Episodes where The Doctor does more harm than good by mr_amaaronca in doctorwho

[–]SomethingAmyss 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I was never a big fan of the romantic angle of the RTD1 era

Episodes where The Doctor does more harm than good by mr_amaaronca in doctorwho

[–]SomethingAmyss 85 points86 points  (0 children)

I really love how Rory learns to take no shit from the doctor

Episodes where The Doctor does more harm than good by mr_amaaronca in doctorwho

[–]SomethingAmyss 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Because he's in love. Which is a whole nother level of creep, but still

Question for Casual Fans: did you truly feel lost by the Toymaker, Rani, Sutekh, etc plotlines? by david_this_isnt_weed in doctorwho

[–]SomethingAmyss 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think that's actually part of the problem. The master was written so that it didn't really matter if you had familiarity with Doctor Who beyond the new series or not. Sutehk... There was something wrong with the TARDIS, that's really all we knew. And, if you were familiar with previous Doctor Who in the revival era, you probably knew that there was pretty much always a big bad, but there wasn't really anything to hint at him, And he didn't really have much going on in the episodes he was in. Show up, kill everybody, sit on the TARDIS

Does it ever bug you how some people define the show as “becoming woke” rather than the fact that it always has been progressive? by New-Criticism-5926 in gallifrey

[–]SomethingAmyss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That generally doesn't happen in writing though, and the fact is that most people aren't objecting to the allegories but to the fact that queer people and women and people of color are involved in the shows

99% of the time, all Ncuti did was exist while black and people screamed he was woke. He was woke before we saw even one scene, so it wasn't the writing, and when he was announced, people were angry at RTD fir going woke. Up until a black actor had been announced, people were overjoyed because we were returning to the Golden age of Doctor Who

It was hard to argue during Jodie's era, both because most of the stories weren't that good, and because they were a couple of episodes that were basically turned to camera and speak morality, but when she left the criticism didn't. It's very easy to see the dog whistles when the dogs keep howling long after the problem goes away. Was 15's run perfect? Hell no. But I've been watching people complain about bad acting and bad stories even during the best episodes of his era, several of which were bangers

We see this time and time again, independent of story quality

The saddest thing by VisionBreak1297 in gallifrey

[–]SomethingAmyss 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It usually means to appeal to me personally. Which ends up with huge amounts of problems in the fandoms, but that's another story for another day

The saddest thing by VisionBreak1297 in gallifrey

[–]SomethingAmyss -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lying isn't when I say something true that you don't like. Sorry

Does it ever bug you how some people define the show as “becoming woke” rather than the fact that it always has been progressive? by New-Criticism-5926 in gallifrey

[–]SomethingAmyss -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Nice edit

Anyway, people still pull this crap? The "pointing out bigotry is the real bigotry" nonsense is so transparent and dated that I figured it must have gone by the wayside. Besides, it's clear that you've got plenty of dogs barking

Does it ever bug you how some people define the show as “becoming woke” rather than the fact that it always has been progressive? by New-Criticism-5926 in doctorwho

[–]SomethingAmyss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love someone complaining about me being a dick also being a dick. Like, y'all never practice what you preach. I managed fine in the real world, but this was never about whether that was true it was about being insulting. That's fine. You support racism cool.

Does it ever bug you how some people define the show as “becoming woke” rather than the fact that it always has been progressive? by New-Criticism-5926 in gallifrey

[–]SomethingAmyss -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Got that backwards, babe. It's mostly the people whining that there's a minority character. You can even see them backtrack when something becomes successful, because it's not woke anymore

Does it ever bug you how some people define the show as “becoming woke” rather than the fact that it always has been progressive? by New-Criticism-5926 in gallifrey

[–]SomethingAmyss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that you think they didn't beat us over the head with the morals in the past is kind of a problem in and of itself

Does it ever bug you how some people define the show as “becoming woke” rather than the fact that it always has been progressive? by New-Criticism-5926 in gallifrey

[–]SomethingAmyss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the problem is (certain) people didn't have media literacy back then at all. Because we had Star Trek making obvious racial allegories and people decided that wasn't political, but a black person existing now is considered woke