#but lol I think misreading Any of twelve’s arc as the doctor is special makes | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

ssaalexblake · 1 year

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Is there a way to get help for the people witnessing a bunch of terrified children on screen getting medically tortured and thinking that this is the show making said character cool and special and not just an abuse victim? bc this is not only old, it’s bordering on worrying.

Suffering is just suffering. It sure does make you things, but special isn’t one of them.

Child is kidnapped, abused, forced to be complicit in whatever a secret malevolent society forces them to do, has to run away and hide Not Even As Themselves to get away and it barely works for long. Their friend gets murdered. Then, when the society is fed up with them, they erased their memories and past, remove what was done to them from popular history so nobody else will know they existed, and dump them alone and without family back on the planet they were tortured to build. There is a child crying in a barn involved. Then they go on to do various other horrible things to them, the only plus side is they get better at running away now, but not always. Because they get pulled back in and messed with all the time because gallifrey hates them but also still wishes to use and abuse them for their own gain.

I wonder if the doctor sleeps better after the master went nuclear on them.

Regardless, the chosen one trope this is not. Nobody was chosen. There was a kidnapping. This is mother gothel territory.

#dw shit #yes I was just being a jerk to that person who wrote that post. I am sometimes a jerk.#I do not care #How can you say Moffat era (of which I personally am not even a fan) was them saying the doctor is some divine figure like twelve’s #entire thing wasn’t the doctor FINALLY getting back over themselves after ten’s descent into whatever that was at the end of his run #eleven is every bit the bitch ppl make him out to be tho… he has no defence here #I mean I like him but despite his issues not because of them #but lol I think misreading Any of twelve’s arc as the doctor is special makes #people a special kind of media illiterate #but I reiterate #child abuse? not the show saying somebody’s special #twelves yells he’s just an idiot in a box out loud like come on #…sometimes you see words so baffling your brain hamsterwheels. this is one of those times.

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