Counter-Currents
Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 603
The Autopsy of Doctor Who
Counter-Currents Radio
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Angelo Plume welcomed Millennial Woes to this edition of Counter-Currents Radio. They had a lengthy discussion on Woes’ series of essays about the downfall of the iconic British television program, Doctor Who, and also talked about how “woke” and anti-whiteness have taken over not only British television, but every other British institution. It is now available for download and online listening.
Topics covered in the livestream:
2:53 – How much of a nerd is MW?
6:04 – What was Dr. Who like in the 80s?
12:17 – Who is Russel T. Davis?
15:44 – How much of a nerd is Angelo?
17:37 – When Dr. Who became working class
23:13 – As soon as I get into something, it goes woke!
32:56 – The misandry of the Steven Moffat years
37:56 – The Peter Capaldi years
41:07 – “History’s a whitewash”
55:06 – The Chris Chibnall years got even woker!
1:01:55 – The Return of Russel T. Davis to the show, who demanded creative control
1:05:07 – The black gay doctor
1:08:52 – The explicitness of the propaganda
1:13:51 – How nerds got recruited into politics
1:23:27 – How the show makers replaced the original audience with a new one
1:28:45 – The political implications of competing with Hollywood
1:33:49 – How injecting politics protects artists from artistic criticism
1:37:14 – The paradox of Anglo individualism vs ideological collectivism
2:05:12 – Faux appreciation for other cultures
2:27:06 – On Keir Starmer
2:30:32 – Race mixing as an end game
2:31:21 – The Republicans never mention white people
2:38:53 – Aren’t there wealthy rightists in the UK?
2:45:09 – Will more riots be effective?
2:49:30 – Were the rioters “far right”?
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It may seem like another life time ago, but my first memories of Dr. Who were thus:
1984, seeing my dad, a working-stiff with diminished emotions, come alive at watching Tom Baker on PBS. The plot was way above my pre-school head, but I could tell the imagination in the sets was out-of-this-world, much more sophisticated and non-violent than Transformers.
1999, seeing the ability to converse about history and solve problems without guns, hearing proper diction, stirring the primordial Anglo-Saxon pride in me, watching Tom Baker as a teen. Dr. Who was British. Even the 2005 version, though Americanized, was clever and distinct.
I’m glad this site exists.
Dr. Who is the one geek thing I never could get into, even though I’m an indiscriminate, free range geek on nearly everything else(Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.). I would like to like dr who, though. What are some of the classic episodes you guys mention that might finally break my prejudice?
At turns delighted and terrified me in black and white as a young child, taking shelter behind the couch. The show remained very dear to me into my adolescence. Wonderful storytelling in those days. Thankfully I have seen very little of the reboot.
You guys mentioned the british love for dystopia in fiction, then I remembered the Judge Dredd comic books and the Warhammer 40k games.
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