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such_heights) wrote2011-09-17 08:35 pm
such_heights) wrote2011-09-17 08:35 pm
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Doctor Who 6x11
First, the bad:
+ Rita got killed off? Are you serious? For reasons tied to her faith? Really? Ugh, that was really disappointing given I kind of had high hopes for her given that she's been the only non-white character to show up in ages, wtf. ESPECIALLY given that David Walliams mole dude survived for no discernible reason given he spent the most time in his nightmare room and never once had a 'praise him' moment.
+ I don't know who this 'Amy Williams' person is and am mentally sticking my fingers in my ears and pretending I didn't hear anything.
Everything else:
+ Until Rita died I was really enjoying the plot of the week, and the setting was gorgeous.
+ I liked that the Weeping Angels were fairly irrelevant to the plot, except for showing how scared Amy still was of them - continuity! We remember it sometimes! - and showing that after everything she still believes in the Doctor. Which -- oh, Amy. I think there's a lot of interesting things going on with that idea, because how can she? But I suspect that for Amy the idea of giving up that faith has been even worse than clinging onto it in spite of all evidence that she shouldn't. ;_;
+ Rory's line early on about travelling in the TARDIS in the past tense. I guess they've been talking about this, and that deep down, Rory was already gone since the end of last week's episode. ;_;
+ But really, it was all about the last ten minutes. I guessed a few days ago that Amy and Rory would leave the TARDIS at the end of this episode, but that really didn't help. Oh my god everything hurts. And I'm glad for them really, glad that they can start to pull some kind of life again, but oh god. And the scene flickering between Amy and Amelia was completely heartwrenching.
+ And then Amy mentioned her daughter, because apparently I wasn't crying enough yet.
+ I do still think everything is going to be okay, though, however distraught I feel now. I think everything is going to get seriously shaken up in the final episode, and that the Ponds are going to get their baby back. But in the meantime, I'm going to go put the kettle on and soothe my broken heart. AMYYYYY.
+ Rita got killed off? Are you serious? For reasons tied to her faith? Really? Ugh, that was really disappointing given I kind of had high hopes for her given that she's been the only non-white character to show up in ages, wtf. ESPECIALLY given that David Walliams mole dude survived for no discernible reason given he spent the most time in his nightmare room and never once had a 'praise him' moment.
+ I don't know who this 'Amy Williams' person is and am mentally sticking my fingers in my ears and pretending I didn't hear anything.
Everything else:
+ Until Rita died I was really enjoying the plot of the week, and the setting was gorgeous.
+ I liked that the Weeping Angels were fairly irrelevant to the plot, except for showing how scared Amy still was of them - continuity! We remember it sometimes! - and showing that after everything she still believes in the Doctor. Which -- oh, Amy. I think there's a lot of interesting things going on with that idea, because how can she? But I suspect that for Amy the idea of giving up that faith has been even worse than clinging onto it in spite of all evidence that she shouldn't. ;_;
+ Rory's line early on about travelling in the TARDIS in the past tense. I guess they've been talking about this, and that deep down, Rory was already gone since the end of last week's episode. ;_;
+ But really, it was all about the last ten minutes. I guessed a few days ago that Amy and Rory would leave the TARDIS at the end of this episode, but that really didn't help. Oh my god everything hurts. And I'm glad for them really, glad that they can start to pull some kind of life again, but oh god. And the scene flickering between Amy and Amelia was completely heartwrenching.
+ And then Amy mentioned her daughter, because apparently I wasn't crying enough yet.
+ I do still think everything is going to be okay, though, however distraught I feel now. I think everything is going to get seriously shaken up in the final episode, and that the Ponds are going to get their baby back. But in the meantime, I'm going to go put the kettle on and soothe my broken heart. AMYYYYY.
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Rita-as-written was great and actor who played her was absolute aces. I felt like I really knew her character even though she had relatively little screen-time to work with. They could have killed off the mole dude in some dramatically ouch-y way and left Rita alone to be a companion later on. ((SIGH))
I mean, the mole guy believed in finding the nearest powerful person/group and toadying up, right? Just give in. So what if they'd had his death come after he decides that the Doctor is the nearest powerful person and starts believing in him? That would have been a perfectly cool way to set off the Doctor's realization. And it would address the way that peoples' faith in the Doctor isn't something he's really in control of: yes, he invites humans along with the promise of time and space, but plenty of people put their trust in him just because of what he is as a Timelord with all the intelligence/power that implies and who he is, as a charismatic person.
The Doctor was trying to guilt-trip himself and make it all about his overt manipulations, but I think it would have been uber-cool to show his frustration/terror over not being completely in control of whether or not people choose to trust him. It would have played against his narrative of companions like Amy having little to no agency. It would have gotten mole!dude the role of Victim of the Week. And RITA! Rita could have been a companion! Someone who clearly sees from the onset that he's not perfect/miraculous, sees his "god complex," and chooses to have adventures anyway.
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