New Who: "Amy's Choice"
May. 16th, 2010 09:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizbeeBut first, an obnoxious preface:
I'm having a lot of squee this season, and I'm really loving it, and frankly, I haven't had this much fun watching Doctor Who since 2007. There are things I have problems with, but on the whole, I am madly in love with my show again, and that is very exciting to me.
So I would take it as a courtesy if, if you hated everything about it and want everyone involved to retire for the good of British television, please keep your hate out of my LJ. Every couple of weeks -- and it's always someone different, so I'm not singling any one person out -- someone pops in to say nothing more constructive than "I hated that", and then a long list of reasons why, many of which constitute everything I loved. It is, frankly, cheerio-pissing, and it's really bringing me down. You've got your own LJs, or DWs, or whatever.
I didn't want to have to do this, because I like to think of my journals as the online equivalent of a house party where people are talking and flailing and having fun, but this is the equivalent of coming into my home and making disparaging remarks about its size, appearance and general state of existence. Which is, in my opinion, rude. And it's really undermined my pleasure in DW and its fandom the last couple of weeks, so please, just keep it out of my LJ.
Anyway, THAT WAS AMAZING. It's like fandom got its wish for the Valeyard to come back -- and he's shipping Eleven/Amy. Because the Doctor is a selfish, lonely old man who subconsciously wants to keep Amy in a sexless, isolated relationship that keeps her apart from the ones she loves, just like he did with Rose.
And now it's canon that (a) the Doctor listens in on his companions' sex dreams, and (b) likes gingers best.
Niggles aside, there was so much to love here. I have such a good sense of Amy and Rory now, that Amy is scared of growing up, and easily bored, and sometimes creates drama and makes noise just to break up the tedium of being surrounded by normal people. And Rory loves her madness, but also craves a quiet life in the countryside, with geese and a little medical practice, and a baby on the way. And, um, a ponytail.
Did I mention that this was amazing? Consciously, the Doctor wants Amy to trust him. His subconscious thinks she already trusts him too much, and wants to reinforce to her that she is not the first, the last, the only. Everyone in the TARDIS is torn between these choices, and there's no real right or wrong choice, just the ones that are better for themselves and everyone else. They're all so messed up. Rory's the most stable one of the bunch, poor guy.
Twitter, and a skim of my flist, tells me that many people did not like this? They are clearly allwrong sadly deprived of the joy I take in cracktastic character pieces, dream sequences, baby fic, alternate universes and evil versions of canon characters. Man, I don't think an episode of a show has hit this many of my narrative kinks since B5's "War Without End part 2".
And now the Amy/Rory relationship makes sense to me, because I couldn't quite parse it before. This wasn't a problem; I had figured this would be the episode where all became clear, but now it is, and I am happy.
I HAVE TOO MUCH SQUEE TO SAY ANY MORE. Please chime in with thoughts about Amy, and how she is awesome.
I'm having a lot of squee this season, and I'm really loving it, and frankly, I haven't had this much fun watching Doctor Who since 2007. There are things I have problems with, but on the whole, I am madly in love with my show again, and that is very exciting to me.
So I would take it as a courtesy if, if you hated everything about it and want everyone involved to retire for the good of British television, please keep your hate out of my LJ. Every couple of weeks -- and it's always someone different, so I'm not singling any one person out -- someone pops in to say nothing more constructive than "I hated that", and then a long list of reasons why, many of which constitute everything I loved. It is, frankly, cheerio-pissing, and it's really bringing me down. You've got your own LJs, or DWs, or whatever.
I didn't want to have to do this, because I like to think of my journals as the online equivalent of a house party where people are talking and flailing and having fun, but this is the equivalent of coming into my home and making disparaging remarks about its size, appearance and general state of existence. Which is, in my opinion, rude. And it's really undermined my pleasure in DW and its fandom the last couple of weeks, so please, just keep it out of my LJ.
Anyway, THAT WAS AMAZING. It's like fandom got its wish for the Valeyard to come back -- and he's shipping Eleven/Amy. Because the Doctor is a selfish, lonely old man who subconsciously wants to keep Amy in a sexless, isolated relationship that keeps her apart from the ones she loves, just like he did with Rose.
And now it's canon that (a) the Doctor listens in on his companions' sex dreams, and (b) likes gingers best.
Niggles aside, there was so much to love here. I have such a good sense of Amy and Rory now, that Amy is scared of growing up, and easily bored, and sometimes creates drama and makes noise just to break up the tedium of being surrounded by normal people. And Rory loves her madness, but also craves a quiet life in the countryside, with geese and a little medical practice, and a baby on the way. And, um, a ponytail.
Did I mention that this was amazing? Consciously, the Doctor wants Amy to trust him. His subconscious thinks she already trusts him too much, and wants to reinforce to her that she is not the first, the last, the only. Everyone in the TARDIS is torn between these choices, and there's no real right or wrong choice, just the ones that are better for themselves and everyone else. They're all so messed up. Rory's the most stable one of the bunch, poor guy.
Twitter, and a skim of my flist, tells me that many people did not like this? They are clearly all
And now the Amy/Rory relationship makes sense to me, because I couldn't quite parse it before. This wasn't a problem; I had figured this would be the episode where all became clear, but now it is, and I am happy.
I HAVE TOO MUCH SQUEE TO SAY ANY MORE. Please chime in with thoughts about Amy, and how she is awesome.
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Date: 2010-05-16 05:44 pm (UTC)I also think the Doctor needs a therapist who doesn't hate him quite so much. It's sad and upsetting and yet fitting completely for New Who that the Doctor has so much self-loathing buried under all those high spirits.
Maybe a visit from Four would help him sort himself out? There was a Doctor with self-esteem to spare.