LogFAQs > #979889039

People who are overly critical of Whittaker's tenure are forgetting how bad the writing actually was in the RTD era. I've been rewatching it with a group of friends on Discord and a lot of episodes are actually pretty rough and/or unnecessary.

Off the top of my head, the Lazarus episode. That entire second half didn't need to exist at all lol

And then there are the obvious callouts like Love & Monsters and how Davies doesn't understand what a "Christmas special" is supposed to be. He just takes a regular script for a non-Christmas-themed episode, sets the date to December 25th and adds a Santa robot, and says "good enough".