Recent Television

[meddow]

I haven't posted in ages, which is terrible. I've sort of been running about a lot IRL lately (quite literally, for lack of a challenge recently and wanting to get fit, I've taken up distance running and been spending a lot of my free time training).

Anyway, so television over the past couple of weeks:

Doctor Who: A lot of the episodes I've

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[airie_fairy]

Doctor Who: Yeah, the fact that the trauma of getting kidnapped, discovering you're in labor with a baby you didn't know you had, giving birth to the baby in an unfamiliar, threatening environment, and then having the baby kidnapped was basically all ~detail~ for someone else's backstory and had no fallout for the character who went through it is disgusting to me. I thought the episode had already rendered Amy's entire existence to plot device status, but that lack of fallout just underlines it. And so now I'm too cynical about that to be interested in watching the rest of the season. I really don't care about the arc, which I found heavy-handed anyway but was giving the season the benefit of the doubt until it pulled that shit, so I don't really care how it turns out, especially if the characters have to be thoughtlessly manipulated to bring it about. I kind of want to just start from scratch with a new companion, but another thing is I'm now left worried that any character he introduces is going to be built up and then revealed to

[meddow]

Yes. Right there you've detailed everything I despise about what Moffat did to Amy but better than I could.

I'm now left worried that any character he introduces is going to be built up and then revealed to be just a cog in a ridiculous plot that is unrelated to them.

For that very reason, I want a new head writer. At the end of the day, I'm in it for the characters, and I do not trust Moffat not to screw them over.

Go Inspector Spacestime, surviving all the way through the 1990s! The show is a juggernaut :)