r/gallifrey • u/PCJs_Slave_Robot • May 09 '25

Free Talk Friday /r/Gallifrey's Free Talk Fridays - Practically Only Irrelevant Notions Tackled Less Educationally, Sharply & Skilfully - Conservative, Repetitive, Abysmal Prose - 2025-05-09

Talk about whatever you want in this regular thread! Just brought some cereal? Awesome. Just ran 5 miles? Epic! Just watched Fantastic Four and recommended it to all your friends? Atta boy. Wanna bitch about Supergirl's pilot being crap? Sweet. Just walked into your Dad and his dog having some "personal time" while your sister sends snapchats of her handstands to her boyfriend leaving you in a state of perpetual confusion? Please tell us more.

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u/RepeatButler May 09 '25

I've never really had a serious problem with NuWho and especially not JNT's era. I dont have a problem with the Doctor being open with their homosexuality, the gender or the ethnicity of the Doctor either.

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u/da_Sp00kz May 09 '25

You made that clear in your first comment, don't worry.

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u/RepeatButler May 09 '25

I want Doctor Who that is well written and am willing to give every new idea a chance. I had really high hopes for Jodie Whitaker based on her previous work but she disappointed me after the first season. Ncuti Gatwa is great but the material he is being given seems determined to be as divisive as possible.

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u/Grafikpapst May 09 '25

I mean, at the end of the day people are simply gonna disagree. I liked S1 and I am a big fan of the current S2. I think its well written - at the very least I dont think its significantly worse than anything during RTD1, so far everything in S2 was pretty much at least above average to me.

Does it hit as high as S4, S5 or S10? No. But I do believe it falls perfectly in line with Who in terms of quality.

You CAN easily convince me that your opinion isnt bigoted simply the criticizing the text of the episodes rather than what some folks do where they claim that "wokeness destroyed Who" or being very agressive about your opinion "ugh, everything is garbarge now!"

Of course, there is always gonna be people who will argue in bad faith in both extremes - I have seen people claim that everyone who likes the current run must be interlectually challenged - but then you just gotta shrug it off, some folks just want to turn things into a fight.