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In one way I'm totally down with the bi-generation. A physical representation of the doctor moving forward and leaving the parts of him behind that ate at him. Finding peace. Finding a home. Finding a fresh start. Love it.
In another, I miss so badly what we could have gotten. 10 "not wanting to go", the same face showing up again when the doctor was the most broken and the most insecure. Donna insisting that he's wearing himself out. He's thin, he's tired. Finally accepting his death and getting proper closure after all these years. Sorry, but I do think that would have been more impactful.
#ik it's because david tennant is doctor who's special little boy#but i really think what they did goes against some integral themes of the show#just kind of disappointing#doctor who#doctor who 60th anniversary#14th doctor#david tennant#dr who#15th doctor#doctor who critical#doctor who criticism
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The Cringeworthy things we could have done without in the Star Beast... (and with RTD's 2023 run so far)
"It's a shame you're not a woman anymore. Cause she'd have understood."
“We’ve got all that power, but there is a way to get rid of it. Something a male-presenting Time Lord will never understand.”
RTD retconning Davros being in his chair (which is not only a means of mobility, but literally a life support system keeping him alive) because RTD thinks everyone else will suddenly associate Davros giving wheelchair users a bad name....I'm sorry, but no one was thinking that. Only you are, RTD...
Okay, I'm sorry, but we don't need to give the Doctor a lecture about pronouns and then get on the Doctor after for being a "Male-Presenting Time Lord". *facepalms* It just all comes off bad and hypocritical.
I'm sad to say I might be adding more to this come the following specials.
#anti rtd#doctor who critical#I honestly didn't think I would get into this with an RTD era DW thing but here I am :(#I enjoyed other things in the episode#but these kept leaving me with a bad taste in my mouth#dw critical
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Ok I don't want to start any arguments - if you enjoyed it I'm really glad - but as a trans person I was really disappointed by Dr Who. I want to say I'm grateful to Russell for trying but he seems to be aware of how dangerous the situation for trans people is in the UK right now, I wish he'd done a bit more research and actually talked to some trans people. Rose was not a character; she didn't speak like a person, she spoke like a walking stereotype trans dictionary. It felt like she could never just be in a scene without an arrow pointing to her saying TRANS. There's so many ways to write queer trans sci fi and play with the infinities of gender, but you need to actually know what makes a trans person tick, not just have them look dead at the camera and say the word nonbinary. I could see his heart was in the right place, but I honestly had no idea what he was thinking when writing this.
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Also now that I think of it, why tf did they make that Donna say that joke about the Doctor "coming in different colors"? Felt kinda racist imo.
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Honestly, I don't think Rose Noble is "good representation" at all. She barely has any personality, and whatever personality she does have - making toys, loving a shed(?), even being trans, are all just part of the metacrisis plot device. She doesn't get to be her own character.
And her and Donna's line at the end about being able to just "let go" of the metacrisis because they're not """male-presenting""" like, what is that supposed to even be about? What is the real life "female-presenting" parallel to letting go of a metacrisis?? Actually I don't even wanna know because every option I think about is actively making me feel a bit sick...
It's just... I really do appreciate the attempt but it feels like they were so focused on making it "good representation" that they neglected the story and characters and internal logic
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maestro was ok and more fun than toymaker but i've found both of them pretty uninspired and it's kinda killed any excitement about the One Who Waits. like i'm keen for ruby's backstory a lot, the way in which the rules of the setting are changing, whatever tf is going on w susan twist, and the glimmer of possibility susan foreman might come back.
but i feel like in the span of like 4 episodes RTD has already driven 'godlike entity that likes playing games and being goofy' into the ground and i really dont want to see another one. i think he's retroactively vindicating his decision during RTD1 to avoid those types of characters
ok wait addendum - if he's deliberately doing a bait and switch and Ruby/susan/other sympathetic character is the One Who Waits and it's not a big scary final boss then it will be great. i will approve. and i feel like that's reasonably likely.
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WARNING: COULD BE CONSIDERED CRITICAL OR ANTI. DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T LIKE DW CRITIQUE
First thoughts:
I'll be honest, I went into the episode a bit biased, 10 is nowhere close to a good doctor for me and I dislike the RTD era. But open minds and all that.
I DON'T like the mcu logo. MCUification of DW on main.
I need an in-depth explaination on what regeneration energy does after that ep. Like, how does it make a suit and long coat, ties, a new sonic screwdriver, perfectly fitting glasses and a judges wig (he didn't know he would need it so he would have to have it on him so... how??)
Okay, why the big exposition cold open if you're going to exposit the info in conversation, feels a bit like you wasted time there I'll be honest. Could've went to solving the ep problem cause that was rushed.
The old doctor is back.... and apparently has a personality like at least a couple thousand years haven't passed... okay....
The part about 'Why does everything have to be a big goodbye?' I mean, it seemed really wierd that he would refuse coming for a cuppa because he CAN do that. We've seen it over 15 years, the doctor has developed to do that stuff. Also, bar a few phrases, didn't really see much of 13's personality there and it's shame. DT is a good actor, he could pull it off (I mean, he also could've pulled off the outfit but....), you didn't need to do 10 on repeat .
I like rose! But is she 15 cause.... no? Also, how to tell your trans character is written by cis people: 'DiD YOu jUsT AssUMe tHEIr ProNOUnS!?'
Love the starting her business, didn't like that they made Donna a mum who doesn't respect boundaries but still the support and the plushies were cute and I guess being nosy is in character for her.
Meep was cute! Feel like the meep was suitably menacing and it was peak cheese. Also, Miriam Margoles was perfect for the voice. I also love the bit where the meep was clinging to Donna, brilliant. Also, tactically landing in a steel mill and not being really contrived was good! I also loved that 'living sun' hypnosis, it made sense to me. I also loved the cheesy bug things, they we cute as well and I love that they took the time to explain why the cab never got hit properly cause I was wondering.
Also, Sylvia wanting to KO the doctor on site to keep him from seeing Donna... accurate, funny and I wanted her to do it I'll be honest. Saun temple, absolute king, just drinking respsct wife juice. Like, if my partner gave away that much money I'd divource but he's just better than me.
I love UNIT as this alien first responder force, that was neat. I love that they were inclusive to disabilities and the characters were still suitably badass.
I love the (albiet clumsy) trans positivity in the episode. But let's not give them too much credit, the doctor has been trans and trans positive (with timelords mind) since about 2014.
Didn't like the implication that transmascs are inherently more dim/stupid than transfemmes. Also, that is literally what they said because the text was literally 'if you were female (still a woman) presenting, you'd understand'. I won't lie, as a transmasc person, it kind of hurt. I feel like we should be past the feminism that drags men instead of uplifting women but yeah.
I feel like they undercut the tradgedy of Donna's sacrifice by having her just... be alive. I get she... shared?... the metacrisis but it kind of ruins why Donna was such a tragic figure in DW. Also, gee DoctorDonna, why didn't you just think 'get rid of it' before? Could've saved a lot of trouble. The cracks through London just kind of disappearing when the ship was stopped was wierd but I get it, they need to move onto other things and that would be too big of a distraction.
Also, they're going to visit Wilf yay! Why did the TARDIS redecorate? Why did you then give a workable reason why she would need to reconfigure immediately afterward? I love the design, very retro but again, felt a bit contrived.
All in all, a cheesy, old nu!who episode vibes (I clarify, not my thing) that has some great building blocks and despite the problems, I am looking forward to new episodes to come!
#dw spoilers#doctor who#doctor who spoilers#doctor who special#dw critical#doctor who critical#donna noble#10th doctor#star beast#14th doctor#the doctor#possibly anti?#possibly critical#anti doctor who?
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I'm in a seemingly tiny club of someone who loves Thasmin and Thirteen, but HATED all the 60th anniversary specials with every fibre of my being but LOVES the Church on Ruby Road and Fourteen and Ruby
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I genuinely don't think I'll actually watch the last Doctor Who episode tbfh. I think I'll just pop my head back in to see what's up when Fifteen actually starts his first full episode.
Lol I've just become too tired of tumblr's Tennant obsession (in the "if I have to see his face in a single gif one more time I'll throw my computer against the wall" manner, not in a "I think he sucks as an actor/person" manner, this is an overexposure issue only) to even care about the last special at all. I'm pretty damn sure I got everything I really needed to know from the online cliff notes anyways lmaoooo.
#if they make a spinoff with goddamn fourteen and donna that steals all the audience from ncuti gatwa as fifteen i will genuinely#fucking throw a brick at the BBC#i'm sure tennant had fun but leave him ALONE#give him an ENDING#please let's just move on#they've already overshadowed poor fifteen with their s4 wank-a-thon excuse of 60 anniversary specials as it is#doctor who critical#jen rambles#wild blue yonder was a banger#and as a solo episode i didn't mind the first one#but i'm just soooo personally weary of this and wish thirteen regenerated right into ncuti gatwa's doctor#which like. this all sucks. bc i hate being negative about doctor who#but i genuinely am Not a Fan of the whole concept of “tennant is back as another doctor”#wasn't a fan when it was announced and the eps didn't convince me#just feels like cheap and lazy pandering to attract audience#instead of taking risks to be new and inventive to attract that audience instead
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The Doctor, frantically typing on Reddit: Guys is it ok to be racist if a racist space wizard has trapped me in a death maze I can only escape by being racist? I swear this isn't trolling, there is literally a racist space wizard and he's going to destroy the world unless I overshadow my black coworker.
#doctor who#the giggle#Doctor who critical#racism cw#"INFO: Last time he wouldn't let me leave unless I spoke in a racist Chinese accent
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This is fucking hysterical 😂😂bad cgi giant David Tennant with long monkey arms scraping the ground I'm crying lmao
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anyway the short version of that post is i resent the idea that the doctor's home isn't the tardis but a family in london
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Russell is still seriously presenting UNIT as unquestionably the good guys? Really not gonna unpack the implications that the people we should like are on the side of a military organisation?
This is what I mean by Russell's liberal window dressing - he loves the aesthetic of being radical without actually dismantling any power structures, or even questioning why they're there. Good news, guys: the military organisation that controls most of the world's weapons has a disabled woman in a position of power! And of course I'm not saying that it's not amazing to have a disabled woman in a leadership role or to have disabled characters in Dr Who at all, but if your main takeaway from UNIT is that it just needs to be more accessible, it feels like we missed something here.
And I'm just bewildered because he was starting to explore this when he was showrunner the first time round. I'm thinking of The Sontaran Strategem or The Doctor's Daughter off the top of my head. His whole 'I don't like guns' thing was a pretty on the nose presentation of pacifism, but at least he was having the Doctor question and reject military power, rather than placidly work with them.
Kate Stewart is a millionaire nepo baby who runs a secret military organistion, whose family wealth was gained through colonialism, and she's one of the good guys? What are we being told here?
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Despite liking parts of The Giggle... I think bigeneration is a bad idea. It's not woven into the episode at all in a organic way and feels like RTD pulling a deus ex machina out of his butt. It's just an excuse for them to keep Tennant around even though his time has passed. I'm concerned and I hope that they don't turn the show into another MCU.
#doctor who critical#the giggle#bigeneration#fourteenth doctor#fifteenth doctor#rtd critical#doctor who
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Do u watch doctor who?
Hmm I used to a long time ago. Like back in 2011 - 2017. I didn't really care for them turning the doctor into a woman (speaking as a feminist, give us our own original characters and stop gender bending popular male characters, it just proves you don't believe in women being relevant without brand recognition) and I found the storyline got a lot more childish/not for me. Felt like they dumbed down the doctor a lot and it pissed me off that they did this when the doctor became a woman.
I also didn't like Jodie's take on the character. I think she was a terrible choice- just doing a sad mimicking of Ten's best moments here and there and then she never had that authentic feeling of being a very old alien fed up with the world.
I know they brought back David Tennant and Catherine tate but I don't really care about that either. I love Ten's era with Donna but it is so nostalgia baity in a way that just makes me cringe, even if it is the 60th anniversary. If it's really such a good story why didn't they have Ncuti just do it? They don't have faith anyone will watch without the nostalgia bait and honestly, it makes me sad this is the state of movies and TV shows.
It's the same thing as Disney making prequels, sequels, reboots, things full of Easter eggs, nothing that doesn't have a prior IP attached to it. It's just sad.
#doctor who#anti doctor who#doctor who critical#ask#anon#tenth doctor#doctor who 60th anniversary#dw#dw critical#anti dw#anti disney#anti jodie whittaker#anti thirteenth doctor#sorry for the long rant anon#i just had feelings#anti chibnall
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The BBC don’t have sensitivity readers even though they could really use them but they also don’t have any creative say in Doctor Who any more, RTD insisted production be handed over to his Bad Wolf company as a condition of returning to the show. BBC Studios don’t make it at all any more, BBC’s only real involvement now asides from airing it is IP and merchandising. So this clusterfuck of terrible optics is entirely on Russell.
Huh, didn't know the BBC had so little involvement any longer, good to know! I'll let them off This Time then.
Thank you!
#asks post#anonymous#doctor who#doctor who critical#this one doesnt really need a spoilers tag ig#spoilers: I'm Mad.
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