I divorced the show near the beginning of season 7, the third season of Moffat as showrunner, which was the point at which all the stuff that Moffat prioritized,* which is the opposite of what I wanted, finally reached a threshold where I couldn't ignore it anymore and the whole thing came crashing down for me.
The clean break was not good in my case lol. Doctor Who was a show that was very meaningful to me and it felt crushingly awful. I couldn't even think about the show without crying for years afterwards. I was able to move on from it eventually but honestly it was a defining grief of my mid twenties.
* the doctor is totally chill with violence, rather than his violent impulses being something that comes out when he's at his worst! the doctor is the most special boy in the universe, and his companions have to be special too, rather than the point of the show being that everyone is special in their ordinariness! the doctor is very much not asexual! misogynistic jokes are funny! every story needs to be about WORLD-ENDINGLY-MASSIVE plots that last all season and are all about Moffat making sure you know how clever he is! and so forth.
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The clean break was not good in my case lol. Doctor Who was a show that was very meaningful to me and it felt crushingly awful. I couldn't even think about the show without crying for years afterwards. I was able to move on from it eventually but honestly it was a defining grief of my mid twenties.
* the doctor is totally chill with violence, rather than his violent impulses being something that comes out when he's at his worst! the doctor is the most special boy in the universe, and his companions have to be special too, rather than the point of the show being that everyone is special in their ordinariness! the doctor is very much not asexual! misogynistic jokes are funny! every story needs to be about WORLD-ENDINGLY-MASSIVE plots that last all season and are all about Moffat making sure you know how clever he is! and so forth.