#ig maybe my resistance to this idea of story vs filler is because dr who has great individual episodes

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I'm honestly not big on the whole 'filler/story' divide people sometimes put stories into because there's this inherent implication that 'story' is always interesting and advances things and 'filler' is boring and you can and should skip it, when a lot of the time 'filler' episodes can be a lot of fun and subtly develop stuff or portray really interesting ideas and stories of their own while 'story' episodes can be convoluted messes that are so preoccupied with being Epic (tm) that they don't bother to make sense or have satisfying emotional stakes

#personal crap #like one of my absolute favourite doctor who stories is father's day and that's a really powerful moving little story about rose's dad #but it doesn't really tie into the arc of series 1 so you could just go 'oh that's filler' if you follow this mindset #ig maybe my resistance to this idea of story vs filler is because dr who has great individual episodes #and a lot of its big arcs kinda suck XD