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i rewatched season 10 yesterday :’)

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when 13 appeared and 15's immediate thought was "wow it's not david tennant, didn't see that one coming"... that was funny

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ncuti gatwa i’m so so sorry, first your entrance was overshadowed by david tennant and now your exit was overshadowed by billie piper

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Episode one Belinda: breaks up with her boyfriend because he’s a controlling misogynistic prick who wants her to conform to the role of wife and mother, when he later kidnaps her to force her to marry him she calls him an incel and explodes him

Episode eight Belinda: I can’t help you with the battle I’m no use at saving the world, the best thing I can do is stand in this box with my daughter and be a mother, I love being a mother, please rewrite my entire timeline so that I have a daughter, I’m so glad this right wing incel fascist rewrote reality so that women are wives and mothers because that means I am a mother to my daughter

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doctor who did so wrong by ncuti and varada. this whole thing revolved around RUBY being the catalyst. belinda's arc was so haphazardly put together- they basically made her a ruby substitute, gave her a story arc that made no sense & then gave ruby so much of her screentime this season.

and 15 was never given the time to come into his own, develop, or face other classic villains. he started with a previous doctor and ended with a previous doctor. they never let him just....be.

they both deserved SO MUCH better than this

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rose isnt haunting the narrative now. she WAS. she WAS in s3-s4, sure, i'll give you that-- BUT NOW? DUDE THE GHOST WAS LAID TO REST.

and ok i hate to be that person usually. but oh my fucking god. "haunting the narrative" SOMETIMES THEYRE JUST DEAD !

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and ok i hate to be that person usually. but oh my fucking god. "haunting the narrative" SOMETIMES THEYRE JUST DEAD !

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okay. i need people to understand the main issue here. ncuti gatwa is the first (full time) black doctor. his entrance was overshadowed by david tennant. his entire run has been the least watched run, many of you admit you did not watch his era. now, after only 16 episodes and a few specials he has regenerated and all people are talking about is billie piper. do you really not see the issue at all? and don't even get me started on what they did to belinda! i'm so BOGGLED by the amount of disrespect thrown at fifteen. he barely got to BE HIS OWN CHARACTER. we barely know him and he's gone. unreal.

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wish world being like "its bad to force women into being nothing but mothers" and then the finale of her own season literally shoves belinda in a closet with a baby during all the action like okayyy

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and i think the other issue with it is like... they just need to fucking slow down. ok so you dont have as many eps to work with? THEN SCALE BACK. FOCUS. STOP TRYING TO DO SOMETHING BIG AND BOMBASTIC. or at least serialise properly. not this fucking purgatory where you pretend like theres a series long arc (a mystery box...). ok we pretended before, but we had contained episodes. and no shit was never perfect. there were some fucking clunkers. but my god even the bad ones its like...

ive said it before like i miss s1 when there was just quiet and the characters felt like people. they could sit in a diner and theyd have a rapport and they didnt have to turn to the camera and tell you they were besties. they had fucking conversations and they interacted with each other and the world around them and thats what made them realised. they had an affect on the plot. they didnt get stuck ina box!!! its such bare minimum. like... it feels like-- and ive said this before-- every scene is set up like some quirky fucking performance and not us watching people go through a story. bc before damn even when the macguffin saved the day .... at least half the fucking time there was some emotional thrust behind it. like dude i think rtd's finales the first go around werent fucking good from an objective, "oh this is a satisfying conclusion" but ive always defended them with the fact they'd at least have heart . my god

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because its crazy. i coped a bit with the thought of: "ok, so the narrative is obsessed with rose, because 10 was, and that was very obviously a flaw of his and an extension of his own self-obsession, and it's all consuming because he was." (do i think thats the full behind it ALL, well no) (and i dont think it perfectly does this) (and i have many issues with the way it does this) but its the thing i can tell myself when it comes to s1-s4 and the constant fixation on her. i dont resent her as much as i did as a tween, and ive come back round to like... literally fine theres a story there even if sometimes in its delivery i think its unaware of itself sometimes.

then its like. just wrap it up once. then... wrap it up again? and then shes back as the moment. and im like ok. fine fine fine. and then we get the dt specials and i dont like dt being back, but i think if its rtd doing the love letter to his own first iteration and revisiting it for the baby fans who wont stop throwing their toys out the pram until DT is back im like ok. we can do have a fun romp where we revisit him for a bit. and okie hehe ok im being a cunt-- i do genuinely think its fine and i kinda like some self-indulgence in fucking moderation. but like so long as we use that to CLOSE the chapter. and thats literally the entire resolution. he leaves off to "retire" in peace and fucking rest. he goes to heal. he doesnt revisit his old ghosts. and we get to move FORWARD

why why why did we then move back again? WHY? back to rose. i dont care-- you can be like ohjhh shes not 16-- IT DOESNT MATTER! rtd relies so heavily on some shock ending or something to pull you through . but whatever, the point is, she's back again and i JUST...

why cant we just do it right. why cant we have a new doctor that has their own stories and moves forward. why do we have to keep going back. regressing. im talking about the health of the show here . trying to do something with some intention rather than some good shock value that'll last the first go round then die. you already pulled the woahhh weird regen NOT EVEN 3 YEARS AGO!!! thats nothing. likeplease just... stop it. because why UNDO the way you let 14 get his small bit of peace away from it where he could accept some things are out of his control . why have it all regress.

whats gonna happen in 5 years time. where will we be. when so much of recent history has been nothing but dredging up things from 20, 30 years ago . like callbacks are onething. recurring villains happen. companions come back. but not the entire fucking thrust of the show revolving and circling two characters in a way that undoes whatever story you told with them and just keeps circling and circling and circling and c

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ok that was my idgaf yap. my igaf yap for real: i genuinely start getting really angry and upset when ppl say "youre so whiny / why cant you just be happy with the show / ughhh dw fans are never happy" when you come at it with any criticism. i just feel so fucking exhausted bro.

and im going to be honest its way more effing toxic than like... allowing ppl to express how shit doesnt work for them, how shit might be fucking hurtful to them even (bc hello, the racism!?), what they just plain dont like etc...! the whole dismissing whatever you think/feel bc ur not putting on your big happy face. like lolll ik its not that deep and its a show in the end but like. genuinely so fucking annoying !!! i feel like im going insane . because i DO love this show -- or i did. and i WANT it to do well and flourish. i cant count the amount of shit mentally i let slide when with other things i'd give up. but i also want it to be healthy? go in a good direction? hold it up to some standards???

like i feel like some ppl insane and zone out or maybe theyre just living in fandom world where theyve built things out to be something theyre not cuz what the fuck are you talking about

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most inconsequential gripe: i seriously hated the pantheon. some of it is a taste thing... like, generally, i dont like fantasy and i especially dont like THIS flavour of fantasy. but also theres just not nearly enough substance to make this... work?

like i feel like whenever one appeared it was like trying to bank on their own prestige of yup im this god x, y, z. tell me why i should care. oh, you made the giggle sound-- TELL ME WHY I SHOULD CARE! what does it even matter? so youre connected to the toymaker and youre part of the pantheon and... so what! what ACTUAL consequence has that even had so far? its given us some context of just: ok so this isnt gonna necessarily be sci fi... but thats it??

like you try to build something so big and grand on the simple premise of: well this is a god! ok. so fucking what. within the confines of a story youre just telling me im meant to care and be afraid without the development, without the intention behind it, and....

and look timey wimey wibbly wobbly. whatever burger with nothing fries. dw is, imo, best when it is flexible with its own internal logic but i do still think.... to be so abstract with something, it has to be done well?? i feel like its just 45 minutes of being thrown some vaguelythemed esoteric villain.

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