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Danced 'til five this morning, went to sleep at seven. My illicit affair with coffee will get out of hand soon. Now I'm taking a break from writing to talk teevee.
In short my reaction to this episode is: BEWARE IT'S THE MONOGAMY ENFORCEMENT SQUAD. It's in the Doctor's subconcious! It's his dark side.
I'm glad I saw that the ep reaction posts on my flist were disappointed before I watched, because that lowered my (very high) expectations a bit. That helped some, I suppose. Timey-wimey-ness and alternate realities! I was hoping for awesome things.
I'm not sold on Rory/Amy as it's been presented. Partly it's because getting married doesn't interest me, as a storytelling trope, so it'd have to be really well-done for me to like it. I really liked their dynamic in the first ep with sort-of-boyfriend-girlfriend childhood BFF-ery, but now getting married, Conflicted Love and almost dying for one another instead... Does not compute.
One of the things I adore about this season of DW is all the fairytale allusions/tropes - the Peter Pan & Wendy vibe of Eleven and Amy (flying the universe in her nightie! Fixing that she's grown up!), that the two of them have know each other for the most part of their lives but at the same time are still new to each other. Amy's line in the Beast Below - I'm getting married a long time ago tomorrow morning. <3
To me, Amelia Pond is a fairytale, and the Doctor is a myth (grand and terrible/wonderful). Rory on the other hand, is reality, fun and awkward ordinariness, thrown into their story and caught up in it. Fairytales and myths and ordinariness have different storytelling conventions and mixing them is awesome unless you make your audience feel like the characters are puppets on the strings of the plot. Add some (not so) modern sexuality & relationship morals, and the mess is getting messy.
We still don't know what fairytale Amy dreams about, and I would like to.
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In short my reaction to this episode is: BEWARE IT'S THE MONOGAMY ENFORCEMENT SQUAD. It's in the Doctor's subconcious! It's his dark side.
I'm glad I saw that the ep reaction posts on my flist were disappointed before I watched, because that lowered my (very high) expectations a bit. That helped some, I suppose. Timey-wimey-ness and alternate realities! I was hoping for awesome things.
I'm not sold on Rory/Amy as it's been presented. Partly it's because getting married doesn't interest me, as a storytelling trope, so it'd have to be really well-done for me to like it. I really liked their dynamic in the first ep with sort-of-boyfriend-girlfriend childhood BFF-ery, but now getting married, Conflicted Love and almost dying for one another instead... Does not compute.
One of the things I adore about this season of DW is all the fairytale allusions/tropes - the Peter Pan & Wendy vibe of Eleven and Amy (flying the universe in her nightie! Fixing that she's grown up!), that the two of them have know each other for the most part of their lives but at the same time are still new to each other. Amy's line in the Beast Below - I'm getting married a long time ago tomorrow morning. <3
To me, Amelia Pond is a fairytale, and the Doctor is a myth (grand and terrible/wonderful). Rory on the other hand, is reality, fun and awkward ordinariness, thrown into their story and caught up in it. Fairytales and myths and ordinariness have different storytelling conventions and mixing them is awesome unless you make your audience feel like the characters are puppets on the strings of the plot. Add some (not so) modern sexuality & relationship morals, and the mess is getting messy.
We still don't know what fairytale Amy dreams about, and I would like to.
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