*hides behind couch*

[sarren]

Well, that was yet another AWESOME episode of Dr Who, wasn't it?




Is it me? Am I being unreasonable? Does everyone else love having EVERY SINGLE COMPANION throw themselves at the Doctor?

I am SO disappointed in Amy. And Stephen Moffat. My squee is officially harshed.

Comments

[angriest.livejournal.com]

To me it felt like the "whee the Doctor falls in love with Rose, he loves Rose, Rosie Rose Rose" vision of Doctor Who from the past four years slamming sharply into the actual Doctor Who that ran from 1963-1989. It's almost like Moffat was editorializing about why Russell T Davies' version of the Doctor as a romantic figure simply doesn't work.

And I think it's made Amy a much more interesting and rounded character.

I was much more freaked out in that scene that the digital clock changed over from 11:59am on June 25 to 12:00pm on June 26. There's 24 hours going missing in that shot on the exact day a crack in time destroys the entire universe.

[baby-elvis.livejournal.com]

I did not notice that about the clock. Perhaps a mistake?

[baby-elvis.livejournal.com]

I read the attempted seduction as Moffat saying 'Let's just get it out of the way - I'm not going there.'

[angriest.livejournal.com]

I think Moffat is too clever for these kinds of mistakes.

The same episode also has the Doctor suddenly returning to tell Amy to remember what he told her when she was seven, only he's wearing a jacket - and the last time we saw his jacket it was in the hands of an angel. And we know from episode 1 that the seven year-old Amy heard the TARDIS coming back. (I don't think that was a dream sequence at all now - it's definitely a forgotten memory.)

[baby-elvis.livejournal.com]

I suspect the Doctor has not yet gone back to 7 year old Amy, but will in his future.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I think for whatever reasons in the season finale, the Doctor is running back through his own timeline changing things.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

OOOOOOOOOOOH.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

See, to me that's just pointless - we've already got a pre-reboot Doctor back, quirky alien, asexual, we didn't need to go there. To me it just destroyed the best-pals in-sync vibe I'd been getting from the two of them, and made Amy's reason for going less awesome - rather than just being there for the shiny adventure, she's just mooning after the Doctor like everyone else. I don't identify with her anymore.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

I liked what you were saying about the Doctor being "asexual and alien" in your post. I don't agree we need Amy throw herself at him to demonstrate the point. I don't agree it made her more well rounded, I think it made Amy's reason for going less awesome - rather than just being there for the shiny adventure, she's just mooning after the Doctor like everyone else. I don't identify with her anymore.

Eagerly anticipating more timey wimey stuff!!!

[angriest.livejournal.com]

I don't think she was going for the Doctor because she was head over heels for the Doctor, I think she is (for reasons I'm guessing we don't know yet) desperate to escape from marrying Rory. It felt like one of those stupid insensible things that stupid insensible people do.

[sarren.livejournal.com]

What definition of insensible are you using here?

Now Amy is stupid?

[angriest.livejournal.com]

No, she's... what, 23 years old? Sometimes the smartest 23 year-olds do really stupid things.

[victorian-tweed.livejournal.com]

Does everyone else love having EVERY SINGLE COMPANION throw themselves at the Doctor?

Donna didn't throw herself at the Doctor though, did she? *memory fail*

[sarren.livejournal.com]

No, you're right - she wasn't a pretty young thing though, either. And they still made her kiss the doctor - only then it was to shock/startle him so much his body would reject poison!