14 posts tagged ‘ninth doctor’
The Good Doctor has flatlined
AV Club,
It looks like The Good Doctor couldn’t save itself in the end. After 116 episodes over more than half a decade, ABC has announced that it will be pulling the plug on the long-running medical procedural after its upcoming seventh (and now final) season. Let’s all join together in a moment of silence; thank you, Good… Read more...
One of the Doctor Who Christmas Special's Best Scenes Was a Disney Suggestion
Gizmodo,
When the BBC announced that it was partnering with Disney to bring Doctor Who to its international streaming audience under the show’s latest era, there was some bristling that the House of Mouse would have an element of creative control, rather than simply financial involvement. But speaking on Disney’s influence on… Read more...
Doctor Who's Big Regeneration Twist Means Everything and Nothing
In contemporary fandom, canon is king. This is not a jab against an admiration of an ordered continuity and worldbuilding, the necessary aspects of creating a story to be lost in. But what goes beyond it—a yearning for raw, wiki-able data and facts that can be collated and held in amber, where interpretation gives way… Read more...
Doctor Who Saved Its Biggest Gift for Itself
For a show that is often so optimistically forward thinking—and where change is baked into its hearts—Doctor Who often has a bittersweet view of its own past. Heroes and friends come and go, goodbyes are frequent and brief, and a lot of them are permanent, especially when part of the key to its longevity is that its… Read more...
The Doctor dances as a new Doctor Who trailer finally lets Ncuti Gatwa strut his stuff
[This article contains spoilers for the most recent Doctor Who special, “The Giggle.”] Read more...
Doctor Who's Return Is the Biggest UK Drama Launch of the Year (So Far)
Initial overnight ratings have come in for Doctor Who’s highly anticipated return this past weekend in “The Star Beast,” and it’s good news for the show: numbers are way, way up, even if they’re also way, way down compared to where the show used to be. But, for good reason! Read more...
Doctor Who's Russell T. Davies On the Importance of Showing Trans Struggles
For as much as Doctor Who’s first 60th anniversary special, “The Star Beast,” was a celebration of the old, it also brought plenty of new with it—including Heartstopper’s Yasmin Finney as Rose, Donna Noble’s trans teenage daughter. But for as important as Rose became to the episode, for showrunner Russell T. Davies,… Read more...
Oh, Doctor Who, We're So Back
Human drama suffused with alien weirdness? A shotgun blast of emotional sincerity to sweep you away from barely coherent sci-fi technobabble? The power of love, specifically encapsulating queer love? David Tennant and Catherine Tate running around the place having the time of their lives? Do not adjust your clocks… Read more...