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Originally Posted by Paul
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Actually it might not be the worst thing that could happen to the show at this point.
RTD was responsible for resurrecting it, but he damn near killed it again when he got his second go. He’s suffering a full-blown messiah complex and thought he could use the show as a personal campaign vehicle for his obsession with gender identity ideology - basically thinking he could do for T what he did for LGB with ‘Queer as Folk’ back in the day. We’ve had Time Lords as an analogy for trans, we’ve had men who think they’re women cast in roles they clearly aren’t skilled enough to perform (clearly even the directors thought so and had ‘Rose Noble’ mostly stand in the background where “she” could cause the least damage), we’ve had thinly veiled pronoun lectures by proxy (“THE Vlinx”, please definite-article me lest I be offended).
RTD was cheered on by a lot of clapping seals who would point to The Green Death and other stories of the early 1970s as proof that ‘Doctor Who has always tackled social-political issues’ whilst cheerfully ignoring that this was simply a by-product of repeatedly hiring a communist with a bee in his bonnet as a scriptwriter (Malcolm Hulke in this case), rather than an enduring policy decision of the permanent production team. Doctor Who was commissioned as a teatime family drama with a remit to entertain all ages and educate kids. I would argue that pushing a highly contested social theory as normative goes way beyond that remit, although it’s certainly not just Doctor Who that’s fallen foul to the BBC’s capture in this area in recent years.