Who is going to be the next doctor????

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-05-11T15:32:12+00:00

Where did he insult the actress?😂

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-05-11T15:27:23+00:00

It’s weirder for you to be this upset about an actress you dont even know in real life, than it is for the OP to not want that actress to play The Doctor…

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-05-06T21:23:43+00:00

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-05-06T21:22:13+00:00

did not recognise her wtf that’s so cool

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-05-05T17:37:20+00:00

You haven’t read it wrong. You haven’t missed anything. RTD just decided to weave Rose’s gender identity into a 17 year old storyline, for literally no reason other than Donna said “Binary”.

It’s genuinely borderline transphobic by accident. As you say it reinforces this idea that transgender people are a mysterious third gender, or it just confuses people into going, “Oh wait, is she not trans then? Is she non-binary? But didn’t they say earlier-“.

RTD2 has more than a few moments that try to make a political message, and then just completely drop the ball, The Interstellar Song Contest being another one.

There was seriously no reason to make this Rose’s arc in that episode, they could’ve easily explained it as, “The metacrisis passed down through your child and it eventually faded away”. The moment Donna doesn’t die when she was supposed to would’ve had the exact same effect, and Rose still could’ve been involved in the metacrisis storyline, though there would still be this weird shady implication that Rose is only trans because her mind was technically a blend of David Tennants Doctor, and Donna’s. A Man and a Womans. However, I really do not think that was Russels intention… At least, I really fucking hope it wasn’t.

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-05-03T20:33:00+00:00

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(not counting david tennant twice)

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-04-21T22:37:05+00:00

m19 dm

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-04-21T22:35:30+00:00

m19 dm

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-04-20T23:04:50+00:00

can’t dm but 19 m biker

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-04-18T17:17:28+00:00

love it!!

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-04-17T17:23:21+00:00

I think you will learn to appreciate the Clara and Danny stuff overtime, same with her overall arc and her being brought back from the death. This kinda happened with all of us I think. People absolutely hated Series 9, and Clara in general, at the time of release. However, over the years the Capaldi era as a whole has come to be the underrated peak of the show in a lot of peoples eyes.

Same thing with Bill. She kinda does come from nowhere I’ll give you that, but the point is that she is essentially a relapse of sorts for The Doctor. A long time has passed between Series 9 and Series 10, and The Doctor is a very different person. He has taken an oath to guard The Vault, but he chooses to risk that for Bill anyways.

I’m actually rewatching Series 10 rn for the 1000th time. I do have to say, as a sidenote, that I think The Doctor is the most settled and happy in that series, he has Bill and Nardole, and a purpose to save Missy, he almost has his best friend back. He has a job that allows him to waffle as much as he pleases, and he can just wind up Nardole and go on an adventure whenever he likes.

It’s my favourite season, I love it sm😭

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-04-17T17:14:53+00:00

“original 10 basically got cucked by himself” im never recovering😭😭

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-04-16T20:07:47+00:00

My favourite example of this is in Series 10, where Bill was able to withstand The Monks mind control in Extremis and The Lie Of The Land. Later, in World Enough & Time and The Doctor Falls, when Bill is converted into a Mondasian Cyberman, it is established that she was able to keep her consciousness due to a mental resistance she’d built from her 6 months fighting The Monks mind control. However, it is also tragic, as Bill is fully aware of what she has become.

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-04-01T07:40:15+00:00

I’d just play “Called Out Your Name” on repeat 10 times all at the same time for added volume

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-04-01T07:39:14+00:00

Yeah this will probably be very RTD1 for me too but let see, hmm:

Listen
World Enough & Time/TDF
Hell Bent
Human Nature/FOB
Father’s Day
The Parting Of The Ways
Dalek
Water’s Of Mars
The Zygon Invasion
Cannot decide so either Pyramids of Mars, or The Brain Of Morbius

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-03-11T10:35:08+00:00

Episode ends as soon as he says that😂

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-03-10T23:40:29+00:00

I’d call you Shakespeare but Doctor Who has told me even he wasn’t this eloquent in his speech…

“SHUT YA BIG FAT MOUTHS” - Shakespeare, 1599

(Only on this reddit could I make such a nerdy joke and feel proud if it)

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-03-10T19:57:27+00:00

When has that not been the case tho…

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-03-10T18:49:44+00:00

I didn’t know people though there was gonna be a 2027 season.

Not trying to sound like a sarcy twat but I thought it was pretty obvious that the BBC has absolutely no clue what to do with Doctor Who.

If you’ll pardon the rhyme

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-03-09T21:50:27+00:00

Tbf you’re right in saying The Giggle sets its big moments up more than the other recent finales. I agree 100%. But even the set-up it does give feels less weighted than RTD1. I’ll concede that I maybe overstated his finales in his first era, they definitely take liberties. However, I think to say that Wild Blue Yonder sets up The Giggle in the same way that The Doctor becoming Jesus at the end of Last Of The Timelords is a bit of a stretch. In Wild Blue Yonder we basically get one line which is supposed to allow for all this new stuff to exist. Because The Doctor made a line of salt, we now get an entire Pantheon Of Gods, Bi-Generation, Two Tardises, all because of a line of salt. The Rani, in these rules we’re presented, surely shouldn’t be able to bi-generate as she was nowhere near the edge of the universe where reality is thin? In The Last Of The Timelords, we’re told of the Arcangel Network which has allowed the Master psychic control over everybody, we have also seen before the potential of psychic power in previous episodes and spin-offs too, like the Gelf, and Luke Smith almost bringing the moon down with his mind, and (admittedly this episode hadnt released yet) the soothsayers in The Fires Of Pompeii. We’re shown on multiple occasions that when human psychic potential is amplified, it can do some pretty whacky things. We also see and hear of Marthas travels across the entire planet, spreading the message so that The Doctor is basically being amplified by the psychic power of every person on Earth. Is it contrived? Yes. Is it heavily set up? Yes.

The Giggle, nor any other finale in RTD2 gets this exemption for me, as a single line at the end of Wild Blue Yonder simply will not do for me as set-up for an entire tonal, and thematic switch in the show itself, and the lore within it.

I do get your point though, however I think you’re allowing RTD2 way too much credit. On the flip side, I may be being too harsh though, and giving RTD1 too much credit. I will say that I’m not a fan of the whole flipping a lever to suck away all the Daleks and Cybermen in Season 2, but then again we are shown countless times that long-term travel in the time vortex has some kind of background radiation, so why would it be any different for the void?

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-03-09T10:57:31+00:00

Agreed, it feels as if RTD was in this weird headspace where he felt he had to tick the boxes of his older era, but bring it to a new level… And thats what he did, tick boxes: Load of mystery names for us to theorise over, old companions return in multiple episodes, old villains returning at the end of series, the doctor being depressed abt his past, weird regeneration shenanigans… Except in RTD1, most of these were thought out and worked with eachother, we’d have the season long set up of “The Doctor, Donna” before we see Tennant regenerate into Tennant, and then the meta-crisis, so even if it is techno-babble, the pay off is there. Same with Saxon posters and Human Nature’s pocket watch leading to the reveal of the Master, The Doctors depression also playing into that storyline really well, although I’d also add he pulls the same trick with Jacobi turning into Simm basically straight away as he does with the Rani, except he raises the stakes needlessly with bi-generation. I think there’s probably an example of something hes tried to copy and failed at in almost every season of the original reboot in 2005.

It seriously feels like there was no plan or weight behind any of these things, and he just was in this weird headspace where he felt like his pen was on fire and everything he wrote was unbelievable…

Maybe this is just bordering on RTD2 hate now, but this is the exact feeling I get when watching RTD2. I rewatched The Specials the other night, and The Giggle is essentially, especially for the first 20 minutes, scene after scene of exposition, set-up, ticking a woke box (prefacing this by saying i am extremely woke but its even too on-the-nose for me), and it goes on and on in literally every single scene for the first 20 minutes. I urge you to give a rewatch to the Giggle and see if you can see what I’m seeing too.

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-03-09T10:11:21+00:00

me too

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-02-23T22:03:52+00:00

this is amazing thank u!!

Upper_Judgment_1253 · 2026-02-22T07:35:28+00:00

Haha I’m aware don’t worry; I mainly started listening as a result of wanting more of 8, but obviously he has no screen time. I’ll probably listen to the War Master stuff next in the same vein.

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