Spoilers The Reality War grade and discussion thread

[JD]

I hated how RTD did a complete 180 on Belinda’s character. A strong, independent woman, with a sense of awe and wonder about the universe. Reduced to a single-mom after a reality rewrite.


RTD did the same thing on the Sarah Jane Adventures back during the Tennant run. One of the teenage cast was a black kid named Clyde. He was the child of a single mother household. His father having abandoned the family before he was born. His father appears in one episode and he’s the villain. Possessed by the alien of the week.


Fear Her from early Tennant run, also had a single mother household with a black family. The father was abusive to both his wife and daughter and would abandon his family periodically. The unnamed father eventually dying in a car collision.

Not a great look to being doing things like this in 21st century when people know better.

I’m a black man in America and I’m acutely aware of this problem. My friends in Canada told me it’s the same in their country. When I saw the Sarah Jane episode I referenced a decade ago. I learned that absentee fathers are a problem in the UK as well. In Africa, there are orphanages all over the continent. Absentee fathers and mothers who give up their children.

I never noticed that before, but it's definitely not a good trend to have going in this day, it looks pretty bad for him and his team.

Ruby needed her real mum and her real dad, fuck the women who raised her.

You might have a point with the rest, but she did still live with Carla and Cherry and they still seemed to be very much involved in her daily life, so it's not like she just blew them off the moment she found her birth mother.

 

[The Grinch Doctor]

Fuck, it was a bad look at the time he did it. The only difference is more people are talkng about it now.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I'm trying to think of the least dysfunctional family unit, maybe Rani's in The SJA?

Gwen and Rhys eventually get there (to being a functional family unit), imho, but holy hell is Gwen a dysfunctional mess for a while.

 

[Guy1993]

It’s a mess of an episode which pulls the hand break on this era. The first 40 flowed reasonably well and then it just carried on and through both of the campions under the bus. Not awful but just doesn’t really feel like a finale story.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Doctor Who's Varada Sethu calls criticism of Belinda's exit "a bit unfair" and labels resolution "perfect"

"I cannot think of a better way of completing that circle."

www.radiotimes.com

 

[jaime]

I mean, in her first episode we had a space magic abortion, so I suppose a space magic conception is circular…

 

[Jax]

Only just got caught the episode - Is there any chance Poppy could end up still being part time lord and become the Fugitive Doctor as an adult? I would prefer that instead of the whole Timeless Child nonsense making Jo Martin's Doctor a previous unknown 13 run of Doctors.

 

[Q'OrnamentalDeqor]

Only just got caught the episode - Is there any chance Poppy could end up still being part time lord and become the Fugitive Doctor as an adult? I would prefer that instead of the whole Timeless Child nonsense making Jo Martin's Doctor a previous unknown 13 run of Doctors.

Too fanwanky. I prefer the plot twist where she's a future incarnation, which gets around a plot problem where Fugitive saves 13 in a temporally-paradoxical predicament. Without the timeless children nonsense, a pre-Hartnell incarnation with mindwipe that became Hartnell-onward works fine enough, no more so than Philip Hinchcliffe's 8 incarnations shown in "The Brain of Morbius", for which he has gone on record saying those eight are indeed the Doctor:

Doctor Who: Who are the Morbius Doctors, and how might they connect to Jo Martin's Time Lord?

There could be a link between the 'fugitive' Doctor and an oft-forgotten Easter Egg from 1976

www.radiotimes.com

The Brain of Morbius ★★★★★

Gory pastiche of Frankenstein in which surgeon Solon plans to transplant an evil Time Lord brain into the Doctor's head

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Doctor Who's Philip Hinchcliffe admits he didn't consider "the repercussions" of the Morbius Doctors

"It wasn't thought out at all," says Hinchcliffe, who was producer on the classic series between 1974 and 1977.

www.radiotimes.com

(apparently there was no plan for a payoff to this revelation at the time, just to imply there were Doctors before Hartnell. It's not a big deal when "Genesis of the Daleks" retconned the original Dalek history even more than "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" had, and as time travel can change futures, it can still technically all work if you otherwise are engaged with the story's tone and execution - though it's harder to overlook if you're used to a continuity you'd seen and then 12~30 years later *plop* and there are little changes made. )

etc

 

[The Grinch Doctor]

OR

...and call me crazy...

Poppy is just Poppy. That's it.