Doctor Who: Classic or Dud?

Hmm
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15661864/?ref_=tt_eps_nxt

The future is here! Ncuti Gatwa is the Doctor. ❤️❤️➕🟦 #DoctorWho

Read more here ➡️ https://t.co/KoxPmoNAdL pic.twitter.com/peKsH6gCjI

— Doctor Who (@bbcdoctorwho) May 8, 2022

Cool!

first time that the actor playing doctor who is younger than me :'(

it's also the only time apart from Matt Smith when they've announced the new doctor and it's someone I don't recognise and have never seen in anything else? (I've heard of that Sex Education show but I've never watched it).

I know Russell T Davies is returning to the show, does that mean it's him who made the decision to cast Gatwa? Has RTD matched JNT's record by casting three doctors who?

good choice if well directied, he's very funny in sex education

(tho it does step on future series of SE a bit)

It's always been the way with NuWho that the outgoing showrunner never has a say in casting the next Doctor after they've gone (why would they, it's not their job anymore), I'm sure this will entirely have been the call of Davies and his production team.

Rumour has it the outgoing showrunner was told to make sure the sort didn’t hit his arse on the way out the door, and of course RTD was on Insta this morning with a cryptic post which simply read: ❤️❤️➕🟦

sort? Autocorrect switched away from DOOR

I'm guessing that's just two hearts and blue box?

well good that we get the 2nd black doctor I guess. May be a little cliched/tokenist that they went to him after first female one, but good taht it's happening. & not sure what other circumstances would be better. Is the first black doctor and 2nd female one canon or was that established?
Not see him act in anything other than Sex Education so not sure how much of that was him and how much was character . So when do we get to start answering things like that. Do hope he gets some good writing, feel like Jodie was a little shortchanged.

Never heard of him, seems like a mensch from
Interviews though

Seems well-cast on the all-important “handsome but funny-looking” axis following Tennant and Smith

what a fantastic choice. writing aside, his performance on Sex Education alone proves he can play a character who is funny and vulnerable and kind and intimidating all at once, so I think he's gonna be great.

quick question while I'm here: I stopped watching DW at the end of Chibnall's first season - is it worth catching up on or reckon it's safe to skip everything and just jump back in next year? any particular must-see episodes?

yeah I'd like to tknow that too. I didn't even make it through the first season.

I bailed at the end of his first season. Friends told me Flux started really well but ended so poorly that the whole thing was ruined.

It’s quite enjoyable B-minus/C-plus Doctor Who, and the only thing in Chibnall’s run that achieves the meagre distinction of being better than the worst of the Moffat & Davies shows, but you could easily skip it. It’s only five episodes mind.

The ending is balls but not prohibitively so

I'd probably recommend Fugitive of the Judoon, it introduces Jo Martin's Zeroth Doctor, who might (might?) re-occur in RTD's run - I can definitely see the rest getting tipped into a bin. And it's also really good - written by the writer of the previous series' Demons of the Punjab.

TIL that Chuck has mind-wiped himself regarding the sixth episode of Flux (which would explain the B-minus/C-plus rating) :)

This Ncuti Gatwa news really does definitively prove that there's an affirmative action bias in the BBC's casting.

I mean, a fourth Scottish Doctor?!

Oh and Eve of the Daleks is good fun too.

gallifrey is is clearly in scotland the clue is in the name

Concur with skipping Chibnall except MAYbe Fugitive Of The Judoon, although if you've been told to watch it specifically because of its big secret twist, you're probably covered.

It's always been the way with NuWho that the outgoing showrunner never has a say in casting the next Doctor after they've gone

Always = twice :) (and it's been the outgoing person's choice.)

But yeah, of course RTD has cast his own Doctor. Who else would have?

Rumour has it the outgoing showrunner was told to make sure the sort didn’t hit his arse on the way out the door, and of course RTD was on Insta this morning with a cryptic post which simply read: ❤️❤️➕🟦

That is definitely two hearts and a blue box.

And I can think of better ways to say "don't let the door hit your arse" than "please come back for another year just to make a big anniversary special episode with lots of promotion," but I guess I don't have the executive mind.

amazing "first photocall" energy here, even without the last three disasters

Ncuti and Russell hit the red carpet!#BAFTATV #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/1dlbGj9LP8

— lizo mzimba (@lizo_mzimba) May 8, 2022

two short videos: casting kept secret since Feb and go off 👑

seems cool and i trust rusty

strangely low key announce tho?

Low key preferable to special show with Zoe Ball. Perhaps they were heading off a leak?

OTOAH announcing at and overshadowing the BAFTAs is not super low-key! When news travels this quickly the inciting incident doesn't have to that big, I guess

thanks everyone for the episode recs, or non-recs rather, lol. will check out Fugitive of the Judoon. might read some recaps of Flux.

They did not announce at the BAFTAs, they announced (with ❤️❤️➕🟦) on Gatwa’s instagram, which has more followers than the Easter special had overnight viewers.

(did RTD delete the obvious/cryptic post? just looked and I can’t see it)

I mean, a fourth Scottish Doctor?!

The Time Laird

hahaha

Is there going to be a continuation of the semi Edwardian/turn of the 20th century clothing style(s) that seem to have been traditional with Doctors up to Jodie Whittaker or what. Do wonder what Ncuti's style's going to be. Do love frock coats but wonder if he's going to wear something more revealing. Could see some Yinka Shonibare influence creeping in not being a bad thing either. Waxed cotton recreations of historic styles .

& when do we get to find out. Is he in before next year.

good questions! i am v curious about the clothes as well

people have been posting this picture of him from sex education where he looks like he's wearing Colin Baker's old jacket

https://medias.spotern.com/spots/w640/292/292687-1579688121.jpg

lol otis in this picture

Otis would make a good assistant tbh

There's some good examples of that Yinke Shonibare stuff in here
http://homework.sdmesa.edu/drogers/Art%20115/shonibare%20reading.pdf

hope it wouldn't come off as gimmicky. & have heard a backlash against the colonial history of waxed cotton or at least the system which lead to it being imported from Dutch firms. I just think it looks amazing so have used it for shirts and one pair of trousers. Meant to do more, including a frockcoat but not done anything in a while.

Is there going to be a continuation of the semi Edwardian/turn of the 20th century clothing style(s) that seem to have been traditional with Doctors up to Jodie Whittaker or what.

good questions!

not sure I agree 100% with your police work there tbh

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not going to engage. have a very low opinion of the individual already
I've watched Doctor who since I was a small child and hate the idea that somebody I don't really want to know's ego is getting in the way of me being able to talk about it on a chatlist .

You are free to post whatever you want and if, as in this case, you're talking complete bollocks, then sic is free to (very politely, I thought) point that out. It's a free world!

Pretty obvious gaslighting but I'm sure you can believe what you want. I mean you tend to anyway. A little creepy possibly.

I thought Tom Baker was best known for costumes based on late 19th century suits matched with a massively long scarf. At least until he gets a new look in the 80s where he gets ?marks on his shirt lapels and seems to slip back a long way in the rest of his clothing style
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/The_Fourth_Doctor_%286097263309%29.jpg/800px-The_Fourth_Doctor_%286097263309%29.jpg
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/976x549_b/p01q93j6.jpg
it's certainly something I've seriously enjoyed about him . & knowing clothing eras that's what and when I place that. Long frockcoat and drainpipe trousers. Went through some pretty tasty suits.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/976x549_b/p01q93l6.jpg

I had pictured both Peter Capaldi and Matt Smith in long Edwardian frockcoats and find they were wearing them for quite a while. Smith has his throughout series 7 and Capaldi has a few different colours which he appears to couple at times with some more casual styles of underclothing, . So am a little surprised to be being told these can't have existed. I can see photos of them.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/976x549_b/p04zmk5n.jpg
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/976x549_b/p03908f9.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/25/8a/11/258a1168135269e3e912391052717b46.jpg

lol @ the idea anyone on this board would go toe-to-toe with stevolende on fashion bricolage

Variations on Edwardian clothing have been pretty common for many doctors: to various extents Doctors 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11 and 12 all wore outfits inspired by it.

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— Curtis (@Curtis_Cook) May 14, 2022

There appears to be knowing commentary included in a way that makes me wonder if that is completely on the level suggested.
So could see that being a joke as much as an actual dismissal.

The time travel bit is probably a giveaway too. Well wouldn't that be a handy job taking service. YOu get to send yourself back a message seeing how well you're enjoying your new work position. & warning you not to go forward with the dodgy behaviour even if it is principled.

sorry for spoiler should have been more like this if the concerns touched on in the joke are already being recognised wonder to what extent they need to rethink the character. Hadn't really thought about the background, hidden elements of character building when an existing character regenerates in a totally differently culturally statused way. Presumably similar things happened when the straight white male became female. Though wonder if previous writing team did reflect day to day concerns.
I remember jokes being told about the idea of a black James Bond not being able to get through his day to day existence without running into constant problems with police etc over things like the car he's driving or the area he's seen to be walking through. Which would make things a hindrance to the extent that his job would be undoable. Not sure to what extent that would carry over to an alien in whatever situations they are in. If there are levels of acceptibility for a white male presence or a female one that aren't there for a black man. Will look forward to finding out how this works out. If it is addressed at all. I would hope things would be becoming progressively better but seems like the last few years have had people trying to push things the other way.

Seriously hoping that eengagement with assumed ethnicity is going to be something other than there is a joke to be made here so we better make it. Hoping for some more nuanced subtlety. But I guess it's a popular tv show so hope there is some hope.

the address and telephone number makes me think the whole thing is fake

(bbc logo also wrong)