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⌈ Secret Post #5770 ⌋

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what's this based on

Spoilers, but apparently the Doctor has just regenerated back into David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor. Ncuti Gatwa will be playing the Fifteenth Doctor instead.

But is the episode good or bad?

I'm a lifelong fan as in, I was born (just) when the show was originally airing and I watched repeats with my dad during the hiatus.

I quite liked it. Wasn't amazing but wasn't terrible, I found it better than The Timeless Children, which I didn't like at all. It was pure fanservice and I'm still not sure about some of the plot decisions in relation to the lore but I liked the callbacks and that it addressed that of course you'd be a bit fucked up as a former companion and want to find others to talk to about it.

Horrible, as a portent to come. It's basically nostalgiabait and RTD wanking himself and going, "See??? Ten! You remember Ten and how amazing I--er, I mean he was, right!?"

Wasn't this one written by Chibbers? What does RTD have to do with it?

I like Tennant and dislike Ncuti. So there.

Tennant's Doctor need to be retired and never come back because all RTD is doing is using him to wank himself into dust

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that the character shows up at the end of the most recent special after 13 regenerates, and then 14 and 15 are going to be around for the next special, and then 15 is going to be the main primary doctor once it gets into an actual season?

So - apart from anything else - how do you know that RTD is "using him to wank himself into dust" if you haven't seen any of the actual appearances of the character yet?

Because why even bring back Ten if not for wankery

Why bring back doctors ever? It's not like multi-doctor stories are a new concept in Who

Okay but those are crossover episodes, not. "Ten is also the new regeneration."

OK but does that really make that much of a difference?

Yes???

Why is it different?

Uh...yeah??? !

Why is bringing Ten back nothing but wankery, whereas other multi-doctor episodes are acceptable?

Because he's not actually supposed to be 10. He's supposed to be 14. It's not bringing back 10, like the crossover episodes. It's trying to sneak in an ostrich by claiming it's a smoothy.

This. It's Ten But Also Fourteen. That's what's so egregious.

I honestly don't understand what the problem with this is. To me it feels like it's basically just a slight re-arrangement of previous versions of multi-doctor stories. I don't know whether they'll use it to tell a good story or a bad story but I really don't see what the fuss is - OK, so he's 14 with the face of 10, it's a different concept, so what? And I'm really curious why it's so intrinsically bad.

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Is bringing 10 back a wank? Yes

Is bringing RTD back a wank? Yes

Do I care? No

It's no surprise that Tennant was coming back. New images of the Doctor-Donna have been out for months. It'll be a few specials for the 60th before a new season proper. 10 is not my favourite Doctor, and I'd be just as happy if he never returned, but I think the specials could be a lot of fun. Something very lacking for me the past few years of the show.

And?

doesn't the whole timeless child debacle mean we need to add like a million to each of those numbers

I honestly thought you were trolling until I Googled. Just... wow.

Oh! He's the kid from 'Sex Education'....
Oh, he's not a kid. :D

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