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AND I WAS CORRECT ‼️‼️‼️‼️ can't be disappointed in an abandoned plotline if you never cared in the first place 😛

hot take: i dont really care about susan.

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Negative: no resolution of

The snow that Ruby can summon bc she is Special

Susan

Rogue

the subplot about Shirley and her friends trying to kill god

Like some of that was expected but after two episodes of Susan hints, literally nothing!?

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It makes me so mad how excited I was for Belinda. To see a companion who didn't buy into the hype and the mystique that often surrounds The Doctor, who didn't see him as this infallible hero but as this flawed and potentially dangerous man, who never fell in line or at his feet but stood in front and asserted herself as an equal, who isn't in the TARDIS by choice and has a life of her own as a single woman in a high-pressured job that she still wants to get back to despite the time travel and the adventure, because she too gets to save lives every day even back on Earth and she doesn't need a Time Lord to do that - it was so incredibly refreshing.

And the issue is, while Belinda continued to call the shots for at least the first five episodes of the series, they dropped the ball with her characterisation as early as the second episode. For her to be so critical of The Doctor at the end of episode one, and so immediately perceptive of his ability to endanger those around him for the sake of his own pursuit of adventure, and yet for her to already abandon that notion and trust him entirely by the end of the next episode, to the extent that by the end of the series she is completely unfazed when on several occasions her instincts were proven to be correct, is not only a massive change in characterisation, but also a colossal waste of such a compelling premise.

And then for her character to be reduced not only to being the mother of The Doctor's child, but ultimately completely rewritten so that they were brought together so that she could be Poppy's mother - and choose to leave on that premise also - is so unbelievably insulting and disappointing. Varada is wonderful. Belinda is wonderful. The dynamic between the actors and the characters is one of my favourites in a long time.

Belinda and Varada aren't the only ones who deserve better after this series (I could write entire essays about Ruby and Fifteen), but I really thought we were onto something and while Belinda will always have a place in my heart, I'm just gutted the series and the character ended on this note.

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i just didnt understand why they were all so intense about saving poppy, bc shes fine?? like the actual poppy is on a spaceship having a great time, they were saving a memory clone of her made of hopes and dreams who gives a fuck

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okay guys 🤩 i don't know if anyone will see this but let's play a game

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i would expect moffat to rewrite a companion to take away all their agency and placate them into a role of motherhood forced onto them at the last half of a two-parter about how alt-right traditionalism is infeasible and cannot maintain itself but ***russell***?!

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if i had a nickel for every time a gay love interest gets put into super hell dimension, i would have two nickels.

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Doctor who it’s me your regency era situationship I’m in cgi hell. You have to remember that you’re gay

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The more I think about it, the less I like that episode...

There were some extremely good points, like 13's cameo which was the best I've seen of her

But there were also some incredibly low points, like the "development" of Belinda's character. I'm sorry but what was RTD thinking making her only reason to get back home to be with her daughter? That literally makes no sense. Why can't we get a genuinely reluctant companion for once?? I loved her for the majority of the season but I feel like this was the complete wrong way to end her character.

It's cool to have a companion being a parent but not like this, this was wrong

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I NEED RTD'S HEAD ON A PLATTER

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the torchwood team would have killed conrad with hammers

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The Reality War is set in Cardiff!

(RTD try not to use Cardiff and pretend it's London Challenge: IMPOSSIBLE)

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rtd has a boner everytime he adds a montage shot of every single previous doctor

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me when i turn into my situationship from 20 years ago

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WHAT

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Just gonna go ahead and say congratulations to Estonia for getting second place and Sweden for getting third

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hot take: i dont really care about susan.