It's more of giving up on him than giving into him actually. It's one of those situations I've noticed that happens quite a lot with oversensitive almost drone like Who fans these days. You can say anything you like about anyone or anything that came before or after RTD but, make even the tiniest bit of criticism toward RTD and his era and you're automatically an evil hateful person who just wants to bash him. This thread is a great example of it.
Someone asks a question and a person or two gives an answer they don't like so they throw a hissy fit. The question in this case was "Why do we always blame the writer?". We give an answer using a writer from NuWho. Why NuWho? Because it's the current version show and not all people are familiar with the original version for one reason or another. Usually because they're longer than 42 minutes, some are B&W, no CGI, things aren't blowing up every five seconds, not enough shiny things, no EastEnders twaddle, the Doctor isn't an emo, no Rose, and no Tennant. In our examples we use RTD. Why do we choose RTD? First off, it has nothing to with liking or disliking the man. He wrote and co-wrote quite a few episodes and he was the head writer for four (specials are counted as part of series four) of the five series shown so far. This makes RTD the perfect candidate for an example because he's written the most so far since 2005 so he has more material to work with.
So we give some examples.
A lot of his characters are clingy, whiny (which in RTD's eyes being whiny equals a fleshed out character
), and 2-dimensional. Stupid dumbed down stories that talk down to the audience as if they have an I.Q. of 8.
The Doctor is portrayed as a god (which he wasn't in the original series and would infact would correct those who called him a god by telling them he wasn't one) instead of the bumbling accidental hero time traveler he used to be.
The shoehorning in of soap opera crap that often puts the story in the background as we put up with characters whining. A good example of this is "Army of Ghosts/Doomsday". There's a fight between the Daleks and the Cybusmen and what did RTD do? Focus on Rose's selfish whining and pouting instead.
The fact he kept bringing back Rose time after time after time and in the end she was rewarded for he selfishness with a glorified Doctor sex toy.
These aren't just some random facts pulled out of thin air. These examples are easy to find as all the Doctor Who episodes he worked on have been released on DVD and if you don't have the DVDs I'm sure you could find the episodes somewhere online. Of course some of the other writers did so-so work too. But, the oversensitive Who fan assumes we used RTD to bash him instead of just using him as an example to point out some of the show's poor writing. Since he wrote the most he's got more material to find flaws in. But, of course, as usual the oversensitive Who fan instead of asking the logical question of why did you pick RTD, they throw a hissy fit and assume you just want to bash him and start calling you a "hater", insult you, and depending on what forum you're on all the nutters come out of the woodwork trash you and then you promptly get banned for trying to defend yourself. It's just easier to say fine whatever because there's no way to reason with them and just let them finish their little fit.
