Between this, gay black Doctor, trans companion and not reconning the franchise killing timeless children bullshit this is bordering on necrophilia at this point. Stop fucking it! It's already dead!RTD has decided to extend his retardation to cripple advocacy
Moans about Davros being in a wheelchair is bad
No, it wasn't the arm, it was the hand and that wasn't taken until Revelation of the Daleks with Colin Baker.
Not talking about his hand that got blown off in Revelation, Talking about his OTHER arm, the left arm that's clearly missing ever since his first appearance in Genesis.
I am happy I am still the sort of person that this would never have occurred to by myself.
Oh, she was in RTD's preachy as fuck "Years and Years" mini series, a few years back, so he's worked with her before.
It's one of the main things they dragged onto the show with the reboot, adding romantic elements to lots of the Doctor's relationships rather than them being merely platonic. It sometimes works but more often comes off as a bit creepy due to the enormous imbalance in the power dynamic due to the Doctor's age and experience. Arguably it works best between him and the Master since that is not an issue but guessing they might do it with Davros is hardly a leap.
I'd respect it alot more if they just said "we wanted to keep the budget low for a charity special so we set it early in Davros' life" but if this is the way he looks now cant wait for the plethora amount of canon that will be dedicated to his new appearance change
The implication in the skit was it was before he got bombed which makes sense, but that kinda causes a bit of a weird continuity thing because of the fact he based the Daleks on himself with the whole "one arm, one eye, travel on wheels" shit. Aside from that though, if Russel didn't make the lengthy statements about Davros being a backwards stereotype of crippled people alongside it people would have just viewed it as a kinda stupid but sorta harmless retcon for the sake of comedy.
unironically half the reason I love big finish shit is them trying to write around what a fucking shitshow 60 years of who has made the continuity.
It also kinda makes davros less unique design wise. the shit the put him in makes him just look like a generic SS officer, virtually indistinguishable from some star wars shit. again the performance was great but alot of what made davros fascinating was him being a dr. mangla tier sadist who tried to make the kaleds more like him and that hubris made his creation turn on him.
In his first appearance it was less "make the kaleds more like him" and more "Create a being that would surpass the warring factions that destroyed their homeworld". Anyways, yeah it's fucking weird they put him in the SS style uniform but that's also meant to be a reference to Genesis. One issue though, he wasn't a Military official, but the head scientist. His outfit was literally just a black version of the white lab outfits the other scientists in genesis wore, as you can see looking at any clip from it, so they fucked up the reference probably to try and hammer home more "man bad!" type shit.
I've mentioned this before, but Davies and Chinball are BFFs to the ninth degree and that RTD repeatedly turned down offers to return to Who after Chinball scorched earth the franchise until they offered him a deal so sweet that even Chinball had to tell RTD, "dude, you are legit retarded if you don't take the offer!" permission giving to his bestie to take his job, after Chinball realized that his time on Who was over.
They've made it very clear that this shambling mess will never be cancelled, most of these absurd changes are likely coming from higher ups using the writers as flesh puppets. OG doctor who died due to the higher ups actively trying to kill it amidst a bunch of other factors, modern who has the full support of the people in charge even in the skinwalker state it's in.Fuck. To Who getting cancelled again, then
Well that sounds like they haven't got Murray Gold back just yet because that generic superhero-sounding jingle sounded like shit. Not even picking from 10's assorted leitmotifs?
Russell really is in his late Gene Roddenberry phase right now
