GratefullyGodless

Y’know, I looked forward to Ncuti’s run as the Doctor, because RTD was returning to run the show again, and I thought he might hit the heights he hit during his first time show running, but I forgot that RTD’s arch-enemy would be returning with him, and sure enough, RTD with streaming money is his own worst enemy.

Torchwood: Miracle Day was a bloated mess, where he took a 1 or 2 episode plot and turned it into a way too long series for what little story was there. Now, he took over show running again, and the first thing he did was give us Tennant again as the Doctor, starting the run of self-indulgent writing that marked T:MD. He undoes one of the most iconic acts of Tennant’s first run, by undoing the Donna memory issue, then giving us dieties as enemies, deciding that Doctor Who isn’t a sci-fi show anymore, but rather a fantasy show now. And, then he decides the Doctor is an amoeba, and has the Doctor pop off another version of himself, and then uses cartoon logic to make the Tardis also bigenerate.

And that was just the beginning of his run, what followed was just as nonsensical, with Goblins, Dieties that can be defeated with Mr. Mxyzptlk like logic, one of the blandest companions ever, and the ever present old lady everywhere they went. So, I didn’t expect anything to be better at the end of Ncuti’s run either, and sure enough I wasn’t disappointed. RTD did do some course correction, with making the 4th wall breaking lady turn out to be the Rani instead of whatever he had been planning for her. He also had the last of the Pantheon turn out to be a magic wish baby, so we didn’t have another hammy performance.

But, it still didn’t save things, and that last reveal with the Doctor’s regeneration at the end, just smacked of desperation. He realized that he had screwed up, and tried to remind everyone of when he revitalized the show, and get everyone excited for another season and thus get it renewed, but it felt forced and desperate and really didn’t undo all the harm he had done to the show during Ncuti’s run.

So, the show will probably die here, as they won’t make any new episodes, and then in 10 years or so, they’ll announce a new re-imagined Doctor Who reboot by some popular showrunner at the time. And, it’ll be ironic that the man who brought the show back from the dead, winds up being the man who winds up killing it. I hope I’m wrong, but after the mess that Chibnall and RTD made, I wouldn’t be surprised.

But, then don’t we have a loss of the loss, which means recursive losses of losses?

To be fair though, they do show him gripping the vine with his feet…sort of.