funky little doctor who sideblog

By the way I was at a con and Colin Baker said "My doctor is full of sentiment, but not sentimental. He would step over a dead body to help a butterfly with a broken wing." If you even care.

so we just never dealt with the master in the tooth then he just went there and is just there now

I hope as long as I live I never see David Tennant in doctor who again unless it's a multi doctor anniversary special and even then it's thin fucking ice

My dream scenario for whenever Doctor Who gets picked back up is that first and foremost, they make absolutely sure they can put some kind of conclusion on that cliffhanger and make sure that in the very least Billie Piper is available to do it to fix whatever that was, but in my best case scenario, also Ncuti Gatwa. Make up whatever you have to make up about Billie being there, I don’t really care, but do something that guarantees that we get to see Ncuti one more time in a proper outing with proper planning like he deserves. Something with the regeneration is very wrong and maybe he and Billie are going back and forth or they split apart (goodness knows we’ve got precedence for that now) or she reverts fully back into him by some point or he’s swapped places with her and is out there having to find her and figure out what the heck happened in the middle of his regen. I don’t really care as long as something facilitates letting Ncuti have a significant enough presence. Somewhere in this story, he gets to face the Daleks. Ideally you’d have Susan come in and we get the reunion that we were teased with. Wrap up whatever loose ends you’re able to manage before we start with a cleaner slate for the new era. Realistically, you’d probably have to have Fifteen regenerate for real now and the new team brings in their own Doctor, but if you want to be really really nice to me, work something out with Ncuti where you can absolutely promise him in legal writing beforehand that you will NOT leave him in the lurch while trapped in a contract, and schedule to film at a time that works for him where he can do at least one more season to wrap up with more dignity before he goes off to continue his growing career. Barring that extremely unlikely scenario, I refer back to letting him regenerate the right way. And no matter what, Daleks and Susan are required.

next dw showrunner should beg for ncuti back and the only acknowledgement of the regeneration is a throwaway "what, babe, never had a little narrative breakdown before?"

Now that RTD is gone I think Ncuti should get a do over season

in addition to subjects that other people have already covered thoroughly and much better than i ever could (the handling of race, the antiblackness of rtd's writing, the misogyny, the weirdly bioessentialist handling of gender, etc.) i just want to step in and say that rtd's treatment of adoption is also fucking vile. what do you mean that ruby spends an entire season searching for her "real" mom as if adopted parents aren't real parents. what do you mean that carla abandons ruby in three separate timelines. (i can't even make the "if i had a nickel" joke because it's happened three separate times.) why did rtd elevate the mythic biological white mother at the expense of a black woman and decades of her love and choices and agency. the timeless child arc was literally described by chibnall as him grappling with his own feelings of being adopted (which, as someone who is adopted myself, are complicated and messy, i'm aware). why did you take the found family show about the doctor's extended "fam" and adoption and choosing a family and then babytrap a woman who didn't want kids and then constantly denigrate the woman who decided to adopt a child, one of the most powerful choices that someone can make. what the actual fuck rusty

for christmas we're deleting the entire show. tally ho you teaboo shits

This is sounding a lot like what happened when the show got put on “hiatus” in 1989