To me the problem isn't the doctor - it's the writing. As I've seen in previous posts series 12 is far better than series 11 but it still had many flaws.
The writing is not gonna get better. It's a woke series. It can't.
I'm not kidding. Writing/showrunning requires a fair amount of creative freedom. Imagine for a moment that you're a writer or a showrunner in female Doctor Who series. And you start making choices...
What happens with the pseudo-magic babbling? That has been a recurrent problem since Matt Smith: the doctor babbles some non-sense, he waves the sonic screwdriver and voilà! problem solved! They had the same problem during the 70s, and they solved it by banning the "magic" screwdriver. Could you do that now? If Whittaker can not waves a magic screwdriver and solve the problem babbling some non-sense, that means she less powerful that male Doctor Matt Smith. That's wrong in the woke world: female Doctor must be more powerful than the previous male ones. Outcome: you
can't solve that problem.
Another example. Gender swap has a lot of potential when it comes to comedy. It's a classic trope in Anime, and they've created brilliant comedy out of it. Ranma 1/2 is the classic example, but it's far from being the only one. However, that comedy is considered often sexist in the woke world. That means you're making a major change, as a gender swap in the main character, and at the same time you're dismissing most of the possibilities if offers. Outcome: so much wasted potential.
You could continue on and on. There's no way the writing gets good.
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peter_t_2k3 (957)
4 years ago
I've always said the doctor should lose the screwdriver for a bit. I get RTD's reason for bringing it back because getting stuck by a door could be boring if it kept happening but the sonic screwdriver had became too much a get out of jail free type thing. I also would love the Tardis to gain an issue and the doctor to not be able to fully control it for a time like in classic who. I miss the landing on alien planets without a clue of where they landed.
As for the sonic making the doctor look smart. By removing it you would have to have the doctor use actual witts to sort things out so it would work. When Jodie does leave I'd love to see a more mature female, a kind of smart scientist kind of person that thinks logically so maybe comes across cold at face value but does have a love for those close to her deep down. Writing this it's actually sounding like a female 3rd doctor
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kukuxu (5409)
4 years ago
It wouldn't make the Doctor look smarter. It would make the story (and the character) much more interesting, though.
However... the last iterations, and starting with Matt Smith, the Doctor solved problems using less and less effort. There's no way they're gonna have female Jodie Whittaker putting some effort in solving problems when male Smtih and Capaldi were so powerful. She must be at least as powerful as them.
That's a common problem with female and non-white characters. If you had a male, the female must be more powerful. And then if you had a white female, the black female must be even more powerful. It's a 'power inflation'. That's why Mary Sues have become so common. And it's one of the (many) reasons characters are becoming less and less interesting.
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peter_t_2k3 (957)
4 years ago
But powerful can be interpreted in different ways.
Having the doctor use her sonic for everything is not power to me because she is relying on something else.
My favourite doctor is the 3rd doctor and he often had to use science and his brains. To me that's more clever than just waving a magic wand. And if anything it could help people relate and even inspire people e.g. young girls to take up science
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