We have a long time to wait—in fact this whole year—to keep wondering how bad things are. Doctor Who last year, which means that people are more likely to talk about why things went wrong. However, it’s not every day that the former Doctor comes in.
Recently Peter Capaldi, who played the role of the 12th Time Lord, spoke to the British newspaper The Mirror about why Doctor Who it has been wobbly and gave a good impression of nationalism, but interesting, so: Doctor Whosymbol, became more important at the expense of Doctor Who as a cultural entity, and to banish the former robbed the latter of some of its charms.
“The show became too big. And it never was when I loved it. So it was something different. I think the responsibilities of playing a part became more,” Capaldi said. “There were a lot of them, there were a lot more things you had to do than just, I mean, I think in the old days, you know, if you were John Pertwee or Tom Baker or something like that, you probably, you know, spend most of your year doing it and then a little bit of your year promoting it.
Of course, when Capaldi played the Doctor, the show was very important to the BBC – after all, his casting was not announced through a press release, but through a live television show. But the bigger the show became as a franchise, the more it overshadowed us Doctor WhoIt’s staying power as an unconventional but enduring British cultural center.
“It was just a show that some kids really liked and some didn’t care about it, but they wanted to watch football even if you grew up from it, you know,” continued Capaldi. “It’s been this kind of thing that’s so important. I think a little bit in a cultural way and in an economic way. I think the show is a victim of its own success. You know, the show that I loved was a little thing, a little thing that survived. It survived, but no one knew that it was warming its way into the culture in a deep way. And I think that’s what I have.”
It’s a fitting argument after the scandalous dissolution of the BBC’s partnership with Disney – no doubt the entertainment industry is faced with fully equipped and functional models – not just because of the huge influx of money that House of Mouse has put into two seasons of the show (and one very bad spiff, given how far Disney’s relationship has already broken down), but how far Disney’s relationship was actually going to collapse. deal, and the desire to create “Whoniverse” of Doctor Who media, have put the show in a situation where failure will lead to the catastrophic results we have seen unfold in 2025.
That’s not it Doctor Who it cannot be allowed to have a high budget (even if it looks cheap, in fact, it is part of the charm), but that Doctor Who it works best if it’s less visible to business executives and desires the kind of brand value that doesn’t focus on the show itself. As the BBC begins to pave the way back to the show with a future beyond Christmas 2026, perhaps it will stick to doing it on its own instead of trying the same thing with the Disney deal again.
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