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i think the most annoying part about coming back to nuwho after watching classic who/delving into the eu is it reminds you you literally don't have to do all that. There Are Other Options. nuwho is weirdly allergic to non-contemporary or non-human companions but like you can literally just put a guy from 1746 in there and no one fucking cares. it rules

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*flirtatiously* die horribly in this time loop often?

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i start saying shit like “i need him so badly” and this is the guy

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FIRST step to enjoying any media is getting attached to the character whose suicidal tendencies are the most obvious

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I very often see people talking about 8 based on just a cursory glance at how he looks in the movie but I need you to understand. if any doctor is capable of brutal cold blooded murder it’s that pretty boygirl with floppy hair and an oscar wilde cosplay

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I must not have doctor who opinions. doctor who opinions are the mind-killer. doctor who opinions are the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my doctor who opinions. I will permit them to pass over me and through me. and when they have gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see their path. where the doctor who opinions have gone there will be nothing. only I will remain.

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i like w,hen ......... theres a Big scaresy fantasies beast ok .... and then the big beast has a litter of babies,,,., and the babeis are veryvery small . ok

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Doctor Who at the start of the 70s is about Drag King Action Science Hero fighting Lovecraftian horrors with the military, and Doctor Who at the end of the 70s is about two bitchy immortal wizards and their magic computer dog wandering through space having a larf and hashing out their divorce.

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hot take: the problem with doctor who is NOT that they brought billie piper back, it is NOT that ncuti left early, it is NOT that 15 never faced a dalek or a cyberman, and it is CERTAINLY NOT that it’s ’too woke’

the problem with doctor who is that they have forgotten how to engage an audience without utterly confusing them. if i were a writer, this is what i’d change:

1. i would lower the stakes

my biggest issue with dw in recent years is that the stakes are always SO high - it’s always ‘we need to sort this out or else the ENTIRE UNIVERSE WILL END. this rarely happened at the start of nuwho. of course, there were instances where galaxies and universes were at stake, but there were also plenty of instances where the doctor solves issues to A. save his own skin, B. save his friends, and C. to save smaller populations of people and/or generally do what is morally right.

prime example is in new earth. the world isn’t really at stake, he has a couple of objectives: get cassandra to piss off, free the test subjects, stop the infections from spreading. he doesn’t spend the hour worrying that if he doesn’t help then the world will end, he sees a problem that’s morally corrupt and he solves it for the sake of that group. the payoff is just as good, and actually IMPROVES the payoff for episodes where a bit more is at stake, like the poison sky, for example.

2. i would stop plots from spilling over across seasons

i’d like to remind everyone that, although there were things that kind of linked into each other and were mentioned again, generally for the first 4 seasons of (new) doctor who, an overarching issue was built up, climaxed, and resolved throughout a single season. for example: bad wolf in s1. this has gotten worse and worse over time but has honestly been a problem since rtd1 ended, and for some reason when he came back it got WORSE than it’s ever been!!! there’s just way too much overspill across seasons, things even span accross different doctors more recently which is just too much at times. when it’s little things it doesn’t matter, but it’s not. again, this has been an issue before this finale, but this finale is a good example since there were a hundred and one loose ends before he regenerated. when nuwho began, they literally stated each regen would be treated as a soft reboot and their neglect of that has been a downfall.

3. i’d make doctor who dirty and grungy again

it’s too clean futuristic ultra modern sci-fi these days. the tardis doesn’t look like he stole it. what happened to those fun tardis scenes where the entire thing would shake as it took off and landed? why is everything so light and clean? it should be dim and cozy and imperfect.

4. i’d make the companions’ family members more prominent and interesting characters again

doesn’t take much explaining, really. picture jackie tyler, now picture carla sunday. who has a stronger presence and personality in your head and why is it jackie tyler? (there’s bound to be someone who disagrees and that’s fine but i don’t rlly want to hear about it tbh)

5. i’d re-inject some british whimsy

please don’t mistake this as me saying doctor who ‘isn’t british’ or something weird and gammon-y like that, i love when dw explores different cultures, the story and the engine was one of my highlights last season, i just mean like - let him save the world with a jammy dodger again. let him be brought back to life by a good cup of tea. it makes it enjoyable.

there are lots of things, but those are my main ones.

EDIT: thank you to everyone who has weighed in on this - i’ve found it really interesting to see everyone’s perspectives on this because honestly i could talk for king and country about it, but also i just wanted to say that it makes me kind of sad that one of my only negative posts about doctor who is my most popular post :( if you’re reading this, it’s your sign to do something positive today, if i can help to make just one person’s day better then that’s a win to me :)

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Behold

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This is the vibe I wanted the Rani to have btw

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One weird experience of transitioning is failing at ur assigned gender role the whole time and everyone constantly deriding you for it but then u come out and it's like we lost a beautiful gender conforming warrior today. Must grieve for my wonderful child who pissed me off by being ugly and weird since day 1

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a meeting of creatures…

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I guess it’s only fair that Doctor Who finally gets its own conspiracy causing horrible finale. It is part of the SuperWhoLock trinity after all.

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the theory that "billie piper isnt really the 16th doctor its just a red herring. rose and the doctor just switched places or something" does not make it much better lmao. we dont need rose back, we need new companions. we dont need a stupid fakeout regen to generate clickbait headlines. we dont need to undermine ncuti gatwas exit with a bunch of bullshit.

i want to smoke the copium too but i have no idea how the writers can fix this mess and after that finale i dont trust them to

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come on gimme things to sort. i'm so fucking good at sorting come on lemme sort