Doctor Who snark (several weeks behind)
Sep. 25th, 2011 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuWe're catching up on the current Doctor Who season, and last night we watched The Girl Who Waited. I have two issues, behind the cut because they involve spoilers!
My main issue is why the hell is it supposed to be Rory's choice which version of Amy gets to live? "Which wife do I want?" What a male-centered view of the universe!
Morally, I don't see how anyone other than older-Amy has any right to choose. She's being asked to sacrifice her hellish existence so that younger-Amy won't have to live through it. If she goes along with it, she's effectively giving up her life to give younger Amy a happier life; that's her choice to make.
And by the Doctor's and Rory's actions, they essentially murder older Amy so that Rory can have his young bride back. To his credit, Rory realizes this and accuses the Doctor of "turning me into you!" but in order to give us the "happy" ending, the writers needed to have older Amy turn all noble at the end.
Rubbish. She could have been noble all along.
And this lets Rory eat his cake and have it to. Murmuring "I'm so so sorry" to the wife whom you've just abandoned to her death drags Rory back down from active character to Tardis-whipped fool.
Contrast this with the Family episode, where John Smith has to decide whether to give up his "life" and happiness in order to resume being the Doctor. He was, rightly, the only one who got to make that decision, and I was in tears at the end of that episode.
Also, I'm getting tired of the recurring waiting for each other / separate time streams stuff. This is, what, the fourth episode in two years to use this idea? (Starting from Amy's first encounter with the Doctor!) Either they're running out of ideas, Moffett has an unhealthy fixation (like Gilbert and the lozenge plot), or there's some common thread that they're going to spring on us. At this point, I'm not sure I care which.
My main issue is why the hell is it supposed to be Rory's choice which version of Amy gets to live? "Which wife do I want?" What a male-centered view of the universe!
Morally, I don't see how anyone other than older-Amy has any right to choose. She's being asked to sacrifice her hellish existence so that younger-Amy won't have to live through it. If she goes along with it, she's effectively giving up her life to give younger Amy a happier life; that's her choice to make.
And by the Doctor's and Rory's actions, they essentially murder older Amy so that Rory can have his young bride back. To his credit, Rory realizes this and accuses the Doctor of "turning me into you!" but in order to give us the "happy" ending, the writers needed to have older Amy turn all noble at the end.
Rubbish. She could have been noble all along.
And this lets Rory eat his cake and have it to. Murmuring "I'm so so sorry" to the wife whom you've just abandoned to her death drags Rory back down from active character to Tardis-whipped fool.
Contrast this with the Family episode, where John Smith has to decide whether to give up his "life" and happiness in order to resume being the Doctor. He was, rightly, the only one who got to make that decision, and I was in tears at the end of that episode.
Also, I'm getting tired of the recurring waiting for each other / separate time streams stuff. This is, what, the fourth episode in two years to use this idea? (Starting from Amy's first encounter with the Doctor!) Either they're running out of ideas, Moffett has an unhealthy fixation (like Gilbert and the lozenge plot), or there's some common thread that they're going to spring on us. At this point, I'm not sure I care which.
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Date: 2011-09-25 02:27 pm (UTC)