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Now that the dark ages are ending, can we get the Doctor Who fandom back up and running? The 2010s DW fandom was something special.

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It's okay and cool to like villainous characters. Liking bad guys does not reflect anyone's real life moral character.

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I have a lot of feelings about the Chibs-Whittaker era that I've kept bottled up since it started. Can I throw a tantrum? I'm gonna throw a tantrum.

This era feels like a retread of Davison's. It was an age defined by its lack of emotional involvement, lame stories, lifeless companions and an overqualified lead actor in a really, really stupid costume.

Three seasons in and she never got more than one good story, never got to really act, never got to *be the Doctor.* She doesn't have a memorable moment like Tom Baker's brooding banter at the beginning of Pyramids of Mars or Capaldi's fiery speech to the Zygons.

The Thirteenth Doctor never had a set personality or moral code from one scene to the next, only a series of passing quirks that never really informed a character. And the stories, oof. In place of new adventures, nearly every episode was steeped in continuity mining and weak moralizing with no consistent philosophical or emotional core. Her stories weren't backed by ideas, just watery centrist pandering to a fanbase that abandoned the show in droves in 2013. If we were lucky, we might have gotten a Magic Schoolbus episode where the Doctor pined about how important this or that historical figure was, or we might get to watch our favorite monsters be dragged out to wander around and talk for a whole episode.

Jodie Whittaker was miscast for the Doctor Chibnall wrote. A lot of people let Jodie off the hook for her underwhelming performance, but that's unfair to Chibs and the other writers. Davison, Capaldi and Smith were frequently strapped with shit dialogue and managed to sell it. Jodie never did.

Was this the worst era in the shows history? Probably not. The 80s are pretty much unwatchable, the early First Doctor stuff is rough and the movie is probably best left as a foot note. But for some reason I can't quite define, this one stings just a little more. Is it the wasted historical moment of our first female Doctor? The disrespectful lack of effort on the creative team's part? If someone else feels the same way, maybe you can help me find some words for this.

Remember when the Doctor decided it was more merciful to let a room of giant spiders starve to death than just shoot them or find them a new home?

Remember when the show fumbled the Partition of India story and totally let the British off the hook?

Remember when the show sided with Amazon against unions?

Remember when they squeezed the laziest gay romance in TV history into the very end of the era so it could be quickly erased?

Remember when they cast a black woman Doctor but just made her reenact a David Tennant episode and didn't bother to give her a personality or a purpose?

Remember series 12 and 13? Wait- no. Me neither.

Graham was great, though.

Goodnight, Chris Chibnall. I hope you enjoy watching RTD erase everything you worked for.

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"Mid" is shorthand for "I am intellectually incurious and I made no effort to actually engage with the music."

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Konami has shown nothing but contempt for video games, the people that make them and their own fans since the late 2000s. They have given us no reason to be excited about this.

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Really weird how libertarians always turn out to be incompetent morons when they achieve power. Just... what a coincidence, you know?

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booktok is slowly but surely ruining literature and its genres especially romance cause they just put 2 random ppl together, dont even bother to connect them in any way, write their scenes like a 12 yo on wattpad, it all makes 0 sense, it's super toxic, they just stick together all the overused tropes they know ppl would describe their book with + painfully unnecessary spicy scenes with only those 2 ppl and no one else in the story and without having anything important to say or portray and it's getting so old and exhausting like what happened to books that were beautifully written, had something important to say and the characters and the plot were meaningful and had multiple layers and actually made sense?

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Nothing tops fictional men with accents>>>

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Liz Truss.

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dragostea din tei literally goes so fucking hard. idc who u are that shit is so good

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I saw this and felt like it should be shared here too

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classic scifi novels by men r always like. page 1 here’s a cool scifi idea i had. page 2 i hate women so much it’s unreal

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general relativity for babies

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