10 Simple Fixes For Doctor Who's Future

A few turns of the sonic could give Doctor Who an even brighter future in 2025, and beyond!

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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[WhoCulture]

Imagine you're in charge of Doctor Who. What one or two tweaks are you making to ensure the show's future success?

[GetheS]

The problem is that s2 was already in the can before s1 was out so we will probably have to wait for s3 for any change.

[GolDRoger-hlxi]

I remember a time when seasons of shows were 24 episodes a season.

[HowardThomas-gh]

Enough crying! In the entire classic series, the Doctor cried only ONE time, when Jo Grant left…and it was one tear. He didn’t even cry when Adria died!

[lykan]

Definitely less crying, i don't have anything against the Doctor showing Emotion...but this was a bit much. I think he cried in every single episode to some degree

[AngelMelendez]

Spot on, Ellie. Someone send this video to RTD and the BBC, please.

[HowardThomas-gh]

Paul McGann in his own series, even if limited in scope, would be an amazing thing to behold. You see the work he did in the Night of the Doctor, and it’s clear he would’ve been regarded as one of the best doctors ever cast if he had his chance in a series.

[cozyvrc]

Something I just realized as I was watching this is

They established in star beast that unit is used to seeing the doctors out of order, they were treating 14 like he was 10 until he told them otherwise

It’d be really cool if they explored this more in the land and the sea, we could see how unit works with different doctors out of order

[waterinmyotter]

Yeah, the constant crying really put me off this Doctor. I get that they’re trying to send the message that it’s okay for men to express their feelings, but it was way too much. For me, it’s not that the frequency lessens the impact, I just don’t think it’s something a hero character should constantly be doing. Imagine if Steve Rogers cried every time something bad happened in the MCU; you wouldn’t be able to take the character seriously anymore. And what’s worse is that it looks so fake. It’s always ONE single tear running down his face, clearly put there by the makeup department.

[Chris-qgmt]

Solution 1

RTD needs to go. Once he was the king of Doctor who and the shows return. Sadly now he has lost his way

Solution 2 listen to the fans it’s this simple

[igorschmidlapp]

Where season openers are usually explosive events, "Space Babies" was a fart... ;-P

[NjHourquebie]

Space Babies needs to be relegated to a dark corner of a closet in RTD's basement!

[codyfeisel]

Not just more new writers, but also more Moffat. Moffat has produced so many all-time episodes with RTD as showrunner. But what you said about RTD focusing more on showrunning than individual episodes is spot on.

[zaristophanes]

Ncuti gatwa is too human, lacks the alien aspect of the doctor

[Limes_not_Lemons]

It's really annoying, because 15 crying did work in a few episodes but damn the frequency of it was frustrating. I'm fine with it but only in moderation. I think the lower episode count is also to blame for how dumb it feels. I mean, 8 episodes where he crys in at least 6 of them sucks in my opinion. If it was even just a 10 episode season, where you remove the unnecessary crys and only keep the Boom, Dot and Bubble Rogue, and Legend of Ruby Sunday ones. 4 episodes out of 10. That's frequent and borders on ridiculous but isn't as bad. I understand 13 episodes being too much to make each year, 14 including the Christmas special, but 10, 11 including Christmas should probably be the aim. That's the main positive I have for Jodie's era, the series were shorter but they didn't FEEL short. Doctor Who felt like it was around for a while, but Ncuti's season 1 felt like it was barely present. 10 episodes with 1 doctor lite for production conflicts and 1 low stakes budget & production friendly episode would be great

[OziJo]

Excellent points! RTD take note! Btw, don’t mind The Doctor crying but it starts to lose its emotional impact when it happens too often.

[GemmaHentsch]

Both of the doctor lite episodes were exceptionally strong…

[SquishyOfCinder]

I can say most people did not like Space Babies, especially the die hard fans.

[trevorfeelgood]

You do know the filmed season 2 already....so there will be no different until season 3

[trevorwooten]

I wasn't aware of the staggered release times. But my thoughts are almost exactly yours on the crying. Not every episode and definitely not when he should be acting or, at least, planning. And having a central streaming location for all eras of the show definitely makes sense.