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From: pOYLNvJPZtgucx
Date: 02 Jan 2013
Time: 19:05:25 -0700
Remote Name: 121.160.74.206
I always suctpseed that she might stay, that her love interest stayed as well was good.But the reason she gave for staying was that she wanted to be able to see the Silurian city again. I liked that.I was sarcastically yelling at the tv, “yes, that’s right women ruin EVERYTHING with their inappropriate emotions!”My reaction also had a streak of Oh, so women being overemotional to the detriment of the big picture does transcend species, then? I felt as though the Doctor would have reacted to a man doing what Ambrose did in exactly the same way.I think he would, especially in the case of the Silurians, where he is always dead set on finding a peaceful solution (and I was glad of the implication that they eventually did).So I'm conflicted on whether I agree with Mindy here. Although something that supports her point, I think, is the Silurian scientist Malokeh. When we first see him, he's vivisecting people (only a few second's luck prevents him from slicing Amy open). Yet as soon as Restac appears on the scene, he's the ape-lover, the peace-monger, the one who'd never hurt a child. And no one ever mentions his former habit, including Amy and even the guy he did slice open. Brutal male given a pass, dead male (Rory) hagiographed.What I'd have liked was to flip Restac and Malokeh's attitudes to the humans: Malokeh's gone cold from his years of studying them, and doesn't see them as people; while Restac is concerned with protecting her people, and doesn't think a war where they're outnumbered several million to one is the way to go with that (even if she's conflicted over whether this betrays her sister's memory). Restac can do everything that the elder did, and Malokeh could wake another military leader to lead the big Silurians converging tension at the end (or Restac could wake an elder to counter another military leader being woken).Aside from being less women ruin everything, we'd get some inner conflict in one of the Silurians, a reversal of Doctor Who's usual soldier/scientist dichotomy, and no need to forget about Malokeh vivisecting people.