Wow!

I feel a bit overwhelmed that so many have quoted me…. although not always in context.

Looking around the internet in the past few weeks seems to show a lot of people supporting my viewpoint.

Many sources are reporting Doctor Who’s ratings as seriously dropping, and for the exact same reason I mentioned before…. the show is becoming PC…[Read more]

I just watched the episode again.

While it had its moments, some of them quite good, I just can’t say that it was a very good episode.  Perhaps a “Very Important” or “Very Special” episode, but really not that good overall.  Try watching it again and forgetting, for the moment, the racially-charged setting.

Look at it simply as a story.

Every c…[Read more]

First of all… let me make clear that I do not come from a “place of privilege”.

I’m black, and originally from West Philly…. and not the good part, either.

My point was that it is not a particularly cost-effective idea to make every episode a “very special episode”.

It wasn’t the message itself that bothered me. It was the complete lack of subtlety.

I’m not sure how to say this without causing a tsunami of nasty responses, but…. here goes…

I’ve been a Whovian since way back in the Patrick Traughton days.

I have no problem with a female Doctor, and I think Jodie Whitaker is doing a pretty good job so far.

But do we really need the heavy-handed “social justice” narrative?

It seemed like…[Read more]

This is my first post here, so I’ll just stick to my point.

Why, oh why, did they have to kill off Osgood?

I was betting that she would be the perfect companion for The Doctor.