I interpreted Rory's surrender as a "well, you always did love me less... I guess you don't love me at all any more :|" thing, because, you know, mutual Doctor-fuelled silent resentment ftw.
They need some marriage therapy, I think, or at least a good fun holiday without extraterrestrial interruptions.
Yes, Chibnall wrote 42, which I didn't mind - it was like a much paler imitation of the Satan's Pit, which is maybe my favourite episode ever - but it offered some nice Martha moments, and Ten crying is always a good thing.
But he also wrote The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood, which are my least favourite episodes in the world. (except maybe Let's Kill Hitler) For one thing, he utilised the Immoral Mother trope, which I hate - you know, she was just so overprotective that she had to randomly kill the lizard person. There was a tragically underdeveloped dyslexia moppet. There was weird awkwardly sexist worldbuilding, and total damselification of Amy. There was Amy being disinterested/callous about a whole race of creatues, and most of all there was them pretending NOBODY LIVES IN THE SAHARA, wtf. Just, it was a mess and made me resent all the characters a lot.
Motherfucking dinosaurs!! HAH. You know, it's strange nobody seems to use that line in Avengers fic!
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Date: 2012-09-02 05:24 pm (UTC)They need some marriage therapy, I think, or at least a good fun holiday without extraterrestrial interruptions.
Yes, Chibnall wrote 42, which I didn't mind - it was like a much paler imitation of the Satan's Pit, which is maybe my favourite episode ever - but it offered some nice Martha moments, and Ten crying is always a good thing.
But he also wrote The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood, which are my least favourite episodes in the world. (except maybe Let's Kill Hitler) For one thing, he utilised the Immoral Mother trope, which I hate - you know, she was just so overprotective that she had to randomly kill the lizard person. There was a tragically underdeveloped dyslexia moppet. There was weird awkwardly sexist worldbuilding, and total damselification of Amy. There was Amy being disinterested/callous about a whole race of creatues, and most of all there was them pretending NOBODY LIVES IN THE SAHARA, wtf. Just, it was a mess and made me resent all the characters a lot.
Motherfucking dinosaurs!! HAH. You know, it's strange nobody seems to use that line in Avengers fic!