
fr. I kinda feel bad for RTD because neither of the guys who took over after him were able to do super bold shit and move on from what he did. When Moffat did anything crazy he'd usually revert it all 100% by the start of the next season, leaving little to no lasting impact. Chibnall just tried to do the same thing against with the timeless child nonsense to even less effect because like "the doctor is already as traumatized about the time lords as they could possibly be you can't push this any further my guy"
It was like both of them took the wrong messages and treated what RTD did as the new show bible or status quo or something so now RTD has to come back and deliberately shake things up AGAIN, basically screaming "DOCTOR WHO SHOULD ALWAYS BE CHANGING AND DOING CRAZY SHIT GUYS SEE."
Like comparing timeless child to bigeneration is so interesting as "writer who wants the impact of big changes but doesn't want to actually have to change anything substantive about the show or character" versus "writer who doesn't give a FUCK and writes as many big changes as they want because you can literally do whatever you want and tiptoing around those ideas will just make everyone hate it."
I was so torn on this episode but after sleeping on it I'm like. No this was a great move, I just am somewhat sad that we only got a taste of angsty tennant doctor in star beast. I was fully emotionally prepared for another End Of Season 4 Specials Sob Session but nah we're putting Tennant in the Emotional Healing Box slash spinoff hook while Gatwa goes and reaps the clean slate. It's ham-fisted it's dumb it's nonsensical it's perfect.