Whereas; the most recent Doctor Who season finale "The Reality War" has been the most polarizing episode in terms of fandom reaction since "The Timeless Children" and in order to restore people's faith in the show it needs to show people it can fix its mistakes without letting them overwrite new story (like how one of the few good things "The Reality War" did in a lot of people's eyes was retcon a bit of what "The Timeless Children" added to the lore)

Whereas; there are so many unanswered questions left by 15's era like the reason for the fourth wall breaking and stuff and not just stories that never got a proper resolution but characters as we never really got a satisfactory answer for what Ruby's deal was (and "Lucky Day" made me hopeful she could still be a recurring character and even if the new plan for S2 meant they couldn't do the old plan give her a story as good or greater) and our best hope to avoid, well, a bad writing decision that'd make people fear Doctor Who would turn out so bad-in-the-same-way-as-Supernatural they'd be afraid it'd end after this next season, would be for if this next Doctor truly is going to be a woman, her to rescue Rogue not out of love but out of duty-of-helping-people-or-w/e and perhaps wlw/mlm solidarity if she's bi acknowledging that they could still be friends until she regenerates into someone he could be attracted to again.

Whereas; it's not just that characters were done dirty it's that most of those characters were some sort of minority and fixing their arcs would be the best way for show and showrunner to avoid accusations of being problematic. Ruby's arc could get better resolved (like I said, even if they couldn't give her what they would have, they should give her something as similar as can work with the new status quo) and even Belinda's could get tweaked (as even if Poppy was somehow always hers maybe either there could be some way to make her still part-time-lord or w/e and not just a normal kid without proving "Wish World" right iykwim or there could just be a way to correct for what seem like the too-drastic changes to Belinda's character (and it's not just becoming a mom, there was that shit with the DNA scanner)), Rogue could get rescued, the Rani Of Color could get resurrected instead of just leaving us with the old white one who isn't the one it feels like they were trying to queer-code and even Susan could actually get something. The list goes on but the point's the same, that this new Doctor's era shouldn't try and clean-break with the old (as this past season proves if they didn't die-in-a-way-it's-impossible-to-come-back-from anyone can come back any time) and that if all these characters are just left hanging it looks really bad for the show.

Whereas; even regardless of character diversities and treatment of such there are things about Gatwa's era that even if he had to leave us too soon (I've heard it both ways) should still stick around. I've heard some people say some probably would be like the fourth-wall-breaking but I want things to stick around ranging from the magic (I refuse to believe the Doctor's line about no more wishes broke the salt thing) as I actually like quasi-urban-fantasy Doctor Who to the magical realist tone to the sociopolitics to even the changing clothes and the kind of Doctor portryaal and the music motif. Not saying it should feel copy-paste but Ten's era still felt like Nine's.

Whereas; Doctor Who has gotten so freaking meta these days and Gatwa's sadly-two seasons (whatever his reason for leaving) could be read as basically one big metaphorical conversation the show is having with itself about its own identity and people have said as I said that that's not a thing likely to die with his era. So there must be some way (that should ideally be done without sacrificing the rest of the potential of the next Doctor for this story to avoid an infinite loop) that without going, like, full She-Hulk season finale and having them encounter even a fictionalized version of RTD, that meta angle could be taken advantage of to fix the mistakes as best they can from inside the story.

Therefore; there should be a way to restore the lost potential of this past season and give characters (many of whom are both diverse and popular) the respect and story they deserve and even if it's not the original plan it could be at least something similar to what the original plan was but that way doesn't have to just be Doylist as given the meta-ness of the show who's to say there couldn't be some sort of fixing-the-universe ripple-effect type deals or some other way to "fix the story from inside it"

#JusticeForBelinda #JusticeForRuby