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some_stars) wrote2011-05-26 01:07 pm
some_stars) wrote2011-05-26 01:07 pm
the point of despair has once again been reached
So, I'm sure it's too late, but if anyone has not yet watched the Confidential for last week's Doctor Who, just...don't. It's so gross and awful and ruining of good things. Basically it's Moffat, Karen, and Arthur explaining what's going on with Rory and Jennifer and Amy in the most horrible reductive sexist way possible, and also calling Amy, in not quite so many words, an emasculating shrew.
Like--does Rory actually feel compassion for Jennifer and a need to protect her, perhaps springing from all these months of watching people suffer and die while he couldn't save them? Is that frustrated compassion and the resulting anger, together with Amy's similar-but-different feelings about the things she's seen and her similar-but-different kind of compassion for the weak, going to be what changes Rory and Amy's relationship and maybe comes to separate them, to drive one of them off the TARDIS or both of them away from the Doctor?
No, don't be ridiculous, he just needs to prove that he's a real man. And he likes hearing from a pretty woman that he's strong and important, since Amy never offers him anything but scorn. This is seriously exactly what they said and it's SO HORRIBLE. So I kind of want to continue my original plan and do a squee post for this episode, since who knows if next week will present me with any squee at all, but I just feel so utterly disheartened. If the writer/showrunner and both actors think that the most interesting and true things about these characters and their relationship are romantic jealousy, traditional gender roles, and vaguely evo-psych bullshit about manhood, then I can't help but expect that that's what I'm going to be getting for the rest of the season.
Like--does Rory actually feel compassion for Jennifer and a need to protect her, perhaps springing from all these months of watching people suffer and die while he couldn't save them? Is that frustrated compassion and the resulting anger, together with Amy's similar-but-different feelings about the things she's seen and her similar-but-different kind of compassion for the weak, going to be what changes Rory and Amy's relationship and maybe comes to separate them, to drive one of them off the TARDIS or both of them away from the Doctor?
No, don't be ridiculous, he just needs to prove that he's a real man. And he likes hearing from a pretty woman that he's strong and important, since Amy never offers him anything but scorn. This is seriously exactly what they said and it's SO HORRIBLE. So I kind of want to continue my original plan and do a squee post for this episode, since who knows if next week will present me with any squee at all, but I just feel so utterly disheartened. If the writer/showrunner and both actors think that the most interesting and true things about these characters and their relationship are romantic jealousy, traditional gender roles, and vaguely evo-psych bullshit about manhood, then I can't help but expect that that's what I'm going to be getting for the rest of the season.