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  • Goodbye Ncuti Gatwa

    From Blueshirt@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Jun 2 00:17:46 2025
    We knew it was coming, some wished for it and maybe even jumped
    up and down when it was confirmed, but I feel the story of the
    last two seasons of Doctor Who is how wasted Ncuti Gatwa was and
    how he deserved so much more from the show. If RTD thinks his
    scripts did Ncuti's Doctor justice then in my opinion he is
    wrong.

    The 15th Doctor will not be the first, or last, Doctor to be let
    down by the writing, but for me Ncuti Gatwa didn't get the
    chance to shine as much as he should have done. Ncuti is a
    better actor than what RTD gave him to work with. He was
    smothered from the start by Ruby Sunday's story, whilst this
    season getting Belinda Chandra home by a certain date became the
    main arc. The 15th Doctor has often been a periphery figure, not
    the main driver of the stories.

    I was sad to see the 15th Doctor go, he could have done so much
    more. I'm sure Ncuti Gatwa will go on to better things. I wish
    him all the best.

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  • From Blueshirt@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Jun 2 18:12:34 2025
    The Doctor wrote:

    In article <xn0p6j8601j8j5l005@post.eweka.nl>,
    Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

    The 15th Doctor will not be the first, or last, Doctor to be
    let down by the writing, but for me Ncuti Gatwa didn't get
    the chance to shine as much as he should have done. Ncuti is
    a better actor than what RTD gave him to work with. He was
    smothered from the start by Ruby Sunday's story, whilst this
    season getting Belinda Chandra home by a certain date became
    the main arc. The 15th Doctor has often been a periphery
    figure, not the main driver of the stories.

    I was sad to see the 15th Doctor go, he could have done so
    much more. I'm sure Ncuti Gatwa will go on to better things.
    I wish him all the best.

    Just like Colin Baker.

    I never liked Colin Baker's Doctor on the TV... it's only in
    the Big Finish audios that I feel his Doctor was redeemed. Of
    course, it wasn't Colin's fault that a lot of his TV stories
    were shit. But once you've seen them you can't unsee them.

    --- MBSE BBS v1.1.1 (Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: Eweka Internet Services (3:633/280.2@fidonet)