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A drawing I made for the cover of my new sketchbook.
I tried to paint the face of a statue of Athena made by Giovanni Battista Lombardi. I used oil pastels
I think one of the reasons I was so upset about the Doctor change so early is that the fifteenth was supposed to be special.
He was treated as special from the beginning, being the first black and openly queer Doctor. Him being more open and showing his emotions more, unlike all the others who are terrible with feelings and repress everything to suffer alone, was one of the things that already made him more special.
The beginning of a new era
But no. Now he's gone with less time than the other Doctors and without concluding many arcs that were supposed to be his.
I thought Rogue's storyline would be his, that they would meet. But if they don't completely ignore it, they'll leave it for the sixteenth.
I thought he might meet Susan next season. But it will probably be the sixteenth, and that's assuming it can last more than one season.
Not to be pessimistic, but Susan's actress is 84 years old. She looks fine and healthy, but they have to be careful about what they do with her character and try not to ruin the thing that fans of the series are most looking forward to before the actress goes to live with Joy.
The arcs that should be his, who was presented with him, will be left for the next one as if the fifteenth was just another one
Considering that the Rani is an extremist scientist who doesn't care about other people's lives and sees everyone as potential lab rats (or at least she should be and they failed to show it), it makes sense for her to try to recreate the Time Lords.
It's not a bad idea, just poorly used.
They could have made her somehow find out about this Timeless Child issue and try to go after the Doctor, with the curiosity of a scientist to find out what the Doctor really is/his origins and the possibility of studying him and being able to bring the Time Lords back.
And it would be even better if instead of trying to bring him back to be the great Supreme, she also had the same bittersweet relationship that the Master and the Doctor have with Gallyfrey, of "they are terrible and I hate them, but they are still my people and the planet I came from." or "I don't want them all dead and extinct, but I don't want them anywhere near it either)
That would definitely unbalance the doctor emotionally
It would be fun if done well. Too bad it's just a dream now
I definitely thought she would want the Timeless Child DNA and Poppy. Considering we last saw Omega not having a physical body and the Doctor is the source of regenerations. You're telling me the Rani knew enough to change her DNA but not why the Master was committing genocide
When I saw that they were talking about Omega being the first Time Lord and The Rani wanting to bring them back but not going after the Doctor, I thought two things
1- if there was any way for The Rani to know about this Timeless Child story and how
and 2- if they are going to follow this path, they will probably ignore this story, rewrite the canon or just pretend the timeless child never happened.
Considering that the Rani is an extremist scientist who doesn't care about other people's lives and sees everyone as potential lab rats (or at least she should be and they failed to show it), it makes sense for her to try to recreate the Time Lords.
It's not a bad idea, just poorly used.
They could have made her somehow find out about this Timeless Child issue and try to go after the Doctor, with the curiosity of a scientist to find out what the Doctor really is/his origins and the possibility of studying him and being able to bring the Time Lords back.
And it would be even better if instead of trying to bring him back to be the great Supreme, she also had the same bittersweet relationship that the Master and the Doctor have with Gallyfrey, of "they are terrible and I hate them, but they are still my people and the planet I came from." or "I don't want them all dead and extinct, but I don't want them anywhere near it either)
That would definitely unbalance the doctor emotionally
It would be fun if done well. Too bad it's just a dream now
-To start with, the season should have more episodes. Many series are having this problem of not being able to develop enough with the few episodes that Disney releases. (Just look at the Marvel and Star Wars series, most of the ones considered the best have at least more than 6 episodes.)
-Second. Belinda's development was terrible. What we know about her can be summed up in one sentence:
She's a nurse and she really wants to go home.
-Third. This whole story about the world of desire between the Doctor, Belinda and Poppy was so uncomfortable (for me). I don't even know how to describe how wrong it feels.
Up until the part where it was all fake and it seemed like everything would go back to normal once the Doctor saved the day, everything was fine. Then they decided that the child was really their daughter.
-Once again, going back to Belinda's development (or lack of it), it seems extremely uncomfortable and confusing for her, but in the end she doesn't choose anything and is forced to think that it has always been this way.
(The good thing is that, from her point of view, she doesn't remember the truth and for her everything is fine. But from our point of view, it's so… questionable…)
-I think the issue of Time Lords being sterile was a cannonball in the script of the entire series.
The first episode of all literally introduces Susan Foreman, the doctor's GRANDDAUGHTER, and he has said several times that he had children in the plural.
Could he have adopted? He could, but I personally believe that if he had the habit of adopting, they would have to come up with a very good excuse for him to have stopped doing it, since we have already seen them with children, and we know that they would give a better life to all of them if they could.
-The Rani was a waste, she had so much potential. If they hadn't decided to bring in Omega (another waste) she could have been an incredible villain.
I mean, she's a Time Lord scientist with no attachment to life. That's a LOT of wasted potential.
-Omega should have been impactful, the true villain powerful above all others, just like the Doctor's entire species has always been treated (so the first of the species should have been even worse). But he wasn't.
It was so meh that I don't even have anything else to comment on.
-There was a lot of expository dialogue throughout the season.
Who is Rani, what she does, what she did, who she knows, her goals, who is Omega, why Poppy is important, among other things, there is literally an entire section where the characters explain to each other and consequently to us.
Nothing is shown, everything is explained and chewed over for you who don't know Classic Who.
I think it's okay to bring things from the classic era, but they should introduce it as if we had never seen it before instead of telling us.
I know a lot of people don't like Timeless Child, but it would have been better if they had continued developing it to maybe improve it instead of ignoring it to create something worse. (Not a worse idea, but the story overall is worse, even disrespectful. I'd rather rewatch the Timeless Child arc and the master dancing Rasputin endlessly)
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There are probably more, but the post is already very long and my brain is already burning from analyzing and translating my conclusions into English, which is not my first language.
anyway it's just my opinion and I would love to hear yours to complement or change my analysis
This season finale had so many questionable things that it hurts me to criticize it and realize that it wasn't as good as I wanted to believe.
But I think that precisely because I've been an unconditional fan since I was 7 years old, I need to be responsible and see and expose the flaws to prevent them from happening again, even though I really want to pretend that everything is fine and the next one will be better.
"Timelords can't have children" THE FUCK YOU ON ABOUT DOCTOR? YOU SAID YOU HAD CHILDREN SO MANY TIMES. HOW DOES SUSAN? WTF IS YOU ON ABOUT?!
I was so busy criticizing the technical part that I had even forgotten about this detail…..
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
How RTD has treated Belinda Chandra should go down in Whovian history alongside how Martha Jones was treated. By the way. Doctor Who needs to start actually respecting their companions of color and they clearly haven't learned a damn thing. It is so hard to live in a world where Moffat did it best. Moffat? Moffat wrote the best companion of color? How???
I think the way he treated Belinda was even worse than Martha. Martha has personality, she has a family, she has evolved in some way.
Belinda was a nurse and really wanted to go home. (and a mother since the last minutes of the episode)
also shitposting aside it should've been a horror movie. belinda chandra should've looked down at that child and known she would've died for her. she would've killed for her. and known also that those aren't her feelings. this isn't her child. fifteen wanted this dream so badly that he rewrote belinda's whole life. this ending isn't just a tragedy for the doctor
They should have kept Poppy as the Time Lord. It would have been less horrible if the Doctor hadn't changed Belinda's life like that for nothing.
They should have taken responsibility for their choices. They chose to create this sterile Time Lord and the impossible Time Lord child plot, so they should have gone all the way with it.
Or just not done it.
One thing that’s become really clear while watching Classic Doctor Who alongside the current era—especially starting with the Fifteenth Doctor—is how well the Ninth through Twelfth Doctor eras nailed the balance of episode length and story structure.
Classic Who usually split its stories into four or five 20–25 minute episodes per arc, which roughly equals the runtime of a modern two-parter. But while that format allowed for sprawling narratives, it came with a tradeoff: pacing. Entire episodes sometimes feel like narrative treading water—not because the writing was bad, but because of the constraints of mid-20th century television. (That’s its own fascinating rabbit hole, but we’ll save that for another time.)
To be fair, Classic Who did experiment with its format. Some stories, like The Edge of Destruction—a tight, two-part psychological thriller set entirely inside the TARDIS—used a smaller runtime to great effect. It’s still one of the strongest entries of Season 1, partly because it had no room to meander.
Later, the show dabbled in stories of two 45-minute episodes during Season 22. But those episodes often had the same problem: some stories still didn’t need the extra time. Take The Mark of the Rani, for example. It was padded out to fit that two-part, 45-minute-per-episode format (roughly 90 minutes total), but honestly? It could’ve been a sharper, more effective 40-minute story. There’s a lot of unnecessary fluff that drags the pacing down.
But then you get something like The Keys of Marinus—a six-parter (20 min each part) that essentially functions as a sci-fi anthology. Each episode throws the Doctor and co. into a completely new setting with its own self-contained mini-plot. It uses its extended format to experiment and surprise without feeling stale. That’s when the long form works.
Then came the 2005–2017 revival era, and honestly? The show hit its structural gold standard: twelve episodes per season, blending 40-minute standalones with 80-minute two-parters. And it just worked.
Episodes like Blink and Midnight were tight, high-impact stories that landed precisely because they didn’t overstay their welcome. Try stretching either one to feature-length, and the tension would unravel. Meanwhile, two-parters like The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances had room to build atmosphere, layer in character development, and deliver those signature emotional wallops. They remain fan favorites for a reason: the format gave them the breathing room they needed—and then stopped.
Which brings us to the Fifteenth Doctor’s era.
Right now, we’re back to a one-size-fits-all approach but the opposite direction: single 40-minute episodes across the season, with only the finale allowed to be a two-parter. And the result? Some stories just aren’t getting the space they need to land.
Doctor Who thrives on structural flexibility. Some stories need 80 minutes to unfold. Others are perfect little 40-minute excursions. Locking every episode into the same runtime is like asking every alien to fit inside a human suit: it works until it doesn’t, and when it doesn’t, it’s obvious.
The point is: variety in format has always been one of Doctor Who’s strengths. When the show leans into that, it sings. When it forgets that… well, you end up with stories that could’ve soared if they were just given a little more space to breathe.
(Also I don’t mean to exclude 13—it’s just that her era experimented with structure so much across her run that it’s kind of its own thing, there’s a whole separate post to be written about what worked and didn’t there.)
(Fun fact for reading this far: The Edge of Destruction was only two 25-minute parts because the production team didn’t know if the show was getting picked up for more episodes. They wrote a short, self-contained story set entirely inside the TARDIS to avoid building new sets. It was meant to be cheap filler—and it ended up being one of the highlights of the First Doctor’s era.)
These seasons should have had more episodes, the same amount as the other Doctors. I think that if they had the freedom to do another two-part story besides the finale, the entire season would have gained more quality because it would have given time for development.
I think that a big problem with this season was Belinda's lack of development and the large amount of expository dialogue.
I don't know if it's my memory, but I don't remember other seasons with so much expository dialogue. Maybe one episode or two, but not most of the season.
I liked the fifteenth, but it could have been better. He DESERVED better, and he deserved MORE. I think he's the Doctor who lasted the shortest in all these years. Two seasons of him doesn't even come close to the amount of episodes that only two seasons of the other Doctors have, even considering everything that came after 2005.
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