Doctor Who star tells fans ‘to get over it’ after criticism surrounding new season
A Doctor Who star has told fans ‘to get over it’ amidst criticism surrounding the new season of the sci-fi series.
The second season of Sex Education actor Ncuti Gatwa’s tenure as the Doctor is currently airing on BBC One.
Scottish native Ncuti replaced David Tennant as the man with the sonic screwdriver in late 2023, with his first full episode airing on Christmas Day that year.
Three episodes of the new season have aired to date, with the majority of critics and viewers giving it good reviews.
However, a section of online fans have criticised the show for being ‘woke’, with some people blasting the diverse casting.
Calling for fans to ‘just watch the show for what it is’, Ruby Sunday actress Millie Gibson has called out those ‘making jabs’.
“I remember watching an episode where David Tennant goes back, I think it’s with Martha, and they meet Shakespeare. And he’s like, ‘Oh yeah, Shakespeare’s quite hot.’ [This is] literally what Who does.
Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson on Doctor Who(Image: BBC)
“I think because [of] the way the world is, they’re making jabs at anything that’s relating to this. It’s not really necessary.
“The show is so pure and beautiful and is literally about two best friends travelling the universe, so just watch it and get over it somewhat,” she told The Standard.
She added: “It didn’t cross my mind at all… Having people like Jinkx Monsoon [an American drag queen] in it, I’m her biggest fan. I don’t think it’s a problem at all.”
Millie’s comments arrive just one month after the show’s boss Russell T Davies slammed the ‘online warriors’ dissecting the series.
“Someone always brings up matters of diversity. And there are online warriors accusing us of diversity and wokeness and involving messages and issues.
“And I have no time for this. I don’t have a second to bear [it]. Because what you might call diversity, I just call an open door,” he said on BBC Radio 2.
Appearing on Doctor Who: 20 Secrets from 20 Years, Russell said ‘the only way to write’ is based on ‘life’.
“Why limit yourself? Why breathe in the exhaust fumes? Why be toxic? Come over here where the life and light and air and sound is,” the It’s A Sin creator stated.
Fans are currently preparing for the BBC’s ‘Super Sunday’, which will see a Eurovision inspired episode of Doctor Who air on the same night as the final of the annual singing competition.
