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Find it extremely funny that the right wing chud youtubers trying to avoid outright saying they don't like new Doctor Who because the Doctor is black and gay people exist in the show, so they pivot to saying the show is goofy and stupid.
And like. Have you ever seen an episode of Doctor Who, my guy. "Goofy and stupid" is what the show is. If Doctor Who ever stopped being goofy and stupid then it wouldn't be Doctor Who anymore and I would stop watching.
I mean, in their (weakest) defense, the season did start with several hours telling us that, when this "experiment" fails like the last one did, don't worry, because they have a Tennant-shaped fallback in place, all but inviting them to try to find a criticism that'll stick.
Meanwhile, after years of the woman needing to apologize for everything, now the Black guy is afraid of everything, which is also an awful stereotypes actually worthy of serious criticism, but we can guarantee that the cretins won't touch (or notice) that...
fr. (spoilers for Space Babies for anyone reading) I thought him fixating on his being afraid of the bogeyman really bizarre, and that it was chalked up to "he was designed to be scary" was a bit lame. At least say the creature emits pheromones that chemically activate the fear centers or something - Series 7 tackled the Doctor being afraid of a monster way better with the crooked man in Hide, that he's wigged out for obvious reasons (that monster design is way freakier than the one in Space Babies) but when confronted he straightens his bowtie and pushes through that anxiety. Gatwa never really got that opportunity and it was a little strange. I have yet to watch The Devil's Chord (ideally that'll happen tonight) but they'd better have a good reason for him to be freaked out again.
Althought I'd reserve the criticism until the season is over, obviously. The show really wants to draw attention to coincidences, recurring themes, and fairy tale motifs (which, I might say, it's doing a better job at keeping a fairy tale vibe than even Series 5 did), so maybe Davies is doing something Clever and the Doctor being wigged out all the time is a Sign of something. Still not the best trope obviously. I do hope we get some more assertive and serious Gatwa in the coming episodes. I want him to get some good dramatic ones where he's in a real serious moral dilemma or something, like the ending of The Beast Below where he loses his shit. I am so tired of Jodie era one-note Doctor that never gets to have emotional range.
I should also say that, over on the other side of the scale (because I came off as unnecessarily grumpy about a franchise that I don't have much history with other than sitting through the available run), it's nice that the character actually shows affection and emotional support, rather than leaving that for someone else to deal with. That's definitely not stereotypical of...well, anybody.
An emotionally mature post-therapy Doctor is genuinely refreshing in so many ways.
