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intrikate88Okay, so I'm not TOTALLY surprised about that ending. I was spoiled by hollywoodgrrl, for starters, but even before then my crack theory was that, in "The Eleventh Hour" when we saw the dolls of Amy and Eleven holding hands, then pans from little girl-made doll, then better dolls, then to wedding dress, it really felt like it was implying a pairing there. So I figured that pre-traveling Amy had come across the Doctor and an older version of herself having lunch in town one day, overheard what date he was coming back, and planned a wedding for that day for him to walk into.
Because the signs of insanity she has displayed so charmingly thus far lend themselves that way! :D
So I am disappointed that did not happen because it would have been crazy hilarious. HOWEVER: the Doctor not knowing how to handle being seduced: LOLOLOLOL DOCTOR, YOU AND ME BOTH.
I mean, in the end, I'm not really against shipping or for it, I just don't really feel it at all anymore. I'd rather explore an interesting relationship that isn't shippy (like the Doctor and Donna) than have all sorts of romantic drama, which has become much less interesting to me. I don't think that Doctor Who is capable of shippiness to the point of lacking character development. I just would rather see solid understanding of each other built than people snogging cause they feel like it.
About the rest of the plot:
Plot/Monster of the week: Erm, I don't know how to feel. It was suspenseful, yeah, but I still feel that the Weeping Angels were better as a one-off never-explained thing. I'm glad to see the Cracks Of Doom-y Timey-Wimeyness are getting explored sooner rather than later because if they were foreshadowed with that amount of force all season for a finale, the anvils would have been deadly to us all, jeez.
However, the Red Riding Hood imagery in the woods? GORGEOUS. (I know, the term 'fairy tale' is being tossed around helter-skelter these days. But that scene was still very Grimms Fairy Tales, anyway.)
Eleven: I'm feeling more like he's the Doctor. This is possibly entirely on the basis of him going "I don't have a plan, I have a Thing. It's... a Thing. A Thing-in-Progress." or whatever and yes, that's very him.
Eleven and River Song: Meh. I'm just having a difficult time caring, I feel like she's just a plot-device Mary Sue commentary or something. So she's a jailbird; what do you want to bet the Doctor is the one she killed? Cause I'm pretty sure that was what she was implying.
Eleven and Amy: bbs, just keep rocking the universe, enough of this silly UST stuff. I honestly just want them to be crazy ten-year-olds rampaging through time and space, kind of like if the kids from Outnumbered got their hands on a TARDIS. Is that so wrong? Okay, maybe not them, but you know, a Jill Pole/Eustace Scrubb vibe. Or kid detectives. Come oooooon.
Because the signs of insanity she has displayed so charmingly thus far lend themselves that way! :D
So I am disappointed that did not happen because it would have been crazy hilarious. HOWEVER: the Doctor not knowing how to handle being seduced: LOLOLOLOL DOCTOR, YOU AND ME BOTH.
I mean, in the end, I'm not really against shipping or for it, I just don't really feel it at all anymore. I'd rather explore an interesting relationship that isn't shippy (like the Doctor and Donna) than have all sorts of romantic drama, which has become much less interesting to me. I don't think that Doctor Who is capable of shippiness to the point of lacking character development. I just would rather see solid understanding of each other built than people snogging cause they feel like it.
About the rest of the plot:
Plot/Monster of the week: Erm, I don't know how to feel. It was suspenseful, yeah, but I still feel that the Weeping Angels were better as a one-off never-explained thing. I'm glad to see the Cracks Of Doom-y Timey-Wimeyness are getting explored sooner rather than later because if they were foreshadowed with that amount of force all season for a finale, the anvils would have been deadly to us all, jeez.
However, the Red Riding Hood imagery in the woods? GORGEOUS. (I know, the term 'fairy tale' is being tossed around helter-skelter these days. But that scene was still very Grimms Fairy Tales, anyway.)
Eleven: I'm feeling more like he's the Doctor. This is possibly entirely on the basis of him going "I don't have a plan, I have a Thing. It's... a Thing. A Thing-in-Progress." or whatever and yes, that's very him.
Eleven and River Song: Meh. I'm just having a difficult time caring, I feel like she's just a plot-device Mary Sue commentary or something. So she's a jailbird; what do you want to bet the Doctor is the one she killed? Cause I'm pretty sure that was what she was implying.
Eleven and Amy: bbs, just keep rocking the universe, enough of this silly UST stuff. I honestly just want them to be crazy ten-year-olds rampaging through time and space, kind of like if the kids from Outnumbered got their hands on a TARDIS. Is that so wrong? Okay, maybe not them, but you know, a Jill Pole/Eustace Scrubb vibe. Or kid detectives. Come oooooon.
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Date: 2010-05-01 10:13 pm (UTC)also I have a huge adultery/cheating squick. it bothers me so so much, and it's saying a lot that I can still love Amy after she pulled that.
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Date: 2010-05-02 02:17 am (UTC)Yeah, I'm not fond of any character who cheats, either. I'm a little more forgiving of it here because... not because it's remotely alright, but I feel like it's all a part of Amy's deeper issues. And tbh it kind of sounded like Amy had never been particularly faithful to Rory in the first place, always waiting for the Doctor. So I don't know; the whole seduction scene seemed a bit out of character, even, but perhaps that's just because I'm so focused on her character as NOT being grown-up in that way.
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Date: 2010-05-02 07:12 am (UTC)Also I personally just can't handle this show without any romance and/or hints thereof. Without shippiness it's just...BLUE BORNINGERS! ;)
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Date: 2010-05-02 02:14 pm (UTC)Hee, I am glad you like shippiness, I enjoy everybody else's squee on that front. On just a personal level I have less empathy with interest in romance than with interest in traveling with fun people, that's all. :P