When Gatwa Who started, it was pitched as such a fresh start, such a good jumping-on point that it wasn’t series 14 of New Who, it was series 1 of a brand new third incarnation of Doctor Who
Quickly it became, in an arc sense, by far the most continuity-obsessed incarnation of modern Who. And there’s a superfan tendency to laugh and celebrate this but no, it really is a bad decision to make so much of the emotional resonance of a show whose ratings are lower than ever, and at a point being pitched to casual fans as a *soft reboot*, depend on characters and story arcs from decades ago. It’s an self-destructive decision. At the end of the day, did RTD have any ideas for what he wanted to do with Doctor Who, or did he just have a checklist of fanboy elements he wished he could’ve included the first time around