Doctor Who - Closing Time
Sep. 24th, 2011 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI didn't like it.
It is never a good sign when a black person screams and dies before the credits. It being a black woman is a slight change to the usual but oh look, there's a black man to join her. Doctor Who should be better about race. It should pay any attention at all, is what I'm saying. The survivors are white, the dead are black, did someone do that on purpose? Very unlikely. But somehow, just by accident, it happens consistently across multiple TV shows. I've been in this argument before and like hell is it a coincidence. Someone needs to do counting and pay attention and let the black people live.
Presence of gay agenda is not achieved by making mistaken-for-gay jokes. I mean, seriously, it's not bloody funny. We disappear from the for reals level, we get to be killed off or made jokes of, it's... business as bloody usual. Give us a break, okay? We exist! Put us back in!
I don't find the dude funny. At all.
The 'I speak baby' bit wears a little.
The fathers plus sons bit that has happened all season is a strange theme given that its mothers and daughters front and center with River and Amy. Done too consistently it's a compare and contrast. Like, here's all these sons saved by their fathers loving them more than anything. And here's Amy and River. Look who wasn't saved by love!
I feel like hitting someone with a foam bat. Possibly one with Clue Bat written on it.
I did like the perfume ad bit with Amy, because of the word. The smell of dust after rain is a perfume now? Nice.
... kissogram to face of perfume is an odd career path.
... I have a missing something feeling. But I can't pin it down.
The bit where Craig loving Alfie blows up the Cybermen actually kind of pissed me off for weird in-universe reasons. Like, it's saying that nobody else loved anyone enough. Like if they'd tried harder or felt it harder then the cybermen wouldn't even be a problem. Like Lisa could have got over it if she just loved for really reals. I just... found I resented that.
Cybermen being blown up by emotion is new, isn't it? Usually they just scream and try and tear themselves apart when they realise the horror of their own situation.
Also, and this isn't really trivial given the givens, cybermen had a lot more parts removed. They're not a suit of armour. There were saws and lasers involved. So Craig wouldn't be neatly slotted into and out of that machine, he'd be screaming with all his limbs cut off. I know it's a story and they can change whatever they want, but again, there was screaming with all the other times, so many others lost so much, and this story just makes it simple and easy and not costing anything.
I'm not saying it would be a better story if Craig had to love his kid from a wheelchair with four prosthetic limbs after the cybermen additions got removed. That wouldn't fit the tone at all. But that's my point, the cybermen are such a body horror scream mess badness, except for today, where crying babies fix it all.
It pisses me off for reasons that are not so much making sense.
Because it's not just loving someone and feeling it really a lot, it's working and sacrificing and doing things. Everyone cares. Not everyone succeeds at the doing parts.
If just caring for someone was enough then all the times things go wrong its because of not caring.
That's annoying.
It's entirely possible I'd react different in a different mood.
I liked seeing the Ponds when the Doctor is saying about coincidence and how the universe amuses itself.
I liked the things the Doctor said when he was feeling sad and old and alone and scared. Except I want to hit him with a rolled up newspaper until he gets over himself and stops doing the alone part. Also hug him until he feels better. So that's clearly some effective speeches there.
I don't like what they're doing to River.
I realised it hit me in the same bruise as ... I've forgotten the name, time travel film about abused kids, turns out the only way they can get over abuse is to have it never happen in the first place.
River Song having been programmed, killing the Doctor when Hitler was there, then getting over it and being awesome, that's a great story. Bit of a bobble in the middle, but, basically, abused kid grows up to be a superhero anyway.
River Song doing all that growing up, becoming Doctor River Song, awesome super hero lady, and then having the bad bad bad people from when she was a kid come back and control her again... that's the stuff of nightmares on a whole different level. That's like saying you can never get over it. Makes me ill.
... when the Master got to lightning the dude who messed him up I cheered.
I look forward to River fixing the bad people.
... if River doesn't get to do that, even if the Doctor does it, it will be bad.
I can see all the ways I'm reacting off other things in my head, not precisely off the episode as it was intended. I can see how the writers wouldn't see the thing the same way.
But I'm still reacting pretty strongly against it.
PS: Subtitles still pants very hard to watch when the words don't show up pls fix BBC okays?
I know the iplayer version have different subtitles but I don't actually want to watch it again.
It is never a good sign when a black person screams and dies before the credits. It being a black woman is a slight change to the usual but oh look, there's a black man to join her. Doctor Who should be better about race. It should pay any attention at all, is what I'm saying. The survivors are white, the dead are black, did someone do that on purpose? Very unlikely. But somehow, just by accident, it happens consistently across multiple TV shows. I've been in this argument before and like hell is it a coincidence. Someone needs to do counting and pay attention and let the black people live.
Presence of gay agenda is not achieved by making mistaken-for-gay jokes. I mean, seriously, it's not bloody funny. We disappear from the for reals level, we get to be killed off or made jokes of, it's... business as bloody usual. Give us a break, okay? We exist! Put us back in!
I don't find the dude funny. At all.
The 'I speak baby' bit wears a little.
The fathers plus sons bit that has happened all season is a strange theme given that its mothers and daughters front and center with River and Amy. Done too consistently it's a compare and contrast. Like, here's all these sons saved by their fathers loving them more than anything. And here's Amy and River. Look who wasn't saved by love!
I feel like hitting someone with a foam bat. Possibly one with Clue Bat written on it.
I did like the perfume ad bit with Amy, because of the word. The smell of dust after rain is a perfume now? Nice.
... kissogram to face of perfume is an odd career path.
... I have a missing something feeling. But I can't pin it down.
The bit where Craig loving Alfie blows up the Cybermen actually kind of pissed me off for weird in-universe reasons. Like, it's saying that nobody else loved anyone enough. Like if they'd tried harder or felt it harder then the cybermen wouldn't even be a problem. Like Lisa could have got over it if she just loved for really reals. I just... found I resented that.
Cybermen being blown up by emotion is new, isn't it? Usually they just scream and try and tear themselves apart when they realise the horror of their own situation.
Also, and this isn't really trivial given the givens, cybermen had a lot more parts removed. They're not a suit of armour. There were saws and lasers involved. So Craig wouldn't be neatly slotted into and out of that machine, he'd be screaming with all his limbs cut off. I know it's a story and they can change whatever they want, but again, there was screaming with all the other times, so many others lost so much, and this story just makes it simple and easy and not costing anything.
I'm not saying it would be a better story if Craig had to love his kid from a wheelchair with four prosthetic limbs after the cybermen additions got removed. That wouldn't fit the tone at all. But that's my point, the cybermen are such a body horror scream mess badness, except for today, where crying babies fix it all.
It pisses me off for reasons that are not so much making sense.
Because it's not just loving someone and feeling it really a lot, it's working and sacrificing and doing things. Everyone cares. Not everyone succeeds at the doing parts.
If just caring for someone was enough then all the times things go wrong its because of not caring.
That's annoying.
It's entirely possible I'd react different in a different mood.
I liked seeing the Ponds when the Doctor is saying about coincidence and how the universe amuses itself.
I liked the things the Doctor said when he was feeling sad and old and alone and scared. Except I want to hit him with a rolled up newspaper until he gets over himself and stops doing the alone part. Also hug him until he feels better. So that's clearly some effective speeches there.
I don't like what they're doing to River.
I realised it hit me in the same bruise as ... I've forgotten the name, time travel film about abused kids, turns out the only way they can get over abuse is to have it never happen in the first place.
River Song having been programmed, killing the Doctor when Hitler was there, then getting over it and being awesome, that's a great story. Bit of a bobble in the middle, but, basically, abused kid grows up to be a superhero anyway.
River Song doing all that growing up, becoming Doctor River Song, awesome super hero lady, and then having the bad bad bad people from when she was a kid come back and control her again... that's the stuff of nightmares on a whole different level. That's like saying you can never get over it. Makes me ill.
... when the Master got to lightning the dude who messed him up I cheered.
I look forward to River fixing the bad people.
... if River doesn't get to do that, even if the Doctor does it, it will be bad.
I can see all the ways I'm reacting off other things in my head, not precisely off the episode as it was intended. I can see how the writers wouldn't see the thing the same way.
But I'm still reacting pretty strongly against it.
PS: Subtitles still pants very hard to watch when the words don't show up pls fix BBC okays?
I know the iplayer version have different subtitles but I don't actually want to watch it again.