‘Doctor Who’ Star Peter Capaldi Responds to Online Backlash to Jodie Whittaker and Ncuti Gatwa Castings: ‘I Don’t Know Why People Take it So Seriously’
‘Doctor Who’ Star Peter Capaldi Responds to Online Backlash to Jodie Whittaker and Ncuti Gatwa Castings: ‘I Don’t Know Why People Take it So Seriously’
Nobody hates anything more than its biggest “fans”
kane49 on
nothing wrong with doctor who came down to whow they cast.
QuilSato on
I’d really like to see them do an animated movie in the same vein as Kpop Demon Hunters or Spider-verse with either Jodie or Ncuti that doesn’t have Chris Chibnall or Russel Davies as the writer, just give them a good story, just one.
greyfoggydaynl on
The casting of Jodi and Ncuti wasn’t a problem, the problem stems from the terrible writing that began during Capaldi’s tenure in the TARDIS and never really improved. Which is a shame, because the show took a massive leap forward in terms of effects and cinematography and it LOOKED amazing.
I didn’t moan or cry about it, I just turned off and watched something else. I even have friends who were lifelong Whovians do the same.
the_reven on
Thought most people liked the castings, just hated the stories they were given. Ncuti didnt have enough time witht the role. Eccleston only had one season, but 12 full episodes and was in them all.
Jodie had some terrible terrible storylines
Mister_Funktastic on
They just fumbled the bag. The writers were worried about the backlash of “going woke” by hiring a girl and a black guy, and so added far too many companions and contrived storylines thatit meant that even Oscar worth performances couldn’t have saved it from being trash. Jodie in particular was good enough to stand on her own without Bradley Walsh and all that bollocks.
Dr_Tacopus on
Jodi Whittaker was ok but every time she ran it threw me. Go back and watch it. She runs weird lol
I thought Ncuti Gatwa was actually really good and if he had a few more seasons we would have really won over the viewers.
I didn’t like and of the changes when they happened, but the majority of them grew on me quickly
Krow101 on
Fans of anything like it to pretty much stay the same. There’s also some resentment towards social engineering.
Gaeus_ on
Issue with theses characters was that they were completely wasted, and either “sanitized” to dullness or became a parody of themselves.
Doctor’s a woman ? Cool, does that mean they’re a lesbian now ? Or is it a hormonal thing and now they’re “straight” ?
Nah, 13th is ban, utterly banned from romance.
Oh ! Here come Disney, surely they can try and salvage this !
… Wait you’re gonna trash 14th because they don’t understand pronouns ??
They were a woman a season ago !
Fine… Fine… Whatever.
Oh, a gay doctor, cool, 15th might actually explore this interesting dev…
Okay, 15th you can stop crying now, how about trying to do some… Dude I agree it’s healthy for a male to process their feelings but… the actor left.
…
Hey 14th you’re still there ?
We’ve got a crowd of nostalgic racist homophobic mysoginistic “fans” to feed.
PKblaze on
Ncuti is the best casting since Tennant and I will die on that hill.
The writing, not so much.
gothteen145 on
Personally didn’t have an issue with Ncuti or Jodie themselves, but good lord the writing was horrible a lot of the time for them.
For Jodie it was so dull. Her characterisation was basically either nonexistant or completely at odds with itself (We can’t shoot the giant spiders, that’d be wrong, we’ve got to let them starve and suffocate to death)
Then there was Ncuti, written by a Russel T Davies who really seemed to have lost his spark and was trying to appeal to twitter (Davros can’t be disabled because it’s a negative stereotype, the sonic screwdriver looks like a gun, David Tennant can’t wear womens clothes because it’s insulting to drag performers, you have to ask the alien what its pronouns are, etc.)
It just feels like a decade of really bad writing that sadly coincide with the fact that it’s been the first female and first black doctor. Hell, I don’t care if the doctor is gay, he’s a bloody alien, it shouldn’t matter in the slightest.
but why did you make the first “gay” doctor wear a skirt, call people babes, cry in a vast majority of episodes, say “yas queen” whilst celebrating someone’s death because they were an “incel”, etc.
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Fandoms are the worst.
Nobody hates anything more than its biggest “fans”
nothing wrong with doctor who came down to whow they cast.
I’d really like to see them do an animated movie in the same vein as Kpop Demon Hunters or Spider-verse with either Jodie or Ncuti that doesn’t have Chris Chibnall or Russel Davies as the writer, just give them a good story, just one.
The casting of Jodi and Ncuti wasn’t a problem, the problem stems from the terrible writing that began during Capaldi’s tenure in the TARDIS and never really improved. Which is a shame, because the show took a massive leap forward in terms of effects and cinematography and it LOOKED amazing.
I didn’t moan or cry about it, I just turned off and watched something else. I even have friends who were lifelong Whovians do the same.
Thought most people liked the castings, just hated the stories they were given. Ncuti didnt have enough time witht the role. Eccleston only had one season, but 12 full episodes and was in them all.
Jodie had some terrible terrible storylines
They just fumbled the bag. The writers were worried about the backlash of “going woke” by hiring a girl and a black guy, and so added far too many companions and contrived storylines thatit meant that even Oscar worth performances couldn’t have saved it from being trash. Jodie in particular was good enough to stand on her own without Bradley Walsh and all that bollocks.
Jodi Whittaker was ok but every time she ran it threw me. Go back and watch it. She runs weird lol
I thought Ncuti Gatwa was actually really good and if he had a few more seasons we would have really won over the viewers.
I didn’t like and of the changes when they happened, but the majority of them grew on me quickly
Fans of anything like it to pretty much stay the same. There’s also some resentment towards social engineering.
Issue with theses characters was that they were completely wasted, and either “sanitized” to dullness or became a parody of themselves.
Doctor’s a woman ? Cool, does that mean they’re a lesbian now ? Or is it a hormonal thing and now they’re “straight” ?
Nah, 13th is ban, utterly banned from romance.
Oh ! Here come Disney, surely they can try and salvage this !
… Wait you’re gonna trash 14th because they don’t understand pronouns ??
They were a woman a season ago !
Fine… Fine… Whatever.
Oh, a gay doctor, cool, 15th might actually explore this interesting dev…
Okay, 15th you can stop crying now, how about trying to do some… Dude I agree it’s healthy for a male to process their feelings but… the actor left.
…
Hey 14th you’re still there ?
We’ve got a crowd of nostalgic racist homophobic mysoginistic “fans” to feed.
Ncuti is the best casting since Tennant and I will die on that hill.
The writing, not so much.
Personally didn’t have an issue with Ncuti or Jodie themselves, but good lord the writing was horrible a lot of the time for them.
For Jodie it was so dull. Her characterisation was basically either nonexistant or completely at odds with itself (We can’t shoot the giant spiders, that’d be wrong, we’ve got to let them starve and suffocate to death)
Then there was Ncuti, written by a Russel T Davies who really seemed to have lost his spark and was trying to appeal to twitter (Davros can’t be disabled because it’s a negative stereotype, the sonic screwdriver looks like a gun, David Tennant can’t wear womens clothes because it’s insulting to drag performers, you have to ask the alien what its pronouns are, etc.)
It just feels like a decade of really bad writing that sadly coincide with the fact that it’s been the first female and first black doctor. Hell, I don’t care if the doctor is gay, he’s a bloody alien, it shouldn’t matter in the slightest.
but why did you make the first “gay” doctor wear a skirt, call people babes, cry in a vast majority of episodes, say “yas queen” whilst celebrating someone’s death because they were an “incel”, etc.
I loved Jodie as the doctor Ncuti was just shit 🧐