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captaincleverusernamehere · 2 years ago

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Okay so I’ve purposely not read anything about the new companion/her actor, but like, with the way RTD has started off his return, with Tennant’s costume and calling him the 14th doctor and overshadowing Gatwa’s entrance and naming Donna’s daughter Rose, it all really feels like he’s trying to milk nostalgia to bring him/the show back into the good graces of its worst critics from the past few years.

Like, with Ruby Sunday (what a name…) being a young blonde girl immediately after the Doctor’s return to Tennant’s body, I feel like RTD’s just going to use her to be the vessel for the Doc’s Very Own Morality Nostalgia Trip/Getting Over Rose Time like he did with Martha, which I think was a pretty universally disliked decision.

Maybe I’m wrong, but Doctor Who has been built over the past half century to be a show about moving forward, and all of these gestures look more like bringing things “back to normal” to me, which i think is the wrong move.

#doctor who #not to be overly negative #I would LOVE to be proven wrong #and of course I’m still excited about everything in the future of the show #but with Disney having some creative control now #and russel REALLY not going with the flow of everything the show’s become since the end of his run #it feels sort of… not even cheap; just in poor taste #people were excited for his return to see what new stories he could create; not to see the old ones all over again #I hope he still lives up to expectations but right now he’s really treading water #this really does sound so angry; I promise I’m not; it’s just that this is the only outlet for my thoughts on this show and this is the only #show that makes me think like this at all #so most of these posts are just thought experiments and exercises in argumentation. I still love this show with all my heart #:)#but yeah I hope I made my argument clear. I wish I could show my blog posts to my English teacher bc everything here is better written than #anything I give him fhgdhfgdh #russel t davies #millie gibson #ruby sunday #rose Tyler #doctor who series 14

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