Do you remember when Doctor Who was a sci-fi series instead of a evangelist one about diversity and identity politics?

Well, that's actually a tricky point. Up to what point are they mutually exclusive? Up to what point evangelist material is mutually exclusive with regard to other genres?

You have the same issue with movies as 'Son of God'. Is it historical genre? is it religious one?. Metacritic skips the issue labeling it as 'drama' (which basically can apply to everything). Then you take a movie like 'The Case for Christ', is it a thriller? is it religious? is it just bad?. Metacritic labels it (again) as 'drama'. Then you take 'The Bible' series. Again: historical? religious?. Wait for it.... and.... Metacritic labels it (surprise!) as 'drama'.

Maybe it's time to label Doctor Who as 'drama' ^_^

Funny cause they removed the Daleks and Cyberman for this new who, my guess is because it hits too close to home for the NPCs watching

"They don't seem to focus on portraying issues that have real resonance for the here and now. "

I must have missed the meeting that declared racial equality and prejudice to no longer be resonant.

"race can be suggestive of harsh competition "

It doesn't have to be. And that is a issue that will always have resonance.

These are more significant topics to be debated and portrayed because racism can't be handled by trading ideological blows or moral lecturing

Yeap.

You can't take away biology through some ideological re-education. Western society tried to eliminate sexual urges through ideology: it didn't work. The outcome was people overcompensating, virtue signaling (I'm pure! He's lewd and lascivious!) and finally sex being everywhere. You read Gothic literature, sex pervades every page.

Now it's about racism, and (again) biology can't be taken away. People favor genetic proximity, that's a biological instinct. So nowadays you have the same outcome: people overcompensating, virtue signaling (I'm pure! He's racist and nazi!) and finally race being everywhere.

I like it too!

too much bitching about PC ness around here

The roots were never to indoctrinate children with some political agenda.

Of course the old show was egalitarian. It's the modern one the one that isn't. The old show wouldn't have portrayed a whole human group as inherently evil, as the modern one does with white males.

The 60s show was actually far more socially advanced than the modern one.

'progressive' in the 60s-70s was a completely different thing. 'progressive' now is a another story. That word uses to be applied to the newest trend in town, but new trends can be very different among them. They can even be the exact opposite of the one before. Classic Doctor Who (and I include Russell T Davies era in the 'classic' group) is oil and water with the modern one (post-Moffat)

It's funny, I made a post after the second episode making the same point. So now following on there's been an episode about racism in the Deep South around the time of Rosa Parks? Ha, could the writers make it more obvious what they're going for with this show? Is there going to be an episode where they go back to the time of the Suffragettes? Perhaps it could portray all men being a-holes to women during it.

Seems to be an hour of race and gender politics masquerading as a sci-fi show. It's like now they've made the Doctor a woman, it's opened the floodgates in terms of the egalitarian angle the writing can go in. Or am I wrong and it's been this way for a while?