This data *is* very beautiful, and it is a crime Ncuti only got two abbreviated seasons.
rosen380 on
Easy to spot “Blink” on your chart 🙂
BigHobbit on
Would be interesting to see means if top and bottom two episodes were removed. Maybe not with eccleston since he didn’t have many episodes.
MaxSupernova on
Whitaker got so screwed by the writing. They just couldn’t find a good thing to do with her.
Her companions were bland morons.
Thar_Cian on
Why are surnames used for everyone but Ncuti Gatwa?
shinto29 on
Looking at this makes me very glad I grew up with the Tennant years.
Abrakafuckingdabra on
I like how there were 5 specials at the end of season 4 and they must’ve gone “Bro we were supposed to do one special per season” because they don’t do another till season 8. Also there being 15 specials TOTAL and 1/3 of them are in season 4.
ThreeDMK on
Isn’t this missing a few seasons though? I don’t even see Tom Baker on this list. :X
whossked on
how popular is this show outside of the UK? i almost exclusively hear it being talked about by british people
paralyse78 on
You can see why they brought RTD back. With a couple of exceptions (e.g. ‘Demons of the Punjab’) Whittaker was stuck with heavy-handed clunker scripts and poor writing as well as shallow and uninteresting companions. She did the best with what she had to work with. She was also a very divisive Doctor for some fans simply because she was a she.
At least here in the US the show lost a number of viewers when it moved from BBCA to Disney+ following Whittaker’s run as 13. The incredibly long gap between S13 and S14 (17 months) did not help, either.
I’ve always considered Tennant’s run to be the best of the “new Who” and Baker’s to be the best of the “old Who” (although Capaldi’s final two episodes — particularly the last — were some of the greatest Who stories ever written.)
zezinho_tupiniquim on
When you know this was made in R, but you can’t prove it…
2muchcaffeine4u on
Doesn’t reflect in the data but I dropped off at the end of Smith/beginning of Capaldi. I finally realized Moffat was never going to satisfyingly wrap up a single one of his outlandish premises and dropped out before he could fool me again with whatever half baked mystery he had cooking with the Clara plotline.
trucorsair on
Some morning heresy, maybe Dr Who has just run it’s course for the last time. The way we consume media and the variety of media available has made it such that the Dr’s core supporters have more and different options today. The splintering of the fan base into different franchises means any stumbling (bad writers, poor show running) just means it is time to let it go.
lowkey_rainbow on
The three specials at the start of S14 should be Tennant, not Ncuti
Brewe on
I haven’t watched since Smith. Was the Capaldi era really that decent? And was the Whittaker era really that shit, or were ass-hats just mad because woman?
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This data *is* very beautiful, and it is a crime Ncuti only got two abbreviated seasons.
Easy to spot “Blink” on your chart 🙂
Would be interesting to see means if top and bottom two episodes were removed. Maybe not with eccleston since he didn’t have many episodes.
Whitaker got so screwed by the writing. They just couldn’t find a good thing to do with her.
Her companions were bland morons.
Why are surnames used for everyone but Ncuti Gatwa?
Looking at this makes me very glad I grew up with the Tennant years.
I like how there were 5 specials at the end of season 4 and they must’ve gone “Bro we were supposed to do one special per season” because they don’t do another till season 8. Also there being 15 specials TOTAL and 1/3 of them are in season 4.
Isn’t this missing a few seasons though? I don’t even see Tom Baker on this list. :X
how popular is this show outside of the UK? i almost exclusively hear it being talked about by british people
You can see why they brought RTD back. With a couple of exceptions (e.g. ‘Demons of the Punjab’) Whittaker was stuck with heavy-handed clunker scripts and poor writing as well as shallow and uninteresting companions. She did the best with what she had to work with. She was also a very divisive Doctor for some fans simply because she was a she.
At least here in the US the show lost a number of viewers when it moved from BBCA to Disney+ following Whittaker’s run as 13. The incredibly long gap between S13 and S14 (17 months) did not help, either.
I’ve always considered Tennant’s run to be the best of the “new Who” and Baker’s to be the best of the “old Who” (although Capaldi’s final two episodes — particularly the last — were some of the greatest Who stories ever written.)
When you know this was made in R, but you can’t prove it…
Doesn’t reflect in the data but I dropped off at the end of Smith/beginning of Capaldi. I finally realized Moffat was never going to satisfyingly wrap up a single one of his outlandish premises and dropped out before he could fool me again with whatever half baked mystery he had cooking with the Clara plotline.
Some morning heresy, maybe Dr Who has just run it’s course for the last time. The way we consume media and the variety of media available has made it such that the Dr’s core supporters have more and different options today. The splintering of the fan base into different franchises means any stumbling (bad writers, poor show running) just means it is time to let it go.
The three specials at the start of S14 should be Tennant, not Ncuti
I haven’t watched since Smith. Was the Capaldi era really that decent? And was the Whittaker era really that shit, or were ass-hats just mad because woman?