BBC denies Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa has been axed
BBC denies Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa has been axed
The BBC says that Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa has not been fired. They also said any rumors about this are not true.
Good. He is an excellent Doctor, and I feel we’ve barely seen his true potential. Looking forward for his third season!
Axed means fires He ain't coming back
Edit: Missed the denies bit
BBC denies means not fired He coming back
I like him a lot, he's just been given bad scripts/plots... ditto with Jodie. She deserves at least one more season with a better writer, too
He has gotten far better material than Jody Whitaker got. But, yeah, the situation is similar.
I agree. I really liked Whitaker as the Doctor but the vast majority of the writing was not just substandard but bad.
Gatwa has had some better stuff, I like his portrayal as well but I do struggle to enjoy the writing still.
The man definitely has range. Imagine doing "The Devil's Chord," "Boom," and "Dot & Bubble" in the same season, and pulling off your part in each one perfectly.
And then RTD makes a horrifying unforced error and kicks off the season with "Space Babies."
It's honestly a travesty what they did to this guy. Gatwa has slid into the role more comfortably than any new Doctor since Tom Baker, but the best scripts they've handed him have been 7/10s. (Caveat: I haven't seen any of season 2 yet.)
Season 2 he has really settled into the role, it feels a lot more like regular who
One of the major problems with Disney Doctor is that the character is written too human in my opinion. He said "oh my gosh" quite too often for a non-Catholic alien.
The real question is which would be the real "invocation of a superstition"? Saying "oh my god", as a direct invocation, or "oh my gosh", as an indirect yet doubled invocation, with the implication that the word "god" is too sacred to exclaim?
Source for the rumour is the right wing shit-talking Sun newspaper, who predictably have claimed that the BBC are pausing not because of the contract with Disney but because they wanted to rethink casting a queer black man in the role. No, Sun, no they did not. They'll be calling him controversial and widely criticised next.
The Articles got a few issues. Jo Martin was technically the first black actor to portray the doctor. Just not as a season Focus doctor. More of a tangent introduced during the chibnail era.
That said, despite being a yank who is just going to be behind to begin with. And still haven't watched every bit of the new stuff that's available to me yet. I'm not had any issue with him in the episode that he has been in. Honestly I think if anything the writing is the bigger problem. Not that it's an easy job. For a series with basically an 80-year legacy. It's going to be hard to find fresh and new stories/takes to tell. Especially with chibnail burning through a lot of new lore Etc badly. In a flailing effort to make up for his poor screenwriting. It's absolutely been an improvement since chibnail. But perhaps not enough to save things.
80-year legacy
Whoa there partner. 62 years. Let’s not get too ahead of ourselves.
Aaaah yes, absolute brain fart there. You are quite correct. Still, quite a run. Even trek hasn't had that sort of continuity.
It would be extremely awkward if after the BBC releases this
spoiler
___the rumors about the Doctor regenerating into Billie Piper turn out to be true
Well...
To quote Matt Smith's Doctor, "You fibbing fibber..."