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Millie Gibson, who plays companion Ruby Sunday, has teased that there will be “many controversial elements” in the upcoming series of Doctor Who<\/em>, but has reassured fans that it’s “the good sort of controversy”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The actress acknowledged<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s so many controversial elements to this season \u2013 the good sort of controversy \u2013 and it\u2019s what we need to see on our tellies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome people might think, \u2018This isn\u2019t the Doctor Who<\/em>\u00a0I know.\u2019 But I\u2019m really excited to see it\u2026 It\u2019s really cool that they\u2019re doing concepts like these and changing it up.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Okay, so what does this mean? The answer probably lies in another quote, in which she explains the season will “go with the times and represent a lot of faces and themes that are really important to see on television”. It could be that Doctor Who<\/em> is stressing the need for “diversity”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem, of course, comes if “This isn\u2019t the Doctor Who<\/em>\u00a0I know” becomes “This isn\u2019t the Doctor Who<\/em>\u00a0I like”, but we’ll have to wait and see. Personally, I’m a little tired of controversy. We’ve had the Timeless Child (which I utterly detest), the Doctor using the Master’s race against him, and most recently the bi-generation, in which the Fourteenth Doctor sort of regenerated but also sort of didn’t, instead splitting into two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Controversy is a curious beast. It certainly attracts viewers when used effectively, but it doesn’t seem to hold them. Spooks<\/em>, one of my favourite shows ever, started off being controversial by killing off one of its main characters in only the second episode, in a really grisly way; that got plenty of column inches, but what kept viewers, in my opinion, was its strong storytelling. And that’s all Doctor Who<\/em> needs, really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can’t imagine The Tomb of the Cybermen, The Robots of Death, The Curse of Fenric<\/em>, or The Eleventh Hour<\/em> were especially controversial, yet they’re all brilliant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Doctor Who<\/em> Series 14 should be an interesting run for the show. We’ll just have to wait and see how fandom, and most importantly casual viewers, take to any “controversy”.<\/p>\n

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