The Doctor can travel anywhere in time and space. They can tackle any issue: ethical, emotional, scientific, political, or philosophical. They toy with technology and fiddle with physics
The show can have as its hero almost anyone of any sex or colour, albeit being British appears to be the one constant requirement 
It can honour its own mythology, tinker with that mythology, ignore that mythology. It can pastiche other storytelling forms. It can make you laugh. It can – nay, should – scare you
So why has it become so often so boring?
So why has it become so often so boring?
Now, though, a new start. We have a new Doctor: the 29-year-old Scottish-Rwandan actor Ncuti Gatwa. And a 'new' showrunner: Russell T Davies.
If anyone knows how to cure an ailing Doctor Who, it’s him. But what should he do?
If anyone knows how to cure an ailing Doctor Who, it’s him. But what should he do?
Get the right Doctor ✅
So far, so good! Gatwa's ebullience, his wit, his ability to rule a room and steal a scene without breaking a sweat. He has all the hallmarks of a potentially great Time Lord.
So far, so good! Gatwa's ebullience, his wit, his ability to rule a room and steal a scene without breaking a sweat. He has all the hallmarks of a potentially great Time Lord.
Get the right baddies 😈
Davies needs new brands of genuinely threatening threat. To judge by his comments on the Bafta red carpet on Sunday, standing next to his new leading man, he knows it too
Davies needs new brands of genuinely threatening threat. To judge by his comments on the Bafta red carpet on Sunday, standing next to his new leading man, he knows it too
Get the right friends 🧑🤝🧑
it’s often a good thing that time travel is freighted with more human emotions, but only to the extent that it deepens the drama of battling evil monsters, not as a rival to it
it’s often a good thing that time travel is freighted with more human emotions, but only to the extent that it deepens the drama of battling evil monsters, not as a rival to it
Bring back the scares 😱
Doctor Who has always been patchy. With a new world to dream up almost every story, how could it not be? Still, crikey, it needs to get back to messing with our heads more
Doctor Who has always been patchy. With a new world to dream up almost every story, how could it not be? Still, crikey, it needs to get back to messing with our heads more
Keep it local 🗺️
So less, please, of the gobbledegook about reinventing time and space itself, and more gobbledegook about rearranging some poor sucker’s face
So less, please, of the gobbledegook about reinventing time and space itself, and more gobbledegook about rearranging some poor sucker’s face
Go off on one 🤯
How do you limit a near-invincible hero? There is only one answer: to take wild leaps of faith. To hire writers of huge imagination to help you and, as a boss, to know when to let them loose
How do you limit a near-invincible hero? There is only one answer: to take wild leaps of faith. To hire writers of huge imagination to help you and, as a boss, to know when to let them loose
Read the full story here:
thetimes.co.uk/article/how-to…
thetimes.co.uk/article/how-to…
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