#doctor who criticism

[eliziarts]

In one way I'm totally down with the bi-generation. A physical representation of the doctor moving forward and leaving the parts of him behind that ate at him. Finding peace. Finding a home. Finding a fresh start. Love it.

In another, I miss so badly what we could have gotten. 10 "not wanting to go", the same face showing up again when the doctor was the most broken and the most insecure. Donna insisting that he's wearing himself out. He's thin, he's tired. Finally accepting his death and getting proper closure after all these years. Sorry, but I do think that would have been more impactful.

#ik it's because david tennant is doctor who's special little boy #but i really think what they did goes against some integral themes of the show #just kind of disappointing #doctor who #doctor who 60th anniversary #14th doctor #david tennant #dr who #15th doctor #doctor who critical #doctor who criticism

[raywritesthings]

something about how the first black female doctor was just a subplot in a white female doctor’s story and how the first black male doctor’s regeneration has been subverted by a previous white male doctor literally getting a second regeneration scene… really really just highlights how little doctor who and the bbc have improved from 2007 when the first black female companion’s story was all about how she wasn’t that other white female companion, and i’m not gonna even pretend i am anything but disgusted about it

#anti rtd #anti chibnall #doctor who criticism #rtd salt #chibnall critical #jo martin #ncuti gatwa #and #freema agyemen #are all fantastic actors who deserve so much better than this old song and dance #martha jones #fugitive doctor #fourteenth doctor #spoilers #emerson rants

[evilwriter37]

Rose Noble didn’t feel like good rep to me, personally. As a nonbinary trans man, I appreciated that she was a nonbinary girl who used she/her pronouns and was referred to as Donna’s daughter, but it pretty much ends there. Everything else with her felt so forced and ham-fisted, like being given a lesson on social justice stuff instead of watching a character. She was used as a vehicle for a message rather than having any personality. She was just not handled well. Not at all.

#doctor who criticism #doctor who

[jennyandvastraflint]

Thinking about how only Colin Baker and Christopher Ecclestone actually stode and continue to stand against the hate directed at 13/Jodie. And how its the female cast members from Classic Who who have been most supportive of her. It really stands out how mpst of the male cast (specifically the nuWho docs) did bare minimum in stopping hate from THEIR fans and how they quickly were paly paly with Ncuti but Jodie often still seems left on the outside of the club (no hate to Ncuti just saying once you notice you can't unsee it). And how quickly she's been erased from conversations because RTD stuck Tennant in there to re establish status quo.

!!! Yuuup... I'm so fucking mad at this insane double standard. Alao huge fuck you to RTD for everything he did to erase Jodie's Doctor... And what's happening rn quite frankly. I just hate how some of the people producing DW (esp. RTD) and the fandom treat female characters, especially when they're in leading roles... Jodie deserves so much better from the fandom!

#anti rtd #doctor who criticism #doctor who

[lifblogs]

The Doctor Who special was way too afraid of angst. Donna’s grandfather is gone? Oh no, actually he’s in a retirement home. The Doctor has angst to let out or fear to feel over Donna? No, there isn’t time. Donna dies? Never mind, that’s too sad :( so she’s alive now in a really cheesy way.

It could have gone there. It could have! Constant setups, and constant letdowns.

#doctor who #doctor who spoilers #doctor who criticism #salt

[casa-supernova]

anyways, i'm still really annoyed that my master post about how badly race was handled in series 3 is gone, so i'm going to remind you all again. martha jones. black medical student who definitely would have been dealing with medical racism as well as general microaggressions. her family. the biggest in the rtd era and the most underutilised. making francine the angry black woman with little to no build up, making her antagonistic to the point of violence with barely any plot. no mention of the impact a father who ran off with a younger white woman would have.

shakespearean london. 1599. two years after the queen tried to expell black people from the town and ship them off as chattel, making martha's concern worryingly accurate. having the doctor dismiss these concerns making him sound like an idiot. shakespeare's fetishisation of martha. the doctor's unnecessarily aggresive, dismissive and simultaneously suggestive attitude with her. manhattan, 1930. excused away having to deal with the inevitable racism by throwing in a line by a black actor to show the writers didn't feel like dealing with it, despite race relation getting worse during the depression. still keeping at the needlessly suggestive scenes and lines aimed at martha - it is not funny or endearing for the doctor to pick up her knickers. i admit his "busy doing stuff" line with francine WAS funny, but overall, i'm not impressed with the borderline inappropriate innuendos levied at martha her season. right down to john smith asking martha what she 'does' for the doctor. and speaking of 1913. the only two parter to actively treat racism as if it exists...until it decides to reward joan (and john for the matter) with narrative sympathy. then we get 1969, another racially unstable era, especially as it's london. any black brit who was around in that era will tell you. and then the master and his jibes about ticking boxes off in demographics which is definitely supposed to be a jab at actual critique of the show but just makes him seem prejudiced also. which isn't exactly helped by him enslaving the jones', maid outfits and all.

not to mention subverting the first female black companion in the tv show's onscreen history into the doctor's. the first and only time they've done this thank god. to sideline her in her own story and constantly and negatively comparing her to the white predecessor was such a huge and avoidable error. not to mention completely forgetting her in 'the doctor's daughter,' seperating her from everyone for the majority of the s4 finale and pairing her off with the only other black male in the cast.

come on.

#doctor who #doctor who criticism #racism #martha jones #tenth doctor #10th doctor #rtd era #rose tyler #mickey smith #the shakespeare code #evolution of the daleks #daleks in manhattan #francine jones #the lazarus experiment #human nature #family of blood #joan refern #the master

[quantumshade]

look i’m very glad people felt represented by the chibnall era/yaz’s story/thasmin/etc. but some of us did not and i should be able to say that without people acting like i just kicked a puppy

#I’ll elaborate later #but for now #‘’representation’’ as a whole is just a concept that. well. it’s so unhelpful in both consuming and creating media #I don’t want representation i want characters that are emotionally resonant #and like. I don’t need to personally relate to every character or relationship #but it annoys me when people act like something is universal #and if you don’t agree or fit in or whatever you’re doing something wrong #doctor who #doctor who criticism #delia.txt

[oogaboogasoup]

(this is a rambly rant feel free to ignore)

Legend of the Sea Devils is absolutely bonkers bad. Like oh my gosh words don't describe it I don't think I can take people seriously now they bemoan Love and Monsters that was fun until we got a bad monster and a weird joke at the end. That was charming.

This is....insanely bad. There are sequences in this episode where you can tell none of the actors were filming in the same place and like it actively is disorienting between shots. I know COVID was a big problem for production but no that does not excuse this ugly episode.

Also I have been suffering to get through these seasons in the first place this is a firmly anti Chibnall take I think there's been maybe three episodes of these I've half enjoyed anyway I hate Thasmin. Like I can't stand River Song and found myself defending her honor in this episode because no Yaz is not a character let alone a good love interest.

As a matter of fact the notion people think the Doctor and Yaz is a good pairing that makes sense to this show is a completely wild take as well, these two are giving Ten and Martha energy

Sorry not sorry I'm so excited to almost be done with this only one episode left

#also like i am fully a doctor rose shipper #so theres that for sure #but good lord thasmin is bad #im so ready for thirteen to be gone 😭 #anti chibnall #anti thasmin #anti thirteenth doctor #doctor who #doctor who criticism

[hauntedmoonchaos]

It doesn't sit right with me that 3 times now DW have had 3 Black men walk out on their families.

Mickey dad leaving him to be raised by his gran after his mum death.

Martha dad walking out on his wife for a younger woman.

Ryan dad relationship souring with his dad after his mum death and being abandoned.

And in SJSA Clyde dad also abandoned him and his mum.

#doctor who #doctor who criticism #mickey smith #clyde langer #ryan sinclair #martha jones

[j-harkness]

I do kind of feel physically ill repeatedly seeing ppl on here post and reblog gifs of the "we put a brown man in a Nazi uniform teehee" scene ngl. how is that not cringe inducingly bad to y'all.

#like to this day cant believe that entire sequence actually happened!!!!!! #doctor who criticism #meta #i do not care what debate anyone tries to invite me into on this post btw

[myasssaysno]

Once upon a Time-Lord.... (What does the even mean?)

Why is the Doctor stood in front of a green-screen like the world, no, the universes worst weather man?

Why is Donna so caught up on events that took place fifteen years ago?

Why does this feel like everything between then and now, never happened?

What is happening?

(I'm aware I'm supper late to the party but...)

The Star Beast (Doctor Who Special of 2023) Review.

This felt nerve racking (which is ridiculous) but watching this actually caused me distress.

I watched the 2005 Doctor Who as a child and liked Donna well enough as a companion (she proved a bit much at times but she wasn't in love with the Doctor, so a win as far as I'm concerned.)

But I never expected to see her back on the screen. Especially not with the 10th Doctor (no, I don't consider him the 14th, though I will refer to him as that from now on, but in reality, the whole point of the number system is to identify the Doctor being referred to by face, not regeneration, because that went out the window, with the War Doctor.)

Point is, RTD came back (for some reason) and wanted to remind everyone about his era of Doctor Who (in case we forgot) and retconned the most tragic companion exit ever.

Not that whole Doctor-Donna thing should have happened in the first place, but still.

That being said, RTD came back, Donna's back, 10th is now also the 14th Doctor (and a part time weather man), and all attention is immediately on how things got left last time.

Which is mistake one; (I can take a shitty opening, to fill in anyone who wasn't their to watch Donna's time as a companion) but at no point does it feel like 15-years has passed.

At no point, do I get a sense of this new Donna. We get constant mentions of everything that happened, but that means nothing to me.

Show me Donna's life. We deserve that. I want to see this woman thrive after the Doctor. I want to see her meet her husband and have weird dreams about him cheating on her with a spider, which her husband finds weird but funny. I want to see the challenges of getting a job, and then the stress of having a job you don't like, I want to see her lose said job and have to explain everything to the family. I want to see her have a child, and her reaction to them coming out as Trans. I want them to have a normal, human life, until Rose Noble finds an alien.

No Doctor. No Aliens. No nothing. Just Donna and her family.

Because then maybe I would have cared when she almost died. Which unfortunately didn't happen.

I'm going to be honest, I wanted Donna Noble to die, and I don't dislike Donna Noble, but her entire introduction and her entire time on screen resolved around this missing chunk of her life. It seemed to consume her, and that's completely unfair. In the end, it seemed like, she'd rather remember and die, then live. Despite her saying the opposite, but that was the option and I think Donna should have known that, and made that choice, because she never got the chance to do so the first time round.

That being said, RTD also seems to have learnt all the wrong lessons from Chibnall, by including diverse characters (just about) but not representing anyone.

Rose Noble (and I still can't believe he named her Rose) is a one-dimensional character. She is Donna's daughter. She is Trans. And she is just super nice. We get nothing more than that. I would have loved to see her interact with the Meep for longer. I wanted them to built up trust and respected, only for it all to be one big lie that tears Rose apart.

Which sounds horrible, but it would add to her character, and also make her aware that not everyone who is discriminated against is immediately trustworthy. They might understand, they might relate but that doesn't mean they care.

Meep proved to be this perfect character, or villain, which demonstrated the looks can be deceiving aspect.

And Rose comes across as someone just young and hopeful enough to be deceived but she wouldn't be the only one. Everyone else got deceived too, she's just the one more heartbroken over it. Because she thought they were friends.

Whilst the Doctor should have ended up at the spaceship, met with Shirley, and they should have teamed up. Because once more, there is no point adding a wheelchair user, if they're pretty much replaceable and just sitting around?

I'm aware that people overlook all types of well people, but you mean to tell me, they didn't think it worth it to hold the woman captive. Did she just hide somewhere? I mean that's not bad, but it also feels bad, like she should have had her moment, beyond appearing when the main character's needed her.

Like I would have loved to see her, where she joins the Doctor, and goes with him, on the taxi ride, which would take place after the spaceship lands not before. And then, they would all end up re-meeting at Donna's house anyway. And Shirley's wheelchair can just be advanced enough to get into the house, and become one of those chair-lifts which gets her upstairs.

My point is, if she wasn't a wheelchair user, she'd actual probably be found dead in a corner somewhere.

Doctor Who (or should I say its writers) really don't care for side-character like they should, unless they're making them the most sympathetic character's imaginable (then its over the top).

Let's jump back to the actual episode which I haven't even talked about probably yet.

It opens weirdly, with the Doctor and Donna filling everyone in (which I have discussed) and then we immediately jump to the Doctor stumbling into Donna, which is both convenient (or not) and destroys any built up to this moment.

Before we can even get into the episode, before we can really understand that 15 years has passed for Donna, and over a thousand years for the Doctor, we immediately have them meet, and it's alright now, because she doesn't immediately die, by looking at the Doctor's face (something we already knew).

And not to get into too much but having the Doctor get his old face back ruins the whole thing about the Doctor's face not even mattering.

Point is, a spacecraft crash lands (though not really) and everyone sees it but Donna. Which was a thing, that never made any sense the first time round, but what can you do?

Would have been nicer to see how that affected Donna? Or that it had no affect, confusing and troubling the Doctor.

Some nice little foreshadowing that things are different now, that things have changed, since the Master turned everyone's face into his.

The Doctor then gets a taxi ride from Shaun, the husband. And that is all you need to know (other than he's happy man, with happy life, and happy family, that's happy all the time (except his wife lost her job, and they can't afford the house anymore and might have to down-size, oh and his daughter things it's her responsibility now to provide for the family, because she's likely blaming herself for existing.))

None of that matters though, because they gave away the money from the lottery, which is all the Doctor's fault.

Like honestly this is the most annoying thing, throughout the entire episode. The focus on money, for all the wrong reasons.

I don't even get the point of it. Are we saying, giving away money is bad? You will regret giving to charity, because one-day you'll need that money?

Because in all honesty, the lottery money, which happened at least ten-years ago, is completely irrelevant.

At this point, the whole focus should be on the fact that a job fired Donna over spilt coffee. (Which apparently was foreshadowing (for reasons unknown to just about everyone.))

Ah, dead-naming.

I'm sorry, but there is zero excuse, and even lesser reasons to do this. It achieves absolutely nothing.

No attention is brought to this, about how horribly it is to be dead-named. It compared to causal bullying, and I don't wanted to lessen the horrors of bullying in general, but it takes one a whole new level of horror when it against Trans people, for being trans, and involves a group of boys on a trans-girl.

(I will not go into this anymore, you either understand or don't.)

And Donna's response, makes her look like an awful parent. Oh, it's okay sweetheart, because I was once a bully, just like those boys, and I'm going to go bully their mother, which might be the reason, she raised her sons like that.

(Not placing the blame completely on Donna, or the Mother for the boys behaviour, but the point remains, don't comfort your kid being bullied, with bullying.)

Now this wouldn't come across as such a bad parent moment, if we're seen Donna, and how much she'd changed since becoming a parent. We get hints of it, and a nice conversation with Sylvia who has also mellowed out nicely.

Unfortunately, we don't get the same conversation with Rose and someone else. Someone she can express herself to, who isn't family and understands.

The closest we get is Fudge, but he's a little kid, and not someone she can really open-up to. I was hoping, that would end up being the Doctor as some point, but that never happened. (All of their bonding just happened of screen, I guess.)

Once again, we've spoke about Rose helping the Meep, and how tamed it is. We've also spoken about the Doctor and Shirley.

Now I have nothing wrong with the way, everything sort of falls out of control very quickly. We have Donna poking the Meep in the eye, the Meep asking for help, and Sylvia panicking, only for the Doctor to turn up, which makes everything worse until Shuan brings a moment pause to everything once more.

Nicely done, (if a little quick), some part do feel a little random. Like the Doctor hearing Donna. Instead of tracking the Meep, as opposed to the escape pod like everyone else.

Also, almost forgot to speak about the sonic.

Some people don't like it. Other's love it. Everyone knew it's just a special thing, and one kind of has to ask, why bother with a new sonic for just three-episodes?

I feel like its wasted potential.

I like a Doctor without a sonic as much as the next person, but I also see the potential in the sonic which is never used. And it has become a part of the Doctor. I mean the guy runs around without a shield, which exist in-universe, alongside teleporters and other helpful gadgets.

The reason for that, is the writer's are never actual prepared to handle that level of technology all the time. It would get boring very quickly, for a shield to have to be destroyed, before the Doctor can be injured, each and every time. But honestly, just have it there, and don't bring attention to it.

I don't think the Doctor needs to be in danger, every episode, and the whole, ducking and dodging, just takes away tension, because you know they're going to be alright. Having the Doctor wear a shield, and being shot at, and surviving, makes sense. And only once, you wanted them hurt or to get shot, do you come up with a reason for the shield to stop working, or have then give it to someone else.

I'm saying, with a little thought, having more advanced technology on the Doctor could actual work. But Writer's don't want that, and Doctor Who fans don't want that.

In conclusion, the new sonic is a one-off anyway. Like, even compared to the rest of the episodes, they never use it again. (I guess it costs too much).

I personally liked that it could be used as a screen, which could come in useful (but is never used again). Didn't like the shielding as much.

We take a moment to sit down, bandage up the Meep's hand, and have a little chat. Now, I've briefly mentioned, but I think Donna comes across to brash at times, but more so now. She's supposed to be a mother, and more tamed but, the not clarifying Wilf is in a home, felt out of place, and more so, blaming the Doctor for misunderstanding.

She did it all the time, the first go round, and it annoyed me to no end. As someone who can easily misunderstand people, I guess it doesn't help, I consider her already knowing the Doctor. But still, even as someone not known to you, you don't call them an idiot for being sad, because they think your grandfather's dead.

Have a heart.

Also, Rose getting at the Doctor for using a he pronoun on the Meep, felt all wrong. Like a new touch, and a nice addition to Doctor Who, but would have liked the Doctor to smile, and ask is it 2023 already, and get a massive glare from Sylvia for his trouble.

Like an acknowledgement, he's dumming himself down and has been since the sixties, because of our out-dated views about gender, would be the perfect moment to have the Doctor open up about his own gender, and not have been ignorant to the entire thing. And this continues, and turns out to be foreshadowing for a worse moment.

Also, also, having the Doctor confess to also having the pronoun 'The' (and not have this be a throw-away line) would have worked to, he could even have mentioned how this is true of all Time-Lords, expect their more than comfortable with he/him, she/her, they/them, when applicable. So, it's not wrong to use, any.

Now, we have the sonic save the day, to allow them to escape upstairs. I like that the Doctor lead them to safety through the attic, a clever move.

However, the fact that Unit, who have been possessed, know where the Meep is, is questionable. Beyond that, the fact they're firing into the house, with the Meep in, is also questionable. And even more so, why is the Meep, still playing pretend at this moment, what is the Meep waiting for exactly, other than the Doctor to catch up?

Now, the Doctor works it out, and drives the Meep to somewhere to speak with the Meep. And then summons the Warrior's (Zogroth's my mistake) to have a chat.

This could have been a good moment, if one, Fudge actual spoke with the Zogroth (why did I not know they had such a cool name?) and befriended them, because then, it's Rose and Meep, against Fudge and Zogroth.

Imagine that, this has been building for a few days, maybe a week, and we don't know who to trust, but Rose is convinced the Meep are the trustworthy one's, and Fudge trust Rose, but it turns out, she's actual wrong. And the Meep almost kills Fudge. Or, is honest with Fudge, letting us know the Meep is evil, but only when Rose isn't looking or around.

We could have even had then, on different sizes of the court room arguing their point. The Doctor caught in the middle, Fudge upset and angry that no-one believes him, because he's a kid. It could have been a whole thing, that's slower paced and gives the audience times to think and pick a side, but no, we just have the Doctor speaking fast, the camera spinning, and the Meep just giving up I guess, and confessing.

Point is, we build on this perception, of good vs bad, and not judging a book by its cover. And have the Doctor be there, to get to the truth of the issue, and could still have the silly mock-court, which happened because, they wanted to have the doctor wear a judge wig?

Not sure on that one, but the fact the Meep relives the truth then, and not at any other point, is the first odd point. Also, the second is that the Meep doesn't kill nor eat the Doctor, Donna, or her family.

Then, we get to the Meep's plan. Which is to destroy the earth for some reason? (I'm not actual sure, and I can't be bothered working it out.)

Point is, the Doctor needs Donna, became a glass barrier is slowing him down, and I know a lot of people like the Doctor (this Doctor) running around pressing button, randomly, but um, it goes on way too long for me.

Either way, he has to cause Donna to remember. And I do, like the whole, list of random works to unblock her memorises, but we've had no built up to it, and an even worse pay off.

Donna remembers, they save the day, and she doesn't die. Because she had a baby, (another companions child, where the Doctor is the third-parent, let hope he doesn't marry this one.)

Now because of this, Rose has some of the Doctor-Donna too, and when its activated, she able to save the Doctor and Donna, which is a little forced.

Point against this, I would rather have had it, fade over time, as though Donna had slowly been releasing the built up energy. Or had her, give it away, (as she sort of does), because now she's content in her life, she has a family, and a daughter, and doesn't want to be the Doctor anymore, doesn't want to travel the universe anymore.

That would have been perfect, but nothing builds up to this moment. Our problem is, we have too many characters, and none of them doing anything (but that's only an issue when Chibnall writes it).

Doesn't matter, the point is, the Doctor's now a male-presenting time-lord again, for like a morning tops, (half a day maybe) and is already too ignorant to realise the truth about Donna's condition, which has never happened before.

This actual could have been a brilliant moment, where Donna's like, you don't understand, because you haven't lived with this for fifteen-years. Which would link in, with the fight a lot of people (particularly woman) have with Doctor's presuming they understanding the illness a person is going through, better than the patient.

The Meep is stopped and honestly deserved a little better, some people really liked him. I thought it a mistake to not allow them to take it further in their deception, so it had a point. Also, they whole, they weren't evil, but made evil, and this Meep is the last, feels like, it missing the point, this episode should be aiming for. And that is that, appearance doesn't matter.

Rose has always had the memorises of the Doctor shinning through, wonderful, another character indebted to the Doctor for life, just what we need. (And the first trans character, is a by-product of the Doctor, so she can be trans, but you can't, because you're human and only the Doctor the weirdo who's male, female and more.)

Donna should have gone back to her life after this, we should have seen her visiting Wilf, to watch the stars together. Both of them wondering about the Doctor, missing him. But content to sit and watch from a safe distance, because she is that over the Doctor, and that secure in herself, and her family. That is the ending Donna Noble deserved.

3/10

Forgettable Villain. Misunderstood Characters. Too Much Going On. Happening Too Quickly. And The Worst Offender Of Them All Empty Inclusion.

(OH, and also, it's supposed to be a 60th anniversary of the WHOLE of Doctor Who).

#Doctor Who Criticism #RTD2 #RTD Criticism #Doctor Who Review #The Star Beast Special #14th Doctor #Donna Noble

[ovkiianos]

I hate doctor who and doctor who fans r a fucking red flag sorry lads

#cas irl #fandom #doctor who criticism

[raywritesthings]

Won’t lie, I am incredibly disappointed in Doctor Who’s choice to make Yasmin Finney’s new character be named Rose. The fact that in his post about it RTD defines her as just “another Rose” - like did he really not learn his lesson already?

I don’t care if she’s from a parallel Earth. I don’t care if she’s Rose Temple-Noble, and therefore Donna’s daughter like some people are speculating. I don’t care if it’s just a random fluke (though I doubt that). The fact is, Russell already went down this road in series 3, when he constantly had characters compare Martha negatively to Rose, and in the specials, when he named the Next Doctor/Jackson Lake’s companion Rosita, and had Ten remark “good name”.

Stop. Comparing. Black Women. To. A White Woman.

All people are going to talk about is Rose Tyler, and how this new Rose is like her or not like her, how much they miss the old Rose, how much they hate this new Rose compared to Rose Tyler, why couldn’t the “real” Rose have just come back instead, etc. If she is actually Donna’s daughter as some theorize, then plenty of other fans will just be talking about Donna, and her sad ending, and how her friendship with Rose was so amazing and profound it got through the mindwipe and so on. The point is, they will be talking about two white characters who have already had their time to shine instead of the new Black character, just like in 2007 with Martha’s run. The show had finally gotten to the point where it didn’t need to reference Rose Tyler every five episodes, and now that RTD’s back he’s just swinging the pendulum completely the other way.

Freema did not go through so much racist, sexist abuse for him to just get away with repeating this on another actress. And Yasmin will have it worse, because she is trans. People out there on the internet are already going to be posting or sending disgusting, vile things her way, and reigniting the “Rose Tyler vs New Character/Companion” debate is just going to make it so, so much worse. The fact that in the show’s canon, Rose Tyler treated the only trans woman she ever met (Cassandra, who was an extremely transphobic caricature written by RTD and portrayed by a cis actress) with derision and disgust, calling her “not human” and saying she “would rather die than live like [her]” is either going to embolden some transphobic fans or be desperately swept under the rug by the production team. If I see anyone on tumblr making transphobic or racist commentary about Yasmin Finney, whether blatant or a thinly-veiled dog whistle, I will be blocking on sight.

Some people are speculating that this Rose is going to be the new companion to Fourteen. And as amazing an actress as she is and as awesome as it would be to have a duo of Black actors headline Doctor Who for the first time ever, it would be an awful idea to kick off this brand new era with a companion who shares the same name as a previous one. A lot of folks have said it already, but this obsession with RTD’s first era as showrunner is frankly putting the show’s forward momentum in a chokehold. If people can’t get over the past and enjoy new characters and stories and themes (and they don’t have to enjoy all of them! I certainly haven’t over the years), then the BBC may as well have just canceled the show again. It’s running on the fumes of nostalgia, and David Tennant isn’t going to save the ratings by coming back once a decade. If people refuse to care about any other Doctor, then I say just let the show die.

Yasmin Finney seems genuinely excited to be joining the show and working with RTD, whether it’s for this one 60th anniversary special or for something longer-term is yet to be announced. But she deserved so much better, and Black women and girls both cis and trans deserved so much better, than to be overshadowed by a white, cis woman yet again.

#anti rtd #rtd salt #doctor who criticism #rtd criticism #criticism #would you believe it’s already come to this #i was so excited by last week’s announcement #so hopefully optimistic #that he had learned and grown and was ready to move on #and to treat Black characters with the respect they deserve #i wasn’t bothered that dt and ct were coming back for the anniversary #it’s always been that way #but this has sent my hopes sinking and i am just bracing for the worst again #some people will probably come on this post and say i’m being alarmist #or judging before we know the full story #but i don’t trust him #i was willing to give him a chance to see if he’d learned #but this does not say he has #i wanted to be excited and now i just feel dread #so that’s great #also still waiting for an official apology for his transphobic episodes and not something just thrown out there at a con once #never to be mentioned again #probably be waiting my whole life for that one though #i’ll still give it a try for 14’s sake at least #but don’t be surprised if i quit on this era too #emerson rants #yasmin finney #doctor who spoilers #spoilers

[scripted-downfall]

5 plz and thank you Wench! (dr who ask game)

Ma'am legit comes on here to make me be mean to one of my favorite shows, I see... Hmph. You'll pay for this one of these days, my dear.

Until then, however, the answer is yes. (See below)

(Doctor Who Asks)

ngl, the Eleventh Doctor was Not a Favorite. Like... I liked him at times, and some of his episodes were great, but he was very much not my favorite. And I have a number of faults with his era.

I've talked about some of these in previous posts --- showing the weeping angels moving in their two-parter, inconsistency with the lore, the whiplash between Ten's regeneration and Eleven's first scene, etc --- but there are a few others... For example, I felt like his episodes devolved into a very... I don't know, superhero-esque style? "A Good Man Goes to War" is a notable example, but not the only one; his actual regeneration had a similar feel. And I could appreciate some of it, but it just... it lost the feel of older Doctor Who, and that feel was the one I love.

Personally, I was also highly aggravated by the decision to retcon the destruction of Gallifrey in The Day of the Doctor. I really liked where the scene had been going --- specifically, that War, 10, and 11 were coming to terms with the fact that they'd made the only decision they could, etc. --- and then they subvert it with one decision that makes very little sense, in my opinion, and renders the trauma both 10 and 11 experienced absolutely pointless. Also, it doesn't make sense plotwise; so many creatures over the years had been acting out after the war/destruction of Gallifrey --- the Nestene Consciousness, the Gelth, etc. --- so wiping that away felt really iffy to me.

Also, "Love and Monsters." I think that episode isn't bad as a whole, imo --- silly, yes, but not bad --- right up until that joke at the end.

And I heard they got rid of the Christmas special? That's on the list too.

Thanks for the ask :)

#doctor who criticism #i feel bad putting that but is true #i love the show okay #it's just. not always perfect. #answered asks #scripted downfall asks answered #security protocol 1! information: (sd)

[jennyandvastraflint]

Fandom: "we're not misogynist it's just that Whittaker is the only actor we hyper criticise and insist was miscast and a bad performer and also all of her other performances are bad too." I actually hate this fan base now, it even annoys me seeing various actors say its so kind and smart because any fan of Whittaker and her Doctor knows it's not. I tried to stick for Gatwa but I just can't do it, the sexism is sickening.

So understandable... I'm pretty much only engaging with it in my small corners. I wanted to watch Ncuti at first, but when RTD decided to literally have *checks notes* GOBLINS stealing (white, blonde, blue-eyed) children for eating them... Aka literally one of the oldest antisemitic tropes...... :|

And obviously the sexism everywhere esp. in the fandom? Absolutely not. I'm basically staying with 13s era and my specific niche.

#anti rtd #doctor who #doctor who criticism

[nat-20s]

I am far from saying the 60th anniversaries were perfect BUT I already know I fundamentally can't relate to people who didn't like the bi-generation. You don't like David Tennant and Ncuti Gatwa being silly together? You don't like Donna getting her bestie back? You don't like the physical embodiment of radical self love?? You don't like that we get to keep the same bitchin Tardis set but it has a jukebox and entry ramp now??? Where's your whimsy where's your fucking whimsy???

#dw spoilers #doctor who #AGAIN i am not saying doctor who is like immune to criticism or anything BUT #sometimes people complain about the things that are fun and i genuinely dont get it. #doctor who is not for the weak of whimsy imo