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Doctor Who Viewership is plummeting

YCoCg

Member
Well, I watched the Christmas Special and WTF was that?
A fat lady turns into a star and sucks up her mother's soul.
That's like a recurring plot in multiple episodes, nothing new.


I'm serious the amount of times a woman has died in Who only for their spirit to join the cosmos has been around 5 or 6 times now since series 1 (2005).
 

Krathoon

Member
It was a pretty odd ball episode.
Everyone being ok with being absorbed by the star was creepy.

Then, you have the whole thing with the Doctor being best friends with the hotel clerk for a whole year.
 

YCoCg

Member
Then, you have the whole thing with the Doctor being best friends with the hotel clerk for a whole year.
This isn't new either, was it Series 5 where he was friends and stayed with Craig for a year? The episode was OK, felt very mixed of Who tropes.
 

Krathoon

Member
This isn't new either, was it Series 5 where he was friends and stayed with Craig for a year? The episode was OK, felt very mixed of Who tropes.
It is just a weird little tanget, but Doctor Who is known for those.

It is just the whole star thing kind of annoyed me.
 

Hookshot

Member
I only caught the very end and it seemed like he was with the Star at Jesus's birth but people are talking about hotel clerks and soul sucking?
 

Trilobit

Member
It's such a weird time to be alive. I used to love Star Trek, now I have been avoiding the latest one. I used to love The Doctor during the Tennant and Smith eras which was basically my first contact with the IP, but now I have zero interest for the IP. I used to love Star Wars, but Disney have done their darndest to make me lose interest there too. You could think that I have just grown out of them, but I still love watching the ones I loved back then and they still spark that same joy in me. I wish I could hibernate until those franchises get quality writers.
 
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lifa-cobex

Member
Wallace And Gromit Smh GIF by Aardman Animations

At least we got Vengeance most foul
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
If you read up on why the latest Dr Who shows got such bad ratings, a reason for bad ratings is due to UK people watching on iPlayer. So it messed up apples to apple ratings vs other years.
 

FunkMiller

Banned
Another round of defending this fucking trash by the usual suspects. It couldn't even break the top 5 most viewed shows on Christmas Day. It used to be at the top. 'But wait for the streaming numbers!' they all scream... then shut the fuck up instantly when they're terrible as well.

Their other gaslighting argument of 'people don't watch TV anymore' also completely blown out of the water by Gavin & Stacy's 12 million overnight figure.

The sooner this bloated corpse of a show is cancelled again, the better.
 
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Laptop1991

Member
It's a bad show now full of agenda and their badly written so called science fiction, it will be the same as last year and each episode will get less and less viewers, but Disney is still in charge of this series as well i believe, so it's to be expected.
 
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