Are you excited for the return of Doctor Who and the new companion Ruby Sunday?
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I could never get into Doctor Who. It just seems like some kind of geeky cult of personality to me.
For example, in the one episode I watched, Doctor Who wants to dethrone some undesirable head of state or something, and his means of accomplishing it is merely using the power of suggestion, saying to her something like “Don’t you feel a little bit…tired?”, and you’re supposed to assume it’s just going to slowly manifest into a huge thing where she no longer has the energy she needs to run the state and resigns or whatever.
Now, not being a regular Doctor Who patron, I could see that such a presumptuous expectation was clearly extremely unlikely and ridiculous, and that the only logical reason the audience should be expected to make this assumption is that they’re brainwashed by the larger-than-life, over-the-top legendary status of Doctor Who in their minds.
Personally, no thank you.