#if they marvel-ify doctor who (more than it already has been) i will bite someone
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spent the last few weeks trying to figure out why the episodes after 12's run don't hit as hard and i cannot make a coherent argument for the life of me
#9 speaks#just finished the giggle and it feels like they're trying to set up a Sarah Jane Adventures kinda thing#which i hope to god doesn't happen#if they marvel-ify doctor who (more than it already has been) i will bite someone#but yeah no the most coherent argument i can make is that i think the series works best#when it's like 40-minute individual adventures with an overarching season plot#the episodes have an alien that's an allegory for whatever the fuck the writer wants to do commentary on#and you sprinkle in stuff about the doctor's life or reputation but you don't make it the WHOLE PLOT#i love the timelord victorious shit as much as the next guy but i think a lot of people forget that those episodes had like. a villain#like the doctor only got to have his little 'the laws of time are mine' moment because the mars colony was getting fucked by the water dude#it feels like as the series has progressed the 'doctor deals with issues' series-long b-plot has overtaken like. the actual aliens?#much as the toymaker was fun and camp and i love seeing him back#the connective tissue between bigeneration + toymaker + 'the doctor is wearing himself down and never stops'#was not strong in the slightest#it feels like someone took a bunch of disconnected scripts and jammed them together#anyway 9 is going to go read more 13th doctor fanfics bc she deserved better
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