Great episode, but boy do the ironies run deep.
RTD: "We are phenomenally successful with a young audience!"
Also RTD: "Ratings are suffering"
Also RTD: "We're not about catering to older fans"
Yes, RTD again: "THE BIG BAD REVEALLED.....*ahem* obscure villain from the 1970s that not even Henshin was aware of because he is yet to own the box set."
Basically DW is RTD's playground to do what he wants. Same with Moff and Chibnall. The original writers from Bob Holmes to Terry Nation, as well as the fans, and even mainstream audiences can all get f*cked. Hence why ALL of their arguments are so full of holes and contradictory.
The Doctor has no core character. They are all completely different people mentally in every way, only the memories go on, that's RTD/Moffat/Chibnall's excuse for having him shag a 19 year old girl, two years older than Ace, or having the Master suddenly want to f*ck the Doctor, or changing his sex, or having the Doctor be a thirsty gay man falling in love with a handsome bounty hunter (the type someone like Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker would have distrusted and disliked since he kills for a living until the end.) Oh what's this they also have all brought Sarah back, Ace back, Mel back, the Brig's daughter, a Hartnell cosplayer all to show it is one journey, one show. We'll also have to rewrite the previous series and relationships to make them fit the new one, like the Doctor was always gay, the Master was always thirsty for him, even though they are all supposed to be different people according to our retcon?
Doctor Who has no canon and we can do anything we want too. That gives us more freedom to not be so bound by the past. Anoraks don't understand writing and how creatives need to be free. What's this? In 14 series there has been a grand total of TWO not to feature a foe from the classic era as the MAIN antagonist.
Series 1: Daleks
Series 2: Daleks and Cybermen
Series 3: The Master
Series 4: Davros and the Daleks
Specials: Master and Time Lords
Series 5: The alliance the two most prominent members of which are Daleks and Cybermen.
Series 6: Finally a new foe the Silence.
Series 7: The Great Intelligence
Series 8: The Cybermen and Missy.
Series 9: Well no main villain, but the arc still revolves around the Daleks and Missy and the Time Lords who serve as the final antagonists.
Series 10: Master and the Cybermen.
Series 11: Tim Shaw, first attempt at a new villain in 7 years. Goes about as well as you'd think, so next season.
Series 12: Cybermen and the Master.
Series 13: Flux, but the most visible enemy are the Sontarans.
60th Specials: The Toymaker (spit)
Series 14: Sutekh.
Yeah not seeing a lot of creativity here? PS you don't have to have new villains to do a good version of something. Batman the Animated series relied mostly on old villains, but it actually did them properly and therefore won round their fans. New Who literally has the worst of all worlds, where on the one hand people fed up of these villains wish they'd f*ck off, whilst those of us who love those characters like me, hate the way they've not been written in character at all because of the stupid "DW has no canon rule."
Case in point the Master has been the antagonist for 5 seasons, 3 in a row in Capaldi's time and they haven't even come close to actually writing him in character, barring like two minutes of Simm at the end of The Doctor Falls, which is marred by the fact he is talking to a female version of himself that wants to f*ck Capaldi.
Similarly they're all about diversity and inclusion, but the writers room barring like two lesbians is the biggest little boys only club imaginable to the point where between 2022 and 2025 there are just 2 episodes not written by one of the three showrunners. Oh and we also mock the disabled and fat people regularly, never apologise for it, hire a man like NPH and film in Dubai.
We are sooooooooooo feminist, yet we turn every female character from the companions, Rose, Martha, to the female Master, to the Brig's daughter into fangirls with a crush.
DW is all about change, that's why we have Tennant back, Donna back, Murray Gold back, Phil Collinson back, a character named Rose, a mystery box companion where there is something odd about her, a young girl from 21st century London with blonde hair, whose name begins with R, who has an overbearing mother etc.
It's all shit, but the question is again why do the fans on sites like Reddit lap it up? Why do these people who claimed to be classic era fans want to see the show twisted into one clique's fantasies? I get why back in 2005 because they were shallow and wanted the show to be accepted by shallow pricks in the media, or they were new fans who were introduced to the franchise via this, but we don't even have that now. We haven't even had that since 2015, and it's so mutated it bares no resemblance to the new version from 2005-2013 either, so why cling to this mantra now?
