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kindkitI finally got around to watching the Doctor Who Christmas special last night. It was . . . okay. I liked it while it was happening, mostly, although I could have done without the gratuitous gender essentialism about Motherhood and what looked very much like a reincarnation of an ugly old joke about women drivers.
I'm also a little bit tired of the whole "the Doctor is manically charming and to some extent just plain manic" routine. It worked great in Smith's first episode, but every retread has been a bit more lifeless.
It's probably very wrong of me that I didn't want the husband to be saved, right? It's just so predictable, now, that in any kind of nuclear-family focused episode, parents and children will always be saved. And whatever happened to not being able to alter the timelines by changing what's already happened?
I did like a lot of the dialogue, as I usually do in a Moffat-written episode, and inevitably I teared up a bit at the reunion with Amy and Rory, despite my resistance because I knew that's exactly what I was supposed to do. (Why no hug from Rory? I was disappointed.)
One of the things I thought about during and after the episode is that, although classic Who was also a family show that was supposed to appeal to a young audience, there were very few children actually in it. I would like this happy state of affairs to resume, please.
In other news, I am dangerously excited for tonight's Sherlock episode. This almost certainly means I am doomed to disappointment.
I'm also a little bit tired of the whole "the Doctor is manically charming and to some extent just plain manic" routine. It worked great in Smith's first episode, but every retread has been a bit more lifeless.
It's probably very wrong of me that I didn't want the husband to be saved, right? It's just so predictable, now, that in any kind of nuclear-family focused episode, parents and children will always be saved. And whatever happened to not being able to alter the timelines by changing what's already happened?
I did like a lot of the dialogue, as I usually do in a Moffat-written episode, and inevitably I teared up a bit at the reunion with Amy and Rory, despite my resistance because I knew that's exactly what I was supposed to do. (Why no hug from Rory? I was disappointed.)
One of the things I thought about during and after the episode is that, although classic Who was also a family show that was supposed to appeal to a young audience, there were very few children actually in it. I would like this happy state of affairs to resume, please.
In other news, I am dangerously excited for tonight's Sherlock episode. This almost certainly means I am doomed to disappointment.
