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polygondotcomvideoproducer · 1 year ago

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see there’s kinda an issue with the doctors being named after the actor because hurt’s and martin’s doctors already have alternate names without a number plus then you have to use numbers anyway for tennant’s 3 doctors

I mean, I think the war and fugitive doctors having those unique names isn't necessarily an argument against just using the actor names, necessarily. I think it is v polite of them to fit into the catalogue of doctors without fucking up the numbering of the doctors.

Whereas if you consider stolen earth tennant doctor and journey's end doctor to be 2 separate doctors, well then you're just causing problems on purpose, aren't you,

#like to be clear I don't think that using the actors' names is the only efficient way to do it #it still has the problem of specifying which tennant you mean nowadays #but it cuts off that numbering pedantry at the knees #there are at most 2 actual david tennant doctors and if u disagree then u are nitpicking and I won't have that on my good christian blog #so I'd rather just specify that I mean the tennant that came after ecclestone or whittaker than indulge in their needless discourse #it's not the best system it is just the least annoying to me #for the record: I am a whittaker-13th and gatwa-14th believer and will not change my mind about the former #and I will not consider changing my mind about gatwa until we get those new episodes and we understand what the fuck is happening #but to me. whittaker regenerating into tennant doesn't affect the order any more than whittaker regenerating into dhawan did #they happened in the same damn episode and affect the numbering just as much to me #which is to say - by fuck all #I got this ask and started responding to it immediately btw. it just took me several minutes to compose my thoughts #like the ask got a complete rewrite at one point while I ironed out what I actually think on the matter lmao

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