I hate that Ncuti was finally settling into his role as the Doctor. I hate that they didn't even give him a chance to succeed. I hate that they keep pandering to older fans, when they keep preaching about "this is going to be for a new audience."
But most of all, I hate that when Ncuti was finally given his time to shine, it was once again overshadowed by an actor from RTDs "Golden Era"
tired of rtd fans going “god forbid a character have a happy ending”. he did. when he was regenerating he had donna and mel beside him to see him off. he was content and he even said “it’s time.” and he was ready to go this time. that was a perfect and happy ending for him. and tbh the only thing i really expected from the giggle was the regen scene. i had no standards other than that.
the toymaker was brilliant and ncuti was brilliant. but thanks to rtds inability to get rid off DT, we got a colossal amount of fan service for a mediocre ending and having DT eclipse both Ncuti and Jodie because now the NMDs will say that 15 isn’t the real doctor. now i’m started to dislike david’s doctor because rtd is just beating this dead horse for 19 years.
11, 12, and 13 are now my favourite doctors. the incredible dw anniversaries were the Day of the Doctor for the 50th and the Power of the Doctor for the 60th.
Russel T Davies: I'm not going to retcon any of Chibnall's stuff, he's my good friend and I have nothing but deep respect for the man.
Also Russel T Davies: *Has 14th Doctor call the Nobles his family despite 13th having The Fam and settles down with then and Donna despite 13th saying the only person she would settle with would be Yaz*
AND ANOTHER THING (i know i sound like a broken record but honestly this has been bugging me). the timeless child twist (which i actually liked) did NOT change canon, it added to it, and actually answered a lot of unanswered questions. and it was dragged through the dirt by the fans.
and now we have the bigeneration thing- more importantly what rtd said about the timeline (which ACTUALLY changes the canon)- and everyone’s like “you should appreciate change” and “learn to see things from a new perspective” and “there is no doctor who canon”.
which just confirms that if rtd had introduced the timeless children everyone would be sucking up to him. un-fucking-believable.
What’s that 12 quote from Dr Mysterio about everything ending and that being sad but everything begins again and that’s always happy? Paraphrasing there but that’s the entire ethos of the show! You can’t have the rebirth without the tragedy! 11 vowing to remember every line of when the Doctor was him, 12 wanting to rest easy and ‘Doctor, I let you go’…none of these mediations work if it’s not a death for that incarnation!
exactly. rtd is a coward who can’t kill any character to save his life. he’s made the show a no stakes, no danger show. to paraphrase another 12 quote, time to take the stabilisers off your bike. except now rtd has drilled the stabilisers on again. the show is pointless now. the entire message in moffat era- and even in chibnalls era- is now gone. if moffat or chibnall had done this they would’ve been thrown under the bus. rtd is just an arrogant prick who never learns from his mistakes. i had such high hopes for 14/15 era. doctor who may finally be dying. and i’m so sad. this show has been my world throughout lockdown. it’s the only reason i got through it. now it’s fading.
Russell T Davies has explained that the events of The Giggle have far-reaching implications.
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, NO.
You get the hell out. You get the hell out and you die.
Go away and never come back.
You think you can take the only fucking thing I have left now you've FUCKED Doctor Who because of your SHITTY, SELFISH hunger to NEVER LET GO OF TENNANT?
You think you can make yourself GO DOWN IN HISTORY by making every fucking Doctor Who story play by YOUR fucking new rules?
Every time I see Moffat and Chibnall hate that goes on about 'pointless characters without an arc only there for a joke', 'only knows how to write one kind of woman', 'kills off characters for shock value', 'uses Ex Deus Machinas to resolve their poorly thought out plots', 'did their best at ruining the show', and other shit like that rooted in 'well, I didn't watch it but someone else told me it was like that' and 'I just watched enough to make a bad faith reading', I would like everyone to be reminded that, unlike all of the other Revival Showrunners, RTD did all of that and more for real.
(Beneath the cut: complaining, specific examples, talk of sexual misconduct, talk of non-sexual misconduct)
Ah, like how Jack Harkness's main thing is 'hits on everyone'. How Mickey's entire presence in any given story is mostly there to make the Doctor look better or be the chew toy for any given joke/misfortune.
Or how there's actually exactly two flavors of women - 'young one that's unhappy with her boring Earth life which only the Doctor can fix because Not Loving The Doctor Means You're Wrong' and 'Horrible Mother Who Hates Everything You Do'.
Or maybe it's the fact that Rose had a fake-out death (dead but not really), Donna had a 'well might as well be death' memory wipe (character development dead), and only a schedule conflict with Freema kept Martha from getting actually killed off in Torchwood. 'Well that wasn't Proper Death so it doesn't count' (misinformative, found out over half a year after this post and had believed it for almost 2 years before disproven) - you see me pointing at Clara and Bill then? Or even Amy and Rory, who literally had full lives off-screen.
As for Ex Deus Machinas, let's see... literally Bad Wolf, literally Tinker Belle Jesus Doctor, magic revival ritual to bring the Master back when he was needed again for drama, weird prophecy thing between the Doctor and the Master that was only relevant for like half an episode...
And let's not forget moments like 'hey we're about to hand off to the next Doctor, let's make Ten's last line infinitely wankable to the point where every Doctor after has to make an acceptance of Death speech/story because the fandom behaved Just That Badly over four words.' (and then y'all have the audacity to complain about the speeches.)
Oh and this is before we even get to the real life behind the scenes stuff. Like how all the sex misconduct tied to the revival only seem to have manifested around people who were on the RTD 1.0 run. I mean, seriously, I see people passing around some of John Barrowman's 'adventures in workplace sexual harassment' as cute little things instead of creeptacular behavior that should have been addressed first off instead of 'eh, so what? It's just a surprise penis, he thinks it's funny'. Not to mention that Noel Clark was also doing the same things and made a point of trying to ruin one of his victims' career after she refused his advances.
And I doubt that this covers other accounts of mistreatment of workers behind the camera. Or was it not supposed to be telling that, of all the Doctors that won't come back for whatever reason, Christopher Eccleston is the only one that has cited the work environment and three people - not one, not two, THREE - at the top of said-environment as the reason rather than more mundane concerns like other career opportunities or not distracting from other Doctors?
Or that after he decided not to continue as the Doctor, a false quote from him was presented as part of a press release, claiming that he was 'afraid of being typecast' and 'tired from the grueling filming schedule', which they then had to retract because of, y'know, being lies that would have definitely impacted Chris's career if they'd gone unaddressed.
And then somebody had the brilliant idea to make one of 10's first actions as the Doctor being ruining someone's career by asking someone if she looked tired. Yeah, definitely the actions of a Good And Saintly Showrunner That Can Do No Wrong.
'But,' you might say, 'it's been years since then! Maybe RTD made some mistakes, but he'll do better now -'
Are you sure about that? Are you absolutely sure? Because I at least have evidence here, unlike to the self-propagating, bad-faith reading sustained Moffat/Chibnall Hate Parades.
