I have seen the tumblr light

[laeria]

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?

Comments

[laeria]

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!

[jessalae]

I guess I can see how that would have happened. I think maybe I'm interpreting it using myheadcanon!Rory rather than actualcanon!Rory. Oh well. Marriage therapy is definitely something they need, although I'm not sure how they would explain all their Doctor-related issues to a therapist. Amy is probably too old to go around biting any disbelieving psychiatrists at this point. =P

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 cleolinda's Movies in 15 Minutes Avengers parody? She doesn't exactly use that line, but she does have a lot of Samuel L. Jackson goodness, and the whole thing is just hilarious.

[laeria]

Ooooh, very good point about the Blind Banker! The one good thing Chibnall had given us was an utterly sizzling scene where Eleven interrogated a Silurian (... and let me just say, Eleven sitting backwards on a chair and explaining very calmly how you WILL tell him all you know? Is exactly where I want Eleven.) So, maybe I can hope for accidental fetish fuel, if nothing else!

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!