amazingatheist:

I got 8 questions pertaining to my earlier statement that Neil Gaiman is a douche. I may actually make a video about why I dislike the guy, but I’ll lay out some very basic reasons here to sate the curiosity of those who asked.

• He is basically a shill for DC, constantly using his twitter to…

10 reasons why The Doctor’s Wife wasn’t Terrible (and three Reasons why Niel Gaiman isn’t a douche… probably)

1. Doctor Who isn’t normally a philosophical show that reflects tragedy and beauty, those elements are entirely coincidental. Doctor Who is a fun show for kids with scary monsters and almost as many “jumping on points” as their are stories.

2. The Doctor’s Wife is a love letter to the show. The communicator cubes hadn’t been seen since sixty-nine, in the same story that the time lords first appeared. It’s set mostly in a junkyard, like the shows very first episode.

3. Doctor Who is silly. Brilliantly, Britishly and deliberately silly. The Tardis being called sexy is funny because the Doctor thinks the Tardis is sexy; it’s a silly joke. Much like Romana’s regenerations and and the Doctor asking every other bloke he meets if they want a jelly baby is a silly joke. Or, a more recent example, the farting Slitheen. Some of the jokes are funnier than others but you’ll get than in a show for kids aged one to one hundred.

4.

“Fear me, I’ve killed hundred of time lords.”

“Fear me, I’ve killed all of them.”

5. House is scary and powerful and original. He eats Tardises, that’s a a very good villain for a story about the Tardis. He’s also the equal opposite of the Tardis; smaller on the inside.

6. We finally get to see some more of the Tardis interior. The new series hadn’t shown anything other than the console room. Speaking of which…

7. The RTD era console room gets a cameo. Nostalgia isn’t just for veteran viewers. My little brothers loved seeing the old set again.

8. The makeshift Tardis console. Even though it was designed by a child it looks amazing, and very reminiscent of the old console rooms. Also, the effect of a Tardis dematerialising without a shell and is something some fans (ie: me) have wanted to see since Frontios.

9. The shows two main characters have a conversation for the first time in forty eight years, which is brilliant. And it’s written brilliantly; “I always took you where you needed to go.”

10. It’s Doctor Who. It’s never terrible. (well sometimes it might be to certain people *dimensions in time* but I needed a nice round number). It’s at times laughably and cringe-inducingly bad, but I’ve never seen a terrible episode. And I’ve seen all of them.

Regarding Neil Gaiman’s Douchery…

1: I love Alan Moore probably more than I like Niel Gaiman, but he was not fucked over by DC, at least not especially. Not enough to warrant his level of disdain. I hate to sound crass but he should have read his contract. And consider whether you would work for youtube if they ever paid your friends and mentors less than they thought they deserved, or made money from merchandise that you influenced. 

2: Coraline, Good Omens, The Graveyard Book, Neverwhere and Beowulf are all quite well written. Maybe not Beowulf but The Graveyard Book is excellent, as is Coraline.

3: People are wrong on the internet all the time and just stop talking when they’ve been bested. Galen should feel vindicated by the silence. And not retracting misinformation? Really? He’s not a journalist, he writes comic books. Hold him to the standards of anyone else on the internet. Maybe even cut him some slack for lacking anonymity.