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After all, River Song is now in the form she's in when she lives her last life right?
Has it been established that she actually had more than one more life to give?
After all, If that was her second to last, then it could still fit the perimeters.
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There's "adding to the canon," then there's insulting my intelligence.
Let me ask: If the twelth Doctor has a tail, and he says that Time Lords always have tails, does that mean we should retroactively assume that the Doctor has always had a tail and we've just never seen it?
Except its not. It's exactly what some people here are arguing--that we should just accept whatever new information the show gives us, regardless of how contradictory or simply stupid it is.
And by the way you do know that implying an argument is invalid because it uses a logical fallacy is, itself, a logical fallacy, right?
The point is though, it's wrong to just "accept" everything that goes on. People need to draw lines somewhere, and the more critical the line is, the better.
If I suddenly accepted that Sarah Jane was in love with the Doctor and that regenerations are kabooms, then honestly I've just given the creative staff carte blanche to spoonfeed me whatever bullshit they want. They very well could do "Time Lords have tails" if they wanted, at that point. The only reason they can't is because I draw a line somewhere.
Because obviously I hate all the new characters, new stories and new details on Time Lord society/what species exist in the universe/seeing planets we've never seen before etc. right? Those are all "canon additions/changes" too, ya know. Think about what words mean before you use them.
No, I hate that the show is asking us to accept new details that actively contradict what we've known for a fact for the last 60+ years just to make a plot work. You might as well ask me to stop believing in Gravity. I also hate that such details have taken Doctor Who in a more superhero action movie direction as opposed to the slower yet more cerebral pacing of the original. Everything has to be a fucking action movie these days.
Understanding it isn't the problem. Suddenly having it dumped on us forty years after the fact with no prior hint or evidence is
Also, this may surprise you, but human beings aren't ruled by their hormones and people of mixed genders can spend years together and remain platonic. It's actually more common than you think.
All right. I'm calm now. Sorry about that!
As I said, there's a certain line I draw. I can accept "Holmes wasn't really dead Watson just jumped to conclusions" (the event being 'conned here has just enough left open for this to be plausible). Outright changing the past is something I can't accept, usually.
And honestly part of the reason it bothers me is because I don't like the modern stories themselves, and the retcons are honestly just helping dig the grave deeper.