Twilight Who

[corza_laura]

Spoilers S6x7

Did anyone else have to think of Twilight after watching "A Good Man Goes To War"?

After knowing that River is Amy's daughter and knowing that she and the doctor would fall in love one day, I couldn't help but think of Bella Swan, who's best friend Jacob fell in love with her baby! xD

And they listened to "Supermassive Black Hole" at the

Comments

[kilodalton]

Ha that's funny! There was an excellent article posted on here a week or so ago that also compared the Doctor/Rose relationship to Edward/Bella - it was accurate and very, very funny!

[errorsinconduct]

I've read the four Twilight books, and I disagree

[night_sky99]

This, so hard this.

[artemis_ephesus]

THIS, even harder than the person before me. I actually am cringing just at the thought of Doctor Who and Twilight in the same thought. Guh.

[aareavis]

It's a very superficial comparison but I'm ashamed to admit that I saw it too. What redeems it in Doctor Who is that The Doctor wasn't in any way attracted to Melody. He didn't magically recognize her as River and fall in love. He's very much infatuated, maybe even in love, with River but not Melody.

[tardiscrash]

Nope. There are some vague lines of similarity but all the really squicky/problematic/human right's violation-y stuff from Twilight is, thankfully, not present in the show.

[errorsinconduct]

This comment.

[glory_jean]

I dunno - I'm pretty darn squicked by it all (and Moff's little girl fixation in general) and I've never even read Twilight.

[tardiscrash]

I haven't ether but I've read many an essay on what was gross about it.

Fixation?

I thought the idea of creating a character who held the Doctor in the same esteem as most of the audience was a wonderful one. A child growing up thinking of the Doctor as their hero, doesn't that describe a lot of the viewers?

We still don't know how things will play out or at what age (young can mean 7 or it could mean 20 when it's a 40 year old talking) the Doctor will properly met River again. As for the little girl in the suit we don't know 100% that it's River, it's hardly as though Moffat never misdirects viewers.

It feels a little premature to call it a fixation. I think Moffat just likes to write about children, and this a a show widely watched by kids so I hardly find it out of place.

[glory_jean]

I've seen that elsewhere, so you're not alone in that thought, hee. I didn't know about the Muse connection. Weird.