Comments | tempestsarekind: more random amy thoughts, plus some on eleven

tempestsarekind

more random amy thoughts, plus some on eleven

May 18, 2010 13:58

I read something on someone else's journal a little while ago, and I really wish I could remember whose, because it helped me to articulate my feelings about Amy.

The thing that I think is odd about her, for me, is that her actions seem reasonable to me, but I can't pinpoint exactly why I should think that. Or--as I do remember saying to thepresidentrix--I like ( Read more... )

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lareinenoire May 18 2010, 18:12:30 UTC

Machiavellian? Again, not quite the right word, but possibly with different connotations?

And, yes, I completely agree with how Eleven's otherworldliness comes out in his smile -- he did the same thing in 'Amy's Choice' right before the opening credits.

tempestsarekind May 18 2010, 18:24:01 UTC

Clearly I just need a bigger vocabulary. Bah, words. "Machiavellian" is maybe a little too...scheming? But something like that.

I loved that excited moment of "Something's not right here. Let's go poke it with a stick." That's very much the Doctor--all of them (or at least all the ones I know), not just Eleven--but I feel like I'm seeing it in Eleven as though after a long absence. Which is fun.

lareinenoire May 18 2010, 18:33:35 UTC

Well, with Ten it seemed perpetually mixed up with his insistent need to control/fix whatever was wrong. With Eleven, you mostly get the sense that he's curious and wants to, well, poke things with sticks. Which makes Amy's line about how the Doctor fixes everything (and her subsequent realisation that he can't) all the more interesting to me.

But, yeah, I see what you mean about 'courtly' not quite working and 'Machiavellian' having too many negative connotations. Possibly 'politic'?

tempestsarekind May 18 2010, 20:08:16 UTC

I think that S2 Ten had some of those moments where he just thought something was wonderful without the need to do anything--but S3 Ten, for me, is summed up mostly by the scene on the moon in "Smith and Jones," where Martha is amazed by how beautiful it all is, and Ten says, "You think?"--a bit as though he's forgotten that, and is seeing it through her eyes. And then it comes back a bit in S4 with Donna, maybe.