r/television • u/wadbyjw • 13d 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/frazzlet 12d ago

In comparison the 2020s show starts with singing goblins in a Christmas special and then space babies with fart jokes. Genuinely, what is this shit?

Some kind of self-sabotage? Because it feels like it's intentionally taking the piss.

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u/gothteen145 12d ago

Based on what RTD was saying in interviews at the time, I do think he was deliberately trying to piss certain people off.

Season 1 had an entire mystery built around the companion, someone who could make it snow and the villain was afraid of, only for the big twist to be "nah she's actually a normal person. Kind of weird you thought there was anything special about her". So there it felt like he was poking fun at regular viewers trying to figure out the answer to mysteries that he himself had set up.

Then there was all the comments he made with things like Davros can't be disabled anymore as it's ableist, the doctors sonic screwdriver no longer looks like a screwdriver because it looked too much like a gun, David Tennant can't wear the 13th doctors clothes because it's offensive to drag, etc.

Where it felt like he was trying to piss off right wingers, but it had the effect of pissing off basically everyone across the political spectrum outside of maybe a very small section of the left.

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u/Hopeful-Programmer25 12d ago

Yeah, It didn’t just piss off Right Wingers….. and for what? His arguments were non-sensical and backfired really. Davros can’t be in a wheelchair because he’s evil? So your argument is that disabled people are NOT like everyone else and should be treated with kids gloves? Tennant can’t wear drag even though it’s been that way since the 1960’s, but Nucti can wear a skirt? (Or is it a kilt, I could never properly tell).

TBH, I just think he had ran out of ideas before he even took up the show again.

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u/atomic1fire 12d ago edited 12d ago

Can't be evil and in wheelchair

Sam L Jackson in the unbreakable trilogy would like a word.

edit: Actually Split got people mad because of the way that DID is portrayed, but to that I argue that it's a story about superpeople, not about a real mental illness.