Just make it a multiverse story and bring back deep-faked, AI generated Sean Connery and Roger Moore. Multiverse stories are so hot right now.

Right?

Turns out it can be summarised as: he’s an idiot: bsky.app/profile/hern...

Most long form characters are mix of melodramatic hero and dramatic protagonist, and switch between the two periodically. That isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. But when you are entering into your fifth decade, you inevitably start repeating yourself. The problem is corporations insist that they do.

I don’t think that the problem with Doctor Who is character arcs; the problem with Doctor Who is that it’s just the same thing again and again. I suspect that changing the 45 minute episode format would help more than worrying about character arcs; go back to the serial format for a while.

I think you’re missing the bigger picture here, which is that we live in an unprecedented time period in which franchises are intended to go on for decades and decades, within broadly the same continuity. Even Conan-Doyle only wrote Sherlock Holmes over a 37 year period; Superman is pushing 90.

Maybe they should make a new version of this, with everyone saying “sorry Donald” youtu.be/UsdtyuSmoXs?...