Doctor Who: The Rings of Check Your Privilege

[lizbee]

I have to go out, so my actual episode reaction will be up in a few hours, but in the meantime, I had to react to some stuff I've seen.  Mostly on Tumblr, yeah, but what can you do?



1.  If you think that losing a mother at an early age is unrealistic and bad writing, I've got some sad news for you. 

1a.  If you think Dead Mother Angst is a bit cliche, yeah, it is, but it's not something DW has ever explored much before.

2.  I'd really like to see the cut of the episode where Clara's dad was fleshed out with lots of personality beyond Being Clara's Dad.  Because apparently that ... happened?

3.  If a five foot two woman standing beside a five foot eleven man is the most misogynist thing you've ever seen, then (a) I envy you, and (b) again, alas, it is something that happens in real life with depressing regularity.  Well, to me.  It happens to me.

3a.  If you think the only acceptable treatment of short women is to pretend they're tall, I ... I don't really know what to do with that.  But I feel bad for you, I guess.

4.  Clara reminds the Doctor of Victorian!Clara and Oswin.  Not Amy.  Certainly not Rose Tyler, who isn't even dead.  THIS ISN'T COMPLICATED, GUYS.  IT'S AIMED AT EIGHT YEAR OLDS.

I was going to say that Doctor Who fandom is the only one that complains when the show is too clever, but then I remembered Avatar fandom complaining that LoK had too much showing and not enough telling.

Comments

[amphigorym_2011]

Wait. People are considering it misogynistic that 11's taller than Clara? They ARE aware that Matt Smith has always been 5'11", right. And that he was also taller than Amy and Rory. I've got a niece who's 5'11" and her husband is 6'2"-I suppose they'd consider that misogynist as well? And she's the tallest woman in my family-the rest of us average anywhere from 5'2" to 5'5".

Ah Tumblr. What won't you bitch about?

[wolfy_writing]

My dad is over a foot taller than my mom. I was unaware that it was misogyny for them to be around each other.

[amphigorym_2011]

So how do we correct this inequality? Either Matt has to spend all his time on his knees, or any woman shorter than him is required to wear super high heels. Or possibly walk on stilts.

[wolfy_writing]

I suspect they'll demand going back to the good old days when a lack of misogyny meant that the 5'5" Billie Piper was the exact same height as the 6'1" David Tennant.