As a Star Wars fan, I would like to offer my condolences to the Doctor Who fans.

Dr. Who fans are some of the nicest and most passionate people I’ve met, and like many other fanbases, they didn’t deserve to have their franchise ruined by idiots.

The Daleks tried for ages to kill off The Doctor and yet somehow the BBC managed it ridiculously easily.

My biggest issue with the 60th is it didn't feel like a celebration of 60 years.

As I recall from studying *real* history, governments that sought to rewrite history to suit their needs weren't exactly the most peaceful idealistic societies.

Never let culture fall in the hand of activists.

Disney's fault, I would say. MUSICAL IN DOCTOR WHO!??!?!💀😭 I was cringing more and more

Capaldi was the last doctor in my mind

One of my all time favourite moments in all of Doctor Who was Jo Grant's departure. She announces she's getting married and although the Doctor acts happy for her you can tell he is devasted that the woman that kept him company through his years of being trapped on earth is leaving him. As everyone pours drinks to celebrate the Doctor silently drinks his and leaves the party while no one is looking (He didn't notice that Jo saw him). Then the Doctor, an ageless alien, drives away on his own. Calling scenes like that baggage is fucking insulting

That whole BS about the MALE Doctor not being able to let go of power drives me nuts!! Have they already forgotten how Doctor Donna begged, pleaded and cried for the Doctor NOT to take her power away from her...even though she knew it would kill her!

Bro, why do they always fucking spoil shows and turn them into propaganda with bad writing. Like, if you want to spread your speech, MAKE ANOTHER SHOW instead of spoiling another

A space alien informing the audience of their chosen pronouns might be the low point of modern scriptwriting.

The Doctor being a slightly insufferable know-it-all is precisely why we loved him, among a myriad of other traits. I will personally never forget how David Tennant brought us the most compelling expression of "righteous anger" I think I'll ever see in my life. To be a lonely, wounded, god, filled with the rage of centuries pouring it out on the darkest of foes...it was just all so brilliant. RIP Dr. Who.

Capaldi was the last doctor, and all this time we had been in denial, if they want to do something different I would be happy to watch "Clara and me in the restaurant at the end of the universe"

The problem with calling yourself "Progressive" is every time you achieve a goal, you then have to find a new goal and proceed to once again beat the rest of us to death with it. They will insist on taking us down no end of weird backwaters, and if they have their way this "progress" will be unending.

I've never realized how spoiled I was becoming a whovian during Peter Capaldi's era. I think it's because he's a true whovian, you can see that excited fanboy in him during interviews and even on set sometimes That firey passion spread to those who worked with him and to us the audience. Jodie tried, David didn't seem to have it much compared to his 10th doctor run, and I hope Ncuti doesn't mess it up

"By believing it, we will summon it forth" I've never seen a Progressive put it so honestly.

"And in the years to come you might find yourself revisiting a few, but just the old favourites, ay?" - A prophecy that has come to pass and taken on an entirely new meaning. With 50 years worth of stories to enjoy, we can revisit them all. The Day of the Doctor serves as a wonderful series finale for classic Who. May it rest in peace.

Listen, I'm a gay black man and I Loved Dr who but yeah I'm over it now. I'm glad they're more concerned about pandering rather than their loyal fans. Sad

Capaldi was the last Doctor. RIP Doctor Who. The priceless and irreplaceable icon is truly dead.

The UK viewership for the 3 David Tennant specials are LESS THAN HALF of the very first Jodie Whittaker episode (and Jodie ONLY went downhill after that). The average viewing numbers for the three Tennant specials are almost EXACTLY where Sylvester McCoy's average ratings were before the show was cancelled in 1989. None of the Tennant specials surpassed viewing figures for even the least-viewed Matt Smith episode, much less any of the prior David Tennant episodes. Disney dumped a TON of cash into this production and this was NOT what they wanted to see happen. Yes, this is a huge failure. This is a big-budget special effects show, not some seedy medical drama, and it is the 60th anniversary to boot. They were expecting in excess of 10 million viewers and couldn't maintain half that.

As a Whovian, I take solace in these 3 facts. There's fifty good years of Who that they can't ruin. Hartnell was the first Doctor and Capaldi was the last. Lastly their version of Dr Who will be forgotten in a decade ours is forever.

not only have they killed it they now have goblins dancing on the grave....

I honestly loved that they brought back David Tennant. It was fun to see him. The Bigeneration was really weird, but the 10th Doctor finally got the ending he wanted. There were a lot of things in the specials i didnt like though. The attitude they gave the doctor and telling him how he wouldnt understand because he is a "male presenting timelord". I also don't know how being non binary was important for the story. The characters gender shouldnt be important.

When ideology is more important than art/entertainment, you know that its doomed to flop terribly. To Doctor Who fans, you deserve much MUCH better & I hope something good happens in the future.

As an Indian, as a brown person, I want every "activist" and person who condone what doctor who has become to know ,I never needed the doctor to look like me or another POC or a woman to feel represented. The doctor was amazing because of his character, his stories ,he felt relatable because he was just another time lord who strived to be a good man, it was never about him being special but about being a good man and the lore change screwed it all up. The stories all took a downward trend after the female doctor but I guess the groundwork for that was laid when the master was made a woman. Instead of a brotherly bond and betrayal they messed up the relationship. Doctor who ended for me with capaldi's ww1 Christmas special which had brought me to tears. RIP doctor who, never did a doctor had to literally revert back to an older doctor to save the show and it still failed because of the atrocious dialogue and story. Doctor who used to be about exploring, imagination about science and history ,now it has turned into a political messaging tool.

I'm dying when he said: "sir Isaac Newton wasn't white".

I remember watching the 50th anniversary episode as a kid with my mum it was great and we both were hyped…. I’m glad we didn’t watch this together (or at all)😭

Matt Smiths final words have been lost by RTD. Change is okay, you gotta keep moving as long as you never forget who you were. RTD has completely forgotten who the Doctor is.

You don't have to be a doctor of psychiatry or psychology to know that " emotional baggage " literally makes us who we are. How we handle our challenges and let downs define who we are.

I was having a conversation with a normie friend of mine over the weekend and, without giving it any thought, told him “All my old fandoms have been compromised - there’s pretty much nothing left from my old favorites to enjoy.” I said it matter-of-factly, but after it came out of my mouth, it saddened me to confirm out loud that so many things I used to love - comics, Star Wars, Star Trek and Doctor Who - have all been destroyed by people that couldn’t care less about them.

That article from screen rant about moving past pain and loss made me think of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. "Damn it Bones you're a doctor, you know that pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us that make us who we are. We lose them we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain taken away I need my pain!" - James T. Kirk

The grief I feel for a show I’ve been loyal to for almost 20 years is awful. I’ve never been so angry at writers.

Honestly, the real problem for the show is that it seems to be playing more to an American audience, and the general dumbing down of certain things in the series. Disney? There is a great chance that it will ruin the show... I said what I said... I love the show, but weep for the Americanisation of it.

As 47 year old Englishman who grew up with Dr Who, this hurts my soul.

Doctor Who gave me 10 great seasons during my childhood and teens. Those memories will never be taken away. RIP Doctor Who.

One of the greatest things Doctor Who taught me was what we now know as the meme regarding the difference between 'harmless' and 'peaceful'. The Doctor is capable of great violence and vengeance, as both Eccleston and Tennant showed. But he actively chooses not to be, hence he is 'peaceful'. That kind of nuance is way beyond what DW is post Capaldi, and way beyond whatever the hell Davies has devolved into.

As a 53 year old brit who grew up on DW, I stopped watching when that fuckin women arrived. Watched the new specials , then went back in time and watched Daemons , then pandorica opens. Conclusion: new dr is like a temu rip off. RIP DW

There is only 12 Doctors. Capaldi is the last. They can enjoy their fan fiction.

I'm not a Dr Who fan but my brother is. And he's a die-hard whovian. When I tell you he's pissed, it's the understatement of the year. My brother and I don't talk much but he's been blowing my phone up over all this like never before. I think I've talked to him more in the last couple weeks than I have in the last couple years.

Dr.who rest in peace 1963-2024.

this is 60th huge middle finger to all Doctor Who fans

The image of David Tenant giving birth to a fully grown black guy from his pelvis while being told to "Push!" will be forever with me. 😐

I love when they say "who cares if they are race swapped, gender swapped, gay, trans, etc?" They are the ones that care so much, they are so completely obsessed with identity politics they will crash entire brands and companies to push their obsession. They can't look at a person without seeing nothing but race, gender, sexual identity, etc.

We know everything. And you know nothing. RIP Donna Noble, the chaotic and awesome temp.

Capaldi is so so wise in saying there will be no return for him. This makes me sad. THEY are trying to destroy everything we loved.

I used to love this show so much...now its my most hated. Well done everybody involved. 👏

What did anyone expect, RTD made it very clear the only thing that matters is pushing the ' message ' and a big FU to the fans. Add Disneys amazing ability to make endless dumpster fires, and you got such a mix so toxic it could kill people at 1000 miles 😮

this mistake will be bigger than you think.... I hear Star Wars fans saying "welcome to our world"

I love how RTD had a problem with Davros being a wheelchair user who is evil, but not with The Toymaker being a man with a thick german accent who is evil

You cant have Davros in a wheelchair but you can give the Toy maker a German accent????!!!!!

When NewWho came on the screens in 2005 with Eccleston, I thought it was brilliant. Tennant too is brilliant & the stories were fresh, the CGI was fresh & I thought what could go wrong. When Smith took over it was starting to go over the top & then after Smith it got worse & worse. The 60th anniversary specials were rehashing old material as well as Tennant & Tate as fan service but what got me pissed off is that they had an actor of a different race playing Isaac Newton! Yes it's sci-fi/fantasy etc but if you're going to add a historical character, at least have him look the part! It's like getting Billie Piper to play Celie Harris Johnson in The Color Purple or Graham Norton to play Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter in The Hurricane. RTD has this panderverse where he has to pander to every minority, gender, race, object etc where they all have to be inclusive. With history, you cannot change the past, you cannot change what happened to slavery in the southern USA, convicts being sent to Australia, or the Indian sub-continent being under the British jackboot of colonialism. RTD needs to remember that he's writing & directing for an audience that differs in ages & they just want to see a decent Doctor Who episode. RTD is just pandering his own tastes into Doctor Who & it doesn't work. Chibnall was the same. RTD is now relying on old episodes he wrote & rehashing it into new ones. It's just pure lazy & pandering. Don't get me started on Disney either! Disney will send suggestive notes to RTD who will have to pander to Disney execs. What's next? Mickey Mouse playing Doctor Who!

"To Sir Edmund Rockwell, Know that I choose to remember you not as the monster you were in your final moments, nor as the secretive, obsessive man you became after I found you in the desert. I should have seen the signs then. If I had, perhaps I wouldn't have to mark this empty grave. This grave is for the man you were, and the man I will remember. He was the man who I'd talk and laugh with over tea long into the night, and the man who'd offer me supplies and a steed without a second thought. He was a scientist, a scholar and gentlemen. Wherever that man is, I hope he is at peace." David Tennant voiced Rockwell in Ark Survival Evolved. How poetic.

“Doctor, I let you go.” Thank you, Peter. Profound words from the final Doctor.

Aside from the obvious intention, it seems to me that the "bi-generation" robs the new Doctor of fully owning the role. He hasn't been passed the baton really. He's been temporarily allowed to hold one end.

It will be cancelled within one season. The fans are gone, the "modern audience" is a myth, and will not watch the show. I hope it was worth it for that sweet DEI score from Blackrock...

Yea it is sad indeed. Canonically for me, I have The Husband of River Song as my ending. Or if I’m feeling a sad ending, The Doctor Falls where the Doctor says “Pity, No stars. I thought there would be stars…” and stop it there as his final act of heroism.

I'm not kidding, that ending with capaldi and "rip dr who" brought a tear to my eye. Over a decade of some of the best memories, now overshadowed by the death of the show. It's like losing someone so very dear to you. 50 years of progress to bring the very best of entertainment now has had a radioactive 💩 upon it. When I go to watch Matt smith again, the old david Tennant episodes, the Baker and pertwee era or just any doctor who before 2017 I feel at peace, I feel comfort, I feel entertained and time well spent. Once the end credits roll, the world comes crashing down again, the knowledge that all that I have watched has been completely annihilated. What tears me up the most is the show won't be remember that much for the 50yrs of progress. No, it will be remembered for its agonising, torturous death. I'll say it one more time. RIP Doctor Who

"Emotional baggage" Really?!! That's why I love the doctor. A person that has lived for the longest time, with vastly more experience and knowledge than his adversaries and supporters, all the loss, grief and mistakes he made, he has to live with all that and keep moving forward because he understands that if he stops, evil wins. "Emotional baggage"

They did it right with Torchwood, but this feels like cringe accelerating to insane levels.

I don't know why they thought it was a good idea to change the show completely and continue to lose fans and viewership and then carry one.

Just bought the complete series on DVD even though i haven't seen one episode. Wanted to save it before they erased the original from memory.

As a Star Wars, Lord of the Rings enjoyer, I give my condolences to the Doctor Who community.

Loved Dr Who as a kid but it’s for no one now, certainly not kids!

I very quickly abandoned Dr Who under the Jodie Whittaker dumpster fire, due to the hammy writing and overriding identity politics. I came back for Tennant and Tate, but the dumpster fire is still very much burning. I might watch the Christmas special with a morbid stare, just to see how high the flames go, but that's it.

Wow.. that wasn't a parody. That whole thing about "binary" and "pronouns" was seriously part of the script. May God help us all.

As a Star Wars, MCU, DCU, LotR, Witcher fan... I offer my condolences to the Doctor Who fans! 😪

Maybe they should put a mustache on Daisy Ridley and have her play the part as a trans- investigator. Maybe they could convince former Star Wars fans to buy a ticket for that farce.

As a Primeval fan, I would like to pay respects.

Dr Who fans did NOT deserve to be treated like this. I mean, out of all the vandalized fandoms, this one really hurts to watch happen.

I honestly can't believe these clips are real, they are so off the scale ridiculous it's hard to believe someone actually wrote those lines and scenes and they got made without anyone with common sense saying "this story arch is crap and the dialogue is even worse"

They took the emotional bagage and replaced it with shit bagage.

I am a real woman!! Please hire me as a writer of Doctor Who so I can make the timeless children a fever dream of Jodie Whitaker’s doctor while held captive and let’s do it all over again

I'm not even going to begin describe how f**king jaw-dropping that Bi-generation scene was. There were so many levels of what-the-fuckery!💀

I remember how incredibly powerful Capaldi's "I WILL NOT CHANGE" was, as he fought his regeneration by pounding into the snow. Looking back on that, you could kind of use that moment as foreshadowing....

Dr who fans deserve more than this. We need Daleks and Weeping Angels. The peak has passed.

From a star wars fan to the Whovians, we are sorry that your franchise has been destroyed like ours was. It is tragic, when someone takes something that is beloved by countless people, only to destroy it for political brownie points.

Russell T Davies ushered in a successful reboot of Doctor Who in 2005, partly by perfectly harnessing the nostalgia and respect of older fans, while subtlely updating the series to appeal to new viewers. His instincts in this regard have abandoned him in 2023, or maybe it's that he's had nearly 20 years of people telling him how well he handled it last time and it's blown his ego into the stratosphere to the point where he now thinks he can do no wrong. Watching Nucti Gutwa's Doctor dancing in a nightclub at the start of a new BBC trailer, wearing a singlet and kilt and nothing much else, it's clear that RTD has lost touch with who the lead character even is, and is instead writing some generic gay rom drama that happens to have a time travelling phone box in it. His disrespect of both Doctor Who's legacy in it's 60th anniversary year, and even his own legacy within that by bringing back David Tennant's Doctor only to shit all over it, has 'belled the cat' about how he will be proceeding with Doctor Who going forward. The only blessing is that its going to be so bad, that Doctor Who's days are now almost certainly numbered. And at this point, it deserves to be canceled again. It needs a rest, so someone new with an actual love of the I.P. can come along in a decade or two and revive it peoperly.

All the more bloodboiling to think about the fact that russel T Davies COULD write amazing Doctor Who stories, he just chose not to

Your video was the exact words in my mind... English in my 3ed language and I learned it 2006 because of doctor who... And after i watch last 3 episodes I was messed up for a month... They ruined the best movie and series franchise and that's very sad...😓

They have destroyed it, they destroyed Star Wars and everything else.

My favorite thing to do when introducing people to Dr who is to say it ended at the 12th.

How prophetic was it that the 12th Doctor's last words were, "Doctor, I let you go." 😢 Oh well, I have a lot of the original Doctor Who on DVD or Blu-Ray, and all of the modern Who through Capaldi (not all the 12th Doctor was woke or bad) on Blu-Ray. That's how I will choose to remember the show.

Fans of Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTRs, Terminator, GOTs, Witcher, MCU, Pixar, Disney... we are gathered here to pay our respects to Dr Who.

Everything can be fixed using a classic resourse: All was a dream or an induced hallucination , like in Amy's Choice (S05E07) or Last Christmas (S09E00).. All was a dream , including the clothing regeneration... I mean, since when the regeneration process change the clothes?

Dr who ended During the first half of Peter Capaldi’s journey

To all Doctor Who fans... it is Disney Doctor Who now, you should have known it was over...

The timeless child causes so many plot wholes and writing issues it amazes me they don’t just act like it never happened and move on. It completely removes all tension from any scene where the doctor could die. Undoes the 11th doctors final episode(that being that he only has one life left and will spend it defending trenzalore) and so much more. It is the “jump the shark” moment of Dr. Who and as long as it’s canon it will forever harm the brand of Dr who

The Master, Cybermen and The Daleks always wanted to kill The Doctor because, in the future, they saw the Devil’s Chord and wanted to prevent it from being made!

Implying that being different makes you "More" is a real issue that I can't really get past. It just goes against every tenet of decency. Just as much as being different being "Less".

Maybe gatekeeping wasn't about discriminating against people for things they can't control. Maybe it was about protecting the integrity of the franchise after all...

well said and a lot of us folk in the UK have left in disgust

The doctor who franchise really died after matt smith if we’re being honest. I used to watch the specials as a kid every test but stopped with the day of the doctor

once again Gary reminding me why I don't watch all this garbage. Thanks I appreciate all the work you do

I thank Doctor Who for helping me get through college and some rough times in my life. Matt Smith will always be my favorite Doctor and I’m so glad he was spared. The activists can have the series now.

We know history isn't to our liking, so by lying we can summon forth a new better society. The arrogance with a dollop of self righteousness that these people possess is extremely annoying.

As with a lot of current media, it looks like Doctor Who is also ready to say screw off to the old fanbase in attempts to grab new viewership/

Who did they write it for. Like film makers write things no one wants to watch and it’s stuff i imagine they only like

I stood in front of a statue depicting a great hero. He was a legendary hero, greater than life, and I remember being awestruck by the greatness the statue managed to exert. But when I looked at it, I saw that the statue had been vandalized. Some cruel hands had chiseled, painted, and bent the statue until it was unrecognizable. I began to weep, and a child asked me why I was crying. I told the child it was because of the statue. Such a great and noble thing had been destroyed, and it saddened me. The child asked me why would such a thing upset me. It is but a statue after all. And I told the child that it represented such great and beautiful things, greater and more beautiful than anyone could imagine, and now no one will experience it ever again. And the child will never get the chance to glimpse it either.

I’ve stepped into a new mindset: all of my favorite shows and movies haven’t been “ruined.” They’re all still there (I’m watching Babylon 5 for the 10th time right now). We just have to get used to the idea that anything with the same name is really just slash fiction written by activist losers begging us to care. We don’t.