Depends how bad at walking they are…
Depends how bad at walking they are…
I might be in the minority here, but I think retconning hard earned, character defining/shaping/progression arcs is a bad thing.
No, I agree with you, I’d just never really thought it through with The Master/Missy. And we don’t know how many extra regenerations they were given in the Time War, so there’s plenty of room if we assume the great (and tragically underused) Derek Jacobi was “reset” to One, Missy could potentially be Thirteen, and then there’s plenty to play with in the middle.
I do at least think the genocide thing with the Doctor was handled well - because of some “you don’t really remember future events” shenanigans when meeting multiple versions of yourself, all of the Doctors from John Hurt to Matt Smith “remembered” making that decision, and it was compassion from that experience that led him to go back to be there when he did it, and finally realising he could have a second chance at it. It doesn’t undo anything Ecclestone or Tennant went through.
And while it was a good couple of Doctors, lifting that shadow means that Gatwa can be more cheerful and optimistic, but still with the dark side of having fought in the war and knowing he COULD have made that decision of he’d had to. It stops the Doctor just getting potentially grimmer and grimmer as more and more terrible things keep happening.
On the one hand, yes. And it does make a good tragedy.
On the other? We’ve seen the Master be turned into a cat person, exterminated by the Daleks, sucked into the Eye of Harmony and be dragged back into the Time Locked end days of the Time War (although I suppose that could be where he regenerates into Dhawan and kills all the Time Lords).
Don’t rule out Missy’s successor returning, is what I’m saying…
Edit: oh, also, since Missy has at least vague memories of meeting herself when she was Simm, she’s had a while to figure out a solution.
Are you saying Sacha Dhawan’s Master was an earlier incarnation than Missy? 😲
Two Doctor-light episodes in an eight ep season is definitely a choice.
Touché.
I’m sorry, you made some great points, but all I can take away from that is that your idea of heaven is becoming a Ninja Turtle…? 🤣
It would almost be funny if not for the whole “fate of American democracy” thing.
Sure, the Democrats are Doctor Evil and his minions. But the Republicans are literally Hitler and the nazis.
Vote accordingly.
Because they think they’re helping stand on other people’s necks, and that’s just fine in their book.
Then they act all surprised with the “I never thought the leopards would eat my face!” when it happens.
It’s an older meme, sir, but it checks out.
There’s something upsetting about how the heads get more disproportionate the further back they go…
Not sure why you’re downvoted for that. I’m a meat eater, and I’ll admit veganism seems more ethical. But it’s too inconvenient to give up meat, so I don’t. And having vegans around reminds me that I could be doing more to make the world a better place. So guilt.
Probably helped by the fact that none of the vegans I know are preachy about it, so I can’t just assume they’re all assholes either.
Nice try, but no, the correct response was “I got better…”
A newt?
It’s better than Meta’s data-scraping WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. At the time I moved to it, it was more user friendly than Signal.
Assuming of course you don’t mean sending an actual telegram, because I don’t live in the early 1900s when that was cool.
“2020 election loser”
I’ve seen stories about this. If it’s so hot it makes someone else ill, but you can eat it, you’re fine. If you maliciously make it too hot for anyone, that’s apparently unacceptable.
They’ll never take over from Betamax…
They’ve been together over 40 years, I’d be fairly surprised. But if that’s who they are, I’d obviously support both of them.
I’ll take a personal day. Maybe I’ll watch, maybe I’ll just slob on the sofa, we’ll see…