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Hello, readers! I like chatting with you, so here is a space in which to do that. Is this a celebratory time of year for you? What have you been up to? Any Gregorian New Year plans? Anything else on your mind? What good books have you been reading? I would also like to use this thread as a Doctor Who Christmas special discussion thread, so of spoilers beware!
HI CHALLY :D <3
HAI THAR KIRI!
I was really, really surprised that they didn’t save Abigail. (That was her name, right? My family was talking over some of the episode.) I was very much expecting an eleventh hour (heh) miracle cure. I kind of like that they didn’t do it, but she was also kind of perfect tragic sick person who wasn’t even unhappy that she was going to die, which was a little uncomfortable. (And why the hell did she never tell, anyway?)
On a lighter note, SHARK-DRAWN CARRIAGE :DDDD
That was her name. Yeah, I was a little uncomfortable, too. I guess she had come to terms with not seeing her family again and just wanted to enjoy the time she had left… by which I mean it was CONVENIENT FOR THE PLOT?! She was really lovely though.
It was beautifully scripted… he just needed time and a crayon! Quantum unfolding and a paperclip! Eep!
Hi Chally! <3
This is a celebratory time of year for me; my Christian roots are gone but the gift-giving and baking traditions still hold, as well as the family gathering, so I think we kept the best parts of Christmas anyway. Part of my extended family just moved to my hometown and they're the other heathens, so now all the fun people are in one place and not suffocated by the haters. We've been having a lot of fun.
I just finished reading Stiff, which I've meant to read for years, and I'm working my way back through Snow Crash. :D
She… didn’t really feel like a person, I guess? All perfect and beautiful and the voice that tames the sky (and NONE OF THE 5000 PEOPLE ON THE SHIP had the right voice) and she Teaches Kasran To Love and all that jazz. Virtually no non-positive emotions. And the Doctor really did use her like an object a bit, there. I need something to make this dude nicer, oh hey this random woman will do. And the plot point of the machinery not recognising him anymore and oh shit must find another way was an interesting touch (I had parsed it as coded to his DNA, not his brainwaves, so I was a bit confused at first), but the resolution was…. eh. Come to think of it, it reminds me of the end of Children Of Earth in the save one person vs save all the persons, except Abigail had agency (All those Christmas Eves…) and Jack’s grandson… didn’t. (Poor kid. Whose name I have apparently forgotten.)
It was certainly an interesting structure for an episode!
I’ve been meaning to read Snow Crash for years! You must tell me about it!
Yes, she didn’t feel like a person. And actually, with the Moffat era I’ve been finding that everything is getting geared towards setting up heteronormative dynamics, you know? There’s this tendency to straightify everything where there had been more room for other kinds of relating, which here I think means that the woman in question gets to be a big cardboard. (Oh, and Mme de Pompadour, the potential for that character that got subsumed…) Yes, very interesting structurally, that’s always the thing with Moffat, the structure is always good.
You’re right, Chally – I hadn’t thought of it like that. Amy and Rory tie into that, too. I still don’t feel like their relationship is really believable, though it’s better now than it was in Amy’s Choice. (There was NOTHING in her character prior that would indicate a tendency to be willing to die for lack of Rory.) And, yknow, Amy waited twelve years for the Doctor… and Rory waited four thousand (I think that’s the right number) for Amy. That relationship still feels so one-sided. Quiet desperate Rory and vivacious, I’d almost say callous, Amy. (You know, I bet things there would work better if you just made them poly, so it wouldn’t be Amy disregarding Rory, it would just be her being an outgoing loving person. Hm.)
Mme de Pompadour reminds me – one of the trends I noticed in Moffat during RTD’s years was fucking with relationships the other writers made. Ten/Martha? Oh, let’s make him human and have him fall in love with a human woman right in front of her! (Poor awesome Martha.) Ten/Rose? Let’s have him flirt with a french woman! Ten/Donna? River Song! I’m not articulating this very well, but do you get what I mean?
Many though the things were that I disliked about RTD, I think you’re right that Moffat is het-ing things up more. (Having married het companions doesn’t help anything, obviously.) I was going to say something about Jack here, but then I realized – Jack is from The Empty Child, which MOFFAT WROTE. FFS, Moffat, get your shit together, you can obviously write not-straight.
I do get what you mean, we seem to be on a wavelength with this!
Yeep, I’m sorry I got distracted from this thread. Umm… hi! Now I dunno what to say. ^^; Love, though <3
Hello!
I liked this episode apart from the way Abigail was treated. The freezer thing didn’t entirely make sense – if she’s going to die in a week then she’s not great loan collaterol. It also seemed strange that the reformed Kasran was still in the freezing people business.