{"id":137478,"date":"2018-12-11T18:57:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T01:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/11\/looking-forward-to-jodie-whittaker-returning-next-season-on-doctor-who.html"},"modified":"2018-12-11T18:57:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T01:57:47","slug":"looking-forward-to-jodie-whittaker-returning-next-season-on-doctor-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/11\/looking-forward-to-jodie-whittaker-returning-next-season-on-doctor-who.html","title":{"rendered":"Looking forward to Jodie Whittaker returning next season on &quot;Doctor Who&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overall I&#39;ve been pleased with how the current series of <i>Doctor Who<\/i> has gone. I&#39;m really enjoying Jodie Whittaker&#39;s Thirteenth Doctor and her sense of wonder and compassion, and while I&#39;d like to learn still more about the three Companions (whatever we&#39;re calling them now), I like what we have seen from them.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Chibnall&#39;s show-running tenure has been more of a mixed bag. I don&#39;t completely mind leaving behind massive mysterious series-long arcs, or repeated doses of Daleks and Cybermen, but I hope the palate-cleansing of sweeping all the past to the side this series will be done by the next series.  I don&#39;t need a completely new universe alongside the new Doctor. I like the current players, and hope at least some elements of the already-established stage will come back for them to play on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/doctor-whos-jodie-whittaker-isnt-going-anywhere-1830936088'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/gar4uYQrYsNSuH-m8gcZirDnVBfov9WtMCHGEnBdkSL9IonlV3AHF-0VA0rJDxtkSf3ig81wlnQ17puKScObaI7h3BW_TbkmrB2SYNzauJToPR3VGIG7AqvjfBKPEeGF0Rq3y2Se9TcBQ0pht1_7AlDJdcjzgkaT_jCZ91R3-QomVP4OkgI87-3iBbmqti4CNnfQD7qTERXC5g=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/doctor-whos-jodie-whittaker-isnt-going-anywhere-1830936088'>Doctor Who Season 12: Jodie Whittaker Will Continue as 13th<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/FokTEx3jQHy'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall I&#39;ve been pleased with how the current series of Doctor Who has gone. I&#39;m really enjoying Jodie Whittaker&#39;s Thirteenth Doctor and her sense of wonder and compassion, and while I&#39;d like to learn still more about the three Companions (whatever we&#39;re calling them now), I like what we have seen from them. Chris Chibnall&#39;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/11\/looking-forward-to-jodie-whittaker-returning-next-season-on-doctor-who.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Looking forward to Jodie Whittaker returning next season on &quot;Doctor Who&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133911,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/20\/the-bbc-formally-responds-to-complaints-about-the-new-doctor.html","url_meta":{"origin":137478,"position":0},"title":"The BBC Formally Responds to Complaints about the New Doctor","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 20-Jul-17 12:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The BBC has an actual formal complaint process where people can kvetch about things they find problematic about the corporation's activities, broadcast, content, etc. They've issued a formal response to complaints about the casting of Jodie Whitacker -- in terms of her being (gasp) a woman -- as the new\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/jodie-whittaker-doctor-who5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/jodie-whittaker-doctor-who5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/jodie-whittaker-doctor-who5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":152904,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/05\/revolution-of-the-daleks-was-daleks-but-not-at-all-revolutionary.html","url_meta":{"origin":137478,"position":1},"title":"&#8220;Revolution of the Daleks&#8221; 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