#all 3 showrunners know the doctor will do worse things when they're emotionally vulnerable but moffat i think takes it further? | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

nostalgia-tblr · 22 days ago

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speaking of doylist explanations, i do tend to default to one on the question of why missy has a(n interrupted) redemption arc when the other versions of her don't, which is definitely down to the fact that all the new who showrunners seem to go with the view that master as a character exists to be a dark mirror of the doctor, and moffat's the one who doesn't view the doctor as fundamentally good but as someone who has to continually choose to not be terrible. so if the doctor can choose to be bad then by extension it must be true that the master could choose to be good. it's like poetry, it rhymes!

#also:#missy's plan to kill bill to get rid of the monks *would* work but the doctor doesn't consider it an option because it's a bad choice.#but oh there must have been a moment where he made the choice to not make that choice (if you see what i mean)#no wonder missy in the vault wants to make a big deal of the fact that not every choice *can* be rejected. it's hard for her! 😭#all 3 showrunners know the doctor will do worse things when they're emotionally vulnerable but moffat i think takes it further?#as in rtd's doctor doing something bad cos he's sad is not *good* or admirable but it's treated as pretty much inevitable. sympathetic?#whereas moff!who is several times very concerned with the fact that a sad doctor is dangerous to everyone around them #because now the good choices have become harder to make and to stick to.#anyway this is probably obvious to everyone but i wanted to type it all out for my own reasons.#i fucking love missy 😭#but she's only morally ambiguous because she needs to match a doctor who was not just somehow born as an inherently good person.#dw #this is also why doctor/master is my fave pairing *now* but i didn't make that leap until missy showed up and all this stuff was centered.#omg what if the hero and the villain swapped places?? or at least wanted to?? and also they kissed each other on the mouth??? 😭😍

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