Why Why Love and Doctor Who. Nope, nothing in common
I've gotten to the angsty part of Why Why Love.
Hold me.
Why?????? ARGH. Poor woobies. Though seriously, Huo Da, I know you think it's for the best, for her not to care, but maybe you should just tell her the truth and not dump her. The whole 'I m totally dying in a horrible slow fashion' is not the best pick-up line ever, true, but she loves you. I know you don't want to be yet another burden on a girl that has so many, but come ON. She is going to find out anyway, since I peeked ahead, and you are going to have that awesome weepy/huggy/emo scene in the hospital anyway.
This said, if I didn't know this was HEA, I couldn't watch.
On Doctor Who front, oh boy. Oh boy. The first half of the season is ROUGH.
If I was merely indiffrent to 3.03 (Gridlock), I actively disliked 'The Daleks of Manhattan.' I could get hives if I started recounting everything that is historically wrong, inaccurate, and silly, from the small things such workers not being told what kind of metal the plates are, when they need to know in order to rivet the plates, to the wrong dates for the buildings, and the fact that for some reason it seems that instead of Al Smith we have Daleks who are building Empire State. And that is only the beginning. Every two minutes made me cringe in sheer historical inaccuracy.
Martha's not knowing what Hooverville was is less irritating than her not knowing about Hamnet, but the McGuffin of this educated woman not knowing basic social and historical stuff so we'd have exposition is getting ridiculous. Either let her know something she would know, or take her somewhere where she justifiably wouldn't know stuff about.
Also, I know PC is awesome and all, but the attitude to Black characters is all wrong in this episode and sticks out like an ahistorical sore thumb. No way would Hooverville be run by a minority person, and the white chorus girl would not be all for Martha and the Doctor being an OTP (I have to say, if they have a minority person as the Doctor's companion, it's a sad fact that they should be careful which period of history they use for their stories, if they stick to Earth, because for most of our history, we were pretty freaking racist. The way Martha is treated throughout the ep is right from a moral point of view but is so ahistorical it sets my teeth on edge. You have to be careful with how and where you place your stories, writers. Now you have to accomodate two ethnicities, k? Make sure Martha doesn't stick out, wherever they go. Because merely by virtue of the color of her skin in our so-not-yet-in-the-least-tolerant society, she would stick out many places in the past, same way the Doctor would stick out in Joseon Korea or in the Great Zimbabwe. Yeah, this complicates your writing. Deal with it).
Martha continues to be nice and well-adjusted and I have no interest in her whatsoever. That is not much of a slam as with shoddy writing such as this ep, I wasn't even interested in the Doctor!
Please tell me it gets better. Please.
Hold me.
Why?????? ARGH. Poor woobies. Though seriously, Huo Da, I know you think it's for the best, for her not to care, but maybe you should just tell her the truth and not dump her. The whole 'I m totally dying in a horrible slow fashion' is not the best pick-up line ever, true, but she loves you. I know you don't want to be yet another burden on a girl that has so many, but come ON. She is going to find out anyway, since I peeked ahead, and you are going to have that awesome weepy/huggy/emo scene in the hospital anyway.
This said, if I didn't know this was HEA, I couldn't watch.
On Doctor Who front, oh boy. Oh boy. The first half of the season is ROUGH.
If I was merely indiffrent to 3.03 (Gridlock), I actively disliked 'The Daleks of Manhattan.' I could get hives if I started recounting everything that is historically wrong, inaccurate, and silly, from the small things such workers not being told what kind of metal the plates are, when they need to know in order to rivet the plates, to the wrong dates for the buildings, and the fact that for some reason it seems that instead of Al Smith we have Daleks who are building Empire State. And that is only the beginning. Every two minutes made me cringe in sheer historical inaccuracy.
Martha's not knowing what Hooverville was is less irritating than her not knowing about Hamnet, but the McGuffin of this educated woman not knowing basic social and historical stuff so we'd have exposition is getting ridiculous. Either let her know something she would know, or take her somewhere where she justifiably wouldn't know stuff about.
Also, I know PC is awesome and all, but the attitude to Black characters is all wrong in this episode and sticks out like an ahistorical sore thumb. No way would Hooverville be run by a minority person, and the white chorus girl would not be all for Martha and the Doctor being an OTP (I have to say, if they have a minority person as the Doctor's companion, it's a sad fact that they should be careful which period of history they use for their stories, if they stick to Earth, because for most of our history, we were pretty freaking racist. The way Martha is treated throughout the ep is right from a moral point of view but is so ahistorical it sets my teeth on edge. You have to be careful with how and where you place your stories, writers. Now you have to accomodate two ethnicities, k? Make sure Martha doesn't stick out, wherever they go. Because merely by virtue of the color of her skin in our so-not-yet-in-the-least-tolerant society, she would stick out many places in the past, same way the Doctor would stick out in Joseon Korea or in the Great Zimbabwe. Yeah, this complicates your writing. Deal with it).
Martha continues to be nice and well-adjusted and I have no interest in her whatsoever. That is not much of a slam as with shoddy writing such as this ep, I wasn't even interested in the Doctor!
Please tell me it gets better. Please.