isn't it brilliant when
someone really articulate says exactly what you were thinking?the main point of the article is exactly what i've been saying for the past three years: davies is a very good writer, but not a great one; because he never seems to learn from his mistakes. which, by the way, the author is very fair about pointing out in balance
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Maybe he is missing the writer's required thought of "that would be AWESOME but how would it end"? And he just sort of hopes an ending will happen when he gets to it? So he is quite lazy with the reset buttons cos that's easiest.
Don't know if he'd kill everyone, more likely Moffat doesn't want to play with those toys anyway. But there may well be at least one moment of "Ah HA! Deal with THAT, Steven!"
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I have gone from thinking of him as someone where I'd watch his stuff if the concept interested me to never wanting to hear of him again. Like, I can't watch his Casanova now that the racefail is an ongoing thing. Plus his whole "uninteresting women > accomplished, fascinating women" which really doesn't paint a nice picture of his gender politics. It's not that I went off him cos he can't write (though his DW work is generally far from his best), it's that it's made me think he's a horrible person who puts that horribleness into his work.
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yeah, that's a huge one, although i'd amend it to 'ordinary, average, infantilized women'. he seems to glorify women who are 'spunky' in the passively rebellious way that children are, but who have no real power or agency and therefore pose no real threat to the male power structure. and those that do get punished severely: harriet jones and yvonne hartman spring immediately to mind.
I have gone from thinking of him as someone where I'd watch his stuff if the concept interested me to never wanting to hear of him again.sadly, amen to this. i can put up with him until the finales are over, but after that, i don't think i'm ever going to watch anything else he's ever written if i can help it. seriously, it's not worth the tooth-grinding. 'augh, teh genderfail; it burns ( ... )
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Yeah :( Maybe it's just seeing so much in a short time, but I have gone right off his stuff because the issues are so obvious. And he isn't a good enough writer (in skill or in ideology) to earn a pass from me. Genderfail, racefail, classfail, DO NOT WANT D:
Wilf might die. He's old and would have no life post-Doctor anyway. Donna I think will be married off to someone she's only just met (cos that's what happened to the other two) or will otherwise be having a happy life with no memories. She's not Rose, she doesn't get to be "fixed."
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