“together or not at all. it’s called marriage.”
happy anniversary, amelia and rory williams!
doctor who
Things I can’t imagine
-Clara telling anyone, even as a joke, to ‘let the others die first’
-Amy looking after two teenagers (at least not without leading them straight into mischief and probably danger)
-River calling the TARDIS a ‘cow’ and mocking it
-Amy telling the Doctor ‘you embarrass me’
-River describing herself as having ‘a bubbly personality’
-Clara hitting the Doctor with a baseball bat and then trapping his necktie in a door
-River looking at a little girl crying and saying ‘So?’
-Amy announcing she did something ‘disgracefully’
-River asking Queen Neferiti for a high-five
-Clara being a kissogram
-Amy, having being told by the Doctor to remain where she is and not to argue, responding with a scared ‘I’m not’ and proceeding to obey him
-Clara continuing to kiss, and trying to undress, the Doctor or indeed any person after they’ve said no
–River barely being able to connect a computer to the Internet
Amy saying ‘the best thing is, he really needs you’ in reference to the Doctor.
River saying ‘blimey, I hated history.’
Clara teasing the Doctor about the mysterious woman who might be his wife in the future.
Clara picking locks and saying ‘how’s a girl suppose to resist?’
Clara punching the Doctor out and handcuffing him to a computer monitor.
River being mildly embarrassed to be seen in a kissogram outfit by the Doctor or even the flight crew of a cruise ship.
Amy telling the Doctor anything even remotely like what River told him in aGMGtW.
River saying ‘good guys don’t have zombie creatures. Rule one, basic storytelling.’
Clara using stupid as a form of endearment.
Amy refusing to travel with the Doctor straight off.
River trying to bake her mum’s souffle.
Amy trying to bake her mum’s souffle.
Clara lying to the Doctor about having broken her wrist.
Clara trying to ‘hide the damage’.
Amy slapping the Doctor.
River convincing the Doctor to not destroy Gallifrey (unless she had prior knowledge that he in fact didn’t).
Clara ignoring the Doctor and telling her mother to go where she would never see her again.
River giggling the same way Clara does when she’s excited.
Clara telling the Doctor to leave her to the mercy of a monster.
Things I can’t imagine
-Clara telling anyone, even as a joke, to ‘let the others die first’
-Amy looking after two teenagers (at least not without leading them straight into mischief and probably danger)
-River calling the TARDIS a ‘cow’ and mocking it
-Amy telling the Doctor ‘you embarrass me’
-River describing herself as having ‘a bubbly personality’
-Clara hitting the Doctor with a baseball bat and then trapping his necktie in a door
-River looking at a little girl crying and saying ‘So?’
-Amy announcing she did something ‘disgracefully’
-River asking Queen Neferiti for a high-five
-Clara being a kissogram
-Amy, having being told by the Doctor to remain where she is and not to argue, responding with a scared ‘I’m not’ and proceeding to obey him
-Clara continuing to kiss, and trying to undress, the Doctor or indeed any person after they’ve said no
–River barely being able to connect a computer to the Internet
taiey:
can we just talk for a minute about Davros’ ~final revelation~ to the Doctor. Is it to do with anything that’s actually wrong with him? The rampant hypocrisy? The playing god? The increasingly dysfunctional coping mechanisms and self-justification for his guilt? The blood on his hands? The attitude that he knows what’s best for everyone and he can make their decisions for them? That it’s his responsibility to save everyone, and when terrible things happen to them, his pain is more important than theirs? HAHAHA NOPE. It’s that he “makes people into weapons.” Instead of puncturing his BS hypocritical ulterior-motivated prissiness about violence, Davros validates it. Never mind that his companions have agency and can make their own choices, never mind that there’s nothing intrinsically horrific about using the methods available to you to defend your planet from being exterminated by a bunch of omnicidal pepperpots and that this is actually ADMIRABLE. Nope. Somehow the Doctor is responsible for the fact that not all of his friends are as hypocritically judgemental about violence as he is. And as usual, it’s ALL ABOUT HIS PAIN and how nobly and prettily he suffers.Click through because there are even more amazing thoughts in the original post, but I want to focus on this one. Because—I thought I was the only one. Between that and the montage of people who died ‘in your name’—not to save the world, for Queen and country, to redeem themselves, out of recklessness or bravery or simple bad luck—and what happened to Donna, it’s like Journey’s End went out of its way to demolish everyone’s agency, including retroactively.
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.
