#fandom outrage

Will not be engaging on the bird app because I got hate pilled by children who don’t understand that showing racism in a show does not mean that the writers are racist......like??? Have y’all gone to school? Also when I said that people should stop pushing their bisexual insecurities onto characters, especially bisexual characters who are also minorities, and that “the perfect bisexual character” stereotype is more harmful than the “hypersexual bisexual stereotype” people’s brains exploded.

Do I think Chibnall’s writing is weaker than his predecessors? Yes I do. But Jodie is the Doctor. A great one who’s every word and movement is scrutinized due to her gender. Here are a few I’ll address. 

“She wasn’t a fan of the show” -Neither were so many others (cough Matt) but you still loved them. There’s nothing that says the actor cast as the Doctor must be a fan of the show. That would be insane.

“The Doctor was cold to Graham” -12 was cold for like the entirety of series 8 your argument is invalid. 

“Tardis is too crowded”- I sort of agree with this but it’s not the first time the Doctor has had 3 companions. The difference here is that we’re now used to deep character development and their relationship with the Doctor. It’s hard to get that with so many people. 

“The show is too political now”- As someone who only recently binged the 50+ years of this show, it’s never not been political. You’re just looking harder now for reasons to be angry. 

“Chibnall is destroying the canon”- So stop watching and wait for the next Era. From what I’ve read about Doctor Who fan outrage, people were calling for Moffat’s head in his day too. Now everyone is desperate for him. 

It’s funny how similar fan outrage in fandoms looks. Star Wars has been the same and I’ve followed that my whole life. So maybe timing doesn’t have anything to do with it. 

Anyways I like Jodie as the Doctor. I wish the writing was better but I still enjoy the show for what it is. It takes too much effort to be angry.

No one’s really going to read this anyways lol but I felt like writing it all down. 

I can see why so many people are upset by the twist, but I don't really have it in me to join them.  I mean, Cap's been brainwashed by Hydra at least, like, three times before (including by Lee and Kirby!), and people being given false memories is kind of a recurring motif in several Cap stories (cough the various Falcon backstory retcons).  Either way, it happens enough that getting upset over a Captain America story teasing that somebody (even Cap himself) might be a mole, Manchurian Candidate, or whatever is about as out-of-place as complaining about a Star Trek story where people use a transporter.  

Now, if by the end of the story, they reveal that, yes, Cap is actually totes a willing Nazi (and not possessed, brainwashed, replaced, hosting a post-hypnotic suggestion that causes him to blank out and do evil acts against his will, or whatever), THEN I'll be upset.  VERY upset, and I’ll apologize for defending this storyline right away.

But 'this is going to change everything'-type publicity ALWAYS accompanies these sorts of 'act one plot twist' comics.  So I’ll try to reserve judgment until after the story reveals its true nature.  I don't buy monthly comics anyway, so it's not like my dollar would be making an impact either way.

But, Jesus, the sheer number of death threats that people have been sending to comic creators (even ones who have nothing to do with this story) is horrifying.  I’d argue that THAT is far worse than ANY ‘the hero might actually be a bad guy’ plot gimmick, but of course nobody wants to touch that.  It’s also gotten to the point where several Jewish creators who actually do support the story (including, incidentally, people who work at Marvel and actually know how the story is going to end)* have been harassed and told that they ‘aren’t really Jewish,’ usually by gentiles.

I will admit that my sympathies are generally biased toward creators during these sorts of controversies. Much of that might be due to my profoundly negative experiences with both fandom and critics, true (to the point where, to be frank, I’ve realize that I genuinely hate fandom as an institution) . But in any case, this sort of 'RUINED FOREVER' outcry is so old hat in comics that I'm hard-pressed to work up any emotions over it. (hell, a few comic authors have angrily stated things along the lines of 'If they'd had the Internet when I was writing [iconic storyline], they'd have fired me after the first issue')

So yeah.  I’m interested to see how it’ll play out, honestly.  And as I said, I’ll join in the outrage if it’s a legitimate permanent change, okay?  Until then, I’m just going to watch things unfold.