#(i'll spare you the rant on the nonexistence of objective quality)

[dw-companion-bracket]

Bit late now but I think separating classic who and new who would have been a good idea and a bit fairer.

well yeah, but also that would have been kinda less interesting, i've loved watching certain classic companions narrowly gain victories from what i thought would have been obvious nuwho sweeps (thinking especially about the ian/clara match) and also seeing which classic characters have ended up being winning and iconic (hi ian). tbh if there was one thing i'd change going back to the start, it would be not putting four characters from any category through, because that's what made it possible for there to (technically only potentially but probably certainly) be an rtd-only semifinal and final, although that's also in part a problem of assuming equality across nuwho eras and classic who eras as two broad categories, and then splitting every group across the four corners of the bracket rather than, say, putting two rtd characters into two of the semifinal feeders. idk, there's lots of ways it could have been done differently, but the "unfair" results are also part of the interesting bits for me

#especially seeing which results are sweeps and which results are really tight #like every rose round except this semifinal has been so close #to the point where she'd always be losing as i go to bed then in the lead when i wake up #interestingly enough ace is the only one not giving her a real run for her money #that may be to do with the bracket spreading further through that space of the fandom as it gets more followers #maybe it's because more people know ace and can therefore make a decision on it ??? #fuck knows tbh #because she's been SWEEPING up until now where it's a confident loss #i will post more analysis stuff after the final i think. there's gonna be a few categories of 'winner' to split things up a bit #i was gonna say that doing a 'classic companions poll' would be unoriginal cos i've seen 2 of those #but there was a broader companions one that was also run #hence the blog description #the thing is tho. nobody ever thought this was in any way a scientific method of assessing popularity or 'quality' #(i'll spare you the rant on the nonexistence of objective quality) #so why not let us see where the bias swings? i've enjoyed watching it at least #seeing different peoples arguments #etc #idk sorry im rambling on a very simple ask. but u get my point. the point being that i have a critical mass of autism. #ask