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From: zrGnxsPZylNs
Date: 03 Jan 2013
Time: 05:29:26 -0700
Remote Name: 46.18.153.99
Have to say that I found Ambrose giving in to the implsues of vengeful violence and torture to try and save her family a perfectly cromulent narrative choice, and one that didn't strike me as anti-woman at all it's a very human reaction, and saying damn the village/city/nation/planet, I just want to save my family , unethical and ignoble as it is in the greater social context, is one that both men and women have given into over the millennia. The whole narrative about the nobility of sacrificing one's own precious attachments for the sake of the greater good, of being that extraordinary person who thinks of others first, has always had to deal with the challenge of ordinary people who understandably focus just on what they personally have to lose.I also think that Nasreen's awesomeness more than balanced the ethical inadequacies of Ambrose and the hissing malevolence of Alaya there was a range of women characters with different strengths and weaknesses in this episode, and isn't that actually a good thing?i don't want the Doctor to only battle male villains and have all the women be virtuous allies. I don't want the only folks around him who let him down to be the men. How tedious that would be.