@ValueSubtracted Well … the obvious ones may be
- singing with those goblins
- singing a musical at the end „always a twist“
- the whole ending double episode based on a pure fairytale … 7th child of a … kissing and wishing to make things come true. Here in earth. Yeah. Sure. I know, aliens landing here … I know I know but anyway for me it’s a different level 🫣
- Yasmin just being a mother having a baby with looking back to scenes we never saw this way? (1/3)
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- Yasmin just being a mother having a baby with looking back to scenes we never saw this way? (1/3)
That's not Disney, that's a rewrite and reshoot they had to do after they'd already shot the original ending, I think it was even reshot after the first episode had aired. They were scrambling to accommodate for Gatwa's decision to leave. IMO it was better than the original ending and they handled it well, considering the circumstances.
(I'm assuming you meant Belinda...)
@Uruanna Oh damn - yes Belinda of course 😅
Hm. Reshootings you say? 🤔 and the best idea was to take her out of the story for the last episodes and almost completely in the final just to … meh 😒 don’t like it.
I’m sad that Ncuti is gone. If he had a bit more time … I think he had potential for a really good doctor! But maybe it was rushed from the beginning? I had the feeling that his character wasn’t really build. An episode here and there but overall? Very sad, I like him as Doctor.
What changed is only the end. The plan was, the girl really was the Doctor's kid, making Belinda a lot more important and maybe staying one more season, and Gatwa too - the kid was meant to be the future mother of Susan (I hate it) and they were planning the next season. But most of the episode before the very end was the same. Something happened with Gatwa after new years and he called it quits, that's where they reshot the final house scene, flashbacks with new mentions of the kid, and the regeneration. Yeah, Gatwa was cool, it's too bad.
@Uruanna Didn’t know that 🤔 now understand better what happens. I mean: it all started with the doctor searching for Belinda because he saw her(?) thousand years in her future or so. That was a nice miracle and mystery to start with - but it seems that all that was forgotten.
Now I see: it was rewritten and no time to solve this, so they mostly ignored it. Sad. 😔
There me other details and nitpicking…
Like a cute robot that could be right out of Pixar or Star Wars, the castle, a Toon-Villain that remembers a bit at the early Mickey style, maybe more… (2/3)
That said: I’m not sure I would call it Disneyfication - I don’t know whose idea this all was and I don’t care. I think if one likes to see a problem, it’s not Disney or Disney alone. Personally i say: I like to see more of Doctor Who - but only if some writers really have creative ideas and know how to tell a story better then a - b - LISTEN!! WE SHOWED YOU B BECAUSE ITS VERY URGENT- c 😅 (3/3)
Disney is such a massive conglomerate at this point, I don’t even know what that vibe would be
Safe and unchallenging. Entertaining without much depth that you forget about shortly after.
To be clear I agree with you and don't think this is happening with Who, just that it is a thing to look out for.
I don't want to dispute this too much, because it's obviously true, but Disney is also making the occasional thing like "Andor", which is neither safe nor unchallenging.
But the exception proves the rule, and so on.
Nah, I agree. People who blame "Disneyification" never point to any specific thing, it's always just a general accusation of meddling, presumably with RTD's artist's vision or whatever. Plans can fail for a variety of reasons, there rarely is a big bad pulling the strings in the background.
We'll learn in a few years why Millie left early and how that apparently had a cascading effect on the show.