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Zero999:

--- Quote from: tom66 on July 28, 2023, 07:10:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 28, 2023, 06:49:53 pm ---Of they could have just kept Dr Who the same.

I don't watch TV now, as I don't have a licence, but I know the BBC have had programmes with a lead black actor (Luther) and a main female character (Silent Witness), which were both quite popular.
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The Doctor frequently regenerates, it's a role that actors don't seem to want to do for long for whatever reason,  Matt Smith was reportedly bored of it so they cast a new actor.  One of the benefits of a sci-fi show where you can plot-wave you way out of changing what the main actor looks like.  There was no keeping it the same, each actor plays the Doctor differently (it's literally canon in the show that each Doctor has its own character and behaviour even if they "the same" individual) and it's up to the screenwriter to adapt the script to suit.
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I get that the doctor can in theory be anyone, but he had always been a white man, which worked well. It was blatantly obvious why they changed the sex of Doctor Who. I vaguely remember she said something about being better, when she emerged. That was enough to put many off, before even getting to the silly stories. I stopped watching after that.

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--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 28, 2023, 06:49:53 pm ---If they're mostly black, then that's not very diverse.
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Well, now you're just playing with words.  There aren't many films like it where almost all of the actors are black, certainly none that achieved the box-office results it did.  Call it diverse or not, but it was unique.

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No, I'm using the word diverse, in its true sense. Nowadays it's all too often just code for more black and fewer white people, which is silly.
tom66:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 28, 2023, 08:18:21 pm ---I get that the doctor can in theory be anyone, but he had always been a white man, which worked well. It was blatantly obvious why they changed the sex of Doctor Who. I vaguely remember she said something about being better, when she emerged. That was enough to put many off, before even getting to the silly stories. I stopped watching after that.
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Well, I think it could have worked, Jodie is a good actor, but she was given trash scripts. There were one or two really good episodes, but they played it too like she was some kind of schoolteacher who just wanted all the kids to have fun on their adventures.  I didn't like that.  I hope they do better for Ncuti because, well, it does give people ammunition that these character choices are just bad and everyone should be the same as before, I don't think that's true at all.

There's nothing in Dr Who canon that the Doctor has to be a white man, it's just that he'd (she'd?) always been played by a white guy, there are and were female companions and female timelords appeared in the show.   Just because something has been done historically does not mean it has to remain that way forever.  Providing it is done well, of course.
coppice:

--- Quote from: tom66 on July 28, 2023, 08:21:46 pm ---Well, I think it could have worked, Jodie is a good actor, but she was given trash scripts.

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Well, if she can't make a trash script work she isn't going to have much of a career in the present environment. :)
Zero999:
Cinema Theatre audiences are falling and streaming subscriptions are also down.

It's probably just as much to do with the fall in living standards, as people are cutting back on luxuries, just as much as the lack of originality.

https://www.cordbusters.co.uk/streaming-fatigue-uk-subscriptions-dip/
https://www.obs.coe.int/en/web/observatoire/2023-press-releases/-/asset_publisher/0t9kVBabnI8V/content/a-long-road-to-recovery-eu-uk-cinema-attendance-up-by-63-in-2022-still-short-of-pre-pandemic-average
coppice:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 30, 2023, 10:00:33 am ---Cinema Theatre audiences are falling and streaming subscriptions are also down.

It's probably just as much to do with the fall in living standards, as people are cutting back on luxuries, just as much as the lack of originality.

https://www.cordbusters.co.uk/streaming-fatigue-uk-subscriptions-dip/
https://www.obs.coe.int/en/web/observatoire/2023-press-releases/-/asset_publisher/0t9kVBabnI8V/content/a-long-road-to-recovery-eu-uk-cinema-attendance-up-by-63-in-2022-still-short-of-pre-pandemic-average

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Raised priced for things like Netflix. A substantially decreased catalogue, especially for Netflix. Even in a good economy, with some appealing new material. the fragmenting into numerous streaming services, each with their own small number of new and interesting series, would have hurt streaming subscriptions.
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