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So I’m caught up on Doctor Who! Fun and interesting and emotional, but…
The last two-parter really crystallised my issues with Amy’s writing this season, and this episode only compounded them.
So Rory gets to spend two episodes being brave and compassionate, while Amy is solely a reacter, mostly to the men in her life. And then we find out she hasn’t really been there at all, she’s been locked in a room while she has a baby the whole time. And when she’s talking to Melody, it’s never I’m going to save you it’s your Dad is going to save you. She doesn’t do one proactive thing. And it wouldn’t bother me as much if this didn’t seem to be becoming a theme.
If you can’t include Rory without making Amy passive, without damn near shoving her in the background in some cases, then I’d rather not have Rory.
My other issue? Wow, Moffat, way to introduce a gay couple and promptly kill one of them off, good show. (I may be in the minority in that I don’t think RTD’s Doctor Who was so great on that front either, overall. I’d like to stop being disappointed.)
Now! The good bits. Like CRIME-FIGHTING VICTORIAN INTER-SPECIES LESBIANS. Can we have that show instead of Torchwood? I liked all of the minor characters in this, really, but wow.
I’m not sure how I feel about the River revelation. On the one hand it explains a lot, and I am incredibly intrigued about her childhood now. On the other it puts a bit of a dent in my Amy/River shipping. I do kind of love that all my theorising of ‘Pond’ and ‘River’ being somehow connected was true, though.
And I also feel weird calling Melody an OT3 baby when she’s shagging one of them. (It also adds sketchiness to Eleven/River which was sketchy enough already.)
THE CRIB. That was the best crib ever. And it was so the Doctor’s child’s, too, and I’ll bet Susan spent some time in it. I wonder if he’ll admit to having had children? I kind of want a scene where Amy is angry and upset and tells him he can’t know what it’s like to lose a child - and he goes so quiet and so old and he tells her that yes, he does.
Now, as for the Doctor regretting how he’s perceived, what he’s become…eh. Maybe I’d like it more if it weren’t so heavy-handed?
The last two-parter really crystallised my issues with Amy’s writing this season, and this episode only compounded them.
So Rory gets to spend two episodes being brave and compassionate, while Amy is solely a reacter, mostly to the men in her life. And then we find out she hasn’t really been there at all, she’s been locked in a room while she has a baby the whole time. And when she’s talking to Melody, it’s never I’m going to save you it’s your Dad is going to save you. She doesn’t do one proactive thing. And it wouldn’t bother me as much if this didn’t seem to be becoming a theme.
If you can’t include Rory without making Amy passive, without damn near shoving her in the background in some cases, then I’d rather not have Rory.
My other issue? Wow, Moffat, way to introduce a gay couple and promptly kill one of them off, good show. (I may be in the minority in that I don’t think RTD’s Doctor Who was so great on that front either, overall. I’d like to stop being disappointed.)
Now! The good bits. Like CRIME-FIGHTING VICTORIAN INTER-SPECIES LESBIANS. Can we have that show instead of Torchwood? I liked all of the minor characters in this, really, but wow.
I’m not sure how I feel about the River revelation. On the one hand it explains a lot, and I am incredibly intrigued about her childhood now. On the other it puts a bit of a dent in my Amy/River shipping. I do kind of love that all my theorising of ‘Pond’ and ‘River’ being somehow connected was true, though.
And I also feel weird calling Melody an OT3 baby when she’s shagging one of them. (It also adds sketchiness to Eleven/River which was sketchy enough already.)
THE CRIB. That was the best crib ever. And it was so the Doctor’s child’s, too, and I’ll bet Susan spent some time in it. I wonder if he’ll admit to having had children? I kind of want a scene where Amy is angry and upset and tells him he can’t know what it’s like to lose a child - and he goes so quiet and so old and he tells her that yes, he does.
Now, as for the Doctor regretting how he’s perceived, what he’s become…eh. Maybe I’d like it more if it weren’t so heavy-handed?