Doctor Who Social Club

I'm at a point where I don't really care what they do with Dr Who, it won't be like the Eccleston-Tennant-Smith run ever again. I realise Russel T. Davies was a big part of that, but they brought Davies back on as a writer, Whittaker was basically like a Fem-Tennant, and she's good, I liked her on Broadchurch (with Tennant, but on her own she was brilliant, regardless), but I did not like her as a Doctor. The other two were also mediocre, and/or suffered from mediocre writing.

Call me crazy, but I think they need to do something different. They've had a Black Doctor, a female Doctor... I don't think diversity in the role is the key. It's absolutely welcome, don't get me wrong. I loved seeing all the various iterations of the character. Maybe if they have different writers each episode, and bring in some international talent? What would a Quentin Tarantino Dr Who episode look like? I mean obviously it would be PG, but I think Tarantino can work with PG, he just doesn't because no one asks him to. (And would a mature Dr Who be all that bad? Torchwood was kind of awesome.) Or what about Jordan Peele? Let's get some creepy stuff back in Dr Who. "Are you my mummy?" And anything related to the Weeping Angels but especially "Blink." They've done horror before and it worked out well. Does it really have to be someone from the United Kingdom? Maybe that's holding the show back.

I kinda feel like every doctor since whittaker has been announced as a "soft reboot"

My hotest take is that Dr Who was killed by the era that people love, Tennant era Who became too powerful, it made writing stories involving him fun, but it also made it so future writers had to level down his power (upsetting fans), break lore (upsetting fans) or write even more powerful big bads (also upsetting fans)

I guess we'll see fairly soon whether BBC/AMC/Sony confirm or debunk this, and I'm not going to speculate on its veracity. At face value, though, I would welcome this as a promise of the show's survival.

The draft(?) hits a lot of positive notes that give cause for optimism: a three season deal, partners with pretty deep pockets, and what amounts to a thorough spring cleaning behind the scenes and on screen.

We pretty much knew the next season would need a new cast. The Doctor regenerated, but into who and what is unsure. And the writing on the wall seems to be that Russell T Davies is leaving, too, so it's not a huge reveal that the show will be "rebooted" in that sense.

From a glass half full perspective, a soft reboot like in 2005 could probably serve the show well. Heck, an even softer one as we have seen with transitions to new showrunners would suffice. Of course, those are best case scenarios, and the leaked text doesn't detail what sort of new starting point this will be.

It remains to be seen what is meant by "a significant evolution for the series", "newly imagined narrative [...] and expanded storytelling scope". But until there is an announcement of a new showrunner and writers — again, depending on the document's authenticity — and their creative visions, I'd say that is likely just promotional bluster.

To some degree it signals that "yeah, the show was occasionally pretty meh the last couple of years, but no more of that!" All parts of the production would want to distance themselves from the less stellar performances of the previous run. As long as we're not getting some sort of reset that wipes anything from canon... such as that is.

Just do the Valeyard already ffs

reboot? dr who only goes foward as far as the story goes. there still so much content from 1 off arcs/villians that needs to be addressed.

Reboot? So we’re committing to a multiverse then?