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Originally Posted by Dezzy View Post
The main thing letting JW's Doctor down is the writing. They write her too much as an idiot who doesn't know what's going on half the time and relies on deux ex machinas to figure it out, which is a really ****ing poor choice on the writer's part to make this doctor in particular seem incompetent. I wish we got to see Jodie handle Russell T. Davies or Moffett's writing, it's insulting how badly written she is under Chibnall.

Jodie elevates the material she gets but you can't polish a turd.
Similar to Colin Baker, he had potential to be an awesome Doc but most of stories were just garbage. JW is fine, I don't think she's so good that she elevates the material, but she deserves better.

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I agree as if anything, the Tennant-Smith-Capaldi doctors became MORE knowledgeable and competent over those runs (as you would expect, given the doctor more than doubled, possibly trebled in age over that run) but then JW is often written like she's a n00b . Almost as though the writers forgot that it isn't a "new" doctor, it's a doctor with all of the cumulative experience of all the previous doctors. I think they've aimed for a more humble character which was absolutely the right way to go (as the plot up to that point was an increasing arrogance that was then slowly broken down in Capaldi) but instead of more humble, they landed on less competent which makes no sense.
Clever! Yeah the others did have a "through-line" so it's like Doc suddenly became stupid for no reason.

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Loads of reports that Harry Styles odds are shortening by the day ..

Surely not the next Bond !?!?!


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