‘Woke’ criticism of Doctor Who proves show on right track, says its newest star

‘Woke’ criticism of Doctor Who proves show on right track, says its newest star

Criticisms that Doctor Who has become too “woke” prove the series is doing the right thing by being inclusive, its new star Varada Sethu has said.

Sethu plays the Doctor’s latest travelling companion, Belinda Chandra, in new episodes airing next month. With Ncuti Gatwa returning as the Doctor, the pairing marks the first time a Tardis team will comprise solely people of colour.

Speaking about the milestone, Sethu told the Radio Times: “Ncuti was like, ‘Look at us. We get to be in the Tardis. We’re going to piss off so many people.’”

“There’s been a couple of Doctor Woke [references] or whatever, but I just think we’re doing the right thing if we’re getting comments like that,” Sethu said.

“Woke just means inclusive, progressive and that you care about people. And, as far as I know, the core of Doctor Who is kindness, love and doing the right thing.”

Doctor Who celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2023, when some viewers criticised its introduction of transgender and non-binary characters, as well as a scene in which David Tennant’s Doctor realises he has a crush on Sir Isaac Newton.

So they're now admitting that the goal is no longer to entertain but to piss off people.

theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/apr/01/woke-criticism-of-doctor-who-proves-show-on-right-track-says-its-newest-star

is the entire cast of that carribean british crime drama playing in Dr Who?

"Pull that zip down a bit, luv, we need something for the dads."

the tardis gets thrown out in the trash once shooting wraps on the series

a big pub bazza drunkenly stumbles onto it poking out of a dumpster

fukk me lad... its bigger on da inside....

bazza turns it into a pub filled with tons of other bazzas, the tardis can get footie games from the past present and future

someone accidently activates the tardis and sends it back to britons stone age; the fat northerners stumble out and meet ancient northerners

histories first game of footie was played that day

There's nothing more embarrassing about anti-woke tards than when they start pretending they care about nonsense as a pretext to cry about woke.

Really, you faggots are pretending you ever gave a shit about this britoid mongoloid garbage? Get fucking real.

The lowest point of Anon Babble was when people here pretended they like and care about He-man.

This. Dr Who fans all love this development because they are all gay.

Anon Babble is one of the most brigaded boards

Oh fuck off, I'm so deep in the Doctor Who rabbit hole I know what Iris Wildthyme and Faction Paradox are

You don’t need to be politically-obsessed or hateful to see that Doctor Who is headed for the bin.

Doctor Who lives in the bin. Always has.

Why are Indians so evil...? I've never seen anyone resent white societies as much as Indians do.

It seems to be a zoomer or millennial second or third generation thing infecting the minds of non-whites. The huge WYPIPO CAN'T EXPERIENCE RACISM BLACK LIVES MATTERS types I've seen were all second gen (or first, when you consider they arrived in the UK at like 1 years of old), then the English fluent India-Indians I have met don't hate us based on my experience. I have like two bros I have a back and forth exchange of racist reels with, one is a Pole and another an Indian guy who complained to me unprompted about the black Juliet alongside Tom, she should be white, likes reels where you see Polish malls entirely white with a caption like 'NOTICE SOMETHING?' etc.

Didn't read

What’s going on with the brits lately? Giving americans a run for their money on wokeness

Typical brownoid behavior

Time Travel is the domain of whites.
Jeet time travellers are just as absurd as black astronauts: too much suspension of disbelief.

But that's hierarchical still...

it's a dialectic meat grinder that just pits reality as a bunch of endless oppressed/oppressor relationships.
it's a terrible ontology tied to arbitrary ethics that does generate any real epistemology/truth; just endless conflict with the illusion of meaning & purpose (there's no woke heaven/utopia, just endless conflict. hence why everyone rightfully calls it gay race communism). Woke is another sophisticatedly nihilistic "solution" to man's spiritual emptiness; another god that failed.

I read this post in my head with an Indian accent

the jeet-ification of the internet is real.
goes hand-in-hand with Dead Internet Theory.
(jeets = biological bots)

that does generate

doesn't

we've made ourselves unlikable and culturally irrelevant, but at least we le triggered the Chuds!

No one cares anymore.

I'd go one simpler, and say it's just codified hatred of white people.

She's kind of blockheaded

Doctor Who was unironically my favourite thing for a long time. I got into it pre-reboot, when they used to show old Tom Baker episodes on TV.
It is in fact unrecognisable, embarrassingly shit, and alienating to the old fans at this point. I'm sorry to break this to you, Russel.
You don't represent "us".

I like watching the old episodes on Pluto now.
Even the 80s Pete Davidson episodes hold up

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people not watching means we're winning

Shitlibs are something else man.

>Speaking about the milestone, Sethu told the Radio Times: “Ncuti was like, ‘Look at us. We get to be in the Tardis. We’re going to piss off so many people.’”

And this is exactly why it's failing. Wokeness is exclusion disguised as inclusion. If you're straight, white, male, Christian, you don't belong in this club.

guys... this woke shit is everywhere wtf
yesterday wanted to look up the reddit for Battlestar Galactica and the first 10 threads are about "twitter is banned" "Elon is a nazi/cylon" etc.
I'm so tired bros its not even funny anymore.
every niche thing is infected everywhere

welcome to 2014

yesterday wanted to look up the reddit

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Create your own art.

At least BSG is too irrelevant to get cucked like Star Wars and Star Trek. I'm glad the Peacock reboot got cancelled because you know it would be the same old subversive shit like every sci-fi property of the past 15 years.

I could start a BSG thread on Anon Babble but unfortunately this ain't the board for a tv show discussion

Woke just means inclusive

who decided thisis a good thing? who gets to decide who gets to be included and where?

progressive

who gets to decide which direction is "progress" or "forward"

and that you care about people

Yes, in the same way being a pedo means tat you care about children

Get woke go broke. Normality always wins in the end

it's inclusive

it's fucking BORING hence your DOGSHIT RATINGS

I liked Tom Baker reruns
I liked Eccleston
I thought it was going a bit on the wrong path when everyone was slobbing on Tennant's knob

What channel does this come on again?

That would be Disney+

“Woke just means inclusive, progressive and that you care about people. And, as far as I know, the core of Doctor Who is kindness, love and doing the right thing.”

Yes I'm falling for the rage bait, but this is a gross misrepresentation. You simply cannot say an episode with a "left wing messge" or message about kindness and love from classic who (or even Nu who) is the same as the episode where the plot is solved with unironic "trans magic", then the trans character lectures David Tennant about being "male presenting." When most people day "woke" they mean poorly written stories that prioritise idealogical guff

be flying an airplane

all of the sudden

WOOP WOOP

Pull up.

WOOP WOOP

Pull up.

WOOP WOOP

Don't sink.

And the pilot kicks their feet up on the console and says happily, "Music to my ears."

I wanted to give this a chance, even binged Jodie's doctor who in good faith, which really wasn't even offensively political with diversity and all that shit as I'd read. But I think it really has gone in that direction now and doctor who has become insufferable. On the bright side the show is more entertaining now in general than the Jodie stuff, but the show still feels tired and like it's gone on way too long. It's disappeared up its own ass in multiple ways and really only plays to a niche of superfans at this point

2025

Still trying to advertise your media product via culture wars shit

the cylons would have ALL been white skinjobs

the colonials (who are basically greek mormons in the first two shows) would all be brown

Commander Adama would be female and a lesbian

Look, I can appreciate artists making stuff out of spite, but you cannot then complain when people get annoyed about it. These retards want to "stick it the man who is repressing them" while being completely obviously to the position they have been awarded. Ncuti is the only Doctor Who actor that I know of, who had to be told to act more "professionally" and "like the doctor" in front of kids and fans

"The core of Doctor Who is kindness, love and doing the right thing"

"We’re going to piss off so many people"

"We’re doing the right thing if we’re getting comments like that"

What happened to the blacked dot com companion? She was hot at least. Just immediately get rid of her after one series into the reboot?

poo begins her time on this wildly unpopular show by immediately antagonizing the non-existent fanbase

Kek, lemme know how that works out for ya

Every Indian I've met desperately wishes they were white and slip between hating whites, wanting to be white or hate whites while wanting to be one.

damn pajeetas look like that!?

Giving Internet access to India has killed it. They can make more money spamming X than getting a job.

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She's cute at least. Reminds me of Martha, and not just for the obvious reason

Anybody even watches this? don't understand how its going for so long, I watched some old ones once and is so ridiculously bad I couldn't fathom the idea of it having an audience

Luckily it got better when Moffat came along.

media and show gleefully announces and celebrates that this is the first time filthy whitey scum is banished from the tardis completely

omg why do u care bro ugghhh get real

True
It's why i've always held that progressives can never "win".
Either they make change happen, which forms a new status quo, or they fail.
If they form a new status quo, they must either defend it (becoming conservative) or seek to change it, thus starting the cycle anew and undermining their entire "victory".
You can never win as a progressive. You just suffer until you either die or become conservative.

I mean, overwhelmingly Dr Who is a show about a Englishman from space having adventures. People try so hard to breathe into it some kind of ethos that isn't really there

It's an insult to the Roosevelts that we call modern "wokes" """"progressives"""" tee bee haych

shitty show for faggot an*los that was basically jerk off material for them as they got to watch a witty British person talk circles around people and not be shot on fucking sight like anyone even remotely sane would do while shoehorning reimaginings of history to fit a narrative

It's for children, m8

The Doctor isn't an Englishman.

hyper-textually he is

It's for anyone.

children and people who have nostalgia from childhood. That's who it should be for

homie has a device that lets him travel time and space and uses it almost exclusively to go to london