Since there is no #DoctorWhoChristmasSpecial….

Right on time!!!
• I watched #MaryPoppins over the (American) Thanksgiving, and I was like, “Ahh….” I’m stuck on No. 9. The Doctor is supposed to be a hero scientist who acts like Poppins, not the opposite. I love mythology, but #DoctorWho is not a purely mythological show–yes, “full-time fantasy mode.” I mean, #Lux (one of my favorites!) had a #MaryPoppins segment! That’s what I recognized!
• I also agree with No. 10. #NcutiGatwa didn’t spend his entire life wanting to be The Doctor. A young and ambitious man, it’s clear he would have been OK if he had gone with his other request to his agent, #WillyWonka. His becoming a supporting character in his own show was not a problem to me as long as the writing was excellent (#73Yards).
• The re/bi-generation issue is not a big one for me. Agreed that the Rani thing only made sense because it gave her someone with whom to chat. Yeah, lack of a plan…bad mysteries (ex: snow? Why?)
• #RubySunday and #BelindaChandra had no time to develop. Ruby’s family was better developed.
• #Disney didn’t get it and just wanted it to work on its own as a legacy program.
• Fourteenth should have started with #Boom. Like many a #DisneyWho episode, it felt like a bad and discarded #SarahJaneAdventures idea. Once you do episodes like #VincentandtheDoctor and #HellBent / #HeavenSent, you can’t go back and emphasize the goofy parts of say, #TheEndofTheWorld.
• My verdict: too much freedom and confidence are bad for an artist, particularly one wanting to spend a huge budget and get a new audience while trying to serve an old one. But art does require risk, and they were indeed taken. In this case, as was this past season of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds, it was too much of, in the words of the Purple One, the immortal #Prince: “Let’s go crazy/Let’s get nuts…”

#DoctorWho #WhoCulture #EllieLittlechild

P.S. DECEMBER 23rd TWEET:

Todd Steven Burroughs
@ToddStevenBurr1

TheWarBetweenTheLandAndTheSea is no #DoctorWhoSeason4 or #DoctorWhoSeason9, but it has made the often-painful excesses of #DisneyWho go down much smoother. Totally worth it! #DoctorWho #WhoCulture