Dr Who 6.11
Okay, but like, that was sort of counter productive, because in sabotaging Amy's faith in him the Doctor saved the day, thus reinforcing her faith in him. And they were so close to letting her get some emotional autonomy, too!
Possible theory: the Doctor killed the Minotaur by self-sabotaging his belief in his own god-like powers. Except that he's already been shown to have the self-loathing down pat, so. Either way it ties into something we were talking about last night, where in season four there was this whole thing where he was going too far out of control, and it's happening again in season six but this time it has this undertone of "See, this is why a stupid person would think the Doctor is bad, but really he's awesome!" No, actually, he's both (and awesome has not always had the connotations that it does now).
Pretty sure everyone's going to mention them killing off Rita so I won't go into that.
This episode was sort of a test for me. I've always watched Dr Who, but the episodes since the mid-season break have been so absolutely gutting and problematic and terrible that I'm honestly not sure I want to anymore. After 6.11 I'm still not sure. I don't know how I feel about it, I really don't.
(I do feel a lot better about Rory now though. His past-tense reference to TARDIS travel, after last week's episode, was a nice way to show him having epic misgivings about the Doctor basically forcing him to choose which wife to kill, wtf. If there hadn't been some reaction to that I would not have been happy.)
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Possible theory: the Doctor killed the Minotaur by self-sabotaging his belief in his own god-like powers. Except that he's already been shown to have the self-loathing down pat, so. Either way it ties into something we were talking about last night, where in season four there was this whole thing where he was going too far out of control, and it's happening again in season six but this time it has this undertone of "See, this is why a stupid person would think the Doctor is bad, but really he's awesome!" No, actually, he's both (and awesome has not always had the connotations that it does now).
Pretty sure everyone's going to mention them killing off Rita so I won't go into that.
This episode was sort of a test for me. I've always watched Dr Who, but the episodes since the mid-season break have been so absolutely gutting and problematic and terrible that I'm honestly not sure I want to anymore. After 6.11 I'm still not sure. I don't know how I feel about it, I really don't.
(I do feel a lot better about Rory now though. His past-tense reference to TARDIS travel, after last week's episode, was a nice way to show him having epic misgivings about the Doctor basically forcing him to choose which wife to kill, wtf. If there hadn't been some reaction to that I would not have been happy.)
This entry was originally posted at http://keieeeye.dreamwidth.org/192748.html. Feel free to comment there instead because LJ is a poo.