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brokenhardies · 9 months ago

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tbh as a six fan i feel so bad for thirteen fans

bc there are a lot of thirteen fans who are willing to defend shitty writing and poor decisions bc thirteen's their favourite doctor and there's no other way to say she's their favourite bc thirteen has only been off the air for 2 years at this point. thirteen also has the bonus problem of being the first female doctor which means a lot of her criticism is clouded by misogyny and other icky incel alt right shit

meanwhile with six, a lot of his problems had the benefit of the wilderness years, big finish, the expanded universe, and even people looking back at his doctor and realising that there was some good in his episodes. a lot of his fans didnt become his fans until recently and even most of his haters are quite clear that they hate the writing decisions and not the actor himself

like until jodie gets some good material - maybe big finish? theyre doing fugitive doctor and dhawan master stuff that might improve the problems with those - a lot of thirteen fans are going to be clutching at straws and trying to figure out why they like her and how to say so in a way that won't upset the predominantly male fandom, as well as won't disagree with common and very bloody obvious criticisms of chibnalls era

#dnr #dni #this might show up in the tags anyway oops :(#my main issues with the chibnall era comes in the form of the writing #like there are some aspects of the story that makes me tear my hair out #why do we have three companions - two of whom are poc - when we're just gonna focus on the white man #better still why does the female doctor have three companions #better still why does only graham get characterisation #the entirity of kerblam is just one long hate crime imho #rosa is... fine:tm: but the line where yaz defends the police to ryan when hes understandibly #talking about his issues shouldve been cut out #tbh chibnalls idea of politics was basically 'lets present it all on screen front and centre and then never touch on it again'#good work gang hit the showers #now im not saying that you cant like chibnalls era #i personally dont like it and i feel like the bad writing has clouded my interpretation of thirteen as a whole #which sucks #especially as a six fan bc ive been in this boat before where ive seen people disregard him bc #'he strangled his companion!' in one episode #so its more of a i feel sorry for thirteen fans #and tha5min fans like you guys got hella queerbaited

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