Some media outlets still use Twitter/X as a source for news and opinion, otherwise I wouldn’t go near the site. Seeing some of the replies to a trailer for the upcoming Doctor who xmas special, I wonder why somebody feels the need to actively shit on a show they so clearly dislike:

Like most #DrWho fans, I won’t be watching. #DrWho is dead. The doctor is now black and gay, Sir Isaac Newton is now Indian, and the character of Rose is being played by a man wearing women’s clothing. #RIPDoctorWho #DefundTheBBC #DiversityHire

That quote alone has too many levels of wrong to pick over, but it will never not surprise me how little of the show’s humanist messages these people have taken to heart.

Edit: Thanks for the “duh, Twitter” responses. I do think it’s low hanging fruit to just blame the platform (which is, inarguably, a dumpster fire). Let’s talk about reactionary fans instead, yeah?

  • Pronell@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    6 months ago

    It’s a right wing troll.

    The doctor is often manic and playful. I know nothing about the actor but nothing about the performance seemed ‘gay’.

    That aside, Rose is a new character, not the old Billie Piper Rose, making the rest of thus idiot’s take completely unhinged.

    I hadn’t watched and since Matt Smith and personally just wanted to see Tennant and Donna Noble together again.

      • Pronell@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        I wanted to see the rationale and was not at all expecting to see the new Doctor at all as again I’m like two Doctors behind at the moment.

        But it’s still the same old RTD style Doctor, both Tennant and Gatwa.