#look okay 12's rules are awful and utter bullshit but there's a reason that guy hated himself

[ssaalexblake]

hard fandom conversations surrounding moffat setting up the story around Missy in such a way that the next version of the character had to come back evil after her, or missy’s good deeds would be considered void and everything she did would literally have been hopeless and for nothing. 

I mean, I enjoy a good tragedy, doesn’t bother me (like, i don’t like the story Unless it’s viewed as a tragic mess, but that’s a whole other post), but at some point y’all gonna have to look at this arc and realise that Moffat set it up so the master’s goodness Had to go unnoticed and unrewarded to be a successful moment of true virtue, and that therefore the next person to write the master would have to make them #evil to preserve that moment of good in the timeline.

The person you’re mad at is Moffat. Not Chibnall. It’s Moffat. He set the rules because his story was never once meant to make the master one of the ‘good guys’ now, and because this was a good way to explore their potential for good without ruining an iconic villain of tv that’s been around for 50 years, i imagine. 

#dw shit #literally sick of chibnall getting flack for following the rules the other guy set #look okay 12's rules are awful and utter bullshit but there's a reason that guy hated himself #and that's part of the reason why #12 shot them both in the foot #which #tragic!! #but that's like... the whole idea??? two characters don't die in the dirt #away from each other when they should be holding hands #bc it's a nice story #they failed!!!! (they did not fail. they can never know. this is a tragedy but it is not without hope) #and now they have to live with it #now i would have wanted to throw thngs if the master showed up nice #for the disrespect #dw following Almost traditional narratives but not and fandom not liking that #is not a phenomenon singular to chibbs era #pains me to say i like some of moffats writing but here we are i guess #(to be clear i;m not blaming him. i like it. he can have this one. sadly.)