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Doctor Who Rant Beware
Dec. 14th, 2021 10:03 pmFinished Doctor Who Flux and... honestly I was already mad about Timeless Child and how it felt like a big fuck you to old school Doctor Who fans, but this series was just straight up draining. I had a damn headache after watching that shit - and any other time I would have given it a light 'pass' due to the fact that they had their episodes cut down from 10 & 8 to 6 which would explain whatever the fuck that last episode was; but I've been giving this god forsaken series a pass since mid-Moffat's run (with the exception of Capaldi's final series, which was one of the ones I actually liked) and I've been pushing myself through the awful time I've been having just watching it... and I think I'm done. I'm done with this Doctor - and the fact that the Doctor 'became a woman' wasn't what bothered me, but even if you got the best actor on the entire planet to play this role - it doesn't change that the stories have been terrible or at best forgettable.
But Jodie Whittaker is just crap as the doctor, and it sucks that the first female doctor is played by her. She's been so bland and the only thing that's been motivating me to give her a chance throughout the series was that people hated on her for being the first female doctor. So I kept pushing on and on - but Timeless Child killed it when the idiot in charge decided that the doctor needed to have Jason Bourne's back story by being a tortured 'oh noes they erased my past and made me do the bad things' and be a magical chosen one who started the existence of the Timelords. So the Master got mad at her for REASONS (if anything he should have been the Timeless Child considering the tortured past, being used by the timelords and living way beyond the limitations of regeneration) and now we're suppose to care about this lost past of the Doctor.
And that just me bitching about Timeless Child. The Flux series was a waste of time in the most infuriating way - mostly because there were actually so many interesting characters that got absolutely wasted on this shitty story line. I can't even be arsed to look up the names of the characters I liked; but one annoying thing was that barely any of them had a single episode dedicated to them because it all got slopped together on top of one convoluted story upon another to the point I found it harder to care.
Even characters I didn't care about like the Doctor's adopted mother was barely there long enough before she got killed off and... what was the point? was I suppose to feel sad? Was the doctor suppose to feel sad? Nah doesn't matter lets go on to the next pointless thing.
Even when there were gags I would have laugh at in a better story line, it didn't really sink in before it blurred into the next thing. Characters I was interested in got screwed over because the main evil gemstone people, who were talking like that one dude in Jupiter Ascending, were apparently more important than anyone else.
The companions were better characters that I like a whole lot more than the Doctor - god Yaz didn't deserve this crappy run. She has so much back story that I doubt will actually get any decent exploration for and none of the companions have really bonded with the Doctor since the majority of their character growth happens without her. Fuck even Moffat of all people did a better job at giving a sliver of a reason for the companions to get along with the Doctor. In this run the companions were just plopped together and yep now they're family because they say so (it has all the vibes of going to a family event with over-bearing family members who you haven't seen in ten years - entering your personal space and constantly hug you while breathing their bad breath in your face and trying to pair you up with divorced-twice Jeremy because "You're not getting any younger/beggers can't be choosers" who is licking the icing off the cupcakes and putting them back onto the plates - but they're family so you stick it through regardless).
A last straw was had and it was this series. I'll watch the episode where I assume 13 will regenerate and we get a new Doctor - even if RTD's return turns out to be shit, I'm just ready for a different type of headache and at least it'll come from an actual Doctor Who fan.
And that just me bitching about Timeless Child. The Flux series was a waste of time in the most infuriating way - mostly because there were actually so many interesting characters that got absolutely wasted on this shitty story line. I can't even be arsed to look up the names of the characters I liked; but one annoying thing was that barely any of them had a single episode dedicated to them because it all got slopped together on top of one convoluted story upon another to the point I found it harder to care.
Even characters I didn't care about like the Doctor's adopted mother was barely there long enough before she got killed off and... what was the point? was I suppose to feel sad? Was the doctor suppose to feel sad? Nah doesn't matter lets go on to the next pointless thing.
Even when there were gags I would have laugh at in a better story line, it didn't really sink in before it blurred into the next thing. Characters I was interested in got screwed over because the main evil gemstone people, who were talking like that one dude in Jupiter Ascending, were apparently more important than anyone else.
The companions were better characters that I like a whole lot more than the Doctor - god Yaz didn't deserve this crappy run. She has so much back story that I doubt will actually get any decent exploration for and none of the companions have really bonded with the Doctor since the majority of their character growth happens without her. Fuck even Moffat of all people did a better job at giving a sliver of a reason for the companions to get along with the Doctor. In this run the companions were just plopped together and yep now they're family because they say so (it has all the vibes of going to a family event with over-bearing family members who you haven't seen in ten years - entering your personal space and constantly hug you while breathing their bad breath in your face and trying to pair you up with divorced-twice Jeremy because "You're not getting any younger/beggers can't be choosers" who is licking the icing off the cupcakes and putting them back onto the plates - but they're family so you stick it through regardless).
A last straw was had and it was this series. I'll watch the episode where I assume 13 will regenerate and we get a new Doctor - even if RTD's return turns out to be shit, I'm just ready for a different type of headache and at least it'll come from an actual Doctor Who fan.
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