Doctor Who 10x11, "World Enough and Time"

[kindkit]

John Simm! John Simm! John Simm!

Ahem. Anyway, I really liked that, and not only for John Simm. It was clever and timey-wimey enough for a good Moffat story without, so far, being so tangled as to turn into a bad Moffat story. Let's just hope he can stick the dismount.

My only disappointment is that the Master and Missy seem to have allied so quickly. I would've loved to see the tremendous diva fight that for a moment looked about to happen.

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[halotolerant]

Still so behind, still need to catch up BUT I WILL *Determined face*

[kindkit]

Hi there! Yes, do catch up when you have a chance, because this season has mostly been worth watching.

I need to catch up on American Gods. I'm starting to have a bit of a motivation problem, because while I love the look of it and the tone of weirdness/magic constantly in the air, I don't like any of the main characters very much. And I'm finding myself annoyed by the way the new gods of technology are presented as Totally Evil while the old gods, even the old death gods, aren't. It feels like one of those newspaper articles about how kids these days spend too much time on the internet and therefore are stunted human beings without real emotions.

[halotolerant]

I was intrigued by the one about the Ninth Legion, and I am here for John Simm even if everything else was a mess.

News this week that Moffat and Gattis are taking on Dracula? Which... is already so weird with the gender roles and so on that in some senses I suppose they can't make it worse? And yet...

Yes, I've stalled slightly with AG. I know exactly what you mean about the 'new is bad, even if old is evil' vibe. And I don't care about the Moons' marriage, which I think perhaps one is supposed to? If Shadow Moon and Mr Wednesday were getting it on, then that would be a show I'd be there for... *g*

[kindkit]

Sometimes the original Dracula's weird in an interesting way, with occasional glimpses of Mina as a New Woman before the story flattens her down into a pious virgin whose purity is her sole protection against Dracula. And it can be weird about sex in a subtexty but fascinating way, like the initial homoeroticism between Harker and Dracula, or the way all the men give their blood to Mina and it kind of makes them all her husbands. But I bet Moffat will take most of the good stuff out (he'll maybe keep some female homoeroticism, but there'll be no male queerness unless it's in the most de-eroticized fashion imaginable, and Mina and Jonathan will bicker and banter in a way eerily reminiscent of Coupling, just like River and the Doctor did). And Gatiss will help him do it all, heaven knows why, and will do absolutely nothing to push for more/better queer characters and queer relationships.

And I will probably watch anyway, damn it.

about the Moons' marriage, which I think perhaps one is supposed to?
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Yeah. Laura Moon was an engaging if not always likable character for the one episode that was about her story, but she's not interesting as Dead Wife and have even less investment in their marriage than I usually have in a story's heterosexual relationships. Meanwhile Shadow is mostly a cipher--he's underwritten and the actor doesn't quite have the chops to improve what he's been given.