#and rtd just closed them again going actually no im doctor who’s most specialist boy and we should do my run all over again | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

laniidae-passerine · 7 months ago

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catch me laughing in the club awkwardly because this season has a 19 year old blonde female companion from London, a space travelling left of law brunette queer boy who flirts heavily with the doctor, absolutely zero writers of colour and no mention of sensitivity readers…….and next season the new companion is a woman of colour. uh oh!

#he’s not stupid enough to do Martha again but be REAL with me. do you think this man can handle writing for a brown woman and a black man #and make it in any way genuinely tasteful. the one race he’s punched down and the other he’s basically ignored during his tenure :/#rtd seems to think because he has the lived experience of the great struggles of being queer in the 80s and onwards #which was a serious struggle and came with its issues #that he understands being a person of colour? like he wrote an episode about racism and then laughed about not needing a sensitivity reader #before he handed it off to ncuti. but it needed one because it was a stupid episode because he’s white and moreover #seems to think he understands WITHOUT actually getting any of the nuance. which makes it worse.#im just concerned to put it lightly #like chibnall’s bad habit was ‘good episode followed by a bad episode so bad you forget the good episode even existed’#but at least he got writers of colour in to make some of those episodes! he actually cared! and also fumbled real bad (nazi uniform… ://)#still. he actually gave it a pretty good shot and opened some doors behind the scenes. like the writer’s room which is just as important #and also in the scenes tbf like yaz and ryan sharing scenes as poc companions during the same run was groundbreaking #and rtd just closed them again going actually no im doctor who’s most specialist boy and we should do my run all over again #stop this man. get someone new in. he is not much better than chibnall rn like he is not batting hits #stop letting the world’s most charismatic doctor (ncuti i will get rid of regeneration to keep you. i love you. wish you had better writing)#distract you from the fact RTD is doing a ‘biggest hits’ tour rn. stop him!!!!!!! please can we have a showrunner of colour! a woman! please #rtd critical #doctor who #dw

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