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From: ZTBDdpSk
Date: 03 Jan 2013
Time: 03:26:05 -0700
Remote Name: 124.107.72.76
that he can't draw, and the Doctor says That's okay, I can't make a decent meugnire!' That felt more perfectly anti-ableist than most negotiations of disability I've seen on TV. I actually kinda liked that Restac was a military commander, just because it remains rare to have a woman play a role like that. And as for Ambrose well, I reacted pretty hard to the Doctor's rebuke at the end—you can no longer be the best of humanity, so the most you can do is have your son do that for you, which felt like a massively gendered thing; i.e., I'm not convinced that the Doctor would have told a father the same thing—but to me, she was just reacting to a sucky and massively unfamiliar situation. And the thing was, everyone else had a reason to trust the Doctor: even Nasreen and Ambrose's dad (I've forgotten his name) had had him react to the holes appearing at the mine had an investment there. Ambrose didn't. Then again, I thought it was *awfully* unlikely that she was the only one who had gone off to find weapons while everyone else cheerfully *just* followed the doc's orders so that rebuke, as well, felt a bit ??? Especially given that Amy and Elliott's dad (forgotten his name too!) turn up carrying alien guns. But I think this is probably the regular difficulty DW faces in general, with trying to have a peaceable protagonist who somehow manages to make people get along