What are your Doctor Who hot takes?

[jaime]

Look. You are - of course - allowed to think some plotlines are dumb. Demanding showrunners erase them is pretty silly and egotistical though.

NuWho has pretty much undermined the Looms and the "Doctor is the Other" stuff, but it hasn't gone out of its way to say "no, this never happened, shut up about it". It embraces the diversity of the setting - some Doctors WERE Loomed. Seven DID survive San Francisco to reunite with Ace decades later.

Sam CAN have two timelines.

The Third Doctor COULD have regenerated on Dust.

Nothing in the show has gainsayed any of this, because it doesn't have to.

If you think Hartnell was definitely the First Doctor, then the Timeless Child is a retcon by the TARDIS or some other powerful force to create her own creators. Faction Paradox would approve.

Yeah, but Faction Paradox like their own Cousins far too much. Normal for Norfolk.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The thing is everyone is entitled to his or her OWN opinion about what they like and do not like and that is a perfectly acceptable stance to take. it's when people say that other people's opinions are not valid that irks me the most. We're not all a hive mind, some of us like things that are different or odd compared to others.

 

[Steve Roby]

Liking things is undeniably subjective. Opinions... well, some people make statements they call opinions that aren't, because they're factual claims that can be objectively proved or disproved. There's a world of difference between "I like beer" and "nobody likes beer." The first is a personal, subjective statement. The second is making a factual claim that can be proved wrong by finding a person who likes beer. (Raises hand.) You don't get to be factually wrong and say, hey, that's my opinion, you can't criticize it.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Liking things is undeniably subjective. Opinions... well, some people make statements they call opinions that aren't, because they're factual claims that can be objectively proved or disproved. There's a world of difference between "I like beer" and "nobody likes beer." The first is a personal, subjective statement. The second is making a factual claim that can be proved wrong by finding a person who likes beer. (Raises hand.) You don't get to be factually wrong and say, hey, that's my opinion, you can't criticize it.

Fair point but we shouldn't be able to pull down people that maybe like things we don't or see things in a show that they like that the rest of us don't

 

[Steve Roby]

And I didn't say otherwise.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

And I didn't say otherwise.

No you didn't sorry...