Okay, I get being mad at RTD for his recent interview or for the writing of the last few years not really being his best, but he also didn’t come in with the show being in its healthiest state. I feel like the issue is that he told the stories he wanted to tell with his first run and moved on from it. Then ratings were dropping and writing was being critiqued, so he came back and tried some things to breathe life into it, but was probably over confident and didn’t have the ideas he probably spent years cultivating for the OG revival and it showed and so now BBC is trying to be more intentional about vision. I also kind of wonder if is is just part of the nature of Doctor Who. A generation grows up on it, they get older, a lot of them move on and the ones that don’t become more critical with age, the show is no longer drawing in new audiences like it used to (either because kids view it as their parents show, there is too much history to follow with it, or just writers fatigue causing a dip in quality), so it gets rested and then, when someone has a good plan, comes back to find its new audience.
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