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Yep, thats about right, time to give it a rest IMO.
Promising new characters underutilised, promising stories under developed, recycled plot points, and direct sequels, spending to much time revisiting its own past.
Tennant comes back, now Piper may come back... if they manage to bring back William Hartnell, then I'll really be inpressed
Take a few years off, then revive it with new blood and fresh ideas
Dr Who is such a great concept it will always rise from the ashes and live again
Apropos of nothing, I've been watching some episodes of an old 1970s Spy series call "Department S". IMO Peter Wyngarde might have made a good Dr Who back in the day?
Jason King actor Peter Wyngarde would have been a great choice as The Doctor. I recently bought season's 4. 5 and 6 of The Avengers on Blu-ray, Peter Wyngarde appears there also as a villain, Wyngarde would have also made a great Master IMO.
It's impossible to disagree with that. Bringing Billie Piper back, was an act of desperation. And to think how fans celebrated the news of RTD coming back.
Capaldi was a good Doctor, but the writing let him down more often than not. I can count on one hand the stores featuring his Doctor that I liked. And since then, it's only gotten worse.
Inferno is indeed a classic. Greg Sutton is one of my favourite supporting characters. Derek Newark had that old skool rugged charisma, it's a shame he didn't have a bigger career and as a leading man.
I don't want to say the show died in 2017, but I think Twice Upon a Time puts a pretty decent capstone on the version of Doctor Who that began in 2005.
I endured the Chibnall era by the end of it, after having such high hopes and that's partly why I was ambivalent to RTD returning. Because yes it was relief, I find most of RTD2 watchable, but I was sceptical that he had tempered his instincts even though in the interim he had done Years and Years and It's a Sin.
In his finales he doubles down on the things I hated so much in his first run, and made worse by having Disney money to indulge in.
Getting the original producers from 2005 in the first place already stank of desperation but bringing back Piper was the final nail in the coffin. Narratively it put the show in hole that feels impossible to get out of.
@MajorDSmythe I agree Derek Newark was a good actor and warranted better roles. Strange coincidence I was looking through my Freeview recordings earlier and was considering watching Sidney Lumet's The Offence starring Sean Connery and Derek Newark.
Damn good film that, deeply uncomfortable though.
I never did, i always thought it was great.
Matt Smith was superb leading up to A Good Man Goes to War, Smith was juggling a lot with his performance knowing something was wrong with Amy, knowing his future self's outcome and conveying so much with a glance I found it compelling viewing still do.
Trust me, fans complained about every single episode. Different fans each time maybe, but for each and every episode of Nu Who, there's a bunch of fans who hated it.
If you don't believe me, have a look at the very first post of this thread, which as started when the series you're talking about aired:
A Good Man Goes to War is a fun episode, the money was on the screen good production.
I haven't seen it the new release yet so I don't know if it spoils the experience or not, but based on the video I'm sort of half-and-half on it. I can totally see why folks would object to it as it's essentially giving you a different image to the one recorded at the time; and yet I'm also sort of impressed by some of them (like the upscaling on the close-up of the fingers and tracker prop- it's very clever) and I tend to think that when you're releasing old SD images on HD Blu Ray this is kind of the sort of thing you'd expect. I guess I'd probably err on the side of not doing it, and yet I can see why they might. As with most things Dr Who it'll get blown out of proportion though.
https://deadline.com/2025/10/doctor-who-disney-plus-pulling-out-bbc-christmas-special-1236600026/
No surprise though now its official. we still have the spin off series to come almost forgot about that.
With new threats
And new enemies
But you can still depend
One one man (to mess it all up)
Has he not tanked the popularity of the show enough as it is?
When I knew RTD was doing the Christmas special my first thought were what else can he do to totally ruin it.
I'm confident that he'll find some something to balls up. Doctor Who needs a refresh, in front of and behind the camera, starting with RTD.
https://deadline.com/2025/10/why-disney-ditched-doctor-bbc-1236601181/
The WHONIVERSE was a pipe dream from the start.
Their pattern is generally to do a couple of series of something and then go onto the next thing: look at their Star Wars or Marvel shows- I struggle to think of any which have done more than two series. Mandalorian maybe, and even that seems done. I think that's because Disney's version of streaming is all about getting people to sign up with the new flashy thing, and long-running series aren't that when you could be spending the cash on this new thing.
So no mention of a weak Doctor, unlikeable companions, and poor writing, with an emphasis on trying to curry favour with Tumblr, rather tell a good story first and foremost.
A large majority of modern TV and films (certainly sci fi and fantasy), writing and good story telling is probably last on the list unfortunately.
I get that it wasn't all for some people, and I don't think the last two seasons were amongst its best, but the way some folk go on about it you'd think RTD had set fire to their tellies. It really wasn't that bad; I'd say it still knocked Chibnall's run of nothingy stories into a cocked hat.
Yeah, i've noticed the trend of films and tv shows prioritising finger wagging at half their audience (then wondering why they couldn't reach a larger audience).