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get to know me meme >> Favorite Male Characters [38/?] Graham O'Brien (Doctor Who)
And I honestly don't know whether any of us know the real truth of our own lives, 'cause we're too busy living them from the inside. So just enjoy it, Yaz. Live this moment and figure it out later.
RTD: Its really important I protect David from being accused of drag or for doing a disservice of drag by regenerating into Jodies gender neutral costume because David doesn't deserve to have to put up with the media writing articles about him in a negative way about gender neutral clothing that both a woman and a man in the show wore they will just say they are women's clothes so I'm going to burn it out of existence and make sure David is safe. Because people with Davids level of privilege and power need protection more than anyone, so I will protect David at all cost from having to do the thing everyone is expecting of the Doctor regenerating into the Doctors clothes. I'm just such a good caring guy protecting one of my leads.
Also RTD: Oh the Media are running with the narrative that my 19 year old female co lead was axed/dropped due to poor and unacceptable behaviour on set? That its weird and so must be true because companions usually do more then 1 series even though I've often only had them in 1 series, that not only was she axed they also announced my new companion while dragging the one who's first series still hasn't aired through the mud trying to ruin her career. Well I think we should just stay quiet, fuck her mental well being or career, lets not put out a press release refuting the claims or respond to any of the media's question's and just let her have to fend for herself when it comes time to do the media rounds for season 1, lets just leave this as her problem, I shouldn't have to deal with this even those it clearly leaked from my company or the BBC that she had a reduced role in season 2 and as show runner the buck stops with me, but fuck that, leave it as her problem. Why should I care if her face is planted across the internet, newsagents and super markets saying disparaging things about her?
If people can't see the misogyny in RTDs behaviour at this point they are choosing to be blind.
Also we can contrast this with Chibnall, in an interview he talked about how the media calls up trying to create stories and how they called him up and said they heard the the crew had walked off set because Jodie was making them work to 2am... he said his response was well I will call the journalist and tell them we were on night shoots people were schedule to work till 4 am they all love Jodie and we can send you the schedules to prove people were scheduled on. Thats how you protect people.
But let's all remember how RTD is he greatest person to ever live and Chibs is the bad guy. 🙄 So glad Jodie and Mandip got to work under Chibs and not RTD.
This is how I feel about the whole RTD vs Moffat debate
It blows my mind that there are still people insisting that RTD2 is better than the Chibnall era. Like, what is it about 13's run that is so scary to you that you look at an era that was written to be pure streaming service slop completely devoid of everything that made the show great and say "yeah, this is much better!". I've been a fan of this show for 15 years and RTD2 is the first time I've wondered if it was even worth sticking around because everything I love about it is gone.
Was Clara/Twelve a good love story?
YES and I’m LGBTQ+
NO and I’m LGBTQ+
YES and I’m cis straight
NO and I’m cis straight
Clara/Twelve was not a love story
Thasmin here
Ten/Rose here
River/Doctor here
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As much as I ADORE the themes of the current Doctor Who, I really don't get the people who are affectionately calling the message "subtle as a brick to the face" but hated on Orphan 55 and the like during Chibnall bc of how "preachy" it was. Like, babes...do we need to have a conversation about how "Space Babies," "Oxygen," and "Orphan 55" are all just as preachy as each other? That's kinda what Doctor Who has always been about??? Absolute camp of the Adipose, Slitheen, Pting, Smiley Robot, and Menacing Cube varieties interspersed with some of the must unsubtle, earnest monologues in the world delivered by some of the best actors (gn) in Britain? Thank you very much give me several more of these stupid lonely aliens on a platter???
Doctor Who's post-Flux Chibnall specials
Lore issues aside, the main reason I hate the Timeless Child is because it restricts creative writing opportunities.
Besides mortal danger no longer being as big of a threat to the Doctor, it means that there won't be another chance for the Doctor to confront the end of their life in a final incarnation and find a creative way around it.
Imagine the Doctor on their last life (again), after several series of buildup with unfinished adventures, loose plot threads, and threats that were not entirely beaten - either through accident or necessity - or were replaced by new ones. The Doctor regenerates into their final incarnation and realises they've got so much unfinished business. They rush to complete all they've left before their last breath, only for more things to come up against them. "It's not fair", they think, "that I should die when I could do so much more good in the universe". And they go a bit dark. They remember all the times their old frienemy tried to steal their regenerations after running out themselves. But had they? We've never seen half of the Master's incarnations in media despite him running through a regeneration cycle (perhaps 2 by this point), and the Doctor decides it's time to return the favour. They travel back and steal the Master's regenerations, giving themselves more lives (not a whole cycle, maybe just 5 or 6 more), robbing the Master of his and creating some of the conflict they've previously faced.
You never remove the problem, only postpone it, allowing other writers to come up with new ways to get round it. That's why I find the Timeless Child to be such a copout and boring solution to this problem. Because it restricts storytelling, not expands it.
