Doctor Who 6x10 - The Girl Who Waited
I really, really loved this episode. Definitely my favorite from this half of S6. It was quite an entertaining story and proved to me that standalones can still be good. I honestly didn't have any problems with it...
...while I was watching, that is. After I sat down to think, there was one thing that bothered me quite a bit. It's the same thing that keeps bothering me in S6. Although, kudos to the writer, I was so wrapped up in the story that I at least didn't notice it at the time.
The thing that keeps bothering me though is...
Well, let's have Eddie Izzard explain it.
I really would have preferred the Amy who saved herself over the passive one who keeps getting rescued by the boys. Old!Amy was so cool!
And I really loved Amy in S5. She had an active role. And it's really killing me to watch what Moffat and Co. are doing to her with S6.
Also, it seems pretty clear that Amy is sort of an analog for Melody. If they save baby Melody, then they rewrite the other one. The one who has learned to persevere in the face of adversity. The one who saved herself. The one who appears to have lost one of her lives while escaping from her captors so that she could go and have the life she wanted with her parents. If they rewrite active River into passive Melody, I will be exceptionally pissed. I will...pretend to quit watching, but keep watcing in secret.
So, I'm annoyed with passive!Amy, fearing passive!Melody, and generally pissed off that Classic Who seems to be doing better at feminism than the new series - that television seems to be going backwards on that front.
In spite of all that, I still enjoyed the episode quite a lot.
...while I was watching, that is. After I sat down to think, there was one thing that bothered me quite a bit. It's the same thing that keeps bothering me in S6. Although, kudos to the writer, I was so wrapped up in the story that I at least didn't notice it at the time.
The thing that keeps bothering me though is...
Well, let's have Eddie Izzard explain it.
Click to viewI really would have preferred the Amy who saved herself over the passive one who keeps getting rescued by the boys. Old!Amy was so cool!
And I really loved Amy in S5. She had an active role. And it's really killing me to watch what Moffat and Co. are doing to her with S6.
Also, it seems pretty clear that Amy is sort of an analog for Melody. If they save baby Melody, then they rewrite the other one. The one who has learned to persevere in the face of adversity. The one who saved herself. The one who appears to have lost one of her lives while escaping from her captors so that she could go and have the life she wanted with her parents. If they rewrite active River into passive Melody, I will be exceptionally pissed. I will...pretend to quit watching, but keep watcing in secret.
So, I'm annoyed with passive!Amy, fearing passive!Melody, and generally pissed off that Classic Who seems to be doing better at feminism than the new series - that television seems to be going backwards on that front.
In spite of all that, I still enjoyed the episode quite a lot.