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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.
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The last two-parter really crystallised my issues with Amy’s writing this season, and this episode only compounded them.
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This trio is not as fun as it could've been. Not at all. Thus far this season, the married TARDIS has turned out to be a basis for taking away a lot of stuff I liked rather than adding to it.
"It also adds sketchiness to Eleven/River which was sketchy enough already."
He was basically fated for her from her infancy, and then apparently proceeded to become her mentor/lover from childhood/youth, and then after that was over she proceeded to continue pursuing him throughout time and space despite his ever-increasing dislike of her, and ended up frozen in a falsely happy computer world after death. Also at some point before and simultaneously during this, her mother almost left her father for him, who in turn secretly wanted her to.
Jesus fucking Christ.
"Maybe I’d like it more if it weren’t so heavy-handed?"
I was told this episode was going to be about how the Doctor is scary as all get-out. What I got was one explosion and a bunch of tedious dramatic monologues that weren't sufficiently justified by the set-up. And "his darkest hour" my ass, I've watched the Doctor fall way harder than the few minutes he spent going "oh noes" in this.
*clears throat* I shall not expound further here.
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Pretty much. I tend to enjoy TARDIS trios, and I thought I'd enjoy this one despite my issues with Rory, but - not so much, no. Apparently only one companion can be active and impressive at a time, and it's going to be the man.
"Jesus fucking Christ."
BASICALLY. I mean - I would love the idea of the Doctor's fated enemy falling for him instead because I'm a sucker for that shit, but like this? Ew, no.
"I was told this episode was going to be about how the Doctor is scary as all get-out. What I got was one explosion and a bunch of tedious dramatic monologues that weren't sufficiently justified by the set-up. And "his darkest hour" my ass, I've watched the Doctor fall way harder than the few minutes he spent going "oh noes" in this."
Seriously. I mean - I've seen the Doctor decimate both sides of a conflict, instead of losing two allies after they've killed utterly depersonalised enemies. I've seen him in complete devastation and loathing, for himself and the universe. And this is supposed to top all that? Really?
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I think it has something to do with them being married. Apparently we can't have a couple on the TARDIS without being constantly reminded of this like we'd forgotten. Everyone seems to be so busy driving Rory's characterization toward proving he's a good husband that Amy has to be driven into helplessness so that he can take care of her. And Amy seems only to get two settings: glib and victim. And if she is taking action, it's usually because she's worried about Rory. Who in turn you don't ever need to worry about because nothing ever happens to him that can't be undone, he is the magic man. When the wedding was happening last year, I was worried Amy's story would end up defined by the Grow Up Settle Down cliche, but I thought it meant she'd leave the TARDIS to be domestic, and that pissed me off. Turns out the same thing's happening anyway, but she's still around for me to have to watch. *sigh* As a personal dynamic, they're doing a lot better this year with them, but even so the arrangement is suffocating the character potential.
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