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Let me start by saying, and if this turns you off, feel free to move onward, that while I don’t buy into the “piss off the right people” bullcrap, if I’m going to accidentally tick someone off I’d rather it be someone I disagree with it. I do not buy the modern idea of “multiple genders” because it doesn’t make any logical sense. It’s just another way to divide us into smaller and more controllable groups while obscuring what being “male” and “female” are for whatever dumb culture war reason there is. I’ll call a trans person by their preferred pronoun out of courtesy and avoiding argument, but I have to draw a line somewhere whether this site is openly involved in the culture war or not…and I’m trying to be not. So Grant Morrison will be called by male pronouns here and “they” are welcome to complain if it bothers “them”.

So with that disclaimer out of the way, and don’t waste our time calling me whatever the current divisive term is because I don’t care, let’s get on with his/they/whatever discussing how Grant Morrison would fix Doctor Who‘s terrible finale. In a recent post on his Substack, which I don’t read so hat tip to Bleeding Fool contributor Karina Smith, Morrison added a fix to the “Rose Doctor” as part of what I’m guessing are replies to his readers. Now I’m not a fan of Morrison’s style in general. His ideas are sometimes weird and very British while also leaning too much on nostalgia for even me. For example, trying to work every incarnation of Batman into one version where every story happened regardless of continuity differences between the various reboots. I have nothing against Morrison’s work, I’m just not into it.

Still, it is nice to see people not give up on a long-running franchise and trying to find ways to restore things, and while Morrison has written comics before, the article suggest the folks at the British Broadcasting Channel wouldn’t agree to get an episode past despite previous pitches sent the BBC’s way, at least according to Morrison. Does that mean I agree with Morrison’s ideas? Not entirely. Does that mean I think they’re bad? Well, why don’t we just look at the ideas and see.

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