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[safenthecity]

Urgh. I am struggling to come to terms with my conflicting love for Amy Pond as played by Karen Gillan and the overwhelming desire to punch Stephan Moffat in the face. WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT CONVERSATION LAST NIGHT.

There were a number of ways that could have been done well. THAT WAS NOT ONE OF THEM.

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[safenthecity]

Well, I can't lie, I ADORE THE HELL OUT OF RIVER SONG AND NOTHING IN THIS VERSE WILL CHANGE THAT.

However, I totally understand why people don't like her, and why there is so much hatred for the way he writes women in general. But honestly, this was the first time it was so awful that even I couldn't cover my ears and cry "LALALALLALA NOPE I AM GOING TO ENJOY THIS IF IT KILLS ME DAMMIT LALALALLALA." Just. No. He really hit two tropes I just personally can't handle: Bisexuality Is A Funny Phase! and Hey I Love You But I Am Going To Break Up With You For This Reason That I'm Not Going To Discuss Because My Uterus.

WHY

I actually don't mind most of the headcanon requirements because I kind of enjoy filling in some gaps myself, but the gap of "Amy and Rory are together and happy at Christmas" to "Amy and Rory are getting A DIVORCE BECAUSE UTERUS REASONS" was too much.

There were ways to make that idea work. It would have required SHOWING US how messed up it made Amy to learn that she'd lost her chance to raise the only child she could ever have. That has the potential to be compelling. What he did? Just. Wasn't.

But his take on the Daleks I found quite entertaining. I think it was going into Who with the knowledge the Daleks are the bad guys and are inherently ridiculous just made them kind of delightful to me.

[nobleplatypus]

It's not even that I don't like her--I just think that at the end of the day, she's the only character he really knows how to write. Oswin, as awesome as she was, could have been played by Alex Kingston with almost no dialogue variation and no one would have batted an eye.

And yesss, SHOW DON'T TELL. SHOW DON'T TELL. Part of the reason I have never been able to ship Amy and Rory is because Rory is forever demonstrating his love with mighty deeds and Amy is just using her words and expecting it to carry the exact same amount of weight (especially considering that her deeds include things like 'giving Rory up' repeatedly). Blargh.