I have the original Doctor Who on VHS and 📀 DVD. I gave up on the new Doctor Who very quickly for me, Doctor Who will, in my mind, survive in its original form.
"One can imagine them thinking they should “just leave the genius alone to work his magic”."
This is common among creators and their backers/funders, throughout modern history. The geniuses of pre-modern history often did their best work while on the knife's edge of starvation, disrepute and scandal, and even physical harm.
In a way it is the opposite to your break-down of modern Liberalism into what sounds like "The Fall of the Eldar" to me; total indulgence in the vain pursuit of ever-greater excess, trying to attain impossible perfection.
The end-result being a soul-devouring abomination.
if you woke up after deep hibernation watching the box, you wouldn't be blamed for thinking half the world to be majority mix race couples and the other half to be gay.
That's more or less what Davies wanted to achieve. Create a Utopian social justice world in Doctor Who, and then hope the real world will copy it. 'Diverse' casts on TV shows are not meant to reflect the real world, but influence it e.g. by normalising it in the mind of normies and NPCs.
This ten part series has been a brilliant piece of analysis.
I don't feel much sympathy for Davies. Whenever I catch sight of his fat, froggy face I can only see a man who indulged himself fully at the expense of a once loved TV show, ruining it completely.
As you say, he was given creative freedom, an unprecedented budget, and the chance to salvage Doctor Who from the abysmal Chris Chibnall era. It was a great opportunity. He used it to become a peak agent of subversion, and express his hatred for every key part of normal British life.
In saner moments, Davies might realise he has destroyed Doctor Who. That is punishment enough, but for further punishment, he should be made to read Woes' essay series. Doing so would either cure him, or more likely send him over the edge into complete madness.
At the age of 63, Davies should do the honourable thing and retire from television. He was the captain of the Doctor Who ship. Having sunk it, he should have the decency to go down with it.
Fantastic essays, Woes, you deserve a medal for studying this creepy man and his sickly work.
Davies as you say seems afflicted by a typical gay immaturity, an inability to grow up, to move beyond adolescence. He has that soft unformed face, as if he's got old without actually maturing or deepening. Davies wants a permanent adolescence, the hedonism & irresponsibility of youth, that time when it seems nothing you do has real consequences, you can undo any mistake, life is just like a computer game. By contrast, the Doctor is immortal not because he doesn't change but precisely because he changes, he pushes each incarnation to its limit then allows death to transform him. The Doctor masters time by surrendering to it, note that the first Doctor was already an old man, he does not resist age.
In the Odyssey (book), Odysseus spends years as a captive of the nymph Calypso, she offers him immortality but he refuses, he chooses a hard human life with his wife and son, his obligations as king. I guess Davies would find this incomprehensible, for him a frictionless world of endless hedonism, endless youth, would be obviously better than an ordinary or even heroic human life. But sweet as she is, Calypso's world has no meaning beyond the moment, it would seem perhaps grotesque from a mortal perspective, just as Davies' world strikes us as lunatic, sickly, perverse, really the opposite of what I remember from the good old Dr Who.
I couldn't agree with you more that MW deserves a medal, for bravery, as recognition of his sacrifice in sitting through this ocean of dire woke propaganda so we don't have to. He's certainly a better man than I am. I wouldn't have lasted five minutes before throwing the screen through the nearest window.
I stopped watching Dr Who a long time ago, with plots that i couldn't understand and characters that i didn't care about. The people who i feel sorry for, are the people who had to construct 30 foot railway lines in a quarry for one Dalek to run along. The time they had to work on it was probably out of all proportion to the scene, they probably worked for 8 hours or more, in order to make a scene that lasted 45 seconds. One of the best stories in the 1970s was The Planet of the Daleks(Jon Pertwee), in which an army of 10 000 Daleks are revealed. The problem is, the production values at the time meant that showing 10 000 Daleks was a bit rubbish, they looked like pepper pots(which was probably what they were). Fast forward to the 21st century, and the wonders of CGI can show us 10 000 000 Daleks, but unfortunately, the story telling is of no importance whatsoever.
I have the original Doctor Who on VHS and 📀 DVD. I gave up on the new Doctor Who very quickly for me, Doctor Who will, in my mind, survive in its original form.
"One can imagine them thinking they should “just leave the genius alone to work his magic”."
This is common among creators and their backers/funders, throughout modern history. The geniuses of pre-modern history often did their best work while on the knife's edge of starvation, disrepute and scandal, and even physical harm.
In a way it is the opposite to your break-down of modern Liberalism into what sounds like "The Fall of the Eldar" to me; total indulgence in the vain pursuit of ever-greater excess, trying to attain impossible perfection.
The end-result being a soul-devouring abomination.
RTD2 is just another example of David Burge's observation about the Left vs institutions of western civilization:
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect."
if you woke up after deep hibernation watching the box, you wouldn't be blamed for thinking half the world to be majority mix race couples and the other half to be gay.
That's more or less what Davies wanted to achieve. Create a Utopian social justice world in Doctor Who, and then hope the real world will copy it. 'Diverse' casts on TV shows are not meant to reflect the real world, but influence it e.g. by normalising it in the mind of normies and NPCs.
This ten part series has been a brilliant piece of analysis.
I don't feel much sympathy for Davies. Whenever I catch sight of his fat, froggy face I can only see a man who indulged himself fully at the expense of a once loved TV show, ruining it completely.
As you say, he was given creative freedom, an unprecedented budget, and the chance to salvage Doctor Who from the abysmal Chris Chibnall era. It was a great opportunity. He used it to become a peak agent of subversion, and express his hatred for every key part of normal British life.
In saner moments, Davies might realise he has destroyed Doctor Who. That is punishment enough, but for further punishment, he should be made to read Woes' essay series. Doing so would either cure him, or more likely send him over the edge into complete madness.
At the age of 63, Davies should do the honourable thing and retire from television. He was the captain of the Doctor Who ship. Having sunk it, he should have the decency to go down with it.
Go down with it. Yes.
Thank you for your kind comments.
Fantastic essays, Woes, you deserve a medal for studying this creepy man and his sickly work.
Davies as you say seems afflicted by a typical gay immaturity, an inability to grow up, to move beyond adolescence. He has that soft unformed face, as if he's got old without actually maturing or deepening. Davies wants a permanent adolescence, the hedonism & irresponsibility of youth, that time when it seems nothing you do has real consequences, you can undo any mistake, life is just like a computer game. By contrast, the Doctor is immortal not because he doesn't change but precisely because he changes, he pushes each incarnation to its limit then allows death to transform him. The Doctor masters time by surrendering to it, note that the first Doctor was already an old man, he does not resist age.
In the Odyssey (book), Odysseus spends years as a captive of the nymph Calypso, she offers him immortality but he refuses, he chooses a hard human life with his wife and son, his obligations as king. I guess Davies would find this incomprehensible, for him a frictionless world of endless hedonism, endless youth, would be obviously better than an ordinary or even heroic human life. But sweet as she is, Calypso's world has no meaning beyond the moment, it would seem perhaps grotesque from a mortal perspective, just as Davies' world strikes us as lunatic, sickly, perverse, really the opposite of what I remember from the good old Dr Who.
I couldn't agree with you more that MW deserves a medal, for bravery, as recognition of his sacrifice in sitting through this ocean of dire woke propaganda so we don't have to. He's certainly a better man than I am. I wouldn't have lasted five minutes before throwing the screen through the nearest window.
I stopped watching Dr Who a long time ago, with plots that i couldn't understand and characters that i didn't care about. The people who i feel sorry for, are the people who had to construct 30 foot railway lines in a quarry for one Dalek to run along. The time they had to work on it was probably out of all proportion to the scene, they probably worked for 8 hours or more, in order to make a scene that lasted 45 seconds. One of the best stories in the 1970s was The Planet of the Daleks(Jon Pertwee), in which an army of 10 000 Daleks are revealed. The problem is, the production values at the time meant that showing 10 000 Daleks was a bit rubbish, they looked like pepper pots(which was probably what they were). Fast forward to the 21st century, and the wonders of CGI can show us 10 000 000 Daleks, but unfortunately, the story telling is of no importance whatsoever.