#Radio Free Skaro

[radiofreeskaro]

Radio Free Skaro #964 - Fowl and Fallibility

Radio Free Skaro #964 - Fowl and Fallibility - #DoctorWho “Rogue” reviewed! - Doctor Who does Bridgerton - William Russell remembered

http://traffic.libsyn.com/freyburg/rfs964.mp3 Download MP3 It’s Regency drama, gossip, and scandalous dances on this week’s Doctor Who adventure, “Rogue!” The Bridgerton fans are losing their minds at this episode, including one Ruby Sunday, but what did the Three Who Rule think of this theatrical and romantic undertaking? Plus we pay tribute to William Russell, Doctor Who’s original Man of…

[thedoctorwhocompanion]

Doctor Who Flux Was Almost Cancelled Entirely

#DoctorWho Flux Was Almost Cancelled Entirely

Doctor Who Series 13 (aka Flux, as it was called) proved to be Marmite. I personally enjoyed it, though it did falter in the final few hurdles and just scraped through without being woefully bad. But did you know that it was almost cancelled entirely and Doctor Who could have almost ended with Revolution of the Daleks? Speaking in a recent interview with fan-favourite podcast Radio Free Skaro,…

[nightmanatee]

anyways it wasn't chibbs decision to make 13->11 eps long season, to switch xmas specials with new year ones, flux production was a NIGHTMARE (also led to chris and jodie declining other offers bc of the contract), he did want to have 3 seasons (and not ,w with exiting in 2022 btw), saturday->sunday timeslot again not his idea, he did want to make spin offs but there was 0 budget for it and he also said he eas reassured by bbc that the show won't end with his last ep.

it was all bbc's decisions.

I know I don't have any nmds/chibnall haters as my followers but i do hope this post may reach them bc there were many things said about him and about half of them: about those particular parts.

[lilydvoratrelundar]

On the one hand Moffat coming back makes sense in the same way rtd and tennant returning does because getting back old shit is always good for publicity. On the other hand. The reason chibnall took the job was to diversify the production and allow people who historically didn't get a chance to write for dr who very often (women, people of colour, women of colour) to write, direct, etc their version of the show, and apparently spent a lot of time creating the writers room process which wasn't really a thing in the UK before. Rtd taking a step back from that by hiring all his cis white men from pre 2018 Who (or at least, hiring back this very notorious cis white man from pre 2018 Who) feels like a step in the other direction from that. Moffat's been writing televised Doctor Who since 1999. We can give other people a go now.

[13thdoctorposts]

At some point 13 fans needs to actually put the numbers to paper on the era's audience numbers, because my recollection is that they're perfectly on par and at times even better than Capaldi's and several of the latest specials. I'm tired of haters whining about 'everyone hated it' when they mean misogynists targeted it and boycotted it from the very instance of a rumour that 13 would be a woman.

Peter Nolan from Blogtor Who did a post on the numbers after the airing of Power of the Doctor, in one section of the post he compares the Whittaker and Capaldi eras…

“It’s remarkable then, that the Whittaker era of Doctor Who is overall on course not only to retain the audience it was given, but actually very slightly grow it. The average Thirteenth Doctor was watched by 4.67m viewers, up 0.12m (2.6%) on the 4.55m average of the Twelfth Doctor. It’s median viewing figure of 4.21m, meanwhile, is 0.34m (7.4%) lower than Capaldi’s, representing the boost Whittaker’s average is given by the large audiences for her first series. But overall, we haven’t seen Doctor Who just do a respectable job all things considered. Rather, it actually got ratings that would be good a decade ago.”

You can check out the whole article here https://www.blogtorwho.com/doctor-who-power-of-the-doctor-viewing-figures/?amp=1

As you can see the Whittier era did quite well especially when considering it had to fight to get through the Pandemic, which people seem to like to act like isn’t a big deal with their revisionist history of how difficult that time actually was. Not only were millions dying and getting sick, people were losing their jobs and lock downs were keeping people at home and a number of parents learnt how hard it was to home school your child even with a teacher on zoom, some while also having to work full time at home. This isn’t to mention the ridiculous amount of restrictions on how they could make the show and keep everyone safe. Sadly they also just didn’t have budget, it was why they needed Disney to come in. In the Who Corner to Corner podcast Chibs talks about how he wanted to do a new years special after Flux but was told there was no budget and he couldn’t do it but he wanted there to be a new year special so he ask if he used monster from the cupboard (a couple daleks they had sitting there) a warehouse and only 2 guest stars could he do it and they still told him they didn’t think so but he told them they were doing it and then we got Eve of the Daleks, one of my fav episodes of the run.

This goes to show the show was struggling to afford to make episodes it had no real money for marketing. If series 12 and Flux got the marketing series 11 did of course we would have seen even bigger numbers but Chibs stated in his Radio Free Skaro podcast from Gally One in 2023 that the only marketing budget they had after series 11 was marketing that could be done on the BBC that’s extremely limiting. They also didn’t have a brand manager unlike all previous eras. If you can afford a brand manager you’re not going to choose to not have one and having one probably would have also help quite a bit.

It’s not 2008 anymore, even Tennent couldn’t pull his 2008 numbers and that was with the big Disney budget to make the show and market the show, and they had a year to market the show and the most well known Doctor, so considering that vs what Chibs had to work with the Whittaker era is a solid era of Doctor Who. It just came at a time when the Budget was struggling, and the TV landscape was changing along with a campaign to try and destroy it before it began simply because they chose a Woman to be the Doctor, as demonstrated by the fact the BBC had to release a press statement backing Whittakers casting and the change to a Female Doctor. And that did have a snow ball effect of people picking everything apart to an insane level they do not do with any of the episodes from the male Doctors episodes a lot of which could be seen as far more problematic.

All this to say could the numbers had been better? Yes, if they had budget to market the show the way it needs to be marketed in a landscape with a million competing shows on far more streaming services than there were regular channels back in the day. But did the show do well with the limited resources it had. Also Yes.

[vbartilucci]

So apparently they made an active choice to show Davros out of the "wheelchair" because there's a long history of evil characters in wheelchairs, and he wanted to get away from that.

So there's an extra reason they chose to show this slightly earlier point in the history of the creation of the Daleks. Note that this was the "Mark III" travel machine, as opposed to the "Mark IV" that we saw in Genesis of the Daleks - before the off-screen radiation accident that left Davros in the chair in the first place. Clever.

Now if they choose to use Davros again in a later story, they'd need to give an explanation how he's out of the chair AFTER said accident. Simple answer - the regeneration energy he got in Witch's Familiar worked.

[elsandifer]

Have you listened to the Chibnall "exit interview" on Radio Free Skaro? If so, has it changed your opinion of his run in any way? I've seen mine go from "catastrophic, mostly unwatchable, and often toxic" to "catastrophic, mostly unwatchable, and sorely misguided despite having good intentions".

I've not, but I tended to assume Chibnall's intentions were broadly good.

[comicconradio]

Doctor Who has undergone some major evolutions in recent years, making history with its first female Doctor in Jodie Whittaker. Before Whittaker bid farewell to the role late last year, her swan song was a six-episode miniseries Doctor Who: Flux — the first serialized entry in the show since its 2005 revival. As a new interview with former showrunner Chris Chibnall revealed, Flux was dangerously close to not becoming a reality, due to the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. "There was a week where it was not going to be made," Chibnall explained in a recent interview with Radio Free Skaro. "There was a week where I was, I'd been offered another job. And because the BBC was just like... 'where's the money coming from? How are we going to do this? Is it too difficult?' And it literally went down to the wire of like, yeah, there was an hour on one day when it's like: it was done. And yeah, we had to do — there are certain things I had to do to get that season made. Because they couldn't find a way to do it. Jodie had a thousand job offers... I know what jobs she gave up to do the third season, which, obviously because it had moved in the schedule, you know. She had stuff lined up for when we were supposed to finish shooting, but then was delayed by the pandemic. And you know, she's in demand, and so she sacrificed a lot. Everybody sacrificed a lot."⚡️🍿🍿🍿☎️📞 #comiccon #spoilermagazine #news #losangeles #podcast #magazine #art #instagram #galaxy #film #tv #hollywood #feature #movies #fandom #graphicdesign #nyc #spoiler #comicconradio #comicbooks #drwho #british #timetravel #bbc (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpktk5epHAe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[pitynostars]

I'm listening to the early radio free skaro review eps and it is so wild to hear grown ups discussing stuff like. how good the eleventh hour is for establishing Matt Smith and how cool the Master reveal in Utopia was when I remember having some of the nearly exact same convos in school when I was a kid as it was airing I... It's like watching the doctor who of my childhood for the first time but from an adult POV it's ajdkkglhl so wild

[radiofreeskaro]

Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 24

Radio Free Skaro – 2022 Fluid Links Advent Calendar, Day 24 #RFSAdvent #FluidLinks #DoctorWho

http://traffic.libsyn.com/freyburg/rfs2022advent24.mp3 Download MP3 This holiday season, Radio Free Skaro is presenting a Fluid Links Advent Calendar! Every day from December 1 until December 24, we’ll discuss one topic from our list provided by you, the listeners. Today: Day 24.

[isagrimorie]

undefined

Radio Free Skaro #704 - Eat My Salad 

Radio Free Skaro podcast is doing commentaries for series 11, they released the first of the commentaries, (The Woman Who Fell to Earth) with Bustle’s Sage Young. 

I really like some of their insights and because Sage Young met Jodie Whittaker last year when she interviewed Whittaker.

 (Also she interviewed Daisy Ridley and I’m tickled pink that Ridley, like Whittaker, or a lot of British people actually swear like a sailor).  

Anyway, the significant part for me was this exchange: 

Steven SchepanskyI really like how she doesn't quite, like, stand on ceremony. Like, 'Oh, I think I'm going to miss you.' Y'know, like, she's still -- there's a certain detachment still.

Sage Young: Yeah! Really, the detachment was what sold me on the... well, partially, what sold me on her. Like, that was her most alien quality.

Steven: Uh-huh!

Sage: Like with Matt Smith it's kind of like the floopines, it's like, y'know, that he's all over the place and for her it's a little bit like she seems like she's warm, and then she's like: 'Oh! Right, you're still here!'

Steven: Yeah, it's like: "I think I'm going to miss you." My default reaction is to not miss you, I might -- I'll bump that up one.

I am just really happy that people notice Thirteen's detachment -- like she presents herself as open and warm but actually, is kind of very much a private person/alien.

But also, that Thirteen still retain that absentmindedness about people but she gets away with it more because she's either less verbal or obvious about it.

[kitt66]

@RadioFreeeSkaro PC: "I was so grateful to Steven for writing the script (for Heaven Sent) and for Rachel for directing it so beautifully." #PCapInYYC

@RachelTalalay And we are all so grateful to #PeterCapaldi for his genius performance in this and his epic Doctor portrayal.

One of the joys of twitter...

[strikingtwelves]

there are actually people out there making a living off of providing for the dw community, or even just talking about it

mom when i grow up i wanna be a full time nerd

[13thdoctorposts]

has anyone else noticed how reactions and consensus on 13 has been RETROACTIVELY negative? I know there's been an intensely misogynistic hate campaign since Jodie was announced but I also noticed that when you look at old posts from when s11 especially was freshly aired, there was a lot more good faith engagement with the show and genuine excitement in fandom. It seems like covid gave the bad faith actors the opportunity to take over fandom and force their narratives on everyone.

Yeah a really great example of this is if you look back to tweets from the night Rosa aired the praise was very very high, now if you bring it up in the fandom you would think it was terrible and racist.

On YouTube I was told the writers, both of them Chibs and Malorie Blackman were incompetent because they doesn’t show how bad the racism really was, yet the episode starts with one of our companions being physically assaulted and told to be careful so not to end up like Emmett Till, some one who had just been murdered acting as if the show was sugar coating what life was like back then. Oh and of course with the Chibs slander that he’s racist because he may have hired a woman of colour to write the script, but she is English not American and he should have made sure it was an American or not done the episode at all

Malorie Blackman is an award winning author claiming she’s an incompetent writer is pretty incredible accusation.

Here’s some of the tweets from articles praising the episode.

I think 2 things hurt 13 era who and they weren’t Chibs and Jodie. It was the unhinged toxicity the fandom constantly spewed and then even after things got praised as you said people would go back and nitpick to a level they never ever do with any other era and 2nd not having a big enough marketing budget and brand manger series 12 and 13 suffered most from this because the BBC did put the marketing money into series 11 even if they didn’t have a brand manager, and Chibs mentions this in the Radio Free Skaro podcast from last year that the BBC put a huge marking budget into series 11 but series 12 and 13 basically the budget was… you can only advertise on the BBC because there’s no money for anything else.

Rosa is just one example but there was a lot of praise for the work at the time of release and it’s quite possible general public viewers may have just stoped engaging on social after series 11 because they would then be piled on, and people in the online fandom knew they couldn’t go to social saying they loved an episode so they started picking it apart before putting their thoughts out there so they could be on trend with the haters who were gonna pile on if they didn’t fall in line.

Seriously if there’s ever a down fall to doctor who the ‘fans’ will be it because they would rather hate on the thing they supposedly love than love it. And ever era has its super questionable moments but if you bring them up for any other era you just being petty, or it isn’t that big of a deal, or ‘it’s of the time’ it’s just excuse after excuse.

I’ve seen people upset about the fact that RTD dead named Rose in the star beast, something very legitimate because now all the right wing idiots of the fandom use that name and the people who were upset get piled on if they say anything because they should be happy that RTD is trying to give them representation… but these same people when Chibs tried to give rep though a female doctor, or an episode like Rosa or Ryans disability, say Chibs is a right wing capitalist, sexist, racist, ablest, you don’t hear them saying hey he was really trying by getting people of colour to write their stories, by getting directors with the same heritage to direct episodes, he work with a dyspraxia organisation to help write Ryan, brought in the first 2 female Doctors and the 1st Doctor of colour who was also a woman, the 1st master of colour, the first Doctor who admitted to having feeling for a companion of the same sex and the episode where the doctor admits those feeling is co written with a queer woman, oh no Chibs gets no grace for tryi neg he did everything wrong but RTD everyone should be thankful for.

I don’t understand the level of hate. Not liking something is one thing but a part of this fandom has made 13 era who seem like the anti christ of Doctor Who, when really it tried a lot harder to involve more people in it then ever before.