Land of Fiction

I hope it makes me cry again. I think it's off to a really good start and making a lot of the moves I want to see. I'm thrilled that we're getting an all PoC TARDIS team next year, too, massively overdue. And I'm hoping we get some proper queer romances for the Doctor after the underdeveloped afterthought that was Thasmin.

Worries are always easier for me to voice cuz I'm the kind of person who's wired to be interested in criticism. I'm very worried that so far the writer and director slate has been hella white, especially with some clunky lines already (I can take "male-presenting Time Lord", but "range of colors" was too much, cut that). I'm also being reminded that while RTD is a very good writer, one of the best Who has ever had and a big step up from the last 5 years of the show, he's not as much my kind of Who as Moffat is and his storytelling choices don't necessarily land for me as well. I'm having to recalibrate expectations as a result and get back into his groove. (Thankfully, let's be real, it sounds like Moffat is back for this year's series and I bet that'll be the best episode).

Mostly really middling stuff like Night Terrors. It's more impressive how much the scenes flow and dialogue sings even in a weaker episode after the Chibnall era in which that kind of basic polish just wasn't as present.

I don't really go here on Tumblr anymore and have no idea what incident this is referring to but I certainly am sorry about that. I try to strive to be accountable and to minimize those kinds of impacts in fandom, though it is sometimes hard to control. I've taken down posts on here and on Twitter before when people involved reached out about negative impacts on them because the last thing I want to do is cause that kind of hurt for people when arguing about freaking entertainment. I'm sorry that was the case for you and I wish I'd known that I'd had that impact on you so I could have tried to undo it. The Internet is a hard thing to control, especially with a platform, and I was very young at the time I was discoursing on here. I'm frequently bothered by how I handled a number of things, and hearing this just tells me there's more mistakes I made that I didn't know about. Wishing you well.