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To be honest, I'm not surprised this episode wasn't used as a transition into a new console room. The budget was so low they probably couldn't even afford to recolour the lights.

Yaz’s entire character across 3 whole series: 👁👄👁

I can't for the life of me understand why Chibnall described this episode as a romcom

In this perfect chibnall episode, just like in resolution, after a character comes out/identifies as LGBT+, they die, this time, on multiple occasions. He’s truly topped himself this time

Honestly, featuring a side character from four years ago is funnier then any other piece of comedy in the episode.

the 20 minutes is 20 minutes of peoples time, 5 people with 4 minutes can do the same amount as 1 person in 20 minutes

As opposed to some other stuff in his three seasons it was at least watchable. The problem is: if you do a time loop story, it has to be outstanding, because there’s so many great ones out there. And this one was sadly pretty weak. The only thing I really took away from it was, how much better Aisling Bea would be as The Doctor than Whittaker.

Just two more specials to go. We're so close to this being over.

Imagine if RTD made an episode without dialogue, thus relying on visuals to tell a story and not exposition dumps.

i dont think the personal time loops as you call them are literal, its just that they each had 4 minutes left so if they all use their 4 minutes they have overal 20 combined mins to get things done

I'm so ready for this era to be over

Jeff: With all the weird stuff he was storing it would have been cool for him to be some NEXT doomsday alien prepper. It could have been funny or serious. Heck he could have been snoozing in the lounge and been in the time loop but not able to escape so they kept running into him on his oblivious loop.

A Chibnall episode being disasterous? I've never heard of such a thing!

The Doctor x Yaz is a perfect example of queerbating, we want representation to matter, having it be tacked on at the end of the series demonstrates just how little they really care about LGBT people

They had better representation with Jack in the RTD era, and Madam Vastra and Jenny in the Moffat era

Finally someone who agrees with me about this episode. It is an infuriating mess that is almost as bad as the Twin Dilemma

Chibnall really wants credit for these firsts (first female Doctor, first black female Doctor, first same-sex Doctor/Companion crush) and either fails or refuses to do anything substantive with them.

This review was brutal..... and honest. I had to to take two 10 minute breaks just to get through the episode. Many Who fans are just hoping that with RTD coming back and Sony buying Bad Wolf, it will lead to a higher budget and better stories.

This whole era is a mess. The writing, the casting, the acting and the soundtrack is overall much lower quality than everything before it. It’s shocking.

The awful speech in this episode made me realise what I dislike so much about 13: she can't keep her hands still. Ever. It's incredibly distracting and annoying

RTD2 can't come any quicker

Yaz hasn’t had a background or any character traits whatsoever since Demons of the Punjab.

How to do a Dalek Timeloop story off the top of my head: Option 1) A busted Dalek shell is sitting in a storage unit. The Doctor happens to land the TARDIS near the seemingly empty and abandoned storage facility. She explains to Dan and Yaz that she needs to do a type of factory reset for the TARDIS and that it's perfectly safe while they are in the middle of an empty spot so it doesn't disturb anything. However the reset also activates the Dalek shell. No living Dalek resides inside so it's on a bit of an autopilot and is much weaker. When it kills them they enter the loop as a side effect of the reset. The Doctor explains that they'll be fine until midnight when the reset is done, in which case they'll stay dead if killed. Then make it a lighthearted episode of them trying to avoid the Dalek and keep it from leaving the storage unit. Option 2) Closer to Heaven Sent in delivery. Start with the Doctor in the middle of an adventure. They defeat a Dalek with maybe a special gun and it feels like the end of an episode, but then it cuts back to a few minutes prior. The Doctor does everything exactly the same but this time the gun doesn't work. The Doctor runs around, tweaks their plan, defeats the Dalek. Cut back to the same point as last time. Builds gun, shoots Dalek, gun fails, runs away, makes new weapon, but new weapon fails as well. It is revealed that this is a new Dalek training program to develop weapons, armor, and tactics for combat and the best one to test it on is the Doctor. The majority of the episode follows Dalek after Dalek as they evolve and adapt to defeat the Doctor. At the end they kill the Doctor (revealed to be an AI copy) and this leads to a part 2. Watch as the Doctor's plans fail horrendously as the Dalek's seem to have prepared for everything. Might have written myself into a corner there, but I'd rather see that than Eve

Also I give thasmin as much credit as Jo Martin as the fugitive Doctor. Sure on a bare minimum level it’s good, but there’s so little substance to it, so little recognition, build up or utilization that it feels empty.

Maybe I'm just spoiled by time loop anime like Re:Zero or Steins;Gate, but I find the lack of internal consistency particularly infuriating. You can TELL the episode was written in two weeks because it feels like a first draft with a bunch of stuff still not completely worked out. The THIRTEENTH DOCTOR wants to reach the weapon stash even though: 1) this Doctor hates weapons, 2) conventional weapons don't work on Daleks and 3) there's an escape route much closer by than the weapon stash. The door on the back of the building is apparently jammed and you'd expect that to become relevant later on, but it doesn't, it's just a cheap placeholder to keep the Aisling Bea character inside the building in one loop, and it's then promptly forgotten. The final grand plan is to lure the Daleks on the higher floors to gain time. A Dalek immediately teleports at the bottom floor and yet they act like the plan still worked. And that's setting aside all the creepy undertones with the stalker dude, as you noted. There's a shadow of a good episode here, if Chibnall actually had taken his time to write the goddamn thing and hadn't just sent a first draft for whatever reason.

Jesus christ we've had nearly 5 years of this era and most of it was hiatus

You know what annoys me? Not the fact that we don't have Christmas specials, but the fact that these New Years specials aren't festive at all! Like, New Years is such a bombastic time, especially for kids, they can stay up late, there's parties, there's fireworks. And for people like me who don't have anyone to spend New Years with, this would be a really nice way to get that party bombastic feeling. But no. Three New Years Specials, and this is the only one in which the climax involves fireworks. And it's just like a localized explosion. I would think New Years in London would look dope as hell, with the whole sky lighting up. Shame.

You took the Thasmin comments right out of my mouth. its depressing that everybody gives this episode a pass because THASMIN despite the terrible writing, pacing and characterization. Also Jodie's 'EXPOSITION MODE' annoys the everliving heck out of me. Its her irritatingly thick northern accent, coupled with her annoying breathlessness AND the 'I'm explaining things' hand gestures. So utterly predictable, you can see these scenes coming a mile away. Gonna be honest. She annoys me. I like her more when she's still and serious and determined.

I've been so desensitised that I thought, 'meh, it's at least passable', but as soon as you take aim, it's all falling apart.

oh i know that people want you to be more positive but the joy that your titles bring to me are unparalleled 💖😌

Was it really difficult for the companions or the Doctor to look outside the Tardis first to check they were in the correct location (the beach) before proceeding with the reboot. Literally could have avoided the entire thing from ever happening...

Chibnall ripped off Chimes of midnight on the 1 year anniversary of Chibnall ripping off Blood of the Daleks

as a lesbian, seeing this episode did make me happy but also incredibly sad once i realised that chibnall wrote the first queer relationship between the doctor and a companion. I wish he developed their relationship more instead of randomly throwing it on us during one of yaz's and 13's last episodes (gay people dying almost straight after coming out is not rare in tv shows 😍). also pissed that he wrote the first female doctor - jodie had so much potential but chris chin-balls ruined that fr

I fell asleep twice trying to watch this episode...

As a gay man, I am not so affected that I need to have a LGBT charecter in every show on TV. We know from Ecclestones time that the Dr is a bit of a swinger in terms of sexuality, we had Jack and Bill, and others written brilliantly into the show. I am surprised he hasn't forced some trans in as well, just to tick off all the boxes. The episode was entertaining, but there were some awful moments of dialogue. Again this mean the Dr just babbling breathlessly while pointing the effing Sonic at EVERYTHING. What was in the canisters Jeff was storing, because either that or the fireworks must have been made of weapons grade C4 to blow up the building in such a way. And what was that guy from Woman who fell, doing in Manchester, as that episode was set in Sheffield? Put this up against a really great special like Waters Of Mars to see just how bad the show now is.

I came close to forgetting this episode was on on New Years Day. I dunno if it was a combination of me being extremely exhausted from working crazy hours at work during Panto season and just the lack of joy and excitement I had been feeling over the festive period anyways that made me forget or the lack of like promo and stuff. I did kind of like this episode. It was very much stripped back and the Doctor had to kind of go back to basics for most of it as they were limited on resources I know that it wasn't to everyone's taste but for me and just the pure exhaustion I was feeling from work I wanted an episode like this. Plus I really like Aisling Bea in general so she's always a highlight.

Its wild to see just how varied opinions are on Series 13 and this special, I feel these string of episodes have been more divisive that the rest of the era

My biggest concern with the introduction of a female doctor was always tokenism. And that is exactly what happened

How Chibnall got this job I'll never know.

It wouldn't really make sense to introduce a new console room now because a completely different production team is going to take over and they'll probably want their own creative control over what they want the TARDIS interior to look like. It's not for the current production team to decide

Chibnall shouldve let a cat walk over his keyboard. It wouldve been a better episode

I'd always assumed that they had to get out before midnight because they would just stop looping - which in itself is fine, but if they got killed again by the Daleks, they'd stay dead.

Yes. All of this. When I think of the richness, humour and complexity of every other Christmas/New Year special (yes, even Chibs' other abysmal Dalek ones) it makes me want to cry.

She didn't say each individual person would've been able to keep going for 20 minutes, she said if all 5 of them worked together efficiently in the 4 minutes they had, it would be like if one person had 20 minutes to execute the plan.

Heaven Sent makes you really feel something... Eve of the Daleks makes you feel nothing.

I really liked Sarah and in the short time we knew her I liked her more than yaz and Dan combined. Nick is creepy and a stalker and him getting the girl despite being viewed as creepy took away from the epsiode. Also I don't understand why people are praising thasmin so much. All yaz did was confirm that she had a crush on the doctor. The relationship inst confirmed and most of the time the doctor and yaz don't seem to be friends. They are probably the least close out of all the companions and that includes Jackie. This relationship feels so forced and way too late in the game to be given any depth or respect.

One thing I worry is gonna happen in the remaining 2 specials is Chibnall is gonna add to the ever so frustrating "bury your gays" trope. we are finally gonna get the Doctor reciprocate some feelings or something and then Yas is gonna die. And there was build up for Thasmin it was just very VERY subtle and slow burning.

The thing that got me the most about the episode was the 'Two Daleks One Phone' joke. 13 cracks her joke and looks at everyone except Yaz for laughs. When I think of all the other Doctors, in a situation with people they only met that episode, jokes and banter would be between them and their companion, not looking for validation from everyone else in the room.

Instead of a huge alien filled special, I'd love for the next series special to be completely on earth, and be filled with stories from random people who had been at the major events the Doctor has saved them from, sharing their experience with the Doctor and making them realize how much they've done. Low-key, nostalgic, and a great opportunity for old characters to come back.

I do agree that the 13 Yas potential romance wasn't set up well at all, but I really don't mind the potential of a Doctor - Companion romance or "will they won't they." The Doctor is a romantic person, this adventurous, mysterious hero who draws people in because of how much they can offer normal humans. I think many people who travels with the Doctor could find themselves drawn to the Doctor because of what the Doctor brings. Donna, while not falling for the Doctor, fell for the traveling. I don't think it should be a traditional TV relationship, but have some kind of twist, such as The Doctor always experiencing misery like they always have, the companion falling back out of love or discovering they love the traveling, not the Doctor, or the Doctor scaring off the companion.

Plot hole ... The black dude that I forget his name of ... He was supposed to already be dead in the next time loop ... But yet they not only waited 1 loop but wasted a second loop to set up a trap ... AND HE WAS STILL THERE

Eve of the Daleks is the perfect episode for an original monster, instead of using the most feared and destructive species of the Universe.

How hilarious do you think rtd finds it that every dalek redesign has failed and he gets to reinherit his own dalek design 😂

Thank god Russels coming back. And then hopefully they can find somebody competent to take over after Russel.

The Daleks find it difficult to shoot through a door. Oh my god! Eve of The Daleks made a Signs reference, "they seem to have trouble with pantry doors"

I was literally WAITING for this episode review!

One thing I noticed in this episode is just how much 13 uses her screwdriver.

The thing that makes groundhog day work over this is that things actually change up in that movie, like he does different things. This was just the characters getting shot for 45 minutes over and over again. It was repetitive and i lost interest big time. And whoever keeps scripting the monsters to have stormtrooper aim really needs to stop

Would've been easy to throw in a line about their aim being shit due to the weaponry being new and experimental too (since they said they adapted to bypass the sonic or whatever)

Well said. It was such a frustrating episode to watch, I kept hoping there would be a good payoff...but no. The only redeeming thing about it was that we got something close to a proper dalek back rather than the awful creations from the past two "dalek" episodes (and I use that term loosely given how godawful revolution/revelations were as Dalek stories). Enjoyed your video, thanks for taking the time to make it :)

Chibnall’s Series 11 to 13 may be rubbish but aren’t we forgetting that Chibnall wrote Series 3 Episode 7: 42 and Series 5 Episodes 8 and 9: The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood and Series 7 Episode 4: Power of three (all were better episodes)

So refreshing for a reputable Who KZfaqr calling out this drek, so many others are still lying to themselves that this garbage is any good. Regarding the age thing; if 13th dies without a significant time gap in the coming episodes, this incarnation would have lived and died within a length of her companions (Yas) not even visibly ageing. Possibly the shortest lived incarnation in-universe? Oh yeah, and what happened with the Daleks rotating the mid section? Forget that Chibs?

Spot on review. I can’t wait for DW to not suck. I am rewatching the reboot from the start and watching the Eccleston, Tennant and Smith eras in comparison makes me want to cry because the quality has fallen through the floor.

One of the things that stood out to me was the "Nick doesn't make it past 23:56, if he dies in this loop he's dead for good" thing... and then he dies in the loop and somehow when the loop refreshes he's back to life? Which suggests that the loop starts one minute later into the previous loop, not from the initial loop, which if true, means they wouldn't start at the Tardis every loop, yet they do... The entire thing is a shit show.

I'm glad you agree, there was SO much wrong here and I've seen so many people praising it. This episode was absolutely awful.

We'll see what happens with Thasmine. At this point it's not a ship, it's a one-way thing with Yaz having fallen for the Doctor. I'm not sure why people are leaping on it when it's not even out of the 'will they/won't they' space.

Chibnall is the reason I don't watch Doctor who anymore. But I still have so much nostalgia for the older seasons, especially series 1 of the reboot.

I love the Daleks, but I hate how they're used as a cheap conflict. "AHHH, it's the Daleks! Look everyone, the Daleks! Whatever is the Doctor going to do-oh. They've been blown up now. Conflict over."

The premise - trying to keep ahead of Daleks in an ever-decreasing time limit - reminds me of the DW Classic “The Chase”.

The Doctor and Yaz arnt the fan favourites anymore. They are the 2 characters probably most responsible for the poor audience figures. No passione, acting skills or empathy. I dont think people wish a happy ending on either of them. Just a quick one and a quite one.

Ive never been closer to stop watching this show because of the writing. How is it possible to screw up this bad? It’s like he is intentionally running the show into the ground. Can we please all just fast forward in time to RTD’s resurrection?

Considering that every other time loop story I can think of in the history of the franchise involved two temporal engines interfering with each other, I am completely dumbfounded that neither Jeff nor Nick had a second time machine to be interfering with the TARDIS. But that would have required a second draft before filming began. And the Thirteenth era has never attempted that.

I agree that The Doctor X Yaz is a bad, unhealthy relationship that seems more concerned with virtue signalling than being virtuous. I also agree that it came out of nowhere. But not in this episode. I don’t see why you’re dead set on denying Yaz’ over the top obsession, displayed very prominently both when she was stuck in the past, and when the doctor was in space jail. An obsession like that doesn’t necessarily indicate romantic interest, but in a TV show, it probably does. Kind of like the creepy stalker in this episode. Also no idea what you were thinking when they have a simple explanation for the simple concept of ‘man hours’ to think that each character has more time than was actually passing. To be sure, they did way more than is physically possible in that last minute, but there’s no explanation for that. A flaw to be sure, but not the one you were complaining about.

Was half expecting Yatzhee to pop up this is that close to a Zero Punctuation review.

Remember Scheirzo where 8 had his massive conversation with Charlie about romance and how everyone he travels with is basically a memento of his mortality? I know he backtracked it later but its still relevant with how people write doctor companion relationships

This is easily your funniest video yet. I usually find your positive episodes to go down the easiest but ripping so thoroughly into Eve was cathartic.

You gave him a chance and then he does this 😭

I didn’t know this was actually a thing after Flux Then again, I haven’t seen any huge announcements of Doctor Who so I can’t blame myself for missing out

I had no idea the guy at the end was the crane operator, I thought he was Limmy.

7:47 Yeah I wasn't the only one expecting there to be some Dalek Defence Drone junk under that super ominous taped off tarp right?

Ruining the Dalek's weapon is the biggest Chinball crime now. The Dalek's are scary because they're accurate and their ray gun is absolute. Lock, fire, hold, death. Why did he think a mini gun spraying all over the place would be scarier than the sound and look of that long beam?

A poor mans Heaven Sent

Wait, the fuck is a personal time loop? I don't remember it mentioning that at all. All I remember is it going from them having about 4 minutes left to them suddenly being on the last loop.

The daleks also had the laser thing(I forgot what it was called) instead of the plunger which is used for lasering things like I dunno metal doors

I did like seeing 13 dying over and over, that's for sure. Also, I am Irish and so incredibly not funny even that's not funny. Edit: the guy at the end was disappointingly not credited as Jeff. Because Chibnall can't do much right.

for a brief moment in the beginning I suspected that Aisling Bea's character would be in a plot-twist reveal turning out to actually be the Rani on the run from the Daleks, hence the time loop with her being the one behind it (it might have even made more sense an upping the scale and I think the actress could have made a good Rani, the only other actress I think would be an ideal version of the Rani would be Joanna Lumley, which would be perhaps a bit ironic if they did bring the Rani back with Joanna Lumley in the role, alongside Jodie Whittaker's Doctor before she leaves the show... considering... lol)

Man you’re harsh 😂😂. Great video as always

Bring back the Hartnell Doctor played by David Bradley, rebooting Doctor Who.

IMO you've put your finger on one of the most annoying aspects of Chibnall's run - he seems to include things for plot purposes without thinking what other expectations they would raise. Including Jeff as justification for the fireworks without realising that would make us curious about Jeff. Including the dinging phone to bring home all the fun Sarah is missing out on stuck in the warehouse, without realising we'll expect that to matter later. He does it again and again and again, whether it's introducing the Mouri on the Planet Time, or *blowing up the entire universe as backstory, then apparently forgetting it.* >_

I feel like having the villains as the sontarons in this would help explain some issues such as the weirdly written dalek dialogue, and the fact that whilst the doctor recently battled sontarons, the doctor doesnt often deal with them, meanwhile they battle daleks constantly but only after the flux the daleks think about getting revenge

This episode is basically a: "Mom Can we have a Steven Moffat?" Mom: We have Steven Moffat at home. *Steven Moffat at home:*

I had sort of the opposite reactions: I thought Flux was sorta bad, with good moments, and Even was fairly good, with some problems.

It's amazing how much better Xena: Warrior Princess did the whole "Let's have our show do the Groundhog Day thing" than Chibnall did, despite the fact that he did it with a show where the idea can come organically.. Not gonna lie, your metaphors are getting really good - your "More red-flags than a hard-difficulty game of Minesweeper" one really got me, being one of the few people who genuinely likes that game.

I’m all for any characters of any gender being written to fall in love romantically within the show, including the Doctor and their companions, if the relationship is written well. But the cold and blatant truth is that not only does Yaz have all the charisma and charm of a brick; not only do we have just one or two episodes to explore and wrap-up this romantic plot, but Yaz and The Doctor have *ZERO* romantic chemistry between them - not verbally, not physically, not emotionally…. none whatsoever. So for anyone to congratulate Chibnall on bravely portraying an LGBT relationship on TV is laughable. It’s like he knows that due to the majority of Doctor Who fans hating his era of the show, his only way to scrape even a shred of applause before his exit is to ham-fistedly pander to SJWs for brownie points on how brave he is to “show on screen what no-one else dares to show”, in an age where every other show on TV has a LGBT relationship. Again, I’m all for people loving whoever they want, but Yaz and The Doctor are disgracefully incompatible.

chibnall reminds me of me in a way, at uni i hated reading my own writing so would just submit a first draft, i feel like thats the vibe i get with his era

The fact that they need to leave the facility by midnight to escape the loop made no sense. If they killed the however many Daleks in the facility they'd theoretically be fine. It would have made more sense if the TARDIS landed somewhere and in its reset once outside the TARDIS the Doctor realizes they need to evacuate a certain distance from the TARDIS as it would set up some sort of short range explosion. The Doctor was intending to land it on an empty beach planet only to find they are in the basement of a storage facility. They quickly find out two other people are there but the thought is they can evacuate easily. But then there is an issue as the Daleks have set up a force field around the facility. In the end they use the fireworks and whatever random Jeff stuff to find a way to disable the force field long enough for the Doctor and friends to escape the facility, with the TARDIS external explosion taking care of the Daleks who have unwittingly trapped themselves.

God I wanted thasmin, I'll admit that, but not... Not like this... My god this was horrible. I've read fanfiction with more character development, Chibs.

I feel like criticizing RTD's romance plots with Doctor Who is unfair, as none of his romance stories were formulaic or repetitive, and they were all tinged with an underlying current of tragedy. Ten and Rose worked well, because it was always this unspoken thing between them which you knew could never end well. It highlighted the conflict between her home life and her life with the Doctor, by placing Mickey and the Doctor in opposition with one another - we always knew she wouldn't be happy with the life Mickey offered, as safe as it was, and we always knew that she couldn't have the Doctor in the way she wanted, because he would live beyond her and move on. His Era ending by having the metacrisis doctor stay with her was a nice and unexpected resolution to her story, whilst still centering the tragic nature of the Doctor always ending up alone. The theme of a mortal with someone with an exceptionally long life time who is thus doomed to end up alone is repeated with Ianto/Jack in Torchwood, though the nature of the relationship is very different, and obviously brings that tragic concept even more to the forefront. There is a reason why Rose being left alone on the beach and trapped in the parallel universe, and Ianto's death, devastated viewers at the time of watching. It was truly tragic in a way that I don't think has been captured again since RTD's era. It certainly won't be captured by Yas/Thirteen - is anyone going to be upset when that inevitably ends tragically? We've never even seen them yearn for one another. Certainly there's yet to be any proof that its requited by the Doctor. But also with RTD, he didn't make it so the Doctor fell in love with all his companions. Martha came next, and though he probably should not have introduced the first black companion by giving her an arc that set her up in directcomparison with the fan favorite white love interest, he did present an arc that was relatable and showed the Doctor's grief. You felt for Martha, and you understood why she loved the Doctor, whilst also knowing that as a fan you wouldn't want to see him with anyone else after the loss of Rose. And her arc was about realising that the Doctor's obsession with his lost love meant that he was unable to connect with her properly, even as just a friend, so she was right to walk away after being mistreated. Truly Yas should probably be annoyed by the Doctor's behaviour and reach the same decision that Martha reached, but that won't happen, because it will require Chibnall to show the Doctor as a flawed person and he won't ever do that. Donna was a complete change from the romantic undertones of the previous two companions, Rose with requited and ill-fated love, Martha with unrequited love. Donna was just a friend and yet their relationship was just as well fleshed out. There were of course the odd romances here and there - the girl on the titanic for instance, although again it added to the tragedy of the story, even if that was a bit more formulaic. His stuff with Queen Elizabeth, which was never portrayed as love, and mainly remained as a joke throughout. River Song, which was him knowing she was going to be important to him in the future, but not knowing why or how, but seeing her die, which again, the idea of inevitable tragedy. The issue with too much romance in Doctor Who is that it devalues the previous romances. River Song as his wife is a big issue in that way for me, because it's something that will just get tossed away later, and also seems to take away from the Doctor/Rose, which started the modern era. Not to mention, the fact he presumably had a partner on Gallifrey in order to have children (something that seems to have been forgotten by Chibnall). Also I never bought River Song, because she was too much of a plot point before she was a character, and I don't like the fact that she was okay with being in prison for her entire life, and only coming out whenever the Doctor needed her. I never really saw when the relationship developed or how. Regeneration affords you some luxuries I guess, but acting like previous relationships don't matter anymore is frustrating. At least with RTD you felt that there was the acknowledgement of "you can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can't spend the rest of my life with you." And the narrative didn't try to suggest the Doctor was necessarily in the right for having the romantic relationships he did, and he was very much criticized by the narrative for his choose in companions being primarily young women. The age difference is a sticky point, as is the entirety of Rose being 19 in the first season, but I get why it happens. They want to appeal to their younger audience, so they choose characters that aren't 'proper adults'. It's not like there's a real world comparison with that level of age gap, and the children watching see two people who look the same age, whilst the adults can suspend their moral judgements for the sake of the fiction, so it's not going to have a negative impact on anyone. Overall, I think RTD wrote romance very well, and I don't think he ever inserted it into a story without thinking about why it was there and what purpose it was serving. Whereas Yas and Thirteen has been included to appeal to a liberal audience who can pat themselves on the back for this piss poor take on inclusion, despite the fact it seems set up for a bury your gays trope incoming (which, is fine due to the nature of Doctor Who, but including the romance for the first time a couple of episodes before??? Really???) I am getting annoyed at how this era is complimented for its diversity, despite it's complete failings in inclusion. Can we stop applauding stories that go 'racism is bad' as the entire message? Especially if they butcher the real history of the civil rights movement and centre the story on the white guilt of its white male protagonist???? Can we stop saying how brave it is for an English show to write a racism story based in America in the past??? Oh, segregation is bad? How absolutely world-shaking. Not being able to criticize this poorly written romance, and this shameless attempt to get pander without actually having a positive impact, just because it's a queer story is ridiculous. Can we stop accepting breadcrumbs of representation and worshipping the person who gave them to us? Let's hold it to the same standard as a m/f relationship, please.

So… you didn’t like it then? Don’t blame you.