Watching Lost and Red Nose Day Thoughts

[amberfocus]

I want my brain back so bad.  I am watching dvd's of Lost because I can't follow a plot on something I haven't seen before.  That is how bad my mind is right now.  But something I've watched before I can just about follow.  I've tried reading, but anything more complicated than a cookbook (i.e. something with a plot) goes right over my head.

But Lost works.  More or less.  Baby!Ben just got shot by Sayid.  I'd forgotten about that particular storyline.  I like Baby!Ben.  He's adorable.

I want to write so much but my brain just won't do it.  It's very frustrating.  I've got so many open fics just sitting on my hard drive and actively mocking me.  I would love to offer a fic for the help Japan auction but I'm not sure I could carry a plot in a paper bag.  Did donate, though.

I finally got around to watching the Red Nose Day Doctor Who stuff and...eh, repetitive much?  I kept thinking, "Haven't I seen this plot somewhere before?"  Also, was thinking, "Two Amys?  I'd rather have two Rorys."  And then there were two Rorys so I smiled once.  Well, twice.  Unexpected House made me laugh, but not the rest of the schtick on female drivers.  If female drivers are so bad how come it is male drivers 16 to 25 who have the higher insurance rates?  Hmm?  Just for being male.  Yeah, I think that tells you right there who the majority of the bad drivers are, doesn't it?  So SM, take those statistics and shove them up your...well, you know, because you are wrong, wrong, wrong.  And why do I think SM put a glass floor in the TARDIS just so that one day he could have someone looking up someone else's skirt?  Does SM even have a female in his life?  Because I can't imagine one putting up with his blatant anti-woman attitude.

Eleven was kind of a big jerk.  Nine might have been condescending and Ten oblivious, but it was always obvious they cared about their companions and didn't find them inconvenient.  Eleven is starting to remind me of the negative things I didn't like about Six.

As for the putting on trousers line, how about Amy puts on trousers for the rest of her tenure so we don't ever have to deal with SM's stupid skirt jokes again?  Jeans are sexy (as opposed to bowties) and are harder to turn into a skeevy joke.

Why does the BBC let this man anywhere near one of its family shows?  He is clearly anti-family with his over the top adult humor.  I won't let my kids watch this special at all.  I hope he gets bored soon and moves on or the BBC wises up and hires someone else as showrunner.  I don't care if DW never has romance in it again, but I want respect for women and children, which has been sorely lacking since the end of DT's era.

Comments

[jessalrynn.livejournal.com]

I don't understand. He has absolutely no respect for women, and technically even less for men, since he seems to think they can't behave for five seconds in a committed relationship (see THAT episode and his comments on the same). And, ok, he can write snappy dialogue. But everything else he writes is full of plot-holes and predestination, and even those choices that define people get made for them in his universe.

I don't like him, as a human being. I watched Coupling for a few episodes and thought "Yeah, this explains a lot." The main character meets the female lead in a bathroom while he's trying to have sex with a female minor lead (whom he does not even LIKE and is trying to break up with), and tries to ask her out, while literally in the middle of the act (he's left the one girl in the stall while he goes shopping in the vending machine. The female lead... well, there's an explicit reason I don't like River Song...

It ought to HURT for someone to think like this man does, and I really wish the people in charge of him would start making it hurt, especially in places it needs to do: IE - the wallet.

[kilodalton]

since he seems to think they can't behave for five seconds in a committed relationship

Oh but see, it can't be a committed relationship in Moffat-land because they weren't having sex. No sex, no relationship, see? No sex means they are just friends. =P =P

In all seriousness, I totally agree with everything you say x 1000! I can't even bring myself to watch Coupling ... I've heard enough about it to know that I won't enjoy it, it will just upset me =/ I can't believe that the BBC hasn't severely reined him in. The UK is such a progressive country in many ways - why they are allowing such overt sexism to be broadcast weekly in one of their top shows is beyond me.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_thirty2flavors/]

Welllllllll to be fair I don't think even I would describe the Doctor and Rose in early s2 as a "committed relationship" at least in the traditional sense that people mean it, that sort of assumes that at some point they sat and talked about their feelings.

[kilodalton]

Oh yeah, totally, clearly.

I was sarc'ing bc that was another one of Moffat's comments from that same interview - that a relationship is not a relationship without sex, and is only a friendship. It's not a SEXIST comment per se, just another ignorant one to ad. To the pile.

[jessalrynn.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't either, but it was the way he handled the interview - as if he had written the Doctor cheating on his girlfriend and everyone wanted to know why and he was all "You ever met a man?"

God, have I been around teenagers too long...