Doctor Who is lauching its “first season” this weekend with Nctui Gatwa and Millie Gibson. We’ve already seen that Russell T. Davies is going to be pushing extremist agendas with the show, using it as a bludgeon against fans who want classic science fiction from Who. The recent press tour has shown this upcoming episode “Space Babies” is likely to be even worse than we expected.
Fans have already been blasting #RIPDoctorWho across the X platform since David Tennant returned for the three 60th Anniversary Specials last year. The three specials featured some of the worst identity politics in show’s history, offered no care for continuity or lore, and generally insulted fans with their poor concepts.
It was bad enough getting a “Rose” who was really a man wearing a dress and being lectured for a whole episode about how he’s “the most beautiful daughter in the world.” On top of it, having Rose and Donna Noble tell The Doctor he can’t understand anything because he’s “male-presenting” and having him just take it. But the Ncuti Gatwa Doctor Who era promises to be worse.
Russell T. Davies gave interviews last week about the ridiculous redesign of the Sonic Screwdriver, which fans have criticized as looking like a homoerotic sex toy. He told Rolling Stone he intentionally designed this with politics in mind, wanting the Doctor’s famed device to look less like a gun.
The virtue signal makes no sense because plenty of people in the Doctor Who series use guns on a regular basis. We’ve seen the whole TORCHWOOD operation brandish assault rifles during their run on the series. Redesigning the sonic screwdriver to look ridiculous does nothing on that front, not that it looked like a gun to begin with.
Other interviews have been conducted about the upcoming series. Ncuti Gatwa has stated that the show would lean heavily into leftist politics and, as usual, blamed fans for his lack of reception as The Doctor because of his identity. He ranted about “white mediocrity,” which is odd considering that the majority of Doctor Who’s audience is white.
The first episode, “Space Babies,” however, might promise to be the most insulting of them all. Russell T. Davies has made clear the agenda will be to present a pro-abortion message with the topic, further migrating Doctor Who to current year leftism.
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Russell T. Davies said to Rolling Stone, “If you’re not writing that [in 2024], what on Earth are you doing? I think our rights are in danger. I’m talking as someone who’s lived through gay liberation, all the way through the AIDS crisis, all the way through to the freedoms that we have now. I can see them spinning and being endangered, so there’s no choice in this. And if the most exciting and entertaining action-adventure show on television can also do that, I think that’s wonderful.”
Rolling Stone said Ncuti Gatwa responded with an exaggerated snap, and both men laughed. Doctor Who is a joke to them, and they are more concerned with lecturing fans than they are producing a good show at this juncture.
The first early reviews of Space Babies are already out, and it’s already making excuses. Games Radar says it “may divide fans” but doubles down that the politics are somehow a good thing and virtue signal that Ncuti Gatwa makes a great doctor despite the fact that this episode is likely to be hated.
The stance makes no sense unless someone’s trying hard to push politics over quality, and that appears to be the case with Doctor Who in the modern era.
What do you think of recent comments on Doctor Who from Ncuti Gatwa and Russell T. Davies? Is Space Babies going to be a disaster? Let us know in the comments.
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Doctor Who is dead, and BBC should just cancel it all together.
I see that the new series starts this Saturday with TWO episodes on BBC 1.
I always think of that as the channel worrying about the weakness of the first episode.
Still, I’ll always have old Who on DVD.