Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The True Doctor Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho,rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Toxic fandom Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 13:38:03 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2024 14:38:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="810546c671e022e6a61d963742dc8c90"; logging-data="3034318"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+h9c5Uc/NrUmMtZfuUOZa8fxxsp3pGslc=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:n64qjrvF6T7xCM4ih/F+5dp6lOs= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2320 On 11/06/2024 19:59, Blueshirt wrote: > The True Doctor wrote: > >> On 10/06/2024 23:11, Blueshirt wrote: >>> The Doctor wrote: >>> >>>> RTD not retconning the Timeless Child is the ultimate >>>> recipe for toxic fandom. >>> >>> Parts of Doctor Who fandom have been toxic long before the >>> Timeless Child was thought of... >>> >>> Pretending it only happened in 2017 is revisionism. >> >> It happened at the end of Series 8 when Moffat turned the >> Master into a woman, insulted the memory of Nicholas Courtney >> by turning the Brigadier into a Cyberman, and turned the >> series woke. The ratings collapsed in half immediately >> afterwards, and there's no bullshit excuses like people >> turning to streaming. > > So... why don't you say Doctor Who finished in 2014 then? > > You tolerated a female Master but drew the line at a female > Doctor. Was that a pair of tits too far? The Timeless Child was a monster to far. The get rid of it everything from Whittaker onwards has to go completely. -- The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it stands for." -William Shatner