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laeriaQ: 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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Date: 2012-09-02 03:53 pm (UTC)I just still don't think that Rory would have let Amy go without an explanation -- and even if they were fighting about a lot of things that could be used as plausible excuses, I think he would have hung on until he found The Real Problem. I just don't see him going and getting divorce papers drawn up without being convinced that it's absolutely not going to work. I definitely see Amy being heartbroken and furious that she can't get pregnant again, and not wanting to tell Rory about it, and that all boiling up until she can't stand to be with him because she feels she's disappointing him for reasons she hasn't even explained to him. But like you said, in proper-writer-world that situation ends in a huge character-building fight where All Is Revealed, and then maybe they divorce. Moffat decided he had to do it backwards for ~~drama~~, which is just stupid.
Hm, Wikipedia is telling me Chibnall wrote 42 and The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood? I didn't love those episodes, but I didn't really hate them either. They were just sort of... there. Mostly for next episode I'm hoping they can work in someone saying "I have had it with these motherfucking dinosaurs on this motherfucking spaceship!" (or the family-friendly equivalent), because that is the kind of silly reference I adore.
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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!
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Date: 2012-09-02 05:58 pm (UTC)It's been a long time since I watched The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood, I guess, and maybe I didn't pay attention to those episodes too closely? Not that I really want to go back and rewatch now, since I do sort of remember a lot of the things you're talking about, and they don't sound good. :/ I understand why you would be very unexcited. (Maybe we'll get another Blind Banker vs. Reichenbach Fall situation where a writer whose previous episode was a trainwreck of awful suddenly develops the ability to write awesome stuff? Unlikely, but I can dream.)
Re: motherfucking snakes and Avengers fandom, have you read
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Date: 2012-09-02 09:30 pm (UTC)Ooooh, I had no idea cleo did Avengers! Thanks for linking it, I must read. I remember she'd posted about having been flamed by enraged Whedon fans over mentioning she wasn't entirely wowed by Avengers... I'm glad she 15 Minutes'd it anyway, that was very brave!
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Date: 2012-09-02 05:25 pm (UTC)