#don't get me FUCKING STARTED on the timeless child bullshit it's suuuuuch a fucking copout and fucking weak storytelling

[theteaisaddictive]

☕️ for the Chibnall era of Doctor Who?

ooooooohhhhhh

ok so it's pretty universally accepted that the chibnall era is. not good. the scripts are almost always shite, with a few notable exceptions (demons of the punjab my beloved), but the thing that honestly gets my goat is the whole thasmin thing.

now don't get me wrong, i'm very enthusiastic about the ship. i have numerous posts and a whole damn tag to prove it. but, to copy a phrase from my ouat rewatches -- it is very much of the destiel school of thought. imo, it was better when thasmin was just something that the fans were reading into the show. every attempt to introduce it as a genuine canon pairing has exemplified the worst of the chibnall era -- 13 is under-characterised to the point of parody, hypocritical in a way that doesn't form a cohesive whole (unlike, say 10, who was hypocritical in the extreme as the time lord victorious, but they had done the work to get him there). yaz is lucky if she expresses an opinion in any given script, and dan much as i love him is another character who sorely needs development and sure as shit isn't going to get it.

i mean, we're what, three seasons in?? i still could not define jodie's doctor satisfactorily for you aside from 'female', which fucking sucks. she's childlike and whimsical, with moments of darkness -- but so was 11, and much as i dislike the majority of the moffatt era, at least the characterisation was a) internally consistent and b) changed recognisably!!! she's lying to her companions about key information, like 12 -- but 12 eventually got a really fucking satisfying payoff for all that lying with clara, who was rightfully pissed at him!! yaz's entire character appears to be 'dubiously in love with 13' for no particular reason other than because she is.

basically, thasmin is either going to fizzle out into nothing, or we'll get some sort of bury your gays in the centenary since afaik mandip isn't returning for any further specials before ncuti starts as 14.