The average rating for Peter Capaldi’s last season was 5.8 million viewers. No episode that season rated above 6.68 million – and that rating was for the season premiere. That season featured the only two episodes to rate below 5 million viewers EVER since Doctor Who was revived in 2005.
The season before that the average rating was 6.20 million. That was the first season since 2005 not to have a single episode rate over 7 million viewers. Every season before that had an average rating in the 7 millions, except for season 4 in 2008 which averaged 8.42 million. Incidentally, that was David Tennant’s last full season, and the final full season before the Moffatt years.
Whilst the ratings have only been announced for 4 episodes so far, not a single episode of Jodie Whittaker’s first sesason has fallen below 8 million viewers. The average rating so far has been 9.15 million. Its true that it is unlikely the average will stay that high – ratings have technically been dropping week by week. Exactly as happened every season in the past – it is perfectly normal for ratings to fall towards the middle of a season, and rise again for the finale.
A lot of the media will just do anything to discredit this season because they can’t handle the fact the Doctor is female now.
it’s kind of wild to me that people are saying this season is too ‘politically correct’
‘politically correct’ is a nonsense phrase to begin with but to the extent that it means anything I usually think of it as like…what most of society is comfortable with. you know? the general baseline of what is socially acceptable.
so most of the time when people when people talk about things being PC or not PC, they mean something that’s not socially acceptable because we have moved on from it. we’ve said, we’re not good with that anymore. but it could also mean something that is not socially acceptable because it is new, and society is not used to it yet.
given that definition, I wouldn’t call most of what’s gone on in Doctor Who this season politically correct.
like. a man giving birth? not just as the butt of a joke but as part of an actual complex and emotional story? I have never seen that ever in any non-fanfic work. a male character transitioning into a female character? that’s not common. a main character with a disability? confronting racism and colonialism as a serious and recent part of our history? not something Doctor Who has had a great track record with on the whole.
these things are not safe. they’re not easy guaranteed audience-pleasers. they’re risky. they’re pushing the envelope. they’re new.
and that’s what sci-fi should be. that’s what it should do. sci-fi has always been about taking new ideas–often so new they don’t even exist in our time–and exploring them. getting us to expand our horizons and consider things that we wouldn’t otherwise.
I don’t think anyone who thinks sci-fi should stick to what’s old and well-tested really gets the point of sci-fi in the first place.
So…I just learned that tumblr has a newish policy. New blogs are hidden from tags. So….say you make an ask/rp blog and then put out a post to get attention for it………no one can see it. until you ‘seem human’ through re blogging and commenting. Which ask blogs rarely do. also sideblogs cant like things
this explains why bots have taken to rebloging peoples posts and commenting on them. To get around the policy and seem ‘human’
So if you made a new blog and feel like it was ignored…..its not your fault. Its tumblrs shitty system. im testing getting around it by pming friends through the blog,,,so we’ll see if that works
Not just commenting, also removing the html text parts, so it looks on their blog as if yours was a porn bot as well.
The last few “updates” have felt like they’re just trying to cover up the porn bot problem instead of actually handling it. It started with forced safe mode and “best posts first”, then they auto-tag any slightly beige image as nsfw, and now they’re just treating any new blog like a porn bot by default and punishing any users who don’t already have visibility… Is this really the best way they can find the handle this problem?
>then they auto-tag any slightly beige image as nsfw
But there was a post with a ton of notes when it first happened where this girl was having all her cat posts flagged and turned out it was because the sofa was that human-skin-tone color. And I’m guessing they probably haven’t fixed it.
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