asylum of the why the fuck are there daleks

[intrikate88]

Doctor Who fandom, I am tired.

I saw the episode, mostly because I was tired of seeing other people's opinions posts and not knowing what they were talking about, so I just went ahead and watched.

And you know? I could talk about what was problematic in this episode. I could talk about Amy and Rory and how love is not a competition. I could talk

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[mrv3000]

Okay, your title wins. XD

[intrikate88]

tbh, I'm not sure why it wasn't the ACTUAL title of the ep :P

[cranmers]

asylum of the why the fuck are there daleks

BWAHAHAHA

But I don't know that this show is worthy of my discussion time anymore.

D:

this makes me sad.

but yes, yes, yes to everything you said on this ep.

[intrikate88]

It makes me sad too.

I will probably be lured into discussion posts after all, I'm incapable of keeping my mouth shut. It's just that I always purposefully ignored what Moffat had to say, for obvious reasons, and now the show seems to be turning into his mouthpiece of disrespect for storytelling, Doctor Who, and every viewer who isn't a straight white male. It's difficult to recognize characters from one episode to the next, and maybe if I don't make a point-by-point essay of everything in each ep, I can save a little energy for still enjoying at least some parts of the show.

Like adorable Oswin, and Amy being my precious wild girl. :)

[cranmers]

I will probably be lured into discussion posts after all, I'm incapable of keeping my mouth shut.

LOL, you sound exactly like me!

It's just that I always purposefully ignored what Moffat had to say, for obvious reasons, and now the show seems to be turning into his mouthpiece of disrespect for storytelling, Doctor Who, and every viewer who isn't a straight white male.

I agree with this, though I wouldn't go anywhere near as far as you. I actually think Moffat is very a gifted story-teller, it just seems that implicit (and probably unintentional and born from ignorance) misogynism creeps into his work... Well, all the time, making it a particularly prominent feature. But I certainly wouldn't say that all previous era Doctor Who episodes have not been ~offensive in the same way. I mean, classic!Who is full of it.

So basically ahaha I take it more or less with a pinch of salt! I just hope we don't get another storyline I can't follow (see: Season 6)!

Like adorable Oswin, and Amy being my precious wild girl. :)

Exactlyy! ;)

[intrikate88]

I actually think Moffat is very a gifted story-teller, it just seems that implicit (and probably unintentional and born from ignorance) misogynism creeps into his work... Well, all the time, making it a particularly prominent feature. That's actually not my biggest issue with it? I mean, yes, I'm normally going to call all the misogyny shit when I see it, but at this point... well, I don't go to the bookstore to get groceries, and I don't go to Moffat to get well-written women whose lives don't revolve around men. I can accept this, even if I wish for better

[liveonthesun]

the daleks are back?

good god, show. have we not beaten this horse enough times?

[intrikate88]

I believe my exact words were "Hasn't this skeletal cadaver of a horse been thoroughly flogged already?"

But it was kinda novel. They had nano daleks! That invaded people and turned them Dalek from the inside! (Let's ignore the fact that daleks were never born, they were always cloned calamari in a metal condom, so growing them out of the inside of a person makes no actual sense.) But then the eyestalk just came out of people's foreheads! And then corpse foreheads! Motherfucking freaky, man, gotta say.

I stg I remember a time when Moffat said he was sick of the daleks being trotted out every week and he totes wasn't going to do that. lawl.

[greeneyes73180]

I mean. Spoilers in this comment, so be warned, any rando who's reading

Ugh yeah, let's go back to that time where we basically had a whole season free of Daleks.

I did not buy a single thing about Amy or Rory in this ep, and I DID NOT BUY the Doctor's screaming fear when the Daleks were closing in. Like. Of all the things that would put that look of terror on his face, the Daleks are NOT ONE OF THEM. It's so OOC for him to be that stupid scared...or at least to show it.

Oswin was adorbs, though. And I continue to love everyone on the show, I just hate what gets done to them week in and week out. I feel like I have a better grasp on their personalities than the writers do.

[intrikate88]

It's like, when Moffat was doing one-off eps back in the day and he'd introduce a new character instead of dealing with existing characters, that was sorta okay. It had its problems, but okay. But now, he runs the show, he has his own existing characters... but he still wants to make them into new characters each episode. So we get Amy and Rory having a season of repeating their triangle issue that doesn't even exist, and now out of nowhere they're getting divorced, then out of nowhere they're having a love competition because babies, which is also out of nowhere, which is also not mentioning that giant issue of the baby they did have. I mean, are we doing the Abed's dice version of Doctor who where we get to see different points of all the different timelines and figure out which is the darkest, or what's going on

[lady_songsmith]

amen!

[intrikate88]

Whyyyyy can't Moffat just stop masturbating to his own perceived genius long enough to write something that's marginally within character and continuity? Seeing as how this is how he pays his bills, I don't think it's THAT much to ask.