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Fictional alien time travellers can’t be black, insist morons (newsthump.com)

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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 9 points 6 months ago

I dislike how the stories end. The buildup is alright, the setting's the same. But then the ending is terrible. The Doctor isn't being clever or smart or witty or whatever, a solution randomly presents itself and that's it.

It's like, great you can move the space station by causing a burst of baby farts, but you have a TARDIS. You can take the babies yourself. You even talked about that with the only adult there! He then was soundly defeated by the Maestro, only for the Beatles to randomly show up and play a random chord? They even had a clever way to defeat the Maestro (the bubble of silence that the sonic could create), and then did nothing with it.

It's just so... Meh. If only they could write the Doctor to be clever again, I'd enjoy it so much more!