Not mine either, but I share your concerns. Doctor Who is clearly only a minor part of all this, in light of thousands of jobs on the line not even a significant part. Given the subject of this community, however... wanna bet this is going to affect the show's future? 😣
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I see you get your opinions prepackaged from YouTube. That's an easy, instant block for me.
I'll have to read up on how Sybok fits in. He was the result of Sarek having an "indiscretion", yes? But I'm not clear on how early that was, or if he and Spock were raised together.
Oh well, time to rewatch The final frontier, I guess.
Self erasing time travel! Dream sequence! Mind wipe!
I trust Akiva Goldsman to come up with absolute nonsense to twist continuity for an indulgent fanboy stunt.
Oh, both of Spock's secret, let's never talk about them, siblings? I wouldn't be that mad about it honestly.
Could well be Gooding, the lights in those helmets play tricks with my ability to identify the faces inside. I guess I'm just jonesing for some more Burnham. It would make sense to have a Michael cameo since she more or less told Spock to find someone like her, and here we see Spock reaching out to Kirk.
Also, in the trailer she's lifting up a drone-ish looking gadget with red lights in it. Thought it might be the last red signal from Disco s2.
Hang on, was that Sonequa Martin Green very briefly in a spacesuit there? Watched this on my phone so I'm not sure...
No, the wish world setting was an odd one for the Rani to be in. I guess she was somewhat a scientist in unscientific circumstances, but... nah, it doesn't make sense. All there is to say is, "Hoot, hoot! Quack, quack! Bye, bye." 🤦
Oh, that ship has sailed, hasn't it? I guess it's Kamelion from here on out.
Archie Panjabi was the perfect, modern Rani IMO. Having her gulped down by a giant skeleton Omega was a big WTF (two, really), but I'm not here to patch over all of RTD's weird choices. He left a lot of those behind!
If somebody were feeling cheeky, they could even add parts of the original "Reality war" ending in as an alternate timeline that the Reapers gobble up. The already shot Susan payoff, other bits of the scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor when they had to reshoot for Gatwa's exit... etc.
The footage exists, most of it has to have gone through post production given how late they had to reshuffle the finale. Put it to good use, even if it would be to recognise it as a timeline we won't see anymore of 😉
I guess it's not so much a theory as an unsolicited pitch, but whatever. Glad you appreciated it! I had a chuckle myself realising how well they could tie "Father's day" into the current situation.
And I genuinely think the BBC could sort a lot of it out with a relatively low cost Youtube release. Just clearing the board for the next writing and production crew.
Big caveat up front, I have no illusion that this was ever planned out, or that it's ever going to be made. I just connected some dots from Eccleston's season to our current mess. I do think that if the BBC had Pete McTighe make a 15 minute special along these lines and put it on Youtube, the fans could rest easier and the next production team might start on a blank slate.
To summarise, the last couple of seasons had a convoluted arc concerning a companion's parent issues. She was saved as a baby through time travel intervention, but not without a lot of temporal disturbance in the process. In fact, babies have been a throughline in both Ncuti Gatwa's seasons, a pattern that culminates in the Doctor rupturing the Time Vortex in order to save one child's existence. For just a probable moment there, that child is his own. Succeeding in his mission, the Doctor is then replaced by somebody looking suspiciously like Rose Tyler.
- Church.
- Baby.
- Rose.
- Temporal paradox.
- On what could be considered the Doctor's Father's Day.
Bring on the Time Reapers to sterilise the wound in time! That's why the Doctor regenerated into this face, à la 12 looking like Caecilius from "The fires of Pompeii". She needs to channel Rose as a catalyst to heal the reset 15 did to save Poppy. Besides, where Pete sacrificed himself to sort the timestream out, this time around the Reapers are attacking the Doctor and their police box. And the Doctor's current face has a very special relation to the TARDIS' living heart.
To be fair, the rest of the story doesn't really matter, this is only meant to resolve the Billie Piper twist of "The reality war". It doesn't fix fan quibbles over the Timeless Child or the Doctor being half human on their mother's side for a hot minute in 1996. Pretty much everything other than that latest regeneration cliffhanger can be ignored or picked up upon by future writers. So end this minisode on a regeneration without showing what happens next, or just leave it open ended.
Now, would I love for Susan to pop up for no other reason than to ease her "grandfather" into the credits crawl, and a future season where neither actress are seen again? Maybe an exchange to echo the Seventh's exit monologue to Ace at the end of "Survival"? Absolutely, but this could well be a one hander between Piper, some 2005 archive footage, and the janky old low-poly CGI monsters from back then.
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Well, they're public funded to a large degree. I don't have any real insight into UK public service media and how the BBC ended up here, but I wouldn't be surprised if this has to do with general public spending cuts to fund tax reductions 🤷