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Some thoughts on the new Who
Okay, I am actually quite enjoying this.
- Amused very much by Moffatt telling his own story of being a fan and loving Doctor Who through Amelia/Amy's story in the first episode. i.e. discovering the Doctor as a child - having a whirlwind, largely incoherent, rollick of a ride enjoying it. Then! Cancelled. long absence of Doctor, during which Our Hero becomes obsessive to the point of collecting action figures. One might even say it plays a big part in forming the hero's character. And then! The Doctor is back! And now Moffatt/Amelia gets to ride with him! Wheee!
- I don't dislike the new Doctor, but by and large I am unmoved by him. Amy, however, I love. One of the things I'm really enjoying is that one of the things I hated about RTD's Who has been flipped - with Ten's companions started off innocent, fell for him, got damaged by him, got discarded by him and continued to pine (with the exception of Donna in the 'falling for' stakes; ironically, she ended up with a literal instead of thematic/emotionally dependent symbiotic relationship with him). With Amelia, she's travelling with him after the damage has been done - he's doing the opposite of discarding her. (And yes, there is some more interesting Donna stuff in there, with the way Prisoner Zero represented Amy's 'self' as a composite of her *and* the Doctor.) He has to deal with the effect he's had, in close quarters.
- As anvilicious as the sex/virginity/loss of innocence themes are (insert undergrad essay here about the strange man warning about the evil snake in the house's hidden spare room [srsly], and the holding of on childhood for many years, and the ~~significant~~ lensflare!kiss over the forbidden fruit, and the running away before one's wedding night, and alllll the fairy tale references etc, omg...) --> yes, as anvilicious as they are, I'm kind of liking the very conscious playing with sexuality that's happening here. With RTD's reign there was this sort of denial going on that just led to icky misogyny and sexuality issues.
- I can forgive any plot holes there were in the latest episode because OMG that was still TEN TIMES better story telling than ANY of Ten's final specials. I will admit that as soon as Liz 10 said "Basically, I rule", I said "she's SO going to die" - BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT RUSTY HAD TRAINED ME TO EXPECT! And if Rusty had written it, she would have. This episode is obviously meant as a parallel to Rose's first adventure at the end of the world; remember what happened to that last royal woman who helped the Doctor save the day? I also absolutely love that Liz was kickarse AND flawed AND didn't get punished for it all by the end of the day. YAY.
In summary: surprisingly - woot.
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And then it was all pointless, they didn't have to do it -and they'll have to live with that- because their survival was a gift, because the space whale was offering itself to them. The horrible thing they couldn't live with knowing they did, even if they had to, and they didn't have to do it at all.
Moffat does have a good line in his single-episode female characters. Sally Sparrow, River Song, Nancy in the empty child. Flawed, but purposeful and he doesn't like them to come to a bad end.
*Definitions of The Greater Good may be subject to change without notice
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Liz 10 was so great!
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