(SPOILERS AHEAD)
A while back, I told y’all what we thought we knew about the Doctor Who Fiftieth Anniversary Special - it happens right after Clara sees that the purpose of her life is just to keep the Doctor out of trouble; John Hurt is playing the Doctor; and Billie Piper and David Tennant are reprising their roles as Rose Tyler and the Tenth Doctor. We now know, however, that those things are not completely true. I am going to preface this by saying that I did love the special - I thought it was brilliant and well-written. As a stand-alone special that has nothing to do with the rest of the season. But as a continuation of the seventh season - or even as a continuation of the entire series - it was horrible and a complete disappointment in every way possible. Steven Moffat thinks that, as the newest show runner of the BBC show, he has the right to do whatever he wishes, despite the thirty seasons and a movie that came before him… In the first episode of the seventh season, Moffat made it so the Doctor’s arch enemies since the second episode of the entire series just forgot the Doctor completely. Now, fans were very angry about this - especially those that have been fans since the beginning - but they got over it, realizing that this made room for other monsters to fight the Doctor. Flash-forward to the end of that season, and (like I said up there ^) Clara has spent several lives trying to keep the Doctor out of trouble: she followed the Great Intelligence into the Doctor’s timeline and got spread out through his life. She had a hand in the Doctor taking the TARDIS; she has saved the Doctor’s life more than anyone can count; but the Doctor conveniently does not recognize her until - wait for it - Steven Moffat started to write the show. Fans were not as understanding this time. The writer before Moffat, Russell T. Davies, wrote in a war between the Time Lords and the Daleks in between the 1996 movie and the 2005 revival. Steven Moffat, however, thought that the fiftieth anniversary was the perfect time to decide that the Time War just did not happen: the Doctor saved Gallifrey, leaving it in an alternate, frozen universe. He reversed all the canon that all the other Doctor Who writers established before him. The power is getting to his head. He thinks he is invincible. He must be stopped.
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