WOW THIS IS GOING TO BE SUCH A HAPPY FINALE [x]
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Jackie still got snubbed though a bit at end, didn’t she? There was Journey’s End with everyone flying the TARDIS, and Ten looks at Jackie, and goes “Jackie- you.. No. No. Not you. Don’t touch anything.” or something to that effect.
Oh god yes I HATED that. Like she hadn’t proved herself by crossing two universes and facing down Davros to protect her daughter!
(I have a lot, a LOT, of Jackie Tyler feels…)
Doctor Who: The Crimson Horror
Oh yes that happened
The good:
-STRAX AND JENNY AND VASTRA ARE BACK so really that was enough to make the episode for me
-Diana Rigg having a wonderful time eating the scenery (“You know what these are? THE WRONG HANDS!”)
-A plotline involving child abuse handled well…Ada doesn’t forgive her mother and that’s okay. And when we last see her she seems on her way to a much happier life. (Compare with The Idiot’s Lantern…which, curiously enough, was also written by Mark Gatiss.)
-Jenny kicking some arse
-Clara returning home, and running into her charges. Who are two very cute kids really so I hope they get some character development next episode. (I think some people have noticed, haven’t both they and Clara lost a mother at a young age?)
-Fainting Guy!
The bad:
-The Doctor snogging Jenny without her permission, even if he did get a slap for it. (It got even more annoying when I heard someone point out that Vastra and Jenny have never kissed, and they’re married!)
-…That’s actually it? It’s a pretty good episode, probably one of my top five of the season, I reckon.
Guys can we please remember that during RTD’s run on Doctor Who/Torchwood, he:
-suggested that the Voyage Of The Damned aliens be made to look ‘less human’ by ‘having them wear bindis’ (see: The Writer’s Tale)
-Tried to work a reference to the n-word into The Unicon and the Wasp (see: The Writer’s Tale again)
-Knocked down Penny Carter, a woman of colour, to build up Donna in Partners In Crime. He even tells her “You’re a journalist? Make it up!” – there’s no way he’d speak like that to Sarah Jane. (More on Penny here.)
-Never really had Ten apologise for what Martha went through as a companion (after being trapped in 1910 in Human Nature, she was then trapped in the 1960s in Blink, which must have been crappy for her, but it’s never acknowledged.)
-Made a date-rape ‘joke’ in the very first episode of Torchwood
-Of all the love interests the Doctor had during RTD’s run- Rose, Martha, Reinette, Joan and River – Martha’s was the only one love left completely unrequited, and she was the only woman of colour
-In fact there have been many essays about how Martha and her family’s treatment was not just problematic but offensive
-He doesn’t think the Doctor could ever be a woman because then parents would have to ‘describe sex changes to their children’ (see here.)
-Has called fans ‘ming-mongs’ – this is an awkward one because when and where I was growing up ‘mong’ was an very nasty insult towards people who had Down’s Syndrome. That’s probably not what he meant but it really annoys me.
-Referred to fans angry about Ianto’s death on Torchwood as ‘nine hysterical women’ (the original interview seems to have vanished, but it’s pretty well documented)
-Had Donna grow as a person, turn into a hero in her own right, and then take it all away from her in a scene which deprived her of any real agency
-Anything problematic in Moffat’s episodes written during the RTD run would have been done with his full approval
His version of Who may very well have been good for you, may have been everything you ever dreamed of, but it certainly wasn’t for everyone. RTD’s worked in the same industry and with much the same attitude as Moffat- even perhaps through no fault of his own it wasn’t even written for everyone.