Timothy Birdnow

Fans of Doctor Who, the longest running sci-fi show in ttelevision histtory (some game shows and news programs have been on longer; Dr. Who started in 1964, being canceled briefly but rebooted in the mid '90's)may finally be coming to an end. The beloved science fiction drama has seen it's ratings bottom out as a result of poloitical correctness and now the show may well be heading for the ashbin of history.

The show centers around an alien who calls himself simply "The Doctor" and who has a unique fondness for modern London and Cardiff, that with all of time and space to play in. He is a time-traveler, from a species that call it'self "Time Lords" because they can go anywhere at any time. The Doctor is pretty much the last of the Time Lords, the rest having been trapped in a time bubble as a result of a war between all the higher species of the universe. The Doctor is basically immortal and he goes around doing good deeds and visiting all sorts of places, past and future.

The show was originally for children, to teach science and history to them, but it was the parents who started watching the show while the kids played on the floor. It soon became a more adult program, aolthough it was family-friendly. It is a British institution.

To replace Doctors when they quit they came up with the ingenious idea of them "regenerating" when at the point of death, so they are new people.

In the late '80's the show was in trouble, not because of low ratings but because the BBC was being run by woke people who thought it too violent. They insisted the show be made more kid-friendly, so clownish costumes and ridiculous, childish plots wer eimplemented on the last two Doctors (they dressed Colin Baker like a clown and had an episode with Sylvester McCoy with a man made of candy.) But the producers couldn't stay off of interesting and dark themes and the show got sacked. It was resurrected when a change in leadership at the BBC allowed it's return. It was wildly popular in it's second iteration, which really upped it's game in terms of plots and special effects.

But one of the writers (a good one, actually) named Russell T. Davies took over as producer, and he was also a homosexual activist. Suddenly homosexuality was everywhere on Dr. Who, with gay guest stars and normalizing marriages between women or men.

Still, tthe show did well as long as they made sexuality a side issue. But leftists can never be content with some; they always have to have it all.

They introduced a main character named Captain Jack Harkness, who was a very randy bisexual. He was on a few episodes and was popular but parents didn't like it so the BBC spun him off on his own late night show.

The real change was coming though. The Master, one of the top villains on the show, was turned into "Missy" a woman. The Master was another Time Lord and old friend of the Doctors', but he went mad and became evil. At any rate the show had already introduced an evil Time Lady called The Rani, so they didn't need to do this, but they did anyway. The master regenerated as a chick. We all knew where this was headed.

When Peter Garibaldi decided to leave the show they replaced him with a woman - Jodie Whittaker. While I've not seen her performance I'm given to understand she did well - but that isn't Dr. Who. The Doctor is a man and always had been.

Trouble was creeping up; Whittaker's tenure was stormy, with all sorts of troubles rocking the production and ever-dropping ratings. Not her fault; the writing was increasingly poor, They also had her indulge in a lesbian relationship with one of her companions, I might add. I understand. When she finally quit (no doubt under duress) the show was in big trouble. They pulled out the big guns, bringing back former Doctor David Tenant and his companion Catherine Tate for the relaunch. Sadly they screwed that up too, and the Christmas special that was supposed to relaunch the show bombed despite two of teh most popular characters on the show returning.

See, they decided to have a black Doctor. This too was obviously coming; there were multiple black characters on the show for the last few years - the companion Martha Jones, for instance. And Donnal Nobel - Tate's character, was engaged to a black guy and then later married another. So they were pushing for this.

In fact rumor had it Eddie Murphy was offered the gig but turned it down. He at least would have brought star power.

But instead they hired Ncuti Gatwa, a Rwandan immigrant to Britain. A GAY Rwandan immigrant to Britain.

But wait; there's more!

His first companion was a drag queen.

The show was seriously tanking so the BBC decided it needed to be sold off. So they sold it to Disney.

Talk about out of the frying pan into the fire! Disney destroyed STAR WARS for crying out loud!

The secret to Dr. Who's success was in part the show was clean, fun for the whole family. There was no sexuality in it until the reboot. The closest it came was when Peter Davison regenerated and his companion Peri complained "I liked how you looked" the way a lover would a bad haircut. But in the newer episodes the Doctor had a lover (Rose Tyler) and was heart-broken, and had several other women who traveled with him who obviously were smitten with him. But it was always kept out of the plot; no sex scenes.

But now the show is trans and gay and openly promoting things the public doesn't like, and doing that for children. It should not surprise anyone; it's what sexual politics is all about, getting the young and normalizing sodomy. But it's not what the People want.

So now the show is in freefall, and typical of leftists the producers are doubling down on the stuff that the public despises about it. Instead of waking up to the fact that the MAGA Era (MEGA - Make England Great Again) is here and people are wanting more tradition, more of what made their countries great. This is a backlash to the radical push made by the Left across the globe to build their internationalist, socialist paradise. People want to go home; they now feel like strangers in a strange land.

Dr. Who could have capitalized on that. The Doctor HAS no home, except the Tardis (his time machine - Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). But Progressives always want new and different and weird and hate tradition and harmony. And they ultimately hate the people on whose behalf they claim to be working.

It's sad; this was an institution in Britain, as old as am I (it started in 1964 while I was busily being born). Now it may wind up gone forever,another victim of DEI and wokism.

Liberalism destroys everything it touches.

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