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amberfocus) wrote2011-10-02 09:17 pm
amberfocus) wrote2011-10-02 09:17 pm
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DW 613--Reaction Post
Well, that was a bit of a mess, wasn't it? Very sloppy story-telling. Although I guess that can pretty much sum up this season, huh? I mean, there were bits that I liked, some quite a lot, but most of it was just...well, if someone had written fanfic like this I would have abandoned it after the first couple of chapters because so much in it was a rehash of previous work and so much of it was nonsensical to ridiculous. There was no clear plot, characterization was massively shifted once again, and for no very good reason that I could see, the Doctor gets married to River. I just don't get that. I don't buy that he's in love with her. I'm not even sure that he loves her though I think he's got affection for her. I like River, mostly season five River, but I think Moffat messed her up a lot with this goofy storyline. I just want Doctor Who to make sense again. I want some plots that start at the beginning, then go to the middle, and then follow through with an ending. And we just aren't getting them. I'd say maybe next year, but not with Moffat still in charge. That man needs a lesson in linear story-telling, stat. And also, Doctor Who as the question? Seriously? That play on words is older than the Doctor practically.
I did like the hot air balloon cars, but that does not a shining episode make.
I did like the hot air balloon cars, but that does not a shining episode make.
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...for no very good reason that I could see, the Doctor gets married to River. I just don't get that. I don't buy that he's in love with her. I'm not even sure that he loves her though I think he's got affection for her.
After various discussions, a friend of mine stumbled into a reason to make it make sense. Namely, River desperately wants him to love her. Which he knows. She wants desperately to be the woman who marries him, not murders him. Which he knows. He wants to repair the universe and so bribes her with a wedding. Very romantic, oh yes.
Theory that you can smack me down for if it looks too crazy:
After the backstory we've gotten on River this season, I'm not sure it can actually be said that she loves the Doctor. Too much of her characterization is centered around him, she's been brainwashed over him since forever, all of her is bound up in the marry/murder debate, so on and so forth. The sheer number of times she uses the word "love" is excessive. No one does that but the vastly, vastly insecure. It's more like it's something else she's been brainwashed to believe. Believe very much, enough to do really stupid stuff over it, but there's nothing that's tender about her emotion. It's all flashy and huge.
The point where River is at when she defies the Lake Silencio thing? She's been Mels after being the little kid in the suit. She grew up listening to Amy tell stories about the Doctor. Then she went batshit. Then the TARDIS downloaded goodness into her, she was handed her name, and then goes to university/stalks the Doctor. That's the grand sum of her interactions with him up until that point. Pretty darn sure about that.
I really don't see the love anywhere.
I did like the hot air balloon cars, but that does not a shining episode make.
No, but that Christmas Special by Dickens did sound cool. I'd take his somewhat flat but rather consistent characterization by this point, too.