I love Doctor Who, but I don't own it; it's so sad that while I like Jodie Whittaker, I feel her Doctor could be a hundred times better if the writing was better. It's like Colin Baker all over again and I think only Big Finish can redeem her and her companions who are nothing more than walking and talking inanimate dummies.
Please let me know what you think.
Thirteen's reality check.
"Because you ask too many questions!" The Doctor snapped while she glowered at the Time Rotor in the centre of the TARDIS console.
Yaz grimaced with rage. She was getting tired of this, she was becoming so fed up with the Doctor refusing to talk, for treating her so-called 'fam' as if they were children or people who were too stupid to understand. "What do you expect? You don't tell us anything, you run off and leave us behind on some planet where anything could happen. You treat us like dirt, you're moody and grouchy whenever we ask you if you're okay, and you don't expect us to ask you questions about what's going on?" She snapped.
The Doctor turned her head, her frown still there. "Yaz-," she tried to say.
"No, you're so obsessed with finding the Master but you refuse to tell us why. I thought you called us your 'fam,' but it's clear either you were lying or you just see family as people to throw aside!" Yaz said in disgust while Graham and Ryan looked between the two females in shock, but they both agreed one hundred per cent with their friend; the Doctor had been treating them badly, and she deserved to hear this.
"Yaz," the Doctor tried to say, but the young policewoman shook her hand.
"No, just STOP!" Yaz snapped back when she lost her patience, glaring at the Doctor with disgust. "STOP treating us like shit! You treat us like we're children and you blank bus whenever we show concern for you, but you've been in a terrible mood since we met the Master. What, did you expect us to just ignore it, or are we just toys for your amusement?"
"What, no!"
"Then why won't you start talking to us?" Yaz challenged.
"You wouldn't understand!" The Doctor said.
"Try us, Doctor. The Master told you or did something to you. I was close by to hear him say everything you'd ever known was a lie. What did he mean by that?" Yaz said pointedly, while Ryan and Graham both listened in. They didn't seem surprised and the Doctor guessed that Yaz had told them, and they had been trying to work out between them what it meant. They wouldn't have gotten very far since they knew very little about the whole mess with Gallifrey.
But..
They were right. And the Doctor knew that just like she knew that sooner or later she would run into the Master again. He had been stalking her like a predator and he had made the kill. He was still out there somewhere, he was sure of it. There was no doubt in her mind that the Master had escaped from the Kassavin by now; her friends didn't know the Master, or what he had done in the past, and that was her fault. She knew that just as she knew it was her fault Tim Shaw became so dangerous. She just believed the Stenza warrior would have become more lethal as time passed.
Her silence unfortunately made Yaz angrier. "Got nothing smart to say, Doctor?" She demanded.
"Yaz, I'm trying-!" The Doctor protested, but Graham had decided enough was enough. He decided to help Yaz with this.
"Trying to do what, Doc? Ever since the Master came back you have been obsessed with finding him and you leave us behind where anything could happen; you could say we're safe and we're fine, but how do you know that? Yeah, you might be the experienced Time Lord," Graham pronounced the title the Doctor had told them about with scepticism as if he found the name funny, "but even you don't know everything about the universe. Who knows what could be lurking around? What would you do if something happened to us, and you had buggered off somewhere? What would you do then, Doctor?"
The Doctor's face went pale and slack. The humans became increasingly more annoyed, especially when they realised that it was the shock they were seeing - the shock of a person who was completely unaware of how their personality, actions and attitude was perceived.
What made it worse was it was pure. Unfeigned. Genuine. Shock.
God, is she really this socially inept? Ryan thought to himself; he had always made friends online, but he had known and met a few people who were socially inept, but in the Doctor's case was it because there were light years of difference between the Doctor's people and humans?
My god, didn't she even realise what she was doing to us, or was she just ignoring it? Graham wondered to himself. A part of him felt like Ryan did, there was a cultural difference between the Doctor and them, but while she had some human traits they had to remember she was not one of them. But at the same time…
Graham, as the oldest of the human side of the so-called 'fam,' although he wondered now if there would still be a fam by the end of the day or not, knew there was a gulf of difference between his age and Yaz and Ryan.
Different schools.
Different times.
Different ideologies.
Different perspectives.
Different uses of slang.
Different technologies.
Different attitudes to life.
Totally different kind of world.
While Graham, and many others of his generation, had adapted to the changing times, he had to admit there were still some things which he still had problems within the ever-changing world of the 21st century; issues with the internet, wifi, DVDs, CDs whereas in the past he'd grown up with cathode ray tubes.
Was this what the Doctor's problem was, she was both old and alien and had come from a different culture that she could not assimilate into it? Somehow he had the feeling he was both right, and yet wrong. The Doctor loved travelling the universe and learning all that there was to learn, but surely by now she knew how to interact with humans, especially since she had been popping in and out of history for centuries, as she'd often implied; at the time, Graham had thought she was kidding with them, but after the way their beliefs she was kidding them around with her being a bloke at one point had been turned on its head, so was she so old she felt certain behaviours were acceptable or not?
Is she getting it now, or is she still unwilling to talk? Then again she is shocked by what we've just confronted her about; good, hopefully, it will drum in some sense into her head. We should have done this ages ago, just after the Doctor was in a mood, but we made the mistake of being too passive with her, Yaz thought to herself, annoyed with herself and the others.
Shortly after the Doctor became moody after the meeting with the Master, Yaz and the others had tried to be there for their friend, but it soon became more than abundantly clear to them the Doctor didn't seem to want their help. After that, they had decided to simply wait.
That had been a big mistake.
Although she didn't realise it, Yaz's mind, in trying hard to understand why the Doctor was keeping secrets from them, wondered the same as Graham if the Doctor's age and alien nature made it hard for her to see humans as people, and less like puppets of some sort.
Meanwhile, the TARDIS matrix was annoyed, not with the human strays her thief brought in, but with her Thief and her current attitude. Sometimes the TARDIS wondered why the Doctor just never seemed to learn, they could ignore their companions for long periods of time, but in the end, this sort of problem was inevitable.
Ever since the Eleventh Doctor's time where the Silence came after them, the Doctor had been keeping more and more secrets; it wasn't this incarnations fault, it was just the last few hundred years of experience which had shaped the Doctor's personality. But what annoyed the matrix about the Thief in this incarnation was how she claimed to love and care for her strays, yet she refused to see that the Master was going to come after her. In the meantime, the Doctor had been ignoring the events of the universe, and the TARDIS herself had been determined to wait until the right time to take her Thief to deal with the Cyberium…
Maybe she could deal with that, although she knew Captain Jack would transport Yaz, Ryan, and Graham away while the Doctor met up with her Past and Gat, who was chasing them. Jack would tell them about the Lone Cyberman, but the TARDIS felt it would be adequate right now with how the Lone Cyberman and the Master would confront the Doctor at the same time if she was reading the timelines correctly if Graham and Ryan just went to meet Jack while Yaz stayed with the Doctor. Hopefully with Yaz around, and if she directed herself to deal with the Lone Cyberman instead of focusing on the Master, perhaps a lot of the future would change.
For instance, the Doctor could make sure Percy Shelley never found the Cyberium, which would lead to the nasty choice the Lone Cyberman would give the Doctor, and if that took place perhaps the Doctor could see the future and eventually go through the Boundary. Or perhaps she herself should take them to Gallifrey, taking the law into her own hands (she didn't have hands, but she liked the expression - it was so her) and reveal to the humans what the Doctor was really hiding.
Yes.
The TARDIS distracted the Doctor and her strays (she disliked their use of the phrases 'Team TARDIS,' and the 'fam,' believing it to be childish) by opening the communication channel and letting them hear the Judoon transmissions.
She had much to do.