Or so say the folks at io9, in between implying someone should be blacklisted just because they share the same political views the President of the United States professed to hold back when he was running for office.
Truthfully, the "futurists" (Marxist-progressives) at io9 are just upset that the Doctor hasn't turned into a woman yet.
The fact of the matter is that The Day of the Doctor was hands down the best full-length multi-Doctor episode we've ever had. If The Three Doctors was a bit of a hash for crap sets and an extremely limited appearance by a basically-dying William Hartnell and The Five Doctors was an overstuffed continuity cavalcade, The Day of the Doctor hit the sweet sp-
-what's that? The Two Doctors? Please. You want to see a crap effort at a multi-Doctor story by an author renowned for scaring kids behind the sofa, you're asking to see Robert Holmes's first crap serial, The Two Doctors, not the better of the two specials Steven Moffat wrote this year.
Now, I'll be the first to admit that I'm pissed at Moffat for shoving the schedule around the calendar so that we only got eight episodes this year (although I think in the span of those eight episodes, Jenna Coleman mastered her "you have got to be frakking kidding me" face, so at least there's that - not to knock the actress, but that seems to be Clara's character in a nutshell, and certainly all she got to do in this year's true Doctor Who fiasco, the Christmas Special). You're not HBO, Steve. You're not making a show with a huge ensemble cast and filming it all the hell over Europe such that it's literally impossible to pump out more than ten episodes a year - and, let's be honest, Game of Thrones has never given us an episode as insulting as "A Good Man Goes to War," as bad as "The Power of Three," or as misaimed as "Vincent and the Doctor." (Hey, speaking of GOT, io9 missed a chance to show off its Marxist-progressive cred by bitching about the crowdsurfing scene at the end of "Mhysa" again.)
Where was I? Oh, right. The Day of the Doctor was, apparently, "mostly just David Tennant and Matt Smith palling around." Cool, you completely missed the point of the episode. I'm guessing Matt's contract dictated his name appear first on the opening credits, because the real star of that episode was John Hurt's War Doctor. (Yes, the show's anniversary was celebrated with a story featuring an incarnation of the Doctor we'd never seen prior to that year, but the alternative - bring Eccleston back - also entailed bringing back a director who hadn't worked on the show since 2005. Rock, hard place.) And instead of "palling around," they actually finally dealt with the Time War. The Three Doctors is such an appropriate comparison: you have three Doctors, you undo a change in the Lore forced on you by the previous production team. The difference is, Gallifrey had been destroyed for eight years, whereas the Doctor had only been stranded on Earth for three. Ooooh, is there some magic time at which a change (in a show like Doctor Who, which has never maintained a single actor for more than seven years) becomes permanent?
And then there was An Adventure in Space and Time. If you're an actual fan of the show and that docudrama didn't leave you in tears, I'm going to have to open up your head and see if a Dalek eyestalk comes out.
So, yes, the BBC handled the anniversary appropriately. For io9 to bitch about it, after carping on about blacklisting people and well before mentioning Star Trek Into Darkness, is actually pretty frakking stupid.
Addendum: the fact that this arch-conservative keeps coming back to io9 despite the fact that at least one of its main contributors is a closet totalitarian is proof that I am more tolerant than they are. Choke on that.
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