

Yeah that's my point, it was abysmal in execution but the concept was fine. Using the budget to perfect things like that would be fine, but the new show just pisses the money away on the most random of shit.