Stuff! And things!
I'm at the farmstead for the holiday weekend, and so is Fivey (since the roommate is gone this weekend as well). Fivey and Charlotte are decidedly Not Friends, though I'm sure Charlotte would love to be. She was just way too enthused by the idea of checking him out, to Fivey's dismay, so my room is a dog-free zone.
Charlotte's efforts to befriend Timber have been similarly unsuccessful. She play-bows and does her level best to get him to romp around the yard, but while Timber will bark at her and chase her, he seems to be just generally bewildered with her overall. Someday.
I was able to watch Doctor Who today, so I have thoughts. Mostly critical thoughts, because that's how I roll as far as this show is concerned anymore. (Honestly, I think the only reason I'm keeping up with it is so I'll be up to speed when Moffat leaves and it hopefully improves.)
The part that probably miffed me the most, personally, was the kiss with River. It doesn't make their relationship any less completely fucked up than it was before - if anything, it makes it MORE fucked up because apparently he cares about her, after all. Previously, my head-canon had been that he was pretending to care about her because he had to... I mean, he married her because she was holding the entire universe hostage. And I thought it was pretty dickish of him to use River's feelings for him as a way of manipulating her, but that was what seemed to be happening. So adding genuine affection into the mix just makes it all that much weirder and grosser. The way he treated her was much easier to understand sans actual romance.
(Also, the whole 'he doesn't like goodbyes' thing seems pretty strange given that a) he's already seen her die, and b) since she's saved in the Library, couldn't he technically visit her whenever he wanted? Or just stick her on a thumb drive and plug her into the TARDIS console and have her around forever, if he loves her that much?)
I'm still not sure what I think about Clara. Part of me feels cheated - her character has never been all that well developed, and I'd assumed it was a deliberate choice because the ~mystery~ of her identity was more important than, y'know, her actual identity. But given how she wound up scattered through the Doctor's timeline, there really was no reason for them to not give us more of who she was before she made that choice. Especially because if they'd done that, her choice might make more sense.
I suspect we're supposed to take it as the willing sacrifice of someone who cares about the Doctor, but given how little we know about her relationship with the Doctor (except his willingness to lie to her - we know plenty about that!), I wasn't feeling it. It seemed more like the 'choice' of someone who realizes that they have no choice, thanks to wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey. She knows she has to do it, because she's already done it. Why she'd be willing to do it is irrelevant.
Also, retconning Clara into the entire series is a bit much. JFC, Moffat, take a step back.
At least Elementary was freaking amazing. And Warehouse 13 is back!
Charlotte's efforts to befriend Timber have been similarly unsuccessful. She play-bows and does her level best to get him to romp around the yard, but while Timber will bark at her and chase her, he seems to be just generally bewildered with her overall. Someday.
I was able to watch Doctor Who today, so I have thoughts. Mostly critical thoughts, because that's how I roll as far as this show is concerned anymore. (Honestly, I think the only reason I'm keeping up with it is so I'll be up to speed when Moffat leaves and it hopefully improves.)
The part that probably miffed me the most, personally, was the kiss with River. It doesn't make their relationship any less completely fucked up than it was before - if anything, it makes it MORE fucked up because apparently he cares about her, after all. Previously, my head-canon had been that he was pretending to care about her because he had to... I mean, he married her because she was holding the entire universe hostage. And I thought it was pretty dickish of him to use River's feelings for him as a way of manipulating her, but that was what seemed to be happening. So adding genuine affection into the mix just makes it all that much weirder and grosser. The way he treated her was much easier to understand sans actual romance.
(Also, the whole 'he doesn't like goodbyes' thing seems pretty strange given that a) he's already seen her die, and b) since she's saved in the Library, couldn't he technically visit her whenever he wanted? Or just stick her on a thumb drive and plug her into the TARDIS console and have her around forever, if he loves her that much?)
I'm still not sure what I think about Clara. Part of me feels cheated - her character has never been all that well developed, and I'd assumed it was a deliberate choice because the ~mystery~ of her identity was more important than, y'know, her actual identity. But given how she wound up scattered through the Doctor's timeline, there really was no reason for them to not give us more of who she was before she made that choice. Especially because if they'd done that, her choice might make more sense.
I suspect we're supposed to take it as the willing sacrifice of someone who cares about the Doctor, but given how little we know about her relationship with the Doctor (except his willingness to lie to her - we know plenty about that!), I wasn't feeling it. It seemed more like the 'choice' of someone who realizes that they have no choice, thanks to wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey. She knows she has to do it, because she's already done it. Why she'd be willing to do it is irrelevant.
Also, retconning Clara into the entire series is a bit much. JFC, Moffat, take a step back.
At least Elementary was freaking amazing. And Warehouse 13 is back!