Doctor Who Season Opener: Because I’m Low on Material

Well, this is some low-hanging rotted, worm-riddled fruit.

During the Jodie Whitaker years when I, (oh so stupidly), thought that Doctor Who couldn’t possibly get any worse, I ran into Blood of the Daleks.  This was a 2006 audio play featuring the Eighth Doctor from the godawful American TV movie. It was a great little story, and I did an about-face on Paul McGann’s Doctor.  If you were a fan of the show back when it wasn’t an abomination you should give it a listen, it’s free on Spotify. 

Anyway, Blood of the Daleks introduced a new companion Lucie Miller.  She was an unwilling companion and didn’t really want to put up with the hassles of traveling throughout all of the hotspots of the infinite cosmos. She had a new job she needed to start on Monday. But due to Timelord contrivance, that was the one place in all space and time the Doctor couldn’t take her.  She wasn’t impressed with this ancient being and didn’t want to put up with any of his crap. Donna Noble was a rip-off of Lucie Miller and I’m not moving off that.  

Lucie was the feisty companion done right. It is foundationally impossible for SJWs to write a character like her anymore.  Fiesty means they are obnoxiously self-righteous and denigrate men constantly. They must unceasingly lecture and put men in their place. Being a cuntasarus defines their entire character.

Belinda Chandra is the Doctor’s new horrible companion. As bad as the last season was, (and it was beyond terrible), I’ll grant that Ruby Tuesday wasn’t awful. True, she had that stupid bi-brow but Davies was too busy throwing the Doctor at various men to remember he was supposed to give Ruby a hot, hot weekend with Anise Nin. Her character was decently layered, and she had understandable motives.  Ruby was the star of that season’s only episode that was even close to good because Gatwa wasn’t in it. 

Belinda Chandra has only been in one episode and has secured a place for herself in Whovian history as the worst companion in the sixty-plus years of the show. 

 

The episode starts with Belinda being obnoxious to her boyfriend, Alan because he bought her one of those certificates that names a star after someone because he put Miss instead of Ms in its name, (Russel is REALLY showing his age there). Then they have one of those incredibly awkward Consent Is Not Sexy kisses. 

Seventeen years later she is a single (of course) nurse who hates her life because she works for the NHS. 

A giant toy red robot with an emoji for a face shows up and kidnaps her.  The robot takes her to the planet of the Incelbots.  They are red for a reason.

The Incelbots make various comments that are close to but not quite “based,” because Davies really doesn’t understand that.  Anyway, they are oppressing the human population of their planet, basically treating them like Davies and his friends imagine women would be treated after the Red Pill revolution. Sort of like The Handmaid’s Tale but for all genders.

So anyway, Belinda is going to be forced to marry the Overmind.  This won’t be pleasant for her as she’s going to be cyborged or stroggified or whatever you want to call becoming the perfection of melded flesh and steel that my right knee has become. 

Not to worry the Doctor is there, his brilliant plan is to get a whole bunch of people pointless killed by the incelbots so Belinda can be rescued.  Since she is a Stronk Whamen trope she hates the idea of being rescued BY ANY MAN, (yes, even a flaming gay one), so these people died for nothing so far as she’s concerned because it denied her agency and didn’t empower her.

Regardless, they escape and Ncuti has a cry, (take a shot if you were playing that game). A girl who was supposed to be his new companion was killed and he will now be stuck with Belinda.  Crying is understandable.

“I don’t need you to fight my battle for me, thank you.” Except, she absolutely does.  I swear, Disney must have brought in Marvel writers to do punch-up on this.  She doesn’t want to accept “blame” because she’s a clinical narcissist.

The rebels insist on blaming her because it’s her fault, so she tells the Incelbots where to find them.  This is framed as empowering which makes it good instead of utter betrayal, which is bad and which this was.

So the rebels are all captured thanks to Belinda and she agrees to be married to the Overmind.  Big reveal and the Overmind is a Stroggified Alan.  

You know, Alan her boyfriend from the first three minutes of the show. They show how controlling and awful he was.  Like insisting that after they get married she can’t go to the club or wear the kind of micro-minis with bare midriff tube tops that girls wear at clubs.

Intolerable!

We then see that this strong, based, Red Pill male was actually an incel, video game-playing gooner because that’s what all Red Pill men are if you ask people like Russel T. Davies.

She declares it “The Planet of the Incels,” I knew she was going to say it ahead of time but it’s so retarded it’s still hilarious.

Deus Ex Machina ending because that’s all Davies can do now.  Crisis is over.

The Robots literally promise to make reparations for their oppression, which wasn’t their fault because Alan had taken them over but it’s still over and that’s enough.

The Doctor offers to make Belinda the new companion but she’s big mad at him because he got his last companion killed rescuing her ungrateful ass.  Note, the immediate response to shame is to deflect it onto someone else.  At least Davies has portrayed a classic Cluster B Narcissistic Personality Disorder accurately.

But like I said, she’s a bad ripoff of Lucie Miller so he can’t get her home because of a contrivance barrier.

The chemistry between the two leads seems to be okay.  Or perhaps it’s just that the characters are equally detestable. 

The production quality was a bit cheaper than last year, I think Disney clamped down on the budget when it became how badly this was going to do.  Music and sound design were fine if you don’t mind what you’re seeing on screen.

I’ll give Davies some credit he can do horror but if he does camp he goes completely overboard.  I think he just can’t control himself when his lead is gay. This is nowhere near as good as his first seasons. Truth be told, I’m not sure I can blame him entirely.  The BBC is now about as politically open-minded as Goebbels’ GmbH studio. If he’s going to work in Britain at all he has to tow the Clown World line.  Granted, I’m certain he agrees with all of it. 

The theming of the episode was Boomertastically clumsy and bigoted. Even people who agree with the politics thought it was too preachy to be entertaining.  Davies burdened his script with backbreaking messaging that lands like a pile of pig guts hitting the slaughterhouse floor. 

Single young men today are the most despised demographic in the West. Boomer feminists succeeded in getting young men declared the designated out-group population.  When they think of them at all, they are remembering Clint Pornstace, the guy they were throwing themselves at in the seventies. The guy who banged ‘em and bounced.  Guys who are 8s, 9s, and 10s are the only ones they could ever see and that hasn’t changed with menopause. Feminists both young and old can NOT acknowledge the average-looking man as existing at all. They are literally blind to these men. Therefore when men’s problems are made known, it is a bother and a nuisance. They learn just enough about these issues to dismiss them as subversive and needing to be solved with more “education” AKA getting young men to admit they need to eat shit and say it’s tasty.

This episode was an attack on young men and their attempts to change their lot for the better. That is a big push going on in Britain at the moment. Happily, no one saw it.  It was the least-watched episode in the decades-long history of Doctor Who. 

There is no doubt in my mind that Russel T Davies went into this season knowing there wasn’t the slightest chance it was going to be renewed and that he was going to be remembered as the producer that revived and then killed Doctor Who. Consequently, the only thing he could do with it is the Left-Spinning Death Roll.  When everyone knows you’re the guy that sank an institution, throw the ship’s wheel hard Left when you do it and you’ll be a hero to the rest of the Communists. 

Finally, there is the question of, why is this new companion so much worse than the last one?  

I think I know why Ruby wasn’t awful last season.  She was white, the Doctor was black and therefore she wasn’t allowed to criticize, correct, or lecture him.  But Belinda Chowdra is Hindustani, she’s allowed and boy is she going to be doing that all this season.  Which I’m not going to watch. 

Well, maybe the final episode where Gatwa dies but that’s gonna be it.

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