Doctor Who book: Hunter's Moon
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beccaelizabethI been reading this one but I stalled in the middle. They don't exactly take a long time to read so that isn't a good sign. But I think it just lost all its points.
First there was the Doctor saying "A snivelling housewife is no good to me", which isn't a line I can imagine him saying, especially to someone who hasn't actually pissed him off at all. Actually that paragraph has some point of view fail cause it has theoretical Doctor point of view, has the Doctor doing thinking, but then thinks this about her clothes: "Tight-fitting, and made of shiny black vinyl, it accentuated her female form, and suited her long dark hair and pretty face." ... this from the "You're a beautiful woman, probably" guy?
And her getting changed is part of the feminism fail in this one, which I think ties to being aimed at a wrong audience.
There's a teenage girl in this, doing her a-levels. Often these books have a young character for audience connection. But she's all about the unsuitable boyfriends, plus we only see her from her parents' point of view, or other olders, so she don't work for that. But her father gets a pov chapter or so, and somewhere in the middle he goes from unemployed loser who keeps making all his own trouble to unemployed loser who made all that trouble but his wife realises she was being selfish to not appreciate how he was trying So Hard (even though it wasn't in ways that helped her and was in ways that meant trouble). And also she's all dressed up in black vinyl. I suspect soon his daughter will come to acknowledge his authority, and he'll end the book being offered a job in the space police. I'm only on page 208 of 256 but *checks* p255 yep, offered space police. It isn't a spoiler when it's that predictable. The thing is, he hasn't changed how he was acting. So he made a bunch of impetuous bad decisions and he's being rewarded for them. Also for violence. If he's supposed to have become a new and more useful husband and father I missed it. Rory got him out of trouble, is all. So why is he getting rewards? And why, with added *facepalm*, is this including his wife in outfits? It's like someone sat down to write the fantasy of unemployed fortyish layabouts. One day they'll get to hit things and their family will like them for it.
... this is not a Doctor Who sort of message, really.
Also the Doctor just blew someone into chunky pieces with plastic explosives. I know Ace used to blow stuff up a lot, but 'stuff' was not usually gender bending musicians. (The gender thing was noted in his use of makeup earlier in the book. I don't know why. Unless it's an ugly why.)
So the thing that made me stop and complain to the internet *waves hello* was about Amy. In books with Rory there's a terrible tendency to lack Amy. Or if she exists she doesn't do useful things. But I thought this one was doing okay. Sort of. She went after Rory to rescue him, and she got made a slave in lots of makeup and have to do cleaning and serve drinks and got the keys by getting a man really drunk in his quarters and it's incredibly gendered, Rory running around and solving things with violence, Amy slinking around and solving things with pretty girl work, but at least Amy is solving things. But on 207, where I just stopped, the bad guy, who has been chasing Amy and a random prisoner dude, gets flushed down the garbage chute. Amy has been being a cleaner, and Amy is clever and resourceful and been doing this save the world stuff for a while now, and guess who does the garbage chute trick? NOT Amy.
All points, lost. Negative points. Girls keep running around getting rescued and getting into slinkier outfits with more makeup. WRONG. Not Doctor Who. The Doctor saves us, his companions save the Doctor. And yes, the Doctor rescues his friends a lot too. But the random people are for being rescued, not for doing the rescuing and looking macho for their womens. :-p to this story.
So now I am bored and want to skip the rest of this and go do something more interesting.
And it's supposed to be Doctor Who.
I keep hearing from fanboys that Amy has no personality and just runs around in short skirts.
Dear actual stuff from the BBC: Stop making annoying people right.
First there was the Doctor saying "A snivelling housewife is no good to me", which isn't a line I can imagine him saying, especially to someone who hasn't actually pissed him off at all. Actually that paragraph has some point of view fail cause it has theoretical Doctor point of view, has the Doctor doing thinking, but then thinks this about her clothes: "Tight-fitting, and made of shiny black vinyl, it accentuated her female form, and suited her long dark hair and pretty face." ... this from the "You're a beautiful woman, probably" guy?
And her getting changed is part of the feminism fail in this one, which I think ties to being aimed at a wrong audience.
There's a teenage girl in this, doing her a-levels. Often these books have a young character for audience connection. But she's all about the unsuitable boyfriends, plus we only see her from her parents' point of view, or other olders, so she don't work for that. But her father gets a pov chapter or so, and somewhere in the middle he goes from unemployed loser who keeps making all his own trouble to unemployed loser who made all that trouble but his wife realises she was being selfish to not appreciate how he was trying So Hard (even though it wasn't in ways that helped her and was in ways that meant trouble). And also she's all dressed up in black vinyl. I suspect soon his daughter will come to acknowledge his authority, and he'll end the book being offered a job in the space police. I'm only on page 208 of 256 but *checks* p255 yep, offered space police. It isn't a spoiler when it's that predictable. The thing is, he hasn't changed how he was acting. So he made a bunch of impetuous bad decisions and he's being rewarded for them. Also for violence. If he's supposed to have become a new and more useful husband and father I missed it. Rory got him out of trouble, is all. So why is he getting rewards? And why, with added *facepalm*, is this including his wife in outfits? It's like someone sat down to write the fantasy of unemployed fortyish layabouts. One day they'll get to hit things and their family will like them for it.
... this is not a Doctor Who sort of message, really.
Also the Doctor just blew someone into chunky pieces with plastic explosives. I know Ace used to blow stuff up a lot, but 'stuff' was not usually gender bending musicians. (The gender thing was noted in his use of makeup earlier in the book. I don't know why. Unless it's an ugly why.)
So the thing that made me stop and complain to the internet *waves hello* was about Amy. In books with Rory there's a terrible tendency to lack Amy. Or if she exists she doesn't do useful things. But I thought this one was doing okay. Sort of. She went after Rory to rescue him, and she got made a slave in lots of makeup and have to do cleaning and serve drinks and got the keys by getting a man really drunk in his quarters and it's incredibly gendered, Rory running around and solving things with violence, Amy slinking around and solving things with pretty girl work, but at least Amy is solving things. But on 207, where I just stopped, the bad guy, who has been chasing Amy and a random prisoner dude, gets flushed down the garbage chute. Amy has been being a cleaner, and Amy is clever and resourceful and been doing this save the world stuff for a while now, and guess who does the garbage chute trick? NOT Amy.
All points, lost. Negative points. Girls keep running around getting rescued and getting into slinkier outfits with more makeup. WRONG. Not Doctor Who. The Doctor saves us, his companions save the Doctor. And yes, the Doctor rescues his friends a lot too. But the random people are for being rescued, not for doing the rescuing and looking macho for their womens. :-p to this story.
So now I am bored and want to skip the rest of this and go do something more interesting.
And it's supposed to be Doctor Who.
I keep hearing from fanboys that Amy has no personality and just runs around in short skirts.
Dear actual stuff from the BBC: Stop making annoying people right.