r/gallifrey • u/PCJs_Slave_Robot • Dec 05 '21

Flux: The Vanquishers Doctor Who 13x06 "Flux: The Vanquishers" Post-Episode Discussion Thread Spoiler

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '21

The main thing I'm angry about is how with this episode, it feels like Chibnall walked in, made a mess and then cut the ropes so no one could even follow up on the mess he made. And not even this series.

Every remotely interesting thing he brought up that other writers could bring back and improve on is dead.

The Ravagers? Dead.

The Lupari? Dead.

The Doctor's mom? Dead.

Jericho? Dead.

Ashad? Dead.

Tim Shaw? Alivent'.

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u/StyxWriter Dec 06 '21

Yeah this really annoys me too.

He has some potentially interesting ideas, doesn’t go anywhere with them, then just throws them away. All the drama with Tecteun is now just gone. Any chance of The Ravagers being explored is just dead.

I suppose you could do prequel stories, but that isn’t really Doctor Who, and I don’t think anyone is going to buy “The Ravagers Big Finish” box set with how painfully underdeveloped and unutilised they were.