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13thdoctorposts · 5 months

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Sometimes it’s important to know when to let a show go.

When 13 regenerated into 14 and had her clothes burnt off like a witch on a stake, sending a horrible message about women and gender RTD came out and said he did it to protect David from right wing media. Then the fans defended David coming back and that RTD would address why he had that face and why the clothes also regenerated, although I was upset with 13s regeneration I thought ok I’ll wait and see how this get handles. Because even though I don’t like the real world messaging maybe the in world messaging will be enough to make it ok.

But then what happens? We get a trans story for the very first story with very positive messaging for trans issues which is great but undermined by the fact RTD wanted to protect David from gender critiques by the right wing but didn’t seem to want to protect Yasmin Finney. So first David can’t wear Jodies costume for protection but then RTD has Yasmin live through being deadnamed in the show which she herself has said made her uncomfortable and then also gave her character the line of telling the Doctor to not assume pronouns… which any of the characters could have done but RTD chose Rose and then what happen? What always happens with the right wing, the pronoun line and the male presenting line are the ones that the right wing all go on about in every video, in every article… they deadname the character and then misgender and say horrible things about Yasmin… so RTD protects the 50+ year old white man who’s worn way more feminine things then 13 outfit in his career the media could use if they wanted to go after him but don’t protect the 20 year old Trans Woman? How people aren’t talking about how fucked up that is I don’t know.

Then we get no reason why the Doctor has that face and why the clothes regenerated on them. Then in their own regeneration… they don’t! They bi-regenerates and this time Ncuti does get the Doctor clothes, well half of them… why didn’t 15 regenerate with their own clothes? No instead we have the new Doctor walking around with no pants on… and why is it that 15 has to go pantless and not David? are we protecting David again? Perfectly fine to have a bunch of pics of 15 in his tighty whities and no pants but again David could not be seen in 13s full gender neutral outfit.

Then to top all this off theres no mention in the loves lost of Yaz… even though the Doctor chose to drop her off in a park 3 days ago after telling her if they could Date anyone it would be Yaz… is that not love lost? Was saying good bye to Yaz not an emotional trigger? Now people are saying thats because only the dead were brought up… Rose is not dead unlike Yaz Rose is not only alive in another Dimension but also got herself a Doctor… Yaz currently is mourning the Doctor while they cant even seem to remember she existed despite dropping her off 3 days a go… so they weren’t all dead… however Rose was over 1000 years ago and Yaz 3 days ago… what hurts more the lost of someone you loved but who is still alive from 50 years ago or the one you lost last week? What makes logical sense is the love you lost most recently hurts the most… and people dont need to die for you to hurt losing them from your life if you love them.

Now we have 2 Doctors and people are already saying they can’t wait for David Tennant episodes, so if you think the 10th Doctor overshadowed the other Doctors when he was no longer the Doctor how overshadowed do you think the first main Doctor of colour is going to be when lots of peoples favourite white Doctor ever is also a legitimate Doctor in universe existing at the exact same time with a TARDIS? Ncuti doesn’t event get to be the only Doctor during his tenure he has to share it with David.

The lastly no mentions of Yaz at all… seems shes completely forgotten and at the very end the Doctor says they are finally with their family the happiest he’s ever been… what a diss of every TARDIS team ever that the Doctor has found family with… your last crew you literally called your ‘Fam’, the Ponds you actually married into… Susan was your flesh and blood… but no this family you haven’t seen in 1000 years, of which only one of who was part of your TARDIS team are the ones you finally found family with and make you the happiest you’ve ever be? Literally at the exact same time the Doctor is sitting at that table saying all of that, Yaz is mourning the Doctor and not wanting to have left the TARDIS, but she doesn’t get a mention because for some reason if it’s a wlw relationship it means nothing and can be ignored completely.

Honestly by the end the Doctor just seems like a complete prick, and not in a 13 I’m dealing with internal trauma and I accidentally snapped way but just in a I’m a shit person way. Talk about compromised morals, people wouldn’t shut up about it with 13 but the Doctor just left a young woman to mourn them while being the “happiest they have ever been” grabbing themselves a new family and pretending Yaz doesn’t exist. Talk about shit morals. People say Chibs didn’t know anything from 12s era, which wasn’t true it directly affected the way 13 kept the fam at arms length but after watching this clearly RTD didn’t even know what happened in the episode 14 regenerated from 13 in and the previous episode Legend of the Sea Devils, because surely if you did, you wouldn’t not mention Yaz at all and give a reason why the Doctor wouldn’t go see her while she’s mourning them and just grabbing a new family and claiming to be the happiest you’ve ever been in the 2000 years of life you remember. Because that would make the character look like a prick, not a hero, which is exactly what happened. If RTD is the amazing writer people claim, he could have come up with a Yaz mention and a reason why the Doctor wasn’t going to see her.

I know not everyone was happy with the wlw representation with Thasmin but you know what’s way worse? Not even mentioning it or even acknowledging Yaz’s existence.

And to top it off I am so very very over the double standard of the fandom… this episode, had plot holes, had important things that weren’t explained… like why that face and why did the clothes regenerate… things that weren’t explained that weren’t so important like where did the sonic screw driver come from, why can it do all the things it now does… it had racism from both the Toymaker and Donna… what on earth was that line about ‘do you come in every colour’, was paced poorly, it clearly should have been longer and decided to mess with lore by creating bi-rengeration out of thin air and not explaining how it would effect things going forward or why it even happen, like a true WTF… if Chibs had done even one of these things, or wrote this episode the exact same way the fandom would be coming for him instead they are praising the genius of RTD not caring about any of those things, all the sins they claimed Chibs did and some of them on a bigger scale in this episode but the treatment of RTD is the polar opposite.

It’s unbelievably hypocritical, and makes the fandom look even worse for being so hard on the first female Doctor because none of this was acceptable for her but its not only fine but great with a male Doctor.

So I think it’s time for me to let this show go, and know it’s time to bow out. Because unlike the people who have been horrible about 13 for the last 6 years I understand sometimes you have to step away from something you love when its no longer for you and leave it for other people to love.

Im out with 13.

#13th doctor #thirteenth doctor #thirteen #13 #yasmin khan #thasmin #yaz #yaz khan #13 era #dw

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nerdie-faerie · 2 years

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Ace you like doctor who right? what would you say is the best way to enjoy the show?

I do indeed like doctor who nonnie. This is something I've realised since watching the later series. I wasn't following a lot of dw blogs previously so it's only since Jodie's era that I've been seeing the in time responses to episodes that's made me realise this but not every season has to be perfect.

Let me explain. I follow a few blogs that aren't into comics and I think we should take a similar approach to dw as fairly similar in the fact that the writers, main characters and supporting cast change so regularly in the same way that artists and comic writers change constantly. There's very little continuity over the 60+ years of dw in the same way comic book characters can have wildly varying details depending who's in charge at the time. And your going to enjoy it more if you can acknowledge strengths and weaknesses

I hate moffat as a writer I'll be the first to admit so my main hope for season 11 was just to have anyone other than moffat writing. I mean we had the guy for 6 seasons in comparison to RTD's 4 and half seasons and chibbs' 3. The writing was getting stale by the time he left. And while I don't like his writing I can admit he's good at doing the big emotive speeches and the first few series with the ponds were better. And in comparison RTD (so far) is my favourite writer. But he's a little weak in the dialogue area.

The thing is not every writer or actor is going to be perfect so the best way to look at it personally is to go 'okay it's not as bad as x' or 'i like this better than y'. Expecting every writer and actor to meet the standard of your favourite is going to lead to disappoint because everyone's going to have different opinions on what makes dw good and what needs to be improved

Also keep in mind the influence of the BBC. I don't think it's a coincidence that in that year break between 2015-2017 after series 9 where the BBC come under fire for being sexist and racist that the next companion was then a gay woc. The ratings for dw were down and the BBC was getting a lot of flack for being prejudice that probably wasn't helped by a lot of the unsavoury things moffat has said behind the scenes.

And I don't doubt the same thing is in effect for chibbs. The ratings steadily got worse during Moffat's run but they were back up to what they'd been at the start of the rival for Jodie's first series. I've seen a lot of people complaining about the performative nature of chibbs era but I don't think he's entirely to blame. Just as I've seen people comment that bringing RTD back is the BBC's attempt to squeeze more out of their favourite cash cow I think chibbs is likely under similar constraints to perform for the BBC for ratings rather than having as much free reign as he'd potentially like

I've forgotten what my point is I got a little sidetracked........ But basically my point is not every episode is going to be perfect sometimes you just have to take what you get, that doesn't mean you can't be critical! But I feel like - on Tumblr especially - people tend to be so critical than they forget you can just enjoy something that isn't perfect.

Dw first and foremost about the money for the BBC and that's going to effect the quality of what we're seeing. So yeah we may be getting better sfx as a result of better funding whilst also getting more restrictive writing, but that isn't solely any one parties fault. None of the writers are perfect! Canon is none existent because the show is over 60 years old and spans over like half a dozen mediums! Its meant to be ridiculous

I don't know if any of this made sense or what I'm trying to get at specifically but good luck with your doctor who watching sweetie

#not rp #ooc #OOC asks #Nonnie #Dw #RTD #Moffat #Chibnall #Anti Moffat

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disabledrunner5 · 3 years

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It’s my Runner Five’s (and my) birthday!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

So to celebrate here’s part 2 of the Five’s birthday headcanons- this time its Five’s first birthday at Abel:

Maxine is the first one to notice Five’s birthday is coming up when she’s reading up on the runners medical files.

She lets it slip to Sam, Sam immediately is like we need to make Five feel appreciated and welcome and to celebrate her birthday. So they’re definitely throwing a party.

Simon, Jody, Jack and Eugene are on board immediately, Sara (who is still being suspicious of Five at this point) agrees more reluctantly to help.

Janine finds out through Simon but she tells them as long as they don’t use up too many of the resources and do it sensibly then she’s not going to stop them from celebrating and it’ll be good for morale, so she’s on board as well.

Sam spends ages trying to find a gift, because a) he wants to make Five feel welcome to Abel as she’s still struggling a little with the adjustment. B) he wants to be a good friend, C) he may be unknowingly developing feelings for her (this is during early season 1 so before they get together and before either of them realise their feelings for each other) D) it’s surprisingly difficult to find a gift in the Apocalypse.

In the end he finds a photo that one of the runners took of the two of them on a disposable camera, catching Five laughing for the first time at a stupid pun that Sam had said. He also somehow finds an old broken worn down wooden photo frame to put it in.

Sam works on his gift. In fact he puts more effort in than he’d been intending to, fixing the frame with super glue, and painting the frame Five’s favourite colour (TARDIS blue- or as near as).

Sara organises the alcohol (because there’s got to be alcohol), Simon and Jody help organise the cake and decorations (although Simon wanted to sort the music) and Jack and Eugene are of course in charge of music.

On the day, everyone acts like normal, as does Five, thinking it’s just a normal day, no point in celebrating her birthday if her family aren’t there and she genuinely doesn’t know everyone knows it’s her birthday as she hasn’t mentioned it to anyone.

Sam and Sara distract her whilst on a supply run, whilst the rest of Abel get everything ready, Janine supervising everything of course.

When Sara and Five return, Sara leads her to where they’ve set up the party under the guise that Janine wants to see her.

Everyone jumps out at Five and Five just starts crying out of surprise, causing her to get the first Sam hug of the day.

Presents: Jody gives her a knitted scarf (that is a much shorter, Zombie safe, version of The fourth Doctor’s scarf), Simon gives her a bunch of alcohol (citing they’re totally going to get wasted at some point), Sara gives her her first gun and tells her she’ll teach her how to use it, Janine doesn’t get her anything (as she was unable to) but writes her a card, Maxine gets her a book and Jack and Eugene gives her a cd they’d found of the Doctor Who series 4 soundtrack.

Then Sam’s gift. Sam is a little bit embarrassed and starts saying that it’s not much and starts rambling- Five opens it and smiles the biggest smile ever, and kisses his cheek as a thank you- Sam goes bright red and everyone laughs knowingly at Sam’s reaction (everyone knows about Sam’s growing feelings), although Five doesn’t think much of it and is too busy loving the picture. She later says she’ll put it up in her room (it resides on her bed side table and even survives the explosion and destruction of Abel at the end of S1, it’s one of the few objects that I imagine stays with five all the way through ZR).

Then the partying and food begins.

The cake is chocolate (Five had mentioned her favourite cake was chocolate cake in a conversation with Sam once) and Five is genuinely surprised that he remembered and that there is still a thing as chocolate cake! (There’s some left over, and Five eats it all the next day with Sam and anyone else who wants some)

Taylor Swift is on the music (22- as it’s her 22nd birthday, they think it’s hilarious) as is ABBA (of course), David Bowie, Busted, Mcfly and pretty much just about anything else Eugene and Jack could find (even some some original Doctor Who songs from the series 2 and 3 soundtracks - its the Song for Ten and The Stowaway- which they don’t realise or forgot are from Doctor Who until Five starts singing along to them at the party, taking everyone by surprise)

They all party until the sun comes up the next morning.

Everyone’s having a good time, Five doesn’t say much (except to Sam, who is the only one she talks to at that point) but everyone knows she’s happy and thankful and they don’t need to be thanked.

Everyone points out that Sam organised everything but he doesn’t take credit for it but Five hugs Sam tightly.

Five’s not one for dancing but she does. She dances with her friends.

It’s at this point that Abel begins to sort of feel like a second home and her friends start to feel like family.

It’s the first time she’s properly happy since the start of the apocalypse.

#runner 5 #runner five #zombies run #abel township #sam yao #janine de luca #jody marsh #simon lauchlan #sara smith #jack holden #eugene woods #headcanons #birthday headcanons #birthday #it’s my birthday #slight 5am? idk

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yeonchi · 4 years

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Doctor Who Series 12 Review: Prelude

Well everyone, Doctor Who is back and I’m getting on the train again. That’s right, I’m going to review the twelfth series of Doctor Who, also known as the second series with Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor.

As with last year’s reviews for Series 11, I’ll be posting my thoughts on every episode of Series 12 and rating them on a scale out of 10. I’ve created a new page on my Tumblr with all the links to my past reviews, which you can find here. Without further ado, let’s begin the review series prelude.

A year to mull over

In the past, I had more interest in Doctor Who because I was utilising aspects of it in a personal project of mine. Now that it’s pretty much coming to an end, I could have left the series after Peter Capaldi’s final episode, but I decided to give Jodie Whittaker a chance and maintain a casual interest in it if only for something to watch.

After mulling it over for a year and rewatching some clips of Series 11, I’ve found that I’ve gotten accustomed to the Thirteenth Doctor, even if her character is basically an expy of the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors. It’s given me quite a bit of time to think about what I would like to see in Series 12, particularly since the writing in Series 11 wasn’t necessarily up to par.

On an unrelated note, I did a review of a decade-old Australian-Spanish-Brazilian children’s cartoon series called Sea Princesses. I’m promoting this because some episodes of that series have an environmental theme to them and there is a rumour that there will be an environmental message somewhere in this series of Doctor Who. You can find it through this link.

Waiting periods

This really doesn’t matter to me now that I’ve downgraded myself to being a casual fan, but I want to complain about how the scheduling for this series has been all over the place since Series 6. If you look on Wikipedia, you can see when each series aired each year. Take the Christmas Specials into account and you’ll have an idea of how long we had to wait between episodes.

In the revived era, series used to go from March or April to June or July, but the split series in Series 6 and 7 were the first signs of the schedule starting to go all over the place. In all honesty, it was exasperating to wait for something related to The Day of the Doctor after Series 7′s finale, particularly given that the first trailer was exclusive to Comic Con.

In the Twelfth Doctor’s era, Series 8 and 9 went from August or September to November or December. There was a gap year in 2016 before Series 10 aired from April to July 2017. After the Thirteenth Doctor’s debut, Series 11 aired from October to December 2018, then 2019 was a gap year before Series 12 premieres from January to March 2020.

This doesn’t go to say that the timing of the classic era seasons weren’t all over the place at some points, but even then, they still managed to maintain regular schedules for as long as they could. I guess back in the days without the Internet, people actually had other things to do or watch without wondering when the next season of Doctor Who would air.

I’ve heard something on some forum somewhere about how Chris Chibnall likes to have a gap year between series like he did with Broadchurch, which might explain the 2019 gap year. But still, fans have waited before and I’m sure they would be happy to wait again. I just hope that the BBC can make their minds up about what time of year that Doctor Who will be on.

Four things I would like to see in Series 12

I would do five, but I couldn’t think of a fifth one.

1. No more misunderstood villains

This was my biggest problem with Series 11 - there were five such episodes where someone would be introduced as an antagonist based on their actions, but they are later revealed not to be because of their actual intentions that are sometimes unrelated to whatever problem the Doctor and her team are trying to solve. I probably wouldn’t care as much if there were only one or two misunderstood villains at most, but the fact that there are five of them with four in a row is really telling because the actual villains in those episodes turn out to be humans.

In regards to the “four in a row” thing, I’m counting the Pting as a misunderstood villain because it fed off the energy of the Tsuranga to thrive. It didn’t have any malice toward anyone onboard (except when they were disturbing his meal).

2. More character development for the companions

In Series 11, we saw an arc based on Ryan’s relationship with Graham and his father. Ryan was also mentioned to have dyspraxia while Yaz is a police officer, but those aspects weren’t fully explored in the series. I was hoping for Ryan’s dyspraxia to be mentioned in Resolution, but I guess they forgot about it. Let’s not forget the fact that Yaz has barely had any character development in Series 11 and the question of why the Doctor has such favouritism for her.

3. Explore the Timeless Child (story arcs)

The Timeless Child was something that the Remnants found inside the Doctor’s mind in The Ghost Monument. Along with the Stenza (and how everything was basically their fault), I thought that it would have been explored in the last series, but I guess I was partially mistaken. We don’t have any clue on what the Timeless Child might be, so I’m glad that it hasn’t been forgotten, at least for the time being.

On a side note, I don’t really mind whether the Stenza return or not. You could say that their story was done at the end of the last series, but then again, we only saw one of them, namely Tim Shaw. If we do see or hear about them again, it’ll give me more opportunities to continue the joke about how everything was Tim Shaw’s fault, because I really enjoyed it.

4. Returning monsters

The lack of returning monsters made Series 11 a bit bland. Combined with the lack of story arc and the number of human villains or misunderstood villains, I could argue that the writers didn’t quite know what to do with the new monsters they created.

At this point, we know for certain that the Judoon and Cybermen will be returning in Series 12. We already had the Daleks in Resolution, but that’s considered to be part of Series 11. However, in late October, some fans had snapped some Daleks in filming on Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge. Since a Christmas special was confirmed, it is likely that they could be featuring in that.

Other matters

I won’t be reacting to the trailers for this series; I only did it in Series 11 because I was more concerned with how the series would be given that the first female Doctor was cast.

I’m feeling less concerned about SJW red flags this time around. Maybe it’s because I’m a bit dense or I wasn’t able to find much of them. As for tokusatsu references, I’ve realised that they might not be intentional and that I’m probably the one making these parallels to them. That’s not to say that I won’t be looking out for them, particularly the latter because I quite enjoyed doing it.

I think a lot of my concerns regarding the red flags were because I was following Bowlestrek’s videos during Series 11. I stopped watching his videos one day and gradually, he disappeared from my feed. I’m not saying I ever disagreed with what he said, but I do try to form my own opinions when I can and not be influenced by pessimism. At the same time, I’ve also dropped out from The Oldest Nerd’s reviews. I might try following him again for Series 12 because he does more level-headed reviews like I do (that is if I can even say that for myself). On an unrelated note, Jonathan Pie and Tim Pool are a couple of go-tos for insights on left-wing, right-wing and SJW culture, so never let it be said that I don’t try at the very least.

The first episode premieres on New Year’s Day and subsequent episodes premiere on Sundays. As such, we do get a de-facto New Year’s Special, but not a Christmas Special - the Christmas Special I mentioned earlier is likely to be for Christmas 2020, which is going to be a long way away again with no other specials after Series 12 is done.

Now, there is something I should tell everyone, which is that I’ll be going away for two weeks near the end of January, meaning that the episode reviews for the third, fourth and possibly fifth episodes will be delayed (for reference, the dates are 12, 19 and 26 January). I will probably be able to watch the episodes and possibly take some small notes on them, but I won’t be able to take detailed notes or write out the reviews until I get back to my home computer. I don’t know if I can release all the reviews within the week of 27 January, but I’ll try not to let the backlog snowball.

At the moment, I’m behind on other things, but I think I’ve covered most of what I want to cover without going any further into myth or rumour territory. I’ll see you all after the new year for the review of the first episode of Series 12, Skyfall Part One.

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yeonchi · 5 years

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Doctor Who Series 11 Review: Epilogue

Before this series started, I said that I would see how Jodie Whittaker does in the series (as the Doctor) before I made any judgements. It’s time for me to share my final verdict on this series as a whole and answer the questions I posed for myself in the prelude. In general, the new series and cast were okay, but the writing could have been better.

Before I go in length about my thoughts on this series, I thought I might share a quick summary about my thoughts on the post-revival Doctors (9 to 12) and their episodes.

Predecessor Overview

After being shown an episode or two of the Ninth and Tenth Doctors, which I forgot about soon after, I started really getting into Doctor Who in 2011 with the Eleventh Doctor. I’ve watched all the post-revival episodes at least once and I’ve dabbled in some Classic Series episodes as well, with the first such episode being The Five Doctors.

I don’t have a lot of complaints about the Russell T Davies episodes because I wasn’t there to watch them when they first aired. Were it not for The Day of the Doctor, I would have liked to see the Eighth Doctor regenerate directly into the Ninth Doctor, since it was implied that both of those incarnations fought in the Time War.

As for the Steven Moffat episodes, I thought there should have been a few changes or improvements. For the Eleventh Doctor, I would have liked to see The Day of the Doctor go more in detail regarding the Time War and maybe The Time of the Doctor was a bit rushed. The splits in Series 6 and 7 kind of made the series a bit dragged out.

For the Twelfth Doctor, I thought that there wasn’t enough to the Series 8 Neversphere arc - I thought Missy was gathering an army of dead people who would actually return in the finale (which ended up being a bit like that, but not what I was expecting. The mysteries seemingly “introduced” in Listen weren’t addressed following the episode - I thought they were going to be part of this series’ story arc. Regarding Series 9, I don’t know what the Hybrid arc was trying to do and in Series 10, the Vault arc felt underwhelming once it was revealed that Missy was inside.

Final series rating and verdict

It’s time to tally up my ratings for the whole of Series 11!

Episode 1: 8/10

Episode 2: 7/10

Episode 3: 7/10

Episode 4: 7/10

Episode 5: 6/10

Episode 6: 8/10

Episode 7: 6/10

Episode 8: 5/10

Episode 9: 9/10

Episode 10: 10/10

First half mid-series total: 35/50 (70%)

Second half mid-series total: 38/50 (76%)

Final series total: 73/100 (73%)

I’ve got no problem with this score, which makes this series good, but not great in my eyes. There were still some flaws in the series, but these are mostly attributed to the writing rather than acting skill or agenda pandering.

I’ll factor in the score for the New Year’s Special once I’ve reviewed it.

Answering questions from the prelude

Since there won’t be a new series of Doctor Who until early 2020 (tentatively), I’m going to be making my judgements based on Series 11 alone. I’ve answered these questions once in my mid-series review (after Episode 5), but this time, the answers will be more detailed and different.

Question 1: “How does Jodie Whittaker’s performance set the bar for other Doctors after her, male or female?”

After watching the series, I think Jodie Whittaker is an okay Doctor. Her Doctor doesn’t have anything that is unique to her (apart from the fact that she is female) because her character is mostly a rehash of David Tennant and Matt Smith’s Doctors. I’m not entirely surprised about that since Jodie was in Broadchurch with David Tennant, so she would have gotten some inspiration from him.

Question 2: “Will the so-called “SJW/feminist/diversity agenda” affect the way I see and think about Doctor Who?”

Look, I know one of the series’ underlying themes is social justice and political correctness; before this series, these themes were more subtle and less satirical. To name a few examples, New Earth was about the use of animals to test medicines, The Lazarus Experiment was about immortality and “playing God”, The Beast Below was about torturing and euthanising animals, while The Zygon Invasion and The Zygon Inversion were about radicalisation and the consequences of war.

And yes, these themes continued into this series as well. Rosa was about racism in 20th century Alabama, while Arachnids in the UK was a lampooning of Donald Trump, environmentalism and gun laws. What is different about the themes in these series is that they revolve around (straight) white males being villains, particularly white Americans, whereas the earlier series used alien species and concepts as metaphors to teach social justice. Yes, I know Kerblam! had an SJW-like villain, but the theme behind that episode was still on representation and quotas.

As far as I know, I don’t have a problem with these because they haven’t tried to redefine logic as dictated by nature. Frankly, throughout this series, I was more worried about looking for tokusatsu references than SJW red flags.

I won’t deny that the recent changes to these series, and the fans’ reactions and counterreactions to them, have changed the way I see and think about Doctor Who. I’ve started to become less interested in this series than I used to be and by now, I’ve essentially downgraded myself to being a casual fan. The Steven Moffat era inspired me to develop a personal project of mine that is largely based around Doctor Who, but I’m preparing to move on from that because I think that it is time for me to do so.

In short, it wasn’t entirely the “SJW agenda” alone; it was the way that people reacted to it being implemented in the series (on top of the other problems in this series, including the writing quality).

Assumed biases

There’s a reason why I don’t want to go back and elaborate in detail my thoughts about past episodes. By now, I would have seen many people give opinions on these episodes in reviews, forums, comments and whatnot, which sways my opinions away from what I actually felt after watching the episode for the first time. This is why for this series, I try not to take the opinions of other people into account while writing my reviews for each episode.

In the lead-up to this series, I’ve been watching Bowlestrek’s videos about how this series is falling into SJW pandering and political correctness. Yes, I know some of you may think that his opinions are exaggerated and divisive, but I can’t help but agree with some of them because like it or not, even the opinions of some fans (particularly fanboys) are misguided and divisive as well with their gatekeeping notion that anyone who complains about anything in this series is not a “true fan”, as it were. Take it from me as a former fan of Koei Tecmo’s Warriors games who wanted to hear English voice actors reprise their roles in later games instead of recasting them or not dubbing them altogether.

If you don’t agree with Bowlestrek’s opinions, then take them with a grain of salt because your view of the series is obviously different to his. The same goes to the opinions of fanboys and reviewers that are related to the BBC and/or the Doctor Who production crew.

During this series, I’ve also been following the reviews of The Oldest Nerd, a new reviewer who states that he has been watching Doctor Who since the mid-70′s. I can’t really compare his opinions to that of Bowlestrek’s, but at the very least, The Oldest Nerd offers a calmer and more rational tone of reviews compared to Bowlestrek.

Final thoughts on the cast

Like I said earlier, Jodie Whittaker is an okay Doctor. Mandip Gill was okay as well, but at some points, it felt like her character, Yaz, was being showered with favouritism by the Doctor.

Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole’s characters, Graham and Ryan, had more character development and I think they were great in the way they handled it.

In the prelude, I compared Jodie Whittaker’s voice to that of an older Fifi Forget-me-not, played by Jane Horrocks. After getting used to her voice, I’ve slowly stopped seeing the comparison between the two.

Looking forward to Series 12

So, it’s been confirmed that Jodie Whittaker will be coming back for Series 12, but it won’t premiere until early 2020. We’ve been suffering from these droughts since 2011, with either split seasons or 9-month/year-long gaps between specials and/or seasons. A lot of people coped in different ways, including myself as I found time to keep developing my personal project. However, a lack of inspiration compounded by recent events and commitments in my life have led me to start moving on from the project and with the recent issues and criticisms surrounding Series 11, it has led me to start losing interest in Doctor Who altogether.

For the time being, it is likely that I will be reviewing Series 12 when it comes out, but my intentions may change before then. Whether or not I will continue reviewing the rest of Jodie Whittaker’s run is still undecided because even then, it will depend on whether she intends to stay after Series 12.

I’ve already answered the questions I want to answer for this series. There may be new questions that come up for the next series, though it would be nice to refine my current answers if there is a stark difference in the writing quality of the episodes.

Once again, stay tuned after New Year’s Day when I review this year’s special, Resolution. Otherwise, that’s it from me until Series 12, so thanks for reading.

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