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kindkitI'm sad to see Rory and Amy leave, because I do like them a lot and I like having three or more people in the TARDIS. The departure was pretty well handled, although I kind of wanted the scene where the Doctor goes to Rory's dad and says, um, sorry, lost your son and daugher-in-law in time and they're never coming back. Recent episodes have been emphasizing Amy and Rory's ties to their present-day life, after all, and just having them disappear without consequences seems like a cheat.
Murray Gold's shitty, manipulative music was still shitty and manipulative (e.g. angelic choirs over the scene where Amy and Rory jump off the roof). The music made me resent some of the more emotionally-charged scenes and feel like my reactions were being forced.
My main reason for posting, though, is that I'm officially tired of Steven Moffat's heterosexual agenda. By which I don't mean Amy and Rory--I like their relationship--but Moffat's endless displays of Eleven's heterosexuality in general this season and especially the repeated "changing the future = marriage" thing in this episode. I've never liked New Who's insistence that earth and human beings are the bestest things in the universe; it seems like a betrayal and cheapening of Who's spirit of wonder. And I like this new, still narrower version even less. Heterosexual marriage in the modern western style means more than anything! It's the only kind of change or development that matters! Hooray! *spits*
Russell T. Davies started the idea of the heterosexual Doctor, but Moffat has run with it, amplifying it well beyond anything Davies did. And I'm tired of it. Since I know that hell will freeze over before we get a gay or bisexual Doctor, can we go back to "alien with no discernible interest in sex" please? It makes me sad that DW has turned into yet another show where all the leads are canonically straight.
Oh, and could we please have an end to all the slapping? I do not think people should hit each other, especially not people who claim to love each other, and the fact that it's always a woman hitting a man does not, in fact, make it non-abusive or skeeviness-free.
Murray Gold's shitty, manipulative music was still shitty and manipulative (e.g. angelic choirs over the scene where Amy and Rory jump off the roof). The music made me resent some of the more emotionally-charged scenes and feel like my reactions were being forced.
My main reason for posting, though, is that I'm officially tired of Steven Moffat's heterosexual agenda. By which I don't mean Amy and Rory--I like their relationship--but Moffat's endless displays of Eleven's heterosexuality in general this season and especially the repeated "changing the future = marriage" thing in this episode. I've never liked New Who's insistence that earth and human beings are the bestest things in the universe; it seems like a betrayal and cheapening of Who's spirit of wonder. And I like this new, still narrower version even less. Heterosexual marriage in the modern western style means more than anything! It's the only kind of change or development that matters! Hooray! *spits*
Russell T. Davies started the idea of the heterosexual Doctor, but Moffat has run with it, amplifying it well beyond anything Davies did. And I'm tired of it. Since I know that hell will freeze over before we get a gay or bisexual Doctor, can we go back to "alien with no discernible interest in sex" please? It makes me sad that DW has turned into yet another show where all the leads are canonically straight.
Oh, and could we please have an end to all the slapping? I do not think people should hit each other, especially not people who claim to love each other, and the fact that it's always a woman hitting a man does not, in fact, make it non-abusive or skeeviness-free.
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Date: 2012-09-30 08:34 pm (UTC)To be fair, on the het agenda thing, Moff does have Eleven kissing Rory a reasonable amount. And the wedding that Amy was being bridesmaid at was two brides and no groom. But yes, it's a bit too much for me too, sometimes.