On Doctor Who 2022

[danieldwilliam]

Andrew Rilstone appears to have pulled his blog post on Doctor Who's Christmas Special. I was going to link to it but now can't.

For a long time I've struggled with Doctor Who. I've struggled with Moffat and the lack of narrative.  I don't have much confidence that the new head writer will be any better than Moffat

Now seems like a good time to take a break. Perhaps that break will be long, perhaps permanent. Perhaps, if the reviews are surprisingly good,  as Rilstone suggested in his now lost blog, I can watch all of Whitaker's episodes on Netflix over Christmas 2022. I expect she'll have quit by then.

But I'm quitting now.

EDIT:

The original Andrew Rilstone blog post is now back up. It may have been re-drafted a bit since I read it.

http://www.andrewrilstone.com/2018/01/doctor-who-twice-upon-time.html

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

I am sad about it. Particularly as my limited exposure to Jodie Whitaker (3 episodes of Broadchurch) makes me well disposed to her.

But I spend much much more time being cross about Doctor Who than I spend watching it.

I don't actually have to make a decision until the autumn I think. I expect MLW will mention the programme to me when she sees that it is on or the Captain might decide he's interested enough to want to watch it. If I have the energy to give it a whirl then I might but right now I'd rather put my effort in to something that I find rewarding.

[miss_s_b]

It sounds like you're taking an eminently sensible decision. But it's still :(

[danieldwilliam]

Yeah.

I've put it off a bit. I've been feeling down about the show for a while. For years. When it's been on.

Hopefully I'm wrong and Chibnall turns out to be brilliant but I can catch up on that. It's not like the BBC would do anything as stupid as tape over old episodes once they had been broadcast in order to save storage room.

As you say :-(