This Is Worse Than Jazz

Man, Doctor Who and Paul Cornell really wanted us to feel bad for racist, classist Joan Redfern, didn’t they. Really wanted us to mourn the loss of John Smith’s racist, classist “Ordinary Life” with his racist, classist wife and their racist, classist 2.5 kids. Really didn’t want to acknowledge that that “Ordinary Life” could only ever apply to a small select few of the world’s population, and that that “Ordinary Life” was built on the backs of people like Martha and Jenny the school maid.

And then Doctor Who and Russell T Davies really wanted us to know that things turned out a-ok for racist, classist Joan in the end. Really thought it was necessary to give her story a special little bit at the end of the Tenth Doctor’s story, really thought he should care that much. And really wanted to show us how her eerily lookalike granddaughter was profiting off the story of that time the Doctor put Martha Jones through Hell for two months all because he wanted to be “kind” to some alien mass-murderers.

For all that this era and these writers are celebrated, they could really be completely tone deaf sometimes.

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other ppl’s fav dw quote: some corny shit about living life to the full without limits and doing the right thing

my fav dw quote: “but that picture cannae be the moon, the moon’s way up in the sky!”

i am normal about characters

they should have adapted daphne du maurier's rebecca with the muppets

guy in a fist fight, very clearly winning, but he’s sobbing and wailing the whole time

guy visibly getting his ass wrecked in a fist fight but hes talking shit about the other guy like hes winning

the culture writers at rolling stone have invented the concept of doing drugs

Azure. Loved her so much & literally had to pause the show a few times to get a closer look at the make-up, because it's just stunning!!

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“my favorite part of doctor who is the lesbian subplot” - my dad

classic who/new who parallels

ten is four. the iconic one, the one you could dress as for a non-fan’s halloween party and there’s some chance you’d be recognized. also they have the same companions, see previous post on this subject.

eleven is five. baby face contrasting with kind of violent stories, big shoes to fill but did it. the five doctors vs day of the doctor.

twelve is six. also big shoes to fill and ended up being more niche appeal but my favorites. orange cat vs grumpy cat. twelve had the ‘prickly outside slowly revealing kind heart’ arc that six was supposed to have. deep breath is a reworking of the twin dilemma (see previous post on this subject). there’s an excellent post extant (not by me) on why these two are parallel, I’ve lost it but it can probably be found by searching

and thirteen is seven. (all love to Hannah Grace Long who argued that thirteen is like six, I agreed with her at the time but I think thirteen’s ended up developing in a more sevenish direction.) her first series was fairly light and sort of aimless stories, I don’t mean this as a bad thing, I just mean they were self-contained rather than exploring an arc; then they got darker and more embedded in lore, especially gallifrey stuff. and now she’s using nitro-nine and she’s apparently about to get a dark coat. she also has that dangerous small gremlin energy.

(nine and three don’t have very much in common but they were both effectively soft reboots–narratively as well as production-wise–with the Doctor’s exile and the time war)

note: I am not saying the show is going to get cancelled. obviously not. they have rehired RTD, they wouldn’t do that and then cancel it. also for example they handled twelve’s arc well where they handled six’s badly–it’s going even better this time! it’s just that the show consistently revisits old arcs and themes and that’s very cool

and while this theory doesn’t necessarily have a lot of predictive power, if I were a betting woman, I would put a little money on the possibility that the next doctor is going to be noticeably fancy, absent-minded, and emotional

Hmm…the Doctor revealed after Thirteen should be Eight, surely.

Which technically would be Martin!Doctor.

Who as far as we currently know, has enough information to flesh her out and yet no series of her own, is riddled with amnesia plots, is destined to get completely messed up by the Time Lords even more than they are being currently, is ultimately a victim of medical trauma, and people foolishly dispute how ‘canon’ this Doctor is even if they obviously are.

If we get ‘Fourteen’, then that means we’re up to Nine - post a bit of a reboot, and maybe seeing a break in those trauma clouds where the sun is starting to peak through, and written by Russell T Davies.

I've seen some folks be embarrassed or express cringe at being a Who fan because of the artwork, and like, if the furry fandom has taught me anything, it's that the kinky monsterfuckers are one of the last and best barricades to fandom and queer culture becoming completely consumed and monetised by capitalism.

So if you want to write or draw your slash raunchy fanwork between a human and an alien space dogman that mainstream media will always turn its nose up at, all the power to you.

The only reason I'm laughing is because karvanista is based on Chib's dog, but other yeah you're 100% right!

Look, this fandom lived through 'Doctor In Distress' , we invented fandom cringe, if you think Danvanista art is going to cause embarrassment, please don't even begin to worry.

Also, yeah, what OP said.

I reblogged a response but Tumblr ate it, fingers crossed for this attempt.

But yeah. Doctor in Distress, Dimensions in Time, heck it's not even the most out there smut when the BBV film Zygon: When Being You Isn't Enough is a thing that exists.

EXACTLY! There's an actually softcore Zygon porn movie written by real DW writers out there in the world, this art is nothing!

oh absolutely. my favorite parts of doctor who are the "cringe" ones because they usually show true passion, take risks, or just want to play around with the show's potential - not for monetary gain or merchandising, but just for fun. that's so rare elsewhere.

but i do think it's hilarious that john caused the danvanista porn to escape containment, and he did it with the consent of the artist. i feel like that's also in the DW spirit of fun. not many celebrities would address the "cringe" side of things without utter contempt, anger, and disdain, which he doesn't seem to feel.

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