Comments | stunt_muppet: Once again I post and run, hurrah.

stunt_muppet

Once again I post and run, hurrah.

Jan 13, 2009 21:23

Because I have work I'm supposed to be doing, naturally.

So I did say I'd post about the Target novelization of The Three Doctors, as it's my first time reading a Target novelization and I found it interesting compared to watching the episode itself.

The review turned out somewhat longer than I expected.

( Ten numbered thoughts... )

meta blather, doctor who

Comments 6

pimpmytardis January 14 2009, 03:56:56 UTC

Terrance Dicks remembers every line he ever wrote.

My dad is exactly like that. Remembers every damn line of the 60+ novels he's written, and the contents of just about every research book he ever laid eyes on. I'm exaggerating, but not by much. O___o

stunt_muppet January 14 2009, 21:23:46 UTC

That's...impressive. Really impressive. Wow. O__O

livii January 14 2009, 04:02:10 UTC

BENNNNNTON.

Um, yes, this was very interesting, but, um, you can tell what really got my attention, HEE.

::prettehs up your post::

stunt_muppet January 14 2009, 21:26:29 UTC

He is very lovely in this episode - one of the only characters who doesn't end up Flanderized one way or another. And he gets to be all heroic and subtly snark at the Doctors and his reaction to the inside of the TARDIS is still the best thing ever.

I appreciate the prettiness. :D

airie_fairy January 14 2009, 06:39:28 UTC

"although when the Doctor tries it, I think she starts kicking him"

She would.

The problem I'm having with that thing is Jo can't really be forced like so to do things she doesn't want to. You either have to make a very convincing argument for her to get out when you're in danger, or she's pretty much gonna stay there. ...or sneak back there, whatever. Also, she's got a reasonable sense of judgment about these things, so if she knows she's got to go, she's going to go, she isn't going to throw a fit and have to be bodily removed from the premises like a delicate flower.

stunt_muppet January 14 2009, 21:42:10 UTC

What amused me most is that she doesn't start kicking Benton when he does it. I suppose she figures the Doctor deserves it more.

The kicking and struggling almost made sense the first time it happened - she had to stay in the lab so she could be in the TARDIS later - but, in the episode, I think she just refuses to leave; the Doctor argues, but he certainly doesn't try to force her out. It makes him look like he respects her wishes a bit more, or has more faith in her to know what she's getting into (which I think is truer to both of their characters at that point).

But the second time she's dragged out is when she has to leave Omega's dimension, and that just makes her look unreasonable and irrational. She was capable of walking away in the show, even if she didn't want to.

Basically what I'm saying is STOP BEING SEXIST TO MAH JO, WRITERS. >:(