idk man i just live here

have to say i think the funniest outcome of this announcement so far for me has to be the noticeable increase on comments on the "doctor in distress" music video in the last hour or so

So the thing you have to understand about doctor who the movie 1996 is that it isn't good. But it is the best film ever made. It has little to no outstanding qualities as a narrative and is such a wild read of doctor who that if you replaced a few proper nouns throughout it would just be a regular bad sci-fi movie. The fact the series survived it is the reason i'm not worried about canon or the shows future in the slightest. The pitch for it consists of some of the most insane lore retcons i've ever seen in my life, and the only major one to make it into the movie is generally considered so out of left field that people refuse to acknowledge it to this day. Literally nothing matters. The master is goo and also a lizard, seven gets gunned down in the street, paul mcgann is the first doctor to canonically get bitches. There's a motorcycle chase. Bad 90s cgi. the regeneration is a frankenstein reference. its camp. eight has his dogs out. it is somehow more american than you would expect. it features by far the best rendition of the main theme in the shows history. Who fucking cares man. 11/10

Let's be honest it will just officially be "Doctor who (year)" and colloquially "Current Who" and jokingly "New New (New?) Who" and we're going to fight about the numbering as we do with the doctor. Does the Disney era count as a separate one or not? We will never agree

Short out to Paul Mcgann for no longer being the doctor with least screen time, so sorry for Billie Piper and her 10 seconds onscreen.

none of all that would've happened if Jodie Whittaker had directly regenerated into Ncuti Gatwa as was fucking intended and expected