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Subject: Re: 15x08 - The Reality War
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 10:41:33 -0000 (UTC)
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Mickmane maintained:

> On 02.06.25, Blueshirt  <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>> Mickmane wrote:
> 
>>> Hello Madam Doctor! Nice to see you again. :)
> 
>> And the nay-sayers back in 2023 thought RTD would retcon
>> her! He didn't just double-down, he tripled down on it!
> 
> I don't understand what they don't like about her. She was a  
> great Doctor (with terrible scripts).

She didn’t have a penis. That’s enough for some people.

(Apparently straight, white, cisgender males can only ever watch
programmes about straight, white, cisgender males or else
they’ll instantly turn woke which is a fate worse than death. Or
something.)

> 
> At least she got enough genius Doctor rambling and fixing/building  
> things. Doctor 15 didn't really, on top of mostly incoherent scripts.
> 
>> Jodie's Doctor was completely unnecessary to the story though.
>> She was just another season finale gimmick. (Another egg in the
>> pudding.)
> 
> [shrug] That doesn't bother me at all in this case.

She wasn’t completely unnecessary. The Doctor needed someone
there so that he could explain that he was going to use his
regeneration energy to fix the universe. But not a companion who
would just ask sensible questions about how and why he
can fix it like that and why has he never done anything like
this before, etc.

OTOH the downside of bringing in another Doctor is that they
could each contribute a half-dose of regeneration energy so
NcutiDoc wouldn’t burn out and need to regenerate after all.

(Worse, they even reminded us that DavidDoc is still around. He
could add his energy to the mix too. The more the better.)

> 
>>> Where was Susan?
> 
>> Who? If Time Lords can't have children they can't have
>> grand-children! So she can't exist, can she? ;-)
> 
> I thought they said that infertility thing was caused by something  
> relatively recently/to do with the destruction of the Time Lords.

That was my impression too, especially since the Rani used
very similar expressions to describe them both.

But we seem to be the only ones who interpret it that way.

>
> Thing is, they got destroyed and then came back later so often, I don't  
> remember what the last such event was.

The “O” Master did it between Whittaker’s first two seasons.

> 
> Btw, did anyone mention gravity/mavity after the reality fix? Maybe it  
> went back to normal too?
> 

Unfortunately not. It’s still there as yet another unresolved plot
strand, alongside Susan, the Boss, the Toymaker’s tooth, etc.

-- 
solar penguin