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I have seen the tumblr light
Q: what is tumblr for?
old, wrong A: keeping in touch with fandom trends; obtaining gifs; making yourself feel old even when you're not yet 23
new, correct A: stalking people who are bitching about the new Who episode.
I know I've said this before, but I have finally reached equilibrium; I can now watch only for the delight of grudge-wanking and let myself be pleasantly surprised when I like stuff, rather than depressed about the loss of my shoooow. My show is dead. I have come to terms.
Anyway! "It was a phase". Oh my god.
Daleks do parliament? Daleks have concepts like insanity? I mean, I am all for rewriting the existing mythos, but I kind of feel like a new race would have been better here. Sontarans! A secretly souffle-obsessed Sontaran companion would have been awesome.
I did like Oswin! I want her to not even get involved with the Doctor, and go date Eliot. They can cook and get into lesbian bar fights together. "It was a phase." Moffat does this thing, you know, where he ~believes in (female) liquid sexuality, and that's nice! It's awesome! Except then it gets played for shock/titillation/a punchline, and promptly forgotten. Unless she runs off with Amy. Most of my grudge would be absolved by that.
Amy! I loved the divorce, but then that got ruined. If she magically becomes fertile, I will collapse in flames. I do wish they'd adopt though. They like the perfect fairytale parents to any glum ten-year-old orphan.
In conclusion, this ep was actually not that bad, except for when it was horrible. C+, more Oswin please!
Feelings, flist? Feels, even?
old, wrong A: keeping in touch with fandom trends; obtaining gifs; making yourself feel old even when you're not yet 23
new, correct A: stalking people who are bitching about the new Who episode.
I know I've said this before, but I have finally reached equilibrium; I can now watch only for the delight of grudge-wanking and let myself be pleasantly surprised when I like stuff, rather than depressed about the loss of my shoooow. My show is dead. I have come to terms.
Anyway! "It was a phase". Oh my god.
Daleks do parliament? Daleks have concepts like insanity? I mean, I am all for rewriting the existing mythos, but I kind of feel like a new race would have been better here. Sontarans! A secretly souffle-obsessed Sontaran companion would have been awesome.
I did like Oswin! I want her to not even get involved with the Doctor, and go date Eliot. They can cook and get into lesbian bar fights together. "It was a phase." Moffat does this thing, you know, where he ~believes in (female) liquid sexuality, and that's nice! It's awesome! Except then it gets played for shock/titillation/a punchline, and promptly forgotten. Unless she runs off with Amy. Most of my grudge would be absolved by that.
Amy! I loved the divorce, but then that got ruined. If she magically becomes fertile, I will collapse in flames. I do wish they'd adopt though. They like the perfect fairytale parents to any glum ten-year-old orphan.
In conclusion, this ep was actually not that bad, except for when it was horrible. C+, more Oswin please!
Feelings, flist? Feels, even?
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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.
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