ISTG IF I SEE ANOTHER ARTICLE/PERSON SAYING 'WOW I'M EXCITED ABOUT DOCTOR WHO FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS' I WON'T BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE for whatever occurs after my initial eyes rolling back all the way into my skull/possible foaming at the mouth/40 minute rant about Ten being so grossly overrated I cant
aeolianminor7th replied to your post “I wish I could say the BBC article taking pot shots at Capaldi in an...”
All of this. I’m curious about the Betty White gif you referenced in the tags, I love that woman.
The only good part of Lake Placid, tbh.
maresdotes replied to your post “I wish I could say the BBC article taking pot shots at Capaldi in an...”
I'm looking forward to Jodie but I know the neck beards are gonna rage for no good reason. For the record, I loved Peter's Doctor. I think he got shafted on the script side of things a few times, but that's not on him. He did the best he could with the steaming pile he was given.
I do wish the press didn't feel the need to piss on the prior to drum up excitement.
The neckbeards will always rage. From all accounts I’ve heard, Gallifrey One is just a goddamn cesspit. Some folks seem content to perpetuate this idea that Capaldi was the only one who ever got crap scripts, or that all of the scripts were bad. And like, hot damn son that isn’t even close to accurate. Have these people even gone back and watched series four, ffs? Can I interest you in Love and Monsters? But yeah no, just, this incessant need to run him down to play up Thirteen is just unfuckingnecessary. Stop trying to beat down the previous seasons to make a pedestal for the new ones. Let Jodie and Chibs stand on their own, goddamn it.
mrsmarymorstan replied to your post “I wish I could say the BBC article taking pot shots at Capaldi in an...”
I always felt like people gave 12 a hard time! I really liked him! If 11 was the Cosmic 11 year-old, 12 was the 500-year-old-grumpy-teenager. His relationship with Bill was so beautiful, I was so sad to see her go, but I'm hoping she'll return. I wanna see that Grandfather-Grandaughter dynamic in action with 13!
Also I shall ETERNALLY side eye people who said they hated the lack of diversity in Doctor Who, and then ACTIVELY IGNORED Bill 'Move I'm Gay' Potts! Like, come on guys, if you're only getting back into it now there's a White Woman in the lead, then WTF? If you complain about a lack of diversity and then DON'T SUPPORT DIVERSE ROLES then what. the. actual. fuck.
Nothing can top the cosmic eldritch teenager vibe harder than riding into the middle ages on a tank with an electric guitar, honestly.
I’d love to see Bill float back through in the middle of her adventures with Heather, that would be lovely. From what little I’ve heard though (grain of salt grasped firmly in hand bc press), there is a very intense mood of moving on with season 11, which I understand, see also the above comment about letting them stand on their own. But also I don’t want to see a complete jettison of the past ten series. Honestly one of my favorite things about Twelve’s run was the fact that so much of it went towards making things feel properly connected and cyclical in some ways, like there had been an appreciable arc in development with the Doctor. Thirteen needs to draw from that and move forward, not drop it like a hot rock and run like hell. My two cents there, anyway. And I know the press has been unkind already and been taking a lot of comments from Chibs out of context just to rile up the fanbase (no daleks?! GASP! Whatever shall we do?!), but I’m gonna be on the cautious side of the fence for a little bit longer. I hope like hell it’s good, though.
ALSO RE: BILL: HARD. FUCKING. SAME. I swear to god it was like one week I was hearing people bemoaning the usual “diversity for diversity’s sake” bullshit wankery and the next I was hearing people gloss over Bill like she never even happened. Bill was a fucking treasure and I am so glad she got to join the immortal space gays.
springburn59 replied to your post “I wish I could say the BBC article taking pot shots at Capaldi in an...”
Tbh ever since Peter started all the negative comments have come from the media or the BBC themselves. The fans of the show have been much more positive. The media didn't like Peter's doctor. End of. The fans disagree. We loved him. Yesterday's newspaper is today's chip wrapper. The dinosaurs at the Beeb will eventually be replaced. Fans of Peter will be here for the next fifty years. We are surrounded by such ignorance and bigotry. It's par for the course.
While I agree with a large portion of this, and while the fanbase has been somewhat kinder than the media (with a few exceptions), it’s not just the media. It just isn’t. I have been very careful with the corners of the fandom I’ve interacted with over the past four or five years purely for this reason (the “jfc please just let me enjoy something in peace” method). There have been fans bemoaning his age, his acting, his likability, and even his “inconsistency” as the Doctor from the beginning. Some people were aghast that their cute and crushable Doctor had been replaced by an old man. Some people were utterly offended by his brusqueness and seemingly uncaring attitude. Some people were shocked to find out what they were getting was not in fact Malcolm Tucker in a TARDIS as they had envisioned.
The real joke of it of course is the fact that the article that actually prompted this conversation phrased its pot shot as though any Doctor had been “universally liked”. Honestly...maybe Tom Baker? Maybe? But that’d be pushing it.
