Squee? I have no squee. I have half-hearted after-the-fact relief that the entire thing wasn't 100% awful.
I haaaaaaated the divorce, ugh. Like, first I hated it on a distraught-shipper level, and then I hated it because I just genuinely can't believe they wouldn't have had a real conversation about their problems before things got bad enough for them to actually divorce, and then finally I hated it because it was over by the end of the episode. Of all the cheap fucking emotional manipulation tricks... what, killing Rory isn't enough to make the fanbase cry anymore, so they had to up the ante? Ugh.
...I think my rage at that kind of colored my view of the rest of the episode, because now that I think about it most of the plot wasn't actually that bad? Like, I really liked Oswin, and the concept of a Dalek asylum was actually pretty cool. I thought the Doctor's comment about how the asylum holds the Daleks that the Supreme Dalek can't control was pretty apt -- if they're going to have a concept of insanity, I would imagine it would mostly take the form of not falling in line with what the hivemind says. I really like that the Doctor has now been erased from the Dalek hivemind, I think that could turn out to be really interesting. I do NOT like it when characters on the show actually ask "Doctor who?", it just grates on my nerves for some reason... but I have a feeling they're going to be doing that A LOT this season, so I guess I should get used to it.
So. IDK. I am tentatively excited for next episode? It's full of actors I like, so it has that going for it, at least.
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I haaaaaaated the divorce, ugh. Like, first I hated it on a distraught-shipper level, and then I hated it because I just genuinely can't believe they wouldn't have had a real conversation about their problems before things got bad enough for them to actually divorce, and then finally I hated it because it was over by the end of the episode. Of all the cheap fucking emotional manipulation tricks... what, killing Rory isn't enough to make the fanbase cry anymore, so they had to up the ante? Ugh.
...I think my rage at that kind of colored my view of the rest of the episode, because now that I think about it most of the plot wasn't actually that bad? Like, I really liked Oswin, and the concept of a Dalek asylum was actually pretty cool. I thought the Doctor's comment about how the asylum holds the Daleks that the Supreme Dalek can't control was pretty apt -- if they're going to have a concept of insanity, I would imagine it would mostly take the form of not falling in line with what the hivemind says. I really like that the Doctor has now been erased from the Dalek hivemind, I think that could turn out to be really interesting. I do NOT like it when characters on the show actually ask "Doctor who?", it just grates on my nerves for some reason... but I have a feeling they're going to be doing that A LOT this season, so I guess I should get used to it.
So. IDK. I am tentatively excited for next episode? It's full of actors I like, so it has that going for it, at least.