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Doctor Who fandom, I am tired.
I saw the episode, mostly because I was tired of seeing other people's opinions posts and not knowing what they were talking about, so I just went ahead and watched.
And you know? I could talk about what was problematic in this episode. I could talk about Amy and Rory and how love is not a competition. I could talk about the bisexuality-as-a-phase joke. I could talk about how nothing Dalek-related made any fucking sense because there was this thing called the Time War that was a big fucking deal and also Daleks hate the impurity of being mixed with anything human and how every other Doctor has had a problem with killing all the Daleks when he could have makes him no better, and I wonder what Four, who nearly killed all the Daleks when they were first created and decided not to, would have to say about this.
But I don't know that this show is worthy of my discussion time anymore.
So here are the things I liked, because I'm going to say what they are and then probably forget the episode, just as if I wasn't a fangirl at all.
I liked Oswin, and her music, her souffle-cooking, and how even as every last bit of her body was stripped away from her she still said NO. I AM HUMAN. They took her freedom and she still demanded every smidgeon of agency she could. Good for you, Oswin.
I like how, despite everything, at a crazy adventure Amy is still the wild girl she always has been, even when zombie Dalek people (and may I say that is the first time Daleks have ever scared me. Holy shitsnacks, pepper shakers of doom are whatever but corpses growing eyestalks NEEDS TO NOT BE IMPRINTED IN MY MEMORY) start swarming and she faces scary death but if the Doctor is going to jump into a hole, she'll consider jumping first. That's my girl.
I saw the episode, mostly because I was tired of seeing other people's opinions posts and not knowing what they were talking about, so I just went ahead and watched.
And you know? I could talk about what was problematic in this episode. I could talk about Amy and Rory and how love is not a competition. I could talk about the bisexuality-as-a-phase joke. I could talk about how nothing Dalek-related made any fucking sense because there was this thing called the Time War that was a big fucking deal and also Daleks hate the impurity of being mixed with anything human and how every other Doctor has had a problem with killing all the Daleks when he could have makes him no better, and I wonder what Four, who nearly killed all the Daleks when they were first created and decided not to, would have to say about this.
But I don't know that this show is worthy of my discussion time anymore.
So here are the things I liked, because I'm going to say what they are and then probably forget the episode, just as if I wasn't a fangirl at all.
I liked Oswin, and her music, her souffle-cooking, and how even as every last bit of her body was stripped away from her she still said NO. I AM HUMAN. They took her freedom and she still demanded every smidgeon of agency she could. Good for you, Oswin.
I like how, despite everything, at a crazy adventure Amy is still the wild girl she always has been, even when zombie Dalek people (and may I say that is the first time Daleks have ever scared me. Holy shitsnacks, pepper shakers of doom are whatever but corpses growing eyestalks NEEDS TO NOT BE IMPRINTED IN MY MEMORY) start swarming and she faces scary death but if the Doctor is going to jump into a hole, she'll consider jumping first. That's my girl.
