As some in the financial news like to say, "go woke, go broke". I tend to agree.
I will disagree with Dave's point about complaining and advertising. It is true that some negative advertising can be used to push views, but after a certain point, the graph of that takes a major dive and then the entire series/movie goes down the toilet. People see what the others are complaining about, and what they also dislike, and won't give the series the time of day. See "Woke Jodie" as the recent example. When she showed up, I knew things were going to be awful, and boy was I right. She had the worst run of any of the Doctors. Her ratings tanked so badly that they had to dump her and the producers and then bring back Tennant and Tate to just get some viewerships again (T+T are some of my favorites, but the last 3 eps were kinda "meh"). Personally, I think the Doctor should always remain male, but with the right scripts and acting, Jodie could have won me over... but she was an epic fail.
When Jodie bombed from day 1, those little voices in my head got "fresh" again and said, "ok smartass, if the producers wanted a strong woman as a primary role in the series, what should they have done???". And then I thought for a minute... and the answer was easy... they should have brought back Romana. I came up with a great idea reintroducing her with her TARDIS, a distress call, and a Dalek fleet... The Doc's TARDIS materializes nearby, but she wasn't in distress. But alas, it quickly became clear that the producers didn't want a strong woman, and I was sad.
I don't know enough about Ncuti to see where the new season is going. I will fully embrace a black male Doctor, but if he's going to be another Jodie, I will "walk away" as Dave's video puts it.
(As a side note, The Roku Channel is free if you have a Roku device, and they have a full channel dedicated to "Classic Doctor Who".)
Dave also mentions in his vid about fan fiction becoming more practical and prominant. We've already discussed this a little in the AI thread. I wouldn't be surprised that in 10 years from now, Tom Baker comes back "in his prime" with some new episodes. Tom is "my doctor" as the Whovians put it. In the open source software arena, "forking" a project is very common when disagreements reach a certain point. It will soon become that way with TV and movies.
