I’ve been in fandom (various ones) for almost fourteen years, and I don’t think I’ve ever, ever seen anything odder than people who’ve been – perfectly rightly – questioning the Doctor’s actions throughout all of Moffat’s run and pointing out the various instances of fridging and manpain suddenly claiming that no, Moffat shouldn’t have had the Doctor save Gallifrey and its billions of children because ‘it erases his trauma and PTSD’. Or, ‘because it fixed the Doctor’s problems with a reset button’. (Note: this is DOCTOR WHO.)
It’s like, I haven’t even been able to come up with a coherent argument against it because it’s so out of left field. It’s not even like you were arguing with someone and they suddenly changed their argument. It’s like you were arguing with someone and they suddenly changed into a small gazelle.
June 18, 2014 @ 10:43 pm
For all the valid criticism of Moffat, I don’t get how fridging characters is one of them – he’s the dude who brings them back. (Mostly because he likes leaving open plot points to pick up again later, but…) Case in point The Doctor’s Daughter.