Doctor Who-y thoughts and a vid rec

[alias_sqbr]

First a very nice Amy vid : Half Life

Which leads into my thinky thoughts but they are spoilery up to "Amy's Choice", so, beware the crack cut...(Summary: not TOTALLY in love with current show direction but overall am finding it quite interesting)

Comments

[ariaflame]

Plus also possibly taking a leaf out of Stephen Moffat's book in making everyday things/people scary. So far he's managed to make scary children, clockwork, shadows, statues, wall cracks and fairground type machines.

Why not old people?

[alias_sqbr]

Because they're a group who already gets a certain amount of mistreatment/prejudice. I mean, it's not as bad as if they had a "All the black people turn out to be monsters" episode, and I wasn't Deeply Offended, but it did rub me a little the wrong way.

[violetsquirrel]

I pretty much loved everything the show did romance-and/or-sexwise until this episode. I practically cheered when Amy walled (TARDISed?) the Doctor not because I ship them (I really like the analogy that the Doctor sees humans as kittens) but because she just cut right to the chase instead of angsting at him for two seasons. And I like your interpretation of him and the way the scene was handled completely fits that.

But this episode did the whole "I'd rather die than live without the guy I love" thing and I just really can't stand that, especially for a character as self-assured as Amy seems to be. I can understand her making a snap judgement that that wasn't reality but that's not how it was explained at the end of the episode. It just really seems to be shortchanging her.

[alias_sqbr]

I decided that I didn't like that interpretation so I was going to ignore it, even if that's what they meant :) In my head it was more like a game theory/"Noone gets left behind" decision: there was a 50% chance that killing herself would save Rory's life, and a 100% chance that not killing herself would leave Rory dead.

[violetsquirrel]

I like this theory! I will reject their reality and substitute yours.

[big_n_happy]

Oh, cheers for the rec!

Yeah, I'm having issues with things being at times too explicit, generally prefer fucked up UST. Doesn't help that I seem to be the only person who doesn't really care for Amy/Rory. But the character study of the Doctor is shaping out pretty well, and I like that he shoves his angst into weird parts of subconscious rather than moping all over the place.

[alias_sqbr]

I like Amy/Rory as an alternative to Amy/The Doctor rather than entirely on it's own merits.

like that he shoves his angst into weird parts of subconscious rather than moping all over the place

Exactly!

[big_n_happy]

Yeah, I'm perfectly comfortable with the idea of Amy/Rory, it's just they're a bit generic as a couple. And after being disappointed both by Rusty's shipping and Moff's more mature approach, come back around to thinking it should be ambiguous.

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah, I'd rather shipping be not done than done badly. Season 4 of New Who was a nice respite after 2 and 3.

[samara_47]

At first I thought that ALL Timelords were not interested in Romance, then I realized that there was no way the species would survive.. your solution sounds more plausible, though I never noticed any angst against Master-wife.

[alias_sqbr]

The doctor has had timelord children at some point, so he's not asexual as in not reproducing. But in semi-canonical spinoff canon timelords don't reproduce with sex anyway.