.LacyMB on how Russell T. Davies can help save DoctorWho a second time
Sometimes impossible things just happen, and we call them miracles. Though that line was originally spoken by the Eleventh Doctor in the Season 5 episode “The Pandorica Opens,” it might feel strangely relevant tofans in 2021, who are trying to process the news that everything old is indeed new again, and former showrunner Russell T. Davies is officially returning to the series he left behind back in 2009..
Davies always understood that people, like stories, are made up of a pile of good and bad things . His Doctors, their companions, and the many supporting characters he introduced were never purely black or white, but creatures that existed somewhere in the middle, which is what helped make them all feel so rich and relatable. He made you care about his characters in a way that subsequent showrunners either weren’t terribly interested in or couldn’t manage.
Steven Moffat, a former writer under Davies and showrunner in his own right, had an incredible vision and a unique ability to plot out massive, complex plots full of shocking twists and turns. Yet, at the end of the day he was much less interested in the everyday people that populated those stories than his predecessor had been.
In recent seasons, current showrunner Chris Chibnall has struggled to really give Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteen, the franchise’s first female Doctor, and her companions anything that feels like genuine interiority or emotional arcs. The series has also been strangely resistant to really portraying her story in a way that interrogates or challenges our understanding of what having a female Doctor would necessarily mean.
To be fair, Davies’ previous tenure certainly wasn’t perfect. There’s entirely too much reliance on childish jokes and body humor . And I think we must acknowledge that his treatment of Martha was frequently problematic in ways both large and small., it’s also obvious that Davies has grown as both a showrunner and a storyteller, and it’s hard not to look at shows like
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