I finally finished the 12^th season of Doctor Who, completing my rewatch of the traveler from Gallifrey and the stolen TARDIS and thought this medium might be the best place to post my general disappointment in completing the journey from Eccleston to Whittaker.

The biggest problem is something both the 9^th and 13^th incarnations of the Doctor have each had to deal with – lazy scripts that speak more of a general lack of direction for the Time Lord (or Timeless Child).

The other Time Lord running in circles looking for conceptual direction, The Master, was played as well can be expected from Sacha Dhawan doing his best John Simm, the man who inhabited the Master’s role while working against David Tennant with entertaining storylines that didn’t just leave questions unanswered.

What still hasn’t been answered or explained with enough significance is why Whittaker’s version of the Doctor is so ignorant to just about everything. All versions of The Doctor walk blindly into their enemies’ various plots and schemes. But the 13^th never seems truly ahead of her opponent, something even Capaldi’s ‘old man’ Doctor was able to pull off.

The writers also are not pulling off three companions. It tends to split an already thin concept three ways, leaving at least one storyline completely useless or connected to Yaz, which are one in the same. I’m sure Sofia Afzal is a fine actress, but the police officer in training from Sheffield wastes my time any time she appears on screen. She even continued the Companion Crying trend, started by Rose, skipped by Doctor Donna and taken to new heights with Clara.

My guess is multiple companions were necessary since companions tend to crush on the Doctor and they didn’t want to deal with potential backlash of a black human and a white alien traveling by themselves in close quarters.

What’s that? The 12^th Doctor hung with Bill Potts for a season? Um…let’s add a non-mother, then kill her off and leave an adopted father situation to eliminate the need for romance for a little bit. I’m sorry? Why didn’t we do something similar when Martha Jones was smitten with the 10^th Doctor, despite the fact we introduced Martha’s parents? Well…look over there. Isn’t that Gallifrey burning? And is that another version of the same Time Lord, but as an older black woman?

 As entertaining another version of our favorite ‘Timeless Child’, introducing this made no sense and incenses me that I was expected to forget everything from before. As if I didn’t spend countless hours watching Doctor Donna and the exploits of River Song. As if I haven’t already dismissed the unnecessary love affair between Tennant and Rose Tyler, dismissing completely the actions of Mickey Smith and all he did to stay relevant to a female whose murder he was charged with…

I’m charging too far ahead and forgetting that the 13^th Doctor, despite the hours of episodes detailing the character’s history, is being treated as if everything is brand new. That Whittaker’s character and storylines are written for a group of Whovians who just got on board after ‘The Doctor Falls’ and have found this series thanks to the casting of a female in the lead.

Even if that’s the case, that doesn’t account for the character’s general stupidity with events that have taken place prior or just recently. It doesn’t account for every episode being centered around someone or something else with the Doctor serving as an add-on, a character entering something 15-20 minutes into an episode to save the proverbial day.

“Every day of your life is a page of your history” is a proverb that this Doctor does not abide by. There is seemingly a page or two of dialect that is reminiscent of Doctors from the past. But rarely do these words come from Whittaker’s mouth. Even rarer that the words are uttered by Yaz. But that I’m desperate for a few words to remind me of the days of Davies and David Moffat declares definitively that the writers are doing this Doctor a demonstrative disservice.