Thoughts, Audios, Quotes, and More Thoughts

[redknightalex]

Today was annoyingly boring. Work was annoying, and I think gave me this stress neckache I only get when I'm hiding some anxiety in my body, and boring because good gods I wanted to do anything but my work. Instead, I roamed around LJ and Twitter, buying a new CD of Bear McCreary's, and listened to one piece of the Big Finish audio "The Mutant

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[_thirty2flavors]

I saw the same bit of review for 6x13 and went LOL SO I'M GONNA HATE IT, THEN. I mean, as I expected. I think back to how much I loved River in 6x01 and it makes me sad that they've taken so much of what I enjoyed about her and tied it all up in a plotline I absolutely hate and find offensive and poorly-written on basically every level. Oh River and Doctor/River, I wanted so badly to like you. :( Someone in my lj the other day pointed out that River has no agency because she exists to kill the Doctor, both in-universe AND out-of-universe, and that's so sad but true.

I also find that, yes, the attitude towards time travel that Moffat Who has adopted is ... not one I find interesting, really. It can be neat when used sparingly. But too much of it because a) too much predestination, while also b) erasing all consequences. It bothers me that things like "the Doctor rewrites a man's entire life" are presented as heroic awesome things I'm not meant to bat an eye at, while "the Doctor loses his best friend's child, fails to rescue her and then seemingly never tries because of a paradox or something I guess" is... likewise something I'm just supposed to accept.

[redknightalex]

Yup, hate it apparently. Let's just go in with really low expectations so that no one gets hurt! Then again, how can Moffat tie up all these loose ends with any sort of satisfaction? I know Rusty had his issues with storytelling but they never seemed this colossal in scope, ie so many story threads left hanging. And, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure Moffat has the ability to let something go/close it off. Let's see if Series 6 is another cliff-hanger for the 2012 series. Blah!

Oh River and Doctor/River, I wanted so badly to like you. :(

Same. I wasn't into Doctor/River too much, but I wanted to see if it could be worked out and, if so, how they managed it. But, really, I just wanted River to be fantastically awesome and be the Doctor's equal (kinda like the Master just not without the psychotic arch-nemesis mess). Instead we get...what? Sexist themes that make me sick? FANTASTIC.

Ditto on the time travel: best used sparingly, not as whole series (or two) arcs. It doesn't work that way and, as fauxkaren said above, it can make for really poor and lazy storytelling. I understand it's a show about time travel but that doesn't mean you can't have the consequences and emotional resonance when you make certain decisions that affect so many lives. The Doctor, and someone who followed the series so much as a kid (ie Moffat), would do.

IDK, WHATEVER MOFFAT.