Women and Their Stories in Doctor Who
So, I ended up getting into a really great discussion with therealycats about RTD's Women in Doctor Who vs Moffat's Women in Doctor Who over in this post and while replying to her comments, I realized that I was basically writing the meta that I'd been toying around with writing, so I edited my comments together to create this post. If you want to see my
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We've spent two season with Amy, and I still don't know who she is. I mean, all I know is that she obsessed over the Doctor since childhood, gets married, has a baby whose existence is like the saddest thing ever, becomes a model/perfume creator (lol, what?), and really digs Vincent van Gogh. But I have no idea what she will do in any given situation. Whereas with Rose/Martha/Donna, I tend to mentally insert them into episodes because I'm always curious as to what they would do in these different situations. I just can't get that feel for Amy, even if she's in the episode.
As for River, I feel nothing but pity. I had so much hope for her when I first I first watched SitL/FotD. I didn't realize that there had to be any extra mystery surrounding her. I thought the "ordinary" mystery of introducing a new character would have been enough (why yes, I would like more adventures of a sassy space archeologist from the future. She knows these adventures, but I don't. I can't wait to see them!). But there had to be a bigger mystery that turned out to be a massive ball of "hot mess" and "do not want" with a side of "ick". And then I just feel sorry for River because her entire existence sucks and lacks any kind of free will (and that's supposed to be romantic in some way? Really now, fandom).
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