What I love about Moffat is that positive approach to his women who span all ages. None of the randy buffoon-like older women from the past series, and the younger ones have brains while still being young and sometimes foolish. And this Doctor respects them all, which is why a figure like Madame Kovarian can work so well - she is the embodiment of every pregnant woman's fear that something will happen to her baby, but we can accept that because she's just one in a mosaic of overwhelmingly positive, albeit human females. To which I say, well done and thank you Santa Moff.
And thank Santa Moff, too, for two different but equally delightful, quirky relationships. Who could think that Matt Smith could play old so well or Alex Kingston play a young woman in an middle aged woman's body so well that they fit with virtually no hint of comical age disparity. Maybe it's the elegant dating attire, but I think it's also the talents of these two, plus Moffat's scripts which make it work
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The only thing missing from the mini-episodes is Rory.
Amy/Rory is just fun....It's understandable why these two are together, as a perfect match. Amy's strong-willed, but there's never any message that she needs to be tamed or changed or straightened out: she is who she is, and it's part of why Rory loves her. Rory's devoted--but no door mat, either; he's the practical counterpart, grounded in reality. And yet no dullard, either.
It's also Rory's relationship with the Doctor that makes the show. I liked that there was some bristling and uncertainty, initially--of course, there would be. However, I also love the idea that the relationship has developed into mutual respect and love....What a change from the off putting, racist, and sexist crap involving Mickey, Nine/Ten, and Rose.
Just want to make one thing clearer from my original response and that is Moffat's positive portrayal of women is the reason why a villain like Madame Kovarian works. Up above it sounded like I was lumping her in with the positive characters. *shudder* In Moffatland, middle age isn't the dividing line where female characters become buffoons and worse
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Yes--it's very nice not to have the message driven home that, once a woman passes into middle age, she is wholly unattractive, desperate, and either silly or villainous.
The boy who waited--more evidence of Moffat's romanticism. I love in "Let's Kill Hitler" that it is made thoroughly clear that Rory has always loved Amy, and she just needed to see what was in front of her all the time (a nice parallel to Snape, there). And the ongoing references to the idea--that Amy must always find Rory, throughout all the adventures.
There's the way that Karen Gillan says: "You're Rory, I'm Amy" and then gives a little sigh that speaks volumes. It hits the note that this relationship is so very right that it must be, even if it takes all through time and alternate time lines for the two to be together. I find that so very romantic; it's one of the things I love best about the series and Moffat's writing.
The other thing I love is that while this series of Doctor Who provides the beloved monsters, thrills and chills, it's also very much about the relationships within the TARDIS, and that includes the TARDIS. That River is Amy and Rory's child is mind blowing, that she is also the child of the TARDIS punts it into the next town. So very many ways in which love is expressed...
I think my favorite line is: "I stole a Time Lord and ran away."
It's an interesting reversal....Most of the Ten era was about the unrequited love for the Doctor, on the part of Martha, and the endlessly drawn out Ten/Rose soap opera. Yet there was absolutely nothing even remotely romantic about this emphasis on relationships--nothing even remotely believable, either. It was just ongoing and relentless--and, in the final analysis...tedious.
What a difference, now. The characters are allowed to have romances that resemble real life--the soap opera's gone.
And then there's the best part: no one died for shock value. Every death carried the seed of it's own reversal, allowing that moment of hair raising sadness, without the meanspirited move of destroying a favorite relationship just to play god.
What I love about Moffat is that positive approach to his women who span all ages. None of the randy buffoon-like older women from the past series, and the younger ones have brains while still being young and sometimes foolish. And this Doctor respects them all, which is why a figure like Madame Kovarian can work so well - she is the embodiment of every pregnant woman's fear that something will happen to her baby, but we can accept that because she's just one in a mosaic of overwhelmingly positive, albeit human females. To which I say, well done and thank you Santa Moff.
And thank Santa Moff, too, for two different but equally delightful, quirky relationships. Who could think that Matt Smith could play old so well or Alex Kingston play a young woman in an middle aged woman's body so well that they fit with virtually no hint of comical age disparity. Maybe it's the elegant dating attire, but I think it's also the talents of these two, plus Moffat's scripts which make it work ( ... )
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Amy/Rory is just fun....It's understandable why these two are together, as a perfect match. Amy's strong-willed, but there's never any message that she needs to be tamed or changed or straightened out: she is who she is, and it's part of why Rory loves her. Rory's devoted--but no door mat, either; he's the practical counterpart, grounded in reality. And yet no dullard, either.
It's also Rory's relationship with the Doctor that makes the show. I liked that there was some bristling and uncertainty, initially--of course, there would be. However, I also love the idea that the relationship has developed into mutual respect and love....What a change from the off putting, racist, and sexist crap involving Mickey, Nine/Ten, and Rose.
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The boy who waited--more evidence of Moffat's romanticism. I love in "Let's Kill Hitler" that it is made thoroughly clear that Rory has always loved Amy, and she just needed to see what was in front of her all the time (a nice parallel to Snape, there). And the ongoing references to the idea--that Amy must always find Rory, throughout all the adventures.
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The other thing I love is that while this series of Doctor Who provides the beloved monsters, thrills and chills, it's also very much about the relationships within the TARDIS, and that includes the TARDIS. That River is Amy and Rory's child is mind blowing, that she is also the child of the TARDIS punts it into the next town. So very many ways in which love is expressed...
I think my favorite line is: "I stole a Time Lord and ran away."
Would that I could. ;-)
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What a difference, now. The characters are allowed to have romances that resemble real life--the soap opera's gone.
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