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Who is such an interesting show, in the sense that it’s cultural footprint has always stood in contrast to a relatively tiny production budget.
by afavour 1y ago
Who is such an interesting show, in the sense that it’s cultural footprint has always stood in contrast to a relatively tiny production budget.
- goalieca 1y agoDisney blew the budget up and the quality went down.
- tredre3 1y agoUh I didn't realize that Disney was involved in production, I thought they were merely distributors. But yeah, since 2023 Disney has been co-producing. It certainly explains some of the choices, but I don't know if they can be entirely blamed for the decline of the franchise.
- pndy 1y agoBad Wolf-Disney co-op was seen by some people as salvation which would bring new fresh approach but in the end they just speed up the decline of this franchise. And that started most likely somewhere around Capaldi's time - with prolonged focus on Clara. BBC should back then pause everything and let fans take a break but instead they decided to continue with new companion. When that didn't go as expected they tried with new showrunner and Doctor; Moffat knew how to run this playground, Chibnall despite earlier good contributions did not. Then pandemics happen which resulted in delays - they tried with shorter series a'la classic show format of story split into parts but it was already too late. Not mention the stinking bomb Chibnall decided to launch to get few minutes of cheap thrills, nullifying over 50 years of creative contributions to this franchise. Then there are socio-political elements but that just a minuscule of the whole problem.
- vintagedave 1y ago> the stinking bomb Chibnall decided to launch to get few minutes of cheap thrills, nullifying over 50 years of creative contributions For a casual viewer like me — I haven’t seen any of the new episodes — I’m struggling to find what this is referring to. What happened with Clara and the doctors, and Capaldi, and what was this thing that nullified 50 years of the show?
- ZiiS 1y agoThe doctor is no longer Gallifreyan/Timelord.
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- afavour 1y agoThe criticism around Clara is an extension of the criticism that’s existed since the start of the reboot: that the companions get too much focus. Rose was very much the entry angle to the revival and made sense but the argument goes that Clara took that too far. She feels like the main protagonist in a lot of stories and her departure is a little controversial in that vein but I’ll avoid spoiling that. The nullified thing is known as the “timeless child” storyline. The Doctor is retconned to not be a Gallifreyan at all and also the source of everyone’s regenerative powers (or something, I honestly forget). It was a totally unnecessary retcon but IMO much worse it was incredibly self indulgent. Most of the audience cares very little about the Doctor’s backstory, they just want enough setup to enjoy the adventures.
- pndy 1y agoI'd say that happened already with 13th Doctor. Bad Wolf-Disney DW comes with this "plastic oversaturated filter" effect that plagues media productions for 10 years if not longer.
- FridayoLeary 1y agoThe old episodes are very quaint. They are quite clearly produced on shoestring budgets, some of the plots are quite weak and i found it hilarious how bad the actors were at faking violence. But none of that mattered, because the team were clearly passionate and enjoyed what they were doing and did a good job so the end product is charming. Production standards have obviously moved on massively since the 1980's and we are better off. The modern episodes are much more highly polished and coherent but not necessarily more popular. Like someone else pointed out the massive influx of disney money did nothing and only exacerbated the train wreck which was the recent doctor who seasons. Another film that had a huge impact was monty python and the holy grail which was produced with a budget of 75p and ends abruptly because the money ran out. But they just turned that into a running joke throughout the whole movie.
- pndy 1y agoThe 2005 return/reboot had a small budget and that could be seen in the props which mostly were ordinary items repurposed as out of this world technology. But that worked on the overall charm of this period - I dare to say that show felt realistic in that cheapness. The regained interest surely allowed to assign more money to the series. DW was at the peak during 11th and 12th Doctors tenure with BBC America involvement in production - the low-quality is mostly gone and more CGI was utilized, and so the stories were good. Not mention the good chemistry between all main actors.
- ocdtrekkie 1y agoThis is a pretty common scifi thing. The Borg antennas being built on the Enterprise's deflector in First Contact were bird feeders. Odo was once contained on DS9 in a bread maker.
- pndy 1y agoA bread maker? My eyes always focused on these plastic pallets used as wall, ceiling panels in DS9...
- AmbroseBierce 1y agoCypher -from the Matrix franchise- said it best, "Ignorance is bliss". Fun fact about that scene: Studio executives wanted it cut but Keanu Reeves insisted on using it.
- wlesieutre 1y agoLuke’s lightsaber was famously a Graflex camera flash
- dcminter 1y agoInevitably there's a reddit sub for it (I adore the name of it): https://www.reddit.com/r/Thatsabooklight/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Thatsabooklight/
- hdgvhicv 1y ago