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From: GwzqpudgJlWmW
Date: 03 Jan 2013
Time: 02:34:25 -0700
Remote Name: 84.30.133.61
OK, I'll bite!I think maybe a point is being stretched a litlte bit, in this particular case. You note one part that you're having to ignore to continue with your thesis, but you've also not really looked at Nasreen, who is an AWESOME woman (and Asian to boot) who plays a big part in that serial and who neither dies nor fucks up. The fuckups seemed more to me to be folks-who-happen-to-be-female, and I think the fact that one is a military leader and the other one fucks up by being overly aggressive doesn't really play to stereotypes.Also, the person who's going to save the world is a kid with a disability whose disability isn't played for superpower, pity, or tokenism, and that goes a really long way for me.Amy's forgetting struck me as having a lot of resonances with Donna's, but in very different ways. It looked to me as if the Doctor was pretty tortured about his role in Donna's mindwipe, and was desperately, desperately trying to atone for that while trying to stop Amy from forgetting anything. And hm, not sure how much I can say here, but I think Amy's forgetting storyline is very very different from Donna's in other ways also.The way the Doctor talks to Amy? I don't think we're supposed to like that. I think it's one part of Moffat's wind-back of RTD's Doctor-As-God scenario. This season's Doctor has been delightfully erratic, abrupt, cranky, annoying, and not at all Mr Perfect, and to me, that's how he's supposed to be for me he's not the point-of-view character, in a way, not the person I identify with. We're not always supposed to like him, or even think he's particularly good (the Dream Lord episode goes there explicitly). He may also be still a bit toey from Amy assaulting him, and I wouldn't much blame him for that.