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sooooo apparently it is now official that I can't actually break up with Doctor Who, I just quit in tears and then wait 4-18 months before catching up on everything. Which is to say, I just finished "Closing Time"--I skipped "The God Complex," I see no reason to do that to myself--and OMG CRAIG. That actor certainly cleans up nice. And Craig and the Doctor have such a beautiful love. Is there fic? I know there won't be much because omg fat and fandom sucks that way, but surely there must be some. I mean for heaven's sake, the Doctor was giving him a backrub before all the mistaken-for-gay even started. I also have no objections to Sophie being involved.

I'm bracing myself for the finale--specifically, I have removed all possible expectations of the plot making any sense and all possible hopes of not being disappointed on multiple levels. I just really missed their faces and needed more, is all.

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We also quit in tears and came back months later - it was much easier. Do brace yourself for the finale, then you can just enjoy the characters being themselves and ignore everything else.

My love for Craig/Doctor and Stormy was considerably undermined by all the "ha ha we're not gay, how ridiculous", though.

I found I minded that not-gay stuff a lot less than I usually would just because they really were so into each other and I was so wrapped up in their relationship, and...IDK, it just didn't seem as mean-spirited, or as "ha ha ha AS IF THAT COULD EVER BE, what a fool that observer is." But certainly it was bad. I think I just really really missed the Doctor being all friendly and comfortable with someone.

Also, I watched the finale! It was...significantly less horrible than it could have been. I mean, if I think about it, if I think about the whole season and what a waste it was, I will be terribly upset. And the plot was just nonsense, and not the excusable fun kind. But very little of it made me need to hit things.

Oh man, I raegquit in tears after the end of the second ganger ep, because....WHAT NO.

The finale, yeah, sigh. Was not that happy with the WIMMENZ WILL ALLOW UNIVERSE TO GO SPLAT FOR SAKE OF THEIR FEELINGS thing, but....I don't know. It's interesting the Doctor and the Companions got built into a family unit, has that ever happened before? but it's going to be dissembled anyway I think.

I can't analyze the finale because my disappointment is just too general--it's basically "...this is what you chose to do with series 6? Really? This is where you went with all that potential? Well, it's your millions of dollars, I suppose."

I quit after the one after Let's Kill Hitler, with the dolls--or rather I quit before The Girl Who Waited, after reading an episode reaction and deciding the hell with this--but really my heart hasn't been in it since the ganger eps. That was where the misogyny and laziness just hit critical mass for me. Basically season 6 in my head is as follows:

"Canton Everett Delaware III! River is amazing! DOCTOR/TARDIS FOREVER! And then some stuff and a Sontaran was a nurse and Rory punched Hitler and the Doctor and River had lots of sex, and Amy and Rory left and she did something that actually makes sense for her character rather than designing a perfume, and then CRAIG, and something something something more Doctor/River, THE END."

or rather I quit before The Girl Who Waited, after reading an episode reaction and deciding the hell with this

Yeah, I haven't seen that yet either, but the reviews were like: "Karen Gillan does a great job portraying an older version of herself! Who gets shut out of the TARDIS to die." AUUGHH NO.

but really my heart hasn't been in it since the ganger eps. That was where the misogyny and laziness just hit critical mass for me

IIRC I was really unspoiled for the "Amy is a ganger AND she's pregnant AND she's trapped AND she just got dissolved in front of your face!" bit, which just hit so many simultaneous squicks so hard I wanted to kick a baby koala. Auuugh again.

"Canton Everett Delaware III! River is amazing! DOCTOR/TARDIS FOREVER! And then some stuff and a Sontaran was a nurse and Rory punched Hitler and the Doctor and River had lots of sex, and Amy and Rory left and she did something that actually makes sense for her character rather than designing a perfume, and then CRAIG, and something something something more Doctor/River, THE END."

I WOULD WATCH THIS REPEATEDLY

(Did you ever see this? http://www.overthinkingit.com/2010/07/12/fixing-doctor-who-season-five-edition/ Yeah there's rocky bits and the person apparently did it in two hours, but I was all, MAN I WOULD WATCH THAT)

She designed....a perfume. Oh, I forgot that. Oh Lordy.

The Girl Who Waited had so many, many, many awful problems, all wrapped around Karen Gillan's amazing performance. It is entirely unfair.

I don't actually feel the need to fix season 5--I mean, looking back it's easy to spot where things were starting to go wrong, but as a unit I think it's brilliant. Moffat's sexism hasn't really kicked in yet (because Amy isn't yet married and River--well, it's starting, but she's not nearly as much the Doctor's appendage yet), the arc hasn't had time to get entirely incoherent and plot threads haven't had time to be abandoned without a second thought, the idea of The Silence that everyone's running from as the cracks in the universe is SO much more interesting and affecting than The Silence as a bunch of aliens/religion/what the fuck ever. And one finale that works based on fairytale logic is allowed if it's the emotionally-convincing culmination of a season's worth of character development and thematic stuff, which in this case it was. Basically the awfulness hadn't yet emerged and all his tricks weren't quite as painfully old yet and the sloppiness hadn't had time to set in.

The perfume thing is one of those things that, in isolation, I wouldn't mind that much--but in the context of how season 6 treated Amy in general, it is kind of soul-destroying.

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