Yeah, pulling out various quotes from the classic and new show for fifty years of history along with everything I used which is from both eras of the show, is my screw you to the showrunners who just change stuff on a whim.
Like, take for example Moffat's massive butchering of William Hartnell's Doctor in the horrible Twice upon a time Christmas story making him a sexist all for cheap "I'm so progressive" jokes. When if he was as well-versed in DW history as he likes to claim knows the first Doctor didn't act like that.
Now yes, the first Doctor had a moment or two of racism like the savage comment referring to an Indian or a place being filled with Arabs, but that crap should have just been left behind in the '60s.
Flat out without William Hartnell playing the first Doctor there would be no show. Never mind this doing the first female Doctor of Jodie Whittaker zero favors.
What truly makes the first Doctor's destruction is further tragic is Moffat wrote that episode as a Christmas special to save the Christmas slot only for Chibnall has used New Year's episodes instead.
Other destroying 50 years of history is in series 7 Moffat has Clara Oswald suggests The Doctor stealing the TARDIS going against canon for decades, and even episodes Moffat wrote for The Doctor saying he stole it.
Plus, Clara snapping her fingers to shut the TARDIS doors really annoys me given it goes against everything on how close of a relationship the TARDIS needs like with The Doctor it makes sense. Plus, it was established episodes prior the TARDIS doesn't like Clara.
Here are my problems for The Doctor saving Gallifrey.
First, even if The Doctor put the planet into a pocket universe there is a whole load of other issues Moffat conveniently forgets to include. End of Time episodes clearly states if the Time Lords return it is everything else in the war which made it so much worse compared to a mere Dalek vs Time Lord space battle.
That should have been addressed instead of a "High Council's plans have already failed" line we got in Day of The Doctor episode.
Next is The Doctor having forgotten saving Gallifrey with thinking he burns it instead, while an explanation to keep RTD's canon it regardless makes certain character moments becoming cheap if Gallifrey is just in hiding.
What irks me is Moffat's reasoning for The Doctor not destroying Gallifrey is "Oh he never would do that; he always finds a way out." Um, complete rubbish as while The Doctor tries getting the best outcome possible is The Doctor has been known to pull the genocide card.
In the classic show, he ensured Mondas would get blown up twice over, engineered destroying Skaro, and later the Tenth Doctor in a clear parallel destroyed Pompeii to prevent earth's destruction.
The Doctor has been known to make this call if needed and besides the whole point was ending every side was the only option. You know like Luke Skywalker destroying the Death Star.
I use a comparison of President Truman ordering two atom bombs dropped on Japan is The Doctor doing what he to end the Last Great Time War.
Moffat's cheap fix really removes any sort of consequences or having to face reality.
Like I'm one of the ones who hates how depressing the Star Wars sequels or later EU novels made Return of the Jedi's ending all for nothing, and other material like how pointlessly depressing the Red Dead Redemption universe is. I think entertainment for past decades has got a real problem with needing to make people depressed.
However, saying all that there are issues with Moffat restoring Gallifrey.
Of course, I find RTD blowing up the planet in the first place is rather overkill, no pun intended. It can still easily work having The Doctor dealing with the trauma of fighting a Time War without going kill them all, but if you're going to bring Gallifrey back should have a bit more consideration to details.
Never mind Moffat brought the Time Lords back only to do nothing with them as he wasted it on Clara Oswald.
Frankly Day of The Doctor is when Moffat truly had the show jump the shark somewhat, and the other episodes for Clara telling The Doctor to steal the TARDIS, or his abomination of Hartnell's Doctor.
Chris Chibnall is just carrying Moffat's disregard involving canon or dishonoring the show's history on a whim to the extreme.
Now Moffat has Amy and Rory alongside River Song all condemned to unpleasant ends. River is put in a data core that Moffat utterly refuses to have The Doctor recuse his wife. Meanwhile, Amy and Rory are trapped in 1930's New York.
Okay, so The Doctor and River's relationship in its initial structure is somewhat decently written but from a writing perspective a very important relationship for The Doctor. First on she knows his real name and while left up to our imagination it is obviously something important on a personal level that The Doctor would even tell.
Yet River was a mystery plot device and Moffat just left her to be forgotten about for moving onto the next shiny thing. Of course, Clara Oswald was the next shiny object who Moffat ship teased between The Doctor, and her in the very season following playing up how important River was to The Doctor for the past two.
Moffat spends two entire seasons exploring The Doctor and River in all the buildup for us finally seeing The Doctor's marriage involving her on-screen with fully knowing it, River's relationship with her parents explored further, and no doubt River learning his name is all left to the wayside in series 7.
In 7x01 Amy and Rory act like they don't have a very alive daughter when mentioning Amy can no longer have kids, or in 7x04 written by Chibnall to is completely erases River from the Ponds life.
The webcomic done by Chibnall for 7x05 is I have to laugh when people blame it on Chris only Steven Moffat gave approval because he couldn't make it into a web episode. The comic for those wondering has this kid that Amy and Rory adopted while zero mentioning of River.
Never mind Amy in series 6 once knowing who River is tells The Doctor to let River know on coming by for a visit, or in the finale neither Amy nor Rory are surprised to see River randomly drop in.
Where the only time we see River Song interact with her parents is in 7x05 when they exit. And now I can get into a bigger matter is the destroying of River's marriage with The Doctor starts in 7x05 with one simple scene.
River had broken her wrist where The Doctor uses regeneration energy to heal it with River being grateful? No River doesn't see herself as deserving of it, okay fine however Moffat takes it too far by having River slap The Doctor, that he embarrasses her, and tell Amy that one must hide damage based on him physically looking so young.
Wait… what? River right from her very first episode calls the Tenth Doctor young, and not in the sense of his physical. Even in other episodes, this makes no sense when River has always seen through his physical age.
Oh, River's line of him embarrassing her. A wrong way of using that call back when The Doctor said that to a very young hot-headed River in series 6 finale upon her was putting the universe at stake. Mind you trying to get The Doctor help so he wouldn't die for the betterment of the universe, and River only mentions loving him as a last resort.
So, The Doctor's "you embarrass me" line makes sense when he is rightfully chewing her out over her actions, and should not be used as a trivial line.
Which River slapping The Doctor for using his regeneration energy on her is out of character. Yes, in 6x02 River did that to the younger Doctor yet it was completely different reasons as The Doctor was being his arch manipulator self, like Doctor Seven.
However, 7x05 is Moffat having double standard female on male abuse.
On to Husbands of River Song I majorly dislike this episode. Like I can come up with reasons to make the lousily writing work, but it doesn't excuse Moffat sinking the pairing he created.
River knew even in his eleventh self The Doctor loved her between all the flirting, The Doctor telling River she is always and completely forgiven, practically an onscreen "I love you" and in Let's Kill Hitler episode while we never hear I'd say it is a safe bet he whispered for loving River in her ear. (RTD did something similar with Ten Clone and Rose in series 4.)
All the time's River knew The Doctor is there to catch her jumping out of ships or off buildings, so this whole River assumes her husband never loved her is wrong.
Plus, the episode has River's characterization massively damaged for being willing to remorselessly murder a man to get a diamond out of Hydroflax's head. Even if Hydroflax is a butchering conquer well River in prior episodes was more Indiana Jones in time/space, and only killed when required.
Not happily, and selfishly murdering villains just to get a diamond. I know the reasoning is "Following New York where she loses her parents and hasn't seen The Doctor in a while" only just an excuse for character butchering.
The final blow by Moffat from having gone on record in an interview saying how we should never see The Doctor and River's marriage on screen with The Doctor is embarrassed by it.
Okay, a 900- to 1000-year-old Time Lord is embarrassed by marrying River? Do you not care two bits about the relationship Moffat? Yep.
Probably explains how Moffat's able to move onto Doctor/Clara pairing so quickly. River's planned last appearance in DW was series 7 finale when ship teasing for Doctor/Clara had begun.
Moffat went out of his way to keep bringing Clara back at the actress's request but has no problem letting River Song remain trapped in a data core forever. Never mind Moffat at the very least couldn't even be bothered to use the theory, that RTD and he came up with is Dr. Moon is a far-flung future Doctor as official canon.
So at least River's not alone for the rest of her digital life if Moffat doesn't want to bring her out of the database.
You know never mind a massively wasted opportunity for River Song able to regenerate is like The Doctor, Romana or The Master is we could change actors with potentially keeping River around for a whole lot longer, post Library.
When detractors claim River is Moffat's pet like the guy doesn't care about River or her relationship with The Doctor. Any good parts we got for two season 4 episodes plus seasons 5/6 is nothing short of very lucky.
Now that I've got everything done on Doctor and River, I'm moving on to other random trivia notes.
The Doctor's name of the house he is from, or mentioning looms is just me taking stuff from the expanded EU but putting my spin to fit more in line with on-screen knowledge. As in the expanded novels, the looms produced fully grown Time Lords with no parents.
For those who don't know the conversation regarding Morbius and Lady Peinforte was brief snippets of hints for earlier lives before William Hartnell that never took off anywhere in the original series. I'm merely just providing answers without going that route. The half-human part from the DW film in the 1990s fits under the same category.
Also, like The Doctor using time being in flux during the Time War to fix what the Time Lords did to earth, or the eighth's Doctor half human line getting retconned is an idea writers from the new series use on explaining continuity errors.
Despite never actually using it in the show itself for all the temporal fighting has ripple effects.
On another note, yeah, I had fun working in various old, and new canon alongside bringing back a villain from the classic show.
Which I'm using The Master's academy nick name of Koschei from expanded novels, and the hints of other aliases is alluding to the fan theory kicked around for years that The Monk who faced the first Doctor, or the War Lord who faced the Second were all prior regenerations of The Master. Before the Third Doctor finally faced him for the first time in his run.
Until next time