PaulAndroid

Massive Whovian, Owner of a YouTube channel where I recreate music from Doctor Who. (He/Him)

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[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

My 73 Yards Suite is out now. There is a brief moment in the episode where it's Christmas, so it counts as a Christmas video. Joy to the World coming soon, probably.

https://t.co/AquYxsC8ZL

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

@PaulIrvine82015 I feel like he had early sketches of ideas, and the BBC rejected those before he wrote a whole script. It seems weird to me that if he did in fact write a script which got rejected that he would then go on social media and lie to make himself look lazy.

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

The fact that Russell never wrote a script and has been acting all lackadaisical regarding the show’s production all year further proves my theory that he only wanted to do the 60th specials and only took over as full time showrunner because no one else would.

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

@BernardJKD That’s assuming he’s the one that writes it, but then again, I guess, who else would even care enough to do it? And yeah, that’s probably what would happen.

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

At this point, I say just slap together a minisode to just haphazardly wrap up the dangling threads. Have it be camp and unserious like this Wilderness era’s Dimensions in Time. Just a little thing for the fans to look to for when the eventual new era ignores all of this.

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

@BernardJKD Well, this is assuming she’d be willing to shoot a brief Comic Relief/CIN type short. I mean, she does Big Finish. It’s not like she never sets time aside for supplemental Who stuff.

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

Honestly, there’s so many episodes over the past several years that just plain did not feel like professional finished television that it’s surprising that “Oops, no special after all” hasn’t happened before.

[BKY @DPRKjr]

@redrummarts @EPM106 dr who is a show about a man who can go anywhere do anything and be anyone and they ran out of ideas

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

@BernardJKD And again, that’s not quite my main point. I’m just saying that Doctor Who as the BBC’s biggest IP is seen as more valuable to them now than it would’ve been in the 90s.

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

In all fairness, there’s no way this haitus lasts as long as the last one because Doctor Who, despite the drop in popularity, is still the BBC’s biggest IP that’s near the status of anything in Hollywood. It’s not just the cult TV show it was by 1989. It was a global hit once.

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

@BernardJKD Doctor Who definitely has a sizable following in the US in the 80s due to PBS airings, but I don’t think it was ever like the Matt Smith era where there were billboards in Time Square. It’s like if Doctor Who was in the same conversations as Star Wars and Star Trek in the 80s.

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

@BernardJKD On top of that, we’re also in the era of IP milking, which I don’t love obviously, but that’s also a reason I can’t see the BBC not prioritizing the show.

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

@BernardJKD It was a global cult hit, but Doctor Who, especially around the Matt Smith era was omnipresent in global culture on a level that classic Who never quite hit. It sold out Hall H at Comic-Con a couple years in a row. That’s nearly Marvel level.

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

There’s gonna be a sizable gap in time for sure while they find a creative team, production partner, and funding source, and I welcome that because it needs a break, but there’s no way the BBC have any interest in letting it sit indefinitely.

[Joel @PoorlyAgedWho]

Can you imagine if Kevin Feige hopped on instagram tomorrow to say “there’s no avengers doomsday, we lied. we just wanted to secure the future of the franchise”

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

I’m not sure a final special from Russell would have even wrapped everything up satisfyingly anyways. For one thing, if Susan was in it, he probably would’ve tried to pull that Poppy shit again, and there’s a non-zero chance he would’ve just shoved another cliffhanger in there.

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

I don’t even care who writes it. I don’t even care if it’s a Children in Need special or just some YouTube skit. I just need this Billie Piper thing to officially be put out of the way.

[The Mind Probe @TheMindProbe2]

Russell should have taken a leaf out of Verity Lambert's book:

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

Even though there’s very few of us in the grand scheme that care now, inevitably, once you start a new successful era of the show, new viewers are gonna want to go back and check out the show’s past, and everyone’s just gonna be like “what ever happened to that?”

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

I’d say just start the next era with a new Doctor and carry on like 2005, but the stuff they have to ignore isn’t like the Doctor being half human in the TV movie, it’s about 3 or 4 active ongoing plot lines and a mystery character that might be the Doctor.

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

I remember when I thought leaving the Timeless Child unexplored and the universe seemingly still mostly destroyed from the flux was an unreasonable amount of loose ends to leave dangling for a future showrunner.

[PaulAndroid @PaulAndroid4]

It’s well documented that his main motivation for bringing back the show was to do the specials, and the specials are the only time his era seemed to have any real direction or purpose. Seasons 1 & 2 just felt like him going through the motions.