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    From Hornplayer9599@3:633/280.2 to All on Sat Apr 12 23:34:01 2025
    Well, that was 45 minutes I'll never get back. RTD recently suggested
    the show is going to be cancelled / put on hiatus....is he even trying
    to put out a good product? At least he waited a full 17 minutes before
    he had the Doctor cry.


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  • From Blueshirt@3:633/280.2 to All on Sat Apr 12 23:42:56 2025
    Hornplayer9599 wrote:

    Well, that was 45 minutes I'll never get back.

    Oh noooo... if the RADW sensibles aren't happy that's
    not a good sign!

    RTD recently suggested the show is going to be
    cancelled / put on hiatus....is he even trying to put
    out a good product?

    RTD's vision of the show is that of a sixty year old man
    trying to be trendy... and generally failing.

    At least he waited a full 17 minutes before he had the
    Doctor cry.

    He cries AGAIN???!


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  • From Blueshirt@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Apr 13 06:31:49 2025
    Hornplayer9599 wrote:

    At least he waited a full 17 minutes before he had
    the Doctor cry.

    I really wish RTD didn't keep doing that. There is no need for
    it. The Doctor in all of his many lives has seen plenty of
    deaths and needless destruction. He's not some softie snowflake
    type character that has never experienced loss and can't handle
    it without shedding some tears.

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  • From Hornplayer9599@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Apr 13 10:28:08 2025
    On 4/12/2025 15:31, Blueshirt wrote:
    Hornplayer9599 wrote:

    At least he waited a full 17 minutes before he had
    the Doctor cry.

    I really wish RTD didn't keep doing that. There is no need for
    it. The Doctor in all of his many lives has seen plenty of
    deaths and needless destruction. He's not some softie snowflake
    type character that has never experienced loss and can't handle
    it without shedding some tears.

    I agree completely. He had the Doctor crying in every episode last
    season, and has started this season with him crying. Honestly, I
    wouldn't have a problem with it if it happened *rarely*, and after
    something major has just happened (like how rare it was in the classic
    era for a companion to die...how many times in 27 seasons did that
    happen?). Otherwise it loses its effectiveness as a plot device. I
    chalk that up to lazy writing.

    A good non-Who example would be music. Good composers (usually) don't
    repeat the same rhythmic motif more than 3 times in a row. They may
    come back and revisit the motif later in the piece, but once it is
    repeated 3 times they get off of it and go on to something else.

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  • From Hornplayer9599@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Apr 13 22:20:47 2025
    On 4/12/2025 08:42, Blueshirt wrote:
    Hornplayer9599 wrote:


    RTD recently suggested the show is going to be
    cancelled / put on hiatus....is he even trying to put
    out a good product?

    RTD's vision of the show is that of a sixty year old man
    trying to be trendy... and generally failing.

    It's either that, or he's trying to stick up for his buddy Chibnall
    after all the (well deserved) criticism for his time as show runner, and
    RTD is deliberately writing / producing a show that is pure crap just
    out of spite for the audience.




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