@Merc635p1w@drborgle It's a show whose entire secret to longevity is its built-in way to reinvent itself within the same continuity. It's done it plenty of times, most notbaly in 2005.
But people care about the continuity being there. Don't discard it for no reason.
@SGR5N@Dexerto So fun fact, in the UK and adjacent legal systems, "life sentence" doesn't mean "in prison for the rest of your life". It means you do the minimum time and then are set free and are "under supervision" for your life afterwards.
@jayexci2 I usually see it as the last breath of the early Big Finish "X Doctor meets Y character" indulgence, with 8 meetings Davros. Then they focused on standalone stories without such a focus.
The irony being what modern Big Finish has become.
@jayexci2 You can kind of tell they had to cut the arc early and that there's a lot more potential to the into a lot more of what's happened. But it's still good fun and Warrington Rassilon is always great.
@TolNiels@Vocal_GenX So it's thin, straight, and pointed if you want to look at the knife.
Which is to say it resembles a kitchen knife and a vast number of other knives.
It's a knife. It's not meant to be safe. That's the point of it.
@TolNiels@Vocal_GenX It's a knife. They're all meant to be able to cut through flesh. It's literally their purpose.
But let's entertain this. What makes this particular knife so adept at doging ribs?
@slackkejakke I like to imagine their people experiencing mix of horror and miscomprehension at the very concept of giving a non-white family a script to read.
@andrew_lilico When a man is lying on the street telling you he's been stabbed; there is no world in which the correct response is "I don't think you have mate" and then cuffing him because you heard he might have said a naughty word.
And an apology doesn't cut that.
@CaptainJimiPie The problem isn't even that hard to fix. We have writers obsessed with reference and fan appeasal over substance, and the same clique in charge who can't let go even after 20 years.
This is not a unique problem to Doctor Who. It's whether the BBC are willing to solve it.
@mrrobertbrendan We don't need to discard old continuity. We just need stories which aren't obsessed with it.
And a hard reboot isn't a solution, because the writer will still wink at the camera with references to current continuity.