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[safenthecity]

Urgh. I am struggling to come to terms with my conflicting love for Amy Pond as played by Karen Gillan and the overwhelming desire to punch Stephan Moffat in the face. WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT CONVERSATION LAST NIGHT.

There were a number of ways that could have been done well. THAT WAS NOT ONE OF THEM.

Comments

[rap541]

Just don't email my dad Stephen Moffett and complain or threaten. He totally doesn't understand and this happens after bad Dr Who all the time.

[safenthecity]

Ahahahah, he hasn't aggravated me to the point of hate mail (YET) but if he ever does, dude has a twitter. :D

[nobleplatypus]

I have three major beefs with the Moff.

1.) His female characters. Just. No, dude. No.
2.) His potentially asexual characters. STOP IT, DAMN YOU.
3.) How much headcanon is required in order to make sense of so much of his stuff. It would be so much easier to punch him in the face than it is to try and work around the vague nonsense he puts out there.

SIGH.

At least he made the daleks tolerable, which is no mean feat.

[safenthecity]

Well, I can't lie, I ADORE THE HELL OUT OF RIVER SONG AND NOTHING IN THIS VERSE WILL CHANGE THAT.

However, I totally understand why people don't like her, and why there is so much hatred for the way he writes women in general. But honestly, this was the first time it was so awful that even I couldn't cover my ears and cry "LALALALLALA NOPE I AM GOING TO ENJOY THIS IF IT KILLS ME DAMMIT LALALALLALA." Just. No. He really hit two tropes I just personally can't handle: Bisexuality Is A Funny Phase! and Hey I Love You But I Am Going To Break Up With You For This Reason That I'm Not Going To Discuss Because My Uterus

[nobleplatypus]

It's not even that I don't like her--I just think that at the end of the day, she's the only character he really knows how to write. Oswin, as awesome as she was, could have been played by Alex Kingston with almost no dialogue variation and no one would have batted an eye.

And yesss, SHOW DON'T TELL. SHOW DON'T TELL. Part of the reason I have never been able to ship Amy and Rory is because Rory is forever demonstrating his love with mighty deeds and Amy is just using her words and expecting it to carry the exact same amount of weight (especially considering that her deeds include things like 'giving Rory up' repeatedly). Blargh.

[millari]

Overall, I liked the episode actually, although I had seen your post and chose not to look at the comments because I didn't want to be spoiled until I saw the ep last night. But as soon as that conversation happened, I was like, "That must be what she was talking about." It stuck out like a giant sore thumb of STFU AMY POND, RIGHT NOW, PLEASE. I'M SO SORRY MOFFIE IS MAKING YOU SAY THESE THINGS

[kingofdoma]

I am getting the strangest feeling people are going to get weird about Amy the way they get weird about Jesus... some of them just like the baby version better.