anyways, I'm still so angry over that Deadline article about Disney nuking Ncuti Gatwa's era of Doctor Who because of "woke" (not even kidding), because they received "overwhelming" feedback that the show was "too woke" for international audiences. It will never not piss me the fuck off how woke was/is literally aave for being politically aware that's been so co-opted by white establishment conservatives that this bastardised co-opted colonised concept of "woke" is now weaponised against Black people, people of colour and other marginalised people to justify casting us down and out. A literal fuckinf alien was played by a Black gay actor and old white people lost their shit and now a 60 yr old show is basically dead because some white people hated they weren't being directly pandered to. I'm never not gonna be pissed the fuck OFF
Hey, people in the comments who said I was wrong about the show being dead because I could see the writing on the wall months ago....well, now there's the official announcement. I really hope that no one ever forgets that Doctor Who was cancelled because of anti-Blackness, racism, and corporate greed.
The thing that pisses me off about this is that Ncuti wasn't given the same shot as the other actors. Because they had this compressed production timeline and he had other filming commitments so he couldn't be in as many episodes. Doctor who doesn't really work without the doctor. So he and the writing staff were really restricted in what they could do. I don't blame him for leaving, I would too if I was treated like this. He did amazing work with the time he did have, but it just wasn't enough. His filming commitments are not his fault and the people making these decisions should know that the less Doctor in a given episode the higher the likelihood that it's shit.
To be clear, this version of the show is dead. They are now looking for a new studio.
















