Proper disgusted with the BBC (Dr Who)

John Bishop on Dr Who

  • 100% accurate Kopite caricature

    Votes: 21 55.3%
  • I actually like John Bishop

    Votes: 2 5.3%
  • Why do you watch a kids programme?

    Votes: 15 39.5%

  • Total voters
    38
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Dr Who
Star Wars
Star Trek

All terrible, no exceptions.
I would say more of a very mixed bag (though I've never really watched Trek apart from those awful JJ Abrams movies that have quicker pacing than Lewis Hamilton at Monza). With Who, the quality is so wildly inconsistent that you can go from absolute dross like Kill the Moon to episodes like Heaven Sent and Blink that would stand up against any TV show going.

the current era is mostly rubbish covered up by better cinematography than 15 years ago. The last ep before the current season was one of the worst things to happen to the show since its revival
 

If it’s not appalling enough that Dr Who have made unfunny Kopite wool John “Scouse for Cash” Bishop a companion, it goes and makes The Doctor a Kopite too as she gets all excited about landing outside Anfield during the “Klopp Era”, saying she’s been to one game several times and rather bizarrely that “she used to be a ball boy for Trent” which doesn’t work on any level. Then again is it any surprise really when she’s from further away than Norway? I’m surprised she didn’t have the words to YAWN printed out and laminated.

I’m trying to work out if Bishops over the top Carraghature (lives next door to Anfield, house is full of framed LFC shirts, red mood lighting in his house etc) is an accurate portrayal of a Kult member or are they taking the piss out him without him noticing?

Appalling stuff, if I paid my licence fee, I’d ask for my money back.

That said, The Dr and Yaz seemed a lot better acted with less clunky dialogue. The green screen nonsense at the beginning was poorly executed and there was far too much exposition for far too many storylines going on. Other than that the first episode was all right I suppose. It was good to see GOT’s own @Bungle onscreen as well playing a badly thought-out Space Dog Kidnapper, though his Mancunian accent was a bit strange .

What are your thoughts on it?
Bishop had no food at alI in the fridge or cupboards not a scrap but had laptops flatscreen TVs and load of rs memorabilia
It was all a bit crazy cartoonish your comments reflect almost exactly my thoughts watching it
To sum the programme up in a word = WHY
 
An interesting point.

The casting of black and Asian actors was definitely a brave and bold move then.

Now not so, and no one is, I think, having a go in this respect.

It's just the crude and sledgehammer way that the current scripts are penned.

It feels less like an entertainment and more of a public meeting of the SWP.
I think Star Trek was just as guilty for it's less than subtle allegories. TNG especially was very on the nose with it's themes.

There's an irony that this whole discussion about "wokeness" given it's been prompted by the casting of John Bishop. A straight white middle aged man!
 

Bishop had no food at alI in the fridge or cupboards not a scrap but had laptops flatscreen TVs and load of rs memorabilia
It was all a bit crazy cartoonish your comments reflect almost exactly my thoughts watching it
To sum the programme up in a word = WHY
No money for food, works in a Food Bank, all that Kopite stuff, and had earlier that afternoon arranged to take the Museum woman out on the piss.

But then again all REAL Scousers continually hang around the Museum of Liverpool telling amassed crowds of Tourists how much they love the City don't they.
 
I think Star Trek was just as guilty for it's less than subtle allegories. TNG especially was very on the nose with it's themes.

There's an irony that this whole discussion about "wokeness" given it's been prompted by the casting of John Bishop. A straight white middle aged man!

Yes ,but his partner was disabled, and he volunteered in a food bank.

Basically making him out, like all LFC fans, to be ideologically pure.
 
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