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lokifanI feel like I have a much clearer handle on Clara already, now that she doesn't need to be a mystery any more. And of course I have a soft spot for teachers, particularly secondary school teachers, even if the Ian & Barbara reference wasn't totally adorable.
We have a black love interest who will clearly be recurring, and they didn't kill off Journey Blue, so things are looking up a bit in that department. Having a queer WOC Companion would have had them looking up more, of course, and Journey Blue was really cool and the loss of a brother she fought beside would've made for some interesting story. I shall have to comfort myself with some Clara/Journey fic. I'm sorry she won't be joining Team TARDIS – especially as I love more than one Companion at once – but I must say I find the Doctor's dislike of soldiers very sympathetic, since I give them a bit of an instinctive side-eye myself.
That said? I do not like Twelve. Like at all really. I found Nine lots of fun, and I always liked Ten despite his wangst, and Eleventy was a thing of beauty and a joy forever (and The Eleventh Hour is one of my favourite New Who episodes of all, not least because as regeneration episode Moments go, having the new guy step out of an image of all the faces that have gone before is super-obvious but totally succeeded in making me turn to nostalgic mush.) I liked Deep Breath – it felt SUPER long, haha, but it was nice to not feel so constantly dashing about. But.
Twelve is a wanker. Seriously.
The whole 'was it suicide or murder?' thing was dark, sure. But being real, having a DARK MAN DARK moment in the first episode to show how DARK and REAL and FUCKED-UP things are does not necessarily say anything about the rest of a series, particularly one that is at least nominally for children. And (bless your lack of subtlety, Moffat, A LITERAL MIRROR BETWEEN THEM HAHAHA) given how the Doctor saw himself in the antagonist, the fact that he either killed him or talked him into suicide is slightly more sympathetic – like, he was having the regeneration crazies and doesn't like himself all that much, I can cut him some slack.
But the way he spoke to Journey Blue in their first scene together, INSISTING SHE SAID PLEASE BEFORE HE WOULD TAKE HER BACK TO HER SHIP?? WHEN HE KNEW HER BROTHER HAD JUST DIED?
Fuck you dude. Fuck you.
It actually reminded me of that scene in the first season of Sherlock where Sherlock, in a Russian prison, kept correcting the grammar of a guy who'd killed his gf/wife and was going to be hung, and it was clearly played for laughs. This version was less horrifically classist, but like. Idk, I guess I'm just a stick in the mud, but insisting on Proper Manners before you will extend help to someone desperate fills me with instinctive revulsion. That kind of lack of empathy is not funny to me at ALL. And I don't judge anyone who finds it funny – having a dark sense of humour is not a moral failing – but I do hate being expected to find it cool in a hero. Particularly given that manners, and also that idea of keeping calm and staying polite in all circumstances, have such a huge amount of class baggage attached – it makes that reaction from upper-middle-class white heroes even more yuck.
Disliking the Doctor in quite this way is new to me. I've had my moments of FOR FUCK'S SAKE with pretty much every Doctor, and I'd probably have had it with all of them if I'd seen more of their runs :) But this Doctor is... yeah. A dick.
And also, “I'm his carer.” / “Yes. She cares so I don't have to.” YOU KNOW WHAT I AM UNBELIEVABLY DONE WITH? GRIMDARK ANTIHEROES WHO DON'T CARE ABOUT PEOPLE, JUST SAVE THEIR LIVES WITH A QUIPPY ONE-LINER.
And that is incredibly not what I watch Doctor Who for.
We have a black love interest who will clearly be recurring, and they didn't kill off Journey Blue, so things are looking up a bit in that department. Having a queer WOC Companion would have had them looking up more, of course, and Journey Blue was really cool and the loss of a brother she fought beside would've made for some interesting story. I shall have to comfort myself with some Clara/Journey fic. I'm sorry she won't be joining Team TARDIS – especially as I love more than one Companion at once – but I must say I find the Doctor's dislike of soldiers very sympathetic, since I give them a bit of an instinctive side-eye myself.
That said? I do not like Twelve. Like at all really. I found Nine lots of fun, and I always liked Ten despite his wangst, and Eleventy was a thing of beauty and a joy forever (and The Eleventh Hour is one of my favourite New Who episodes of all, not least because as regeneration episode Moments go, having the new guy step out of an image of all the faces that have gone before is super-obvious but totally succeeded in making me turn to nostalgic mush.) I liked Deep Breath – it felt SUPER long, haha, but it was nice to not feel so constantly dashing about. But.
Twelve is a wanker. Seriously.
The whole 'was it suicide or murder?' thing was dark, sure. But being real, having a DARK MAN DARK moment in the first episode to show how DARK and REAL and FUCKED-UP things are does not necessarily say anything about the rest of a series, particularly one that is at least nominally for children. And (bless your lack of subtlety, Moffat, A LITERAL MIRROR BETWEEN THEM HAHAHA) given how the Doctor saw himself in the antagonist, the fact that he either killed him or talked him into suicide is slightly more sympathetic – like, he was having the regeneration crazies and doesn't like himself all that much, I can cut him some slack.
But the way he spoke to Journey Blue in their first scene together, INSISTING SHE SAID PLEASE BEFORE HE WOULD TAKE HER BACK TO HER SHIP?? WHEN HE KNEW HER BROTHER HAD JUST DIED?
Fuck you dude. Fuck you.
It actually reminded me of that scene in the first season of Sherlock where Sherlock, in a Russian prison, kept correcting the grammar of a guy who'd killed his gf/wife and was going to be hung, and it was clearly played for laughs. This version was less horrifically classist, but like. Idk, I guess I'm just a stick in the mud, but insisting on Proper Manners before you will extend help to someone desperate fills me with instinctive revulsion. That kind of lack of empathy is not funny to me at ALL. And I don't judge anyone who finds it funny – having a dark sense of humour is not a moral failing – but I do hate being expected to find it cool in a hero. Particularly given that manners, and also that idea of keeping calm and staying polite in all circumstances, have such a huge amount of class baggage attached – it makes that reaction from upper-middle-class white heroes even more yuck.
Disliking the Doctor in quite this way is new to me. I've had my moments of FOR FUCK'S SAKE with pretty much every Doctor, and I'd probably have had it with all of them if I'd seen more of their runs :) But this Doctor is... yeah. A dick.
And also, “I'm his carer.” / “Yes. She cares so I don't have to.” YOU KNOW WHAT I AM UNBELIEVABLY DONE WITH? GRIMDARK ANTIHEROES WHO DON'T CARE ABOUT PEOPLE, JUST SAVE THEIR LIVES WITH A QUIPPY ONE-LINER.
And that is incredibly not what I watch Doctor Who for.
