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Doctor Who To Become Hollywood Feature Film
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Variety reports that David Yates, who directed the last four Harry Potter films, is teaming up with the BBC to turn its iconic sci-fi TV series Doctor Who into a Hollywood franchise. 'We're looking at writers now. We're going to spend two to three years to get it right,' says Yates. 'It needs quite a radical transformation to take it into the bigger arena.' But not everyone is enamored with the idea of Doctor Who on the big screen. 'I fear that high production values and the inevitable sexualisation of the lead characters that a Hollywood treatment brings will destroy the show,' writes Andrew M. Brown in the Telegraph. 'The ecosystem of a great television programme is a delicate thing. Please, Hollywood, don't spoil Doctor Who."
Getting rid of that God-awful campiness can only be a good thing. Hopefully, they'll also get rid of all the annoying British accents so I can understand what the fuck they're saying.
I've stopped watching Who lately because it's already been spoiled by Hollywood stylings. The last few episodes I watched were the one with Van Gogh, the one with the girl who's actually dead and in software-only, and the zombie-like alien old people episode. All of them had just really sickening dramatics. I believe the library one had two or three different "Oh no, is the Doctor dead?" scenes in it where a few minutes were spent with crying out and the emotional cue music turned up. Then, the Van Gogh episode involved taking a man with mental instabilities and introducing him to time travel and seeing people in the future reacting to his works while horrifically third generation rip-off of Coldplay or Travis played extremely loudly on the soundtrack. Ever think introducing a man to the future, and quite possibly showing him works he hasn't yet made, could perhaps lead to his suicide? But no, it was a thoroughly insight-less opportunity to play the heartstrings. Even the goddamn zombie episode spent much of its time focusing on whether the two side characters were in love or not.
After seeing those episodes, among others, I watched an episode where Pertwee's doctor has his companion stay behind. There were a couple of looks by the doctor before he left on his own. No soap opera modern rock soundtrack bullshit, no crying out, no soap opera bullshit. I did like the first season of Tennant, but what I've seen of what's after is just utter dreck. Grey's Anatomy is less manipulative.