I have decided that Thirteens run is one of my favorites purely because of how the show runners treat The Doctor.

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With Thirteen, they actually started embracing the “this character is NOT human” aspect. The other Doctors did a little bit but not near the amount of Thirteen

They show that The Doctor is not a human so much more during Thirteen’s run than the others. It’s something that, to me, is missing a lot in this show.

Yes, The Doctor looks human to us, but they are not and never will be human. The other Doctors lean into the “I look and act human” bit so much it’s easy to forget they are not human

Thirteen’s run doesn’t do this. They don’t let you forget that The Doctor isn’t human, they remind you all the time

This is why I love Thirteen’s run so much

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"Don't let me go back to being me."

On the occasion of the Spymaster's "body swap" with Thirteen and his heartbreaking line, I would like to remind you that I wrote Who's Who?, a short story in which D/M regenerate into Thirteen and the Spymaster simultaneously and decide that they don't have to go back to being their old destructive selves.

@natalunasans @spoonietimelordy @queen-of-meows @whovianuncle @aegipanomnicorn-blog

there is something beautiful, and so real, about the way that yaz fell in love with the doctor. they say that yaz's love came from nowhere, but it didn't. it came from those little quirks the doctor has, and the way her face lights up when she sees a biscuit. it came from late nights on a tardis, and unspoken words behind heartfelt speeches. it came from stolen glances and slight touches. it came from the promise of an infinity at the side of a mad, incredible woman. this love, it buried itself in the darkest parts of yaz's heart and settled there, growing ever so slightly, until all she could see was the doctor. it did not come from nowhere, it came from the moments we had missed, and it grew until we could not deny it anymore.

their story didn't start as one of passion, longing and unwavering love. it started as a crush, one that yaz didn't even realize, and it turned into something so beautiful and real it makes me cry.

i can't understand how people struggle so much to accept that yaz loves the doctor. how can we not expect her to fall in love with the doctor? falling in love with the impossible was the most human thing she could've done.

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I will never understand how someone thought it would be a good idea to get Thirteenth [a white and blonde woman] to hand over the Master [a non-white man] to the Nazis.

Another thing, how did they think it would be okay to get the first non-white Master working with the Nazis? We’ve had dozens of white Masters, and they never came close to the Nazis, but once we have a non-white Master, the first thing he does is work with the Nazis? They even had the courage to make the Master say that he was using a perception filter, making it clear that they knew something was wrong there, but followed the error anyway.

And the problem here is not the Master’s or Thirteenth’s fault — and believe me she’s to blame —, the problem is that someone wrote this, and someone approved it, and dozens of people read it and none of them realized how absurd everything is, no one took into account the Master’s ethnicity and that because he is not white, everything that under normal circumstances would have been bad, became infinitely worse.

But wait…there’s more. When the Nazis find out what the Spymaster looks like, they close in on him, and the scene cuts. What happens to him then?

Well, we don’t know exactly, but we do know what happened to Nur Inayat Khan, another character in that episode with the same skin color. She was put in a concentration camp and killed by firing squad. When the Spymaster shows up in the present again and complains about how many places he’s had to “escape” from, it’s strongly implied that he’s been imprisoned. Yeah, folks, the Spymaster was sent to a concentration camp.

Why? What’s the point? What kind of message are they trying to send? Nazis are popularly imagined as racist, sexist, anti-Semitic, banal embodiments of the worst of human nature. Meanwhile, survivors of concentration camps are popularly imagined as brave survivors of devastating tragedy and loss. At the very least, it’s thematically incoherent for the Spymaster to represent both groups. And it’s a HUGE PROBLEM that the show just tossed off his experience in the concentration camps – just like it did with his stint as a Nazi – without examining it at all.

DW just needs to stop writing about Nazis period. No more “Let’s Kill Hitler.” No more “Spyfall II.” They’ve got their Nazi allegory characters, the Daleks, already. They need to just stop writing about actual Nazis until they can stop doing incoherent and offensive bullshit like making the first non-white Master both a Nazi and a concentration camp survivor.

@natalunasans @sclfmastery @demigod-or-almost

I got so caught up in how much I hate the ‘Eiffel Tower’ scene that I never realized they put the Master in as a Nazi and a concentration camp survivor. The episode gets worse every time you pay attention to it.

P.S.: I hate ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’, joke or not, saving Hitler’s life was terrible, especially in a program that uses and abuses elements of Jewish history.

See – that’s my main problem with DW. You can get so caught up in one horrible thing [Bill being Cyber converted, for example] that you miss other horrible parts [i.e., Twelve left her in Dystopia for a decade with Razor].

Re “Let’s Kill Hitler” – I didn’t realize that they saved his life. Ugh. It’s so strange that a show supposed so antifascist just loves to make throwaway jokes about fascism without thinking about the harm they cause people.

Another prime example, well before the Spymaster’s time, is that of Simm Master and his “Master race.” It’s referred to as a groan-worthy pun, with no comment at all on the fact that this term has been used by Nazis to describe their mythical group of the whitest, best people ever. Simm’s “Master race” terminology, plus his exploitation and torture of brown people [Martha and family] and queer people [Jack], really accentuates his fascist connections.

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Every time I’ve pointed this out to the larger DW fandom, I’ve gotten anon hate for “hating on” the Thirteenth Doctor, or for “bringing up antisemitism when it’s unnecessary” (????!!!) which is incomprehensible to me.  My critiques, and all those very important things others above have pointed out far more eloquently than I, are not Watsonian in nature, but Doylist. I am taking Chibnall et al to task, not the Doctor whom they somehow were culturally insensitive enough to write condemning a non-white Master in this fashion.  

Also wholly agree that this is not the first problematic conflation of DW lore with nazism and eugenics.  Comments on Simm!Master by @modernwizard are definitely salient. Hoping RTD doesn’t revisit the same mistakes on his new run.  As for Moffat? Don’t even get me started, I will never shut up lol. 

Thank you to everyone in this thread who has advocated discussing how THIS IS NOT OKAY.  These conversations are important. I really don’t have the authority or insight to say more, but I am grateful that others have acknowledged that this was a terrible writing choice. 

I’ve said this before, but Doctor Who fandom has a big problem between separating criticism from hate, you can’t say you didn’t like something without people showing up to scold you and say you’re not a real fan of the show, or that you are seeing things where there is nothing. That’s why most of the time I just keep quiet and just discuss these things with my friends, because I know that even if they disagree with me, they won’t attack me.

I saw someone talking on Twitter once that Doctor Who uses a lot of elements from Jewish history [I don’t know any other way to put it], and after reading this, I realized it’s true. Because in addition to the Chibnall era that is swimming in eugenics, we have the RTD era, with people choking on gases [Poison Sky], mentions of concentration camps [Turn Left], the Master Race, and so on. 

I won’t quote Moffat, because I don’t remember much from his era other than the hypersexualization of all the female characters, this 'little’ detail caught my attention so much that I didn’t pay much attention to anything other than them saving Hitler, but if you want to talk about what you think is wrong, I’ll listen.

Oh, and although they use and abuse of the Jewish history, they never had a Jewish main character, it’s like they say, “we want your pain, but not you.”