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incangencence · 1 month ago

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ooc: Woke up with So Many Thoughts on the Fifteenth Doctor… and I am TRULY at war with myself about whether or not I wanna wade into fandom discourse…

I don’t…

But WOW, what a fascinating and beautiful knot the production team has created for themselves…

#ooc #the long and short of it is essentially… I saw someone complaining about how RTD still writes The Doctor as if he’s white #and… controversially perhaps… I think that’s correct #because uh. as a black person myself… I’m quite confident in saying that Becoming Black and stepping into that as part of who you are #does NOT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT.#it takes some people their whole lives to step into that #and The Doctor has been white for EONS #a white MAN for most of that #I quite liked Dot and Bubble especially at the end watching him have to grapple with ‘oh. things are Different.’#it stung to watch. in a way a LOT of DW stings now that does make me feel… unsafe and uncared for as a viewer of color #but unlike when they did the Rosa Parks episode THIS felt deeply necessary #and honestly… I HOPE The Doctor was thinking back to how they acted during that episode. what they put their companions through.#how thoroughly and completely 13 failed to protect them in a way no previous doctor had.#and now… standing on the other side of it..#and maybe getting that little flicker of clarity. of… this is WHY we protect them. besides just being decent.#i think it’s gonna be healthy for the doctor to get some hard fucking lessons in this regeneration. to act like he always has and have it #just Hit Different. and then he has to carry that forward. THAT’S the real challenge.#I don’t want a doctor who Acts Black. that’s offensive.#I want a doctor who lives through something that mirrors my experience and pulls hope and joy out of that #someone who carries that awareness and uses it to make a difference the way The Doctor is supposed to #I don’t think that defeats the purpose. I think that IS the purpose #he’s never BEEN an iteration of The Doctor that looks or is received like this. Same as when he was a woman.#he’s having his eyes opened to old patterns and ingrained. and that’s so SO NECESSARY.#if this show is going to carry on another sixty plus years he has to see who he’s been and what he’s been privileged to…#and then carry on pushing back even harder with love and empathy and everything he’s learned and gained and become #he has to be an accumulation as much as an individual. otherwise… the hope he brings is only for Some People not everyone #there are gonna be stumbles… but I think that’s actually great #… I said I wasn’t gonna go off. but at least I did it in the comments where the trolls can’t find me

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