#it's also extra galling to me b/c i'm... not much of a ten fan

[ssaalexblake]

ngl I'm testy about ppl (few I've seen, I haven't looked very far) who ignore 13's development into grumpy passive aggressive closed off about trauma in this episode, when - as I much love them - 10 and 11 got meta for literally every inflection. (extra bitter cos my god is cold moody dealing relatable, and I adore her for it)

I gave up looking at other peoples opinions abt 13′s mood right about the time i found out a whole lot of men thought her smile at the dalek in resolutions was  Friendly.  Ok, that’s a lie, i didn’t care to do that Before i found that out, but it was the final nail in the coffin. 

Honestly, every member of team tardis is getting short changed by a lot of people, not just 13. The Lack of a That Age white man to obsess over Always displays fandom bias in the most obvious way doesn’t it? People said 13 lacked depth throughout all of S11, yet a whole bunch of people and myself managed to get enough of a grip on her character that we’ve managed to predict a number of things that have now actually happened in s12 and we’re only 3 episodes in (idk about anybody else, but i didn’t watch the season a million times either), and tbh, a few of my other predictions look to be pretty on the money for happening soon, too.

This doesn’t even go into the rest of the cast who’re also getting shortchanged, for various reasons, I could Also write missives on Yaz’s facial expressions tbh??? Like, the sheer difference between Yaz’s sappy look at 13 back in s11 when she called her the best person she’s ever met contrasted with the sharp, loud anger when she confronted 13 about if she was lying? Incredible. Not to mention the utter Terror on her face at some moments in orphan 55, not sure if anybody’s giffed it yet but i will if they haven’t, but she was utterly terrified. What a Change. 

Honestly, i’ve just found a bunch of people in the fandom who Do notice these things and talk about them and stick around them, tbh, but i’m never gonna be surprised that when a fandom is given a complex performance by a woman that they entirely miss all the subtleties because they Don’t Actually Care, no matter how much they falsely claim it’s that they dislike or don’t care about female characters because they’re written shallowly (or like, anybody But a white man in a certain age group, to be fair). I just sit there going ‘sure jan’. 

It’s ironic though, I think Jodie’s performance as the doctor is the one who most Needs dissecting by fandom, because her doctor is actively Trying to take a strong hold of their own loud obnoxiousness and negative feelings and responses and suppress them, so you have to look harder to see it. The doctors before her who got micro analysed (ten-eleven) were often blatant more than subtle, and yet are the ones that get frame by frame dissections. 

*shrug emoji* i just stick to the edit tag, maybe a ship tag or two, and stick around the people whose opinions i respect tbh, and ur never gonna totally block out the crap, but i’ve successfully limited it?? Like, i still get random men making snide comments on my posts that actually bother to analyse 13, saying it’s all crap and i’m making stuff up because she’s boring or flat or whatever, but eh. 

if you wanna be mr. rude boring mckilljoy whatever, i don’t have to deal with it. 

But her descent into moody grumpiness and not being able to deal with her feelings is so interesting!!! and it’s sad ppl ignore it. She’s still the doctor. Y’all loved stuff like this before when it was tennant doing it.