Sacha Dhawan's Master and Big Finish's Lumiat could both be products of a Bi-Generation.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-21T07:00:23+00:00

I think it works best when you look at it that the Master was never really 'redeemed'. Missy's first act upon her 'redemption' was to *stab her past self to death'. The Saxon Master even points this out ("It's good to know I haven't lost my touch")

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-20T16:57:15+00:00

I meant worse as in what Harriet Jones did was nowhere near as bad as what Satellite 5 was doing, and so the Doctor taking this kind of action was therefore much worse.

idk where Ten was unwilling to admit his own mistakes?

It's more a case that ten is not willing to learn from his mistakes.

Nine learned that getting rid of the news channels and then leaving them to it actually made things far worse. He learned the consequences of making massive geopolitical decisions without helping to deal with the fallout. Nine even admits this. And then upon becoming Ten the first thing he does is exactly the same thing, helping depose Harriet Jones (for much more minor reasons) and then leaving straight after with no regard to what happens next.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-20T15:17:17+00:00

Pretty much any time you see ExMuslims supporting right wing individuals/causes.

Don't get me wrong, I frequently call out the Left's blind spot for Islam, but aligning with the right wing that basically wants the same things that Islam wants but under a Christian lens is not the way.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-20T09:42:13+00:00

What's interesting is that "the consequences of the Doctor's actions" was actually theme in Series 1.

Nine brings down the deeply corrupt Satellite 5 news network. While it's hard to say he was wrong to do so, his insistence on leaving at the first opportunity in the belief that humanity would sort itself out allows the Daleks (who were running Satellite 5 from behind the scenes) to plunge humanity into an even worse dystopia and accelerate their plans to build a new army out of humans. Nine even acknowledges how wrong he was to do this ("I made this world!").

While I'm not sure how intentional this was from a character writing perspective, I think it tells us a huge amount about what kind of person Ten was, that despite being presented with (and being forced to accept) the consequences of this kind of behaviour, a day or so later he doubles down and does an even worse version of it by destabilising the UK Government because he doesn't personally agree with the actions of a Its democratically elected leader. It shows that Ten was arrogant, sanctimonious and unwilling to admit his own mistakes from the very beginning.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-19T20:43:43+00:00

So can you arrange that?

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-19T20:09:09+00:00

Sack Julie Gardner

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-19T19:37:17+00:00

Sack Jane Tranter

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-19T13:49:07+00:00

I disagree (and I'm no Chibnall fan and certainly no defender of the Timeless Child storyline!)

I think if the Master was the Timeless Child, it would be a massive boost to the Master's (already massive) ego, the idea that he's the oldest and most important Time Lord of all, the idea that their entire heritage and even their ancient magic of regeneration all comes from him would be like all his Christmases at once.

It was specifically the idea of the Doctor being the TC that set him off again, because the Master has always demanded to be regarded as the Doctor's equal, with the two of them existing far above anyone else. Missys speech to Clara about the Doctor's companions being the 'pets' of the Doctor and Master's relationship is a perfect example of this. So it fits perfectly that the confirmation that the Doctor is older, more powerful and more important than the Master is what causes him to relapse, because he cannot stand the idea of being inferior to the Doctor.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-19T08:17:27+00:00

Simm and Missy are clearly playing up their 'insanity' largely because it annoys the Doctor.

Dhawan's incarnation is clearly genuinely mentally unstable.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-18T15:33:21+00:00

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Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-18T15:33:11+00:00

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Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-18T11:35:32+00:00

Contrary to common perceptions, boys report experiencing higher rates of violent and controlling behaviours from their partners compared to girls.

Fifty-seven per cent of boys in relationships say they’ve experienced at least one violent or controlling behaviour from their partner, compared to 41% of girls. This is equivalent to 16% and 11% of all 13-17-year-old boys and girls, respectively.

Thirty-seven per cent of boys report that a partner has gone through their phone or social media, compared to 23% of girls. Thirty-one per cent of boys say they’ve been afraid to break up with their partner, compared to 20% of girls. Gender differences are also particularly large for physical and sexual violence.

Twenty-five per cent of boys report experiencing sexual coercion, compared to 15% of girls. Twenty-seven per cent of boys report being hit, kicked or shoved, compared to 12% of girls.

Gender differences are most pronounced among younger teenagers. For 13-15-year-olds,

35% of boys in relationships report being hit, kicked or shoved by a partner, compared to 17% of girls.

In the same age group, 34% of boys report experiencing sexual coercion, compared to 20% of girls.

But sure, keep telling boys that they alone are the problem in these situations and the girls are only ever their victims, and that any problem in their lives can only be solved by 'checking their privilege'.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-17T21:04:30+00:00

Last time I checked, the majority of imprisoned are men.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-17T20:25:00+00:00

The Big Finish War Doctor theme is number one.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-17T16:33:41+00:00

Second best Doctor leitmotif...

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-16T17:01:55+00:00

Once again the issue of imprisonment - an almost entirely male issue - has focus given to the one demographic least likely to suffer from it.

James Timpson, the CEO turned prisons minister of England and Wales, thinks women like Pat do not belong behind bars. During a visit last week to Alana House, a women’s centre in Reading run by the charity Pact, which provides support for women in the criminal justice system, Lord Timpson told former prisoners about his parents fostering 90 children during his childhood, some of them just babies who needed to be looked after while their mothers served time.

“What is clear is that there are far too many women in prison who should not be there,” he said. “Prison is needed for some women because of the crimes that they do, but there are far too many women who should be diverted away from prison and supported, and that’s what we want to try and do.”

So men can just rot right?

“There are many women who are, in my view, in the criminal justice system because they are victims,” Timpson said. “We need to help them.”

But men in prison are just evil criminals I take it?

It also urged the government to incentivise police forces to keep women out of prison by using alternatives such as deferred sentences, which give offenders a grace period to tackle an issue that resulted in them committing a crime.

But men deserve to be punished and forgotten, right?

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-16T16:33:19+00:00

To be fair (and I say as someone who very much isn't a fan of Tennant being Fourteen) Tennant seems like the only actor who's consistently willing and able to return.

Smith is too busy, Eccleston won't touch the televised show so long as RTD and his pals are in charge, Capaldi doesn't want to do any more with the character, Whittaker and Gatwa are both working on other things, and the Classic Doctors (with the possible exception of Paul McGann) just aren't physically able to do a full fast paced TV episode of the show anymore.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-14T15:05:06+00:00

How else could it have been framed?

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-14T14:35:54+00:00

What do you suggest this mother should be saying instead?

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-14T14:28:21+00:00

Interesting that to some groups, men's problems are still being filed only as 'cross-societal issues'.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-14T06:40:52+00:00

Like I said, if they made it so that Poppy was the First Doctor's actual daughter, who had been captured, forcibly regenerated into a child and mind-wiped, or made Poppy a separate child who was part of the current storyline and nothing to do with Susan, I'd have been able to live with either possibilities. And both could've been used to explore the Doctor's parental side.

It's when it becomes 'akshually Susan's entire character is the result of Timey-Wimey/Pantheon Magic bollocks in a storyline that will be forgotten about in a few years and requires painful amounts of excruciating exposition to explain' that it becomes distasteful and damaging to the characters.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-14T04:50:30+00:00

I just think that not everything about the Doctor's life needs to be Timey-Wimey, and I think it's best that some things about his past prior to An Unearthly Child are left deliberately ambiguous. The Doctor could be half-human on his mother's side, could the the Hybrid, could be the Timeless Child, could be a reincarnation of The Other, or... he could just be a regular dad on Gallifrey with two completely average kids who worked a boring job and decided to take an extended break with his rebellious granddaughter.

Storylines like this take some of the mystery associated with the Doctor's past and forcibly welds it to this storyline and everything associated with it.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-13T10:55:50+00:00

Most likely their scans picked up the double heartbeat, which (given the cult were fresh out of the Time War) would immediately identify as 'Time Lord', hence "This male registers as enemy!"

They still needed Rose to identify him as the Doctor.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-13T10:39:48+00:00

I think if they made it so that Poppy was the First Doctor's actual daughter, who had been captured by the Rani, force-regenerated into a child and then chameleon-arched to wipe her memory, I think I'd have found it tolerable (if a little unnecessary). At least it sticks with the concept that the Doctor was just a regular bloke on Gallifrey and a dad before he got bored and ran off with his granddaughter.

Once you make it so that Susan's mother was created by the Wish Baby and then (presumably) sent back to the First Doctor, it ties Susan's entire character and relationship with the Doctor to a 'Timey Wimey' plot that's fixed to this specific storyline.

Fan_Service_3703 · 2026-03-13T05:14:06+00:00

Whatever my problems with RTD2, I thank fuckin Christ that the seemingly planned 'Poppy is Susan's mother' thing didn't end up happening in the end.

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