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taiey:

theenigmaofriversong:

obsidianbutterfly:

wickedmetalviking:

Doctor Who companions these days…they have no personality!

I know, right?  I mean, heaven forbid we should look at women as individual characters with strengths, personalities, weaknesses and traits. Who can perform a variety of different jobs and roles.

Stip-o-gram turned model who married her childhood sweetheart and had a rather disturbed childhood because no one believed her about her imaginary friend or the voices coming from the crack in the wall. Braved torture, imprisonment, the loss of a child, also funny, witty, bold in the face of danger, quite a ruthless streak as was not above getting her own back. Driven by love to remain at her husbands side, showed vulnerability and the need to be rescued.

A weapon, a child stolen from her parents and raised to kill. Reckless, flirty, sassy and a little wild, convicted murderer, archaeologist, wife of the Doctor, child of the Tardis. The Doctor convinced her she could be so much more than she had been raised. Selfless in giving up remaining regenerations to fix her mistake, or at least the mistake by others. Died (or downloaded if you will) saving thousands of people from the CAL computer system.

A futuristic Queen of Britain who was lied to and deceived by her advisors who was forced to make a choice of letting her people die or torturing a poor defenceless creature. couldn’t make such a hard choice, was saved the agony of continuing her role in the system by Amy pond,

A Victoria match girl, who seems well versed on martial arts and not only thinks nothing or a relationship with a women but doesn’t care she is a green scaly lizard alien and smacks men in the face if they think they can take liberties with her. Ostracised by her family for her choice of companion, does not let it affect her compassion, beliefs, love or ability.

A seemingly immortal puzzle of a girl who turns up throughout history. Barmaid, governess, teacher, child minder. Extremely strong willed to reject Dalek mental conditioning in favour of keeping her humanity. Loved books and travel and to cook. Acted as a voice of reason and conscious in helping prevent extermination of the Time lords. She also acrificed herself to save the Doctor and didn’t turn out a mystery or ‘impossible’ at all. She was ordinary and performed and extra ordinary act. Can admit she can be bossy, eager to please her family.

Queen Elizabeth I of England. Not the historical version. For those Blackadder fans-I see a lot of Queenie love in there. Not the so called Virgin Queen people love labelling, was quite happy to explore her sexuality and engage in relations with exotic strangers. Quick to point out the male of the species sexism towards women. Can take out a Zygon with nothing but a dagger and can gather intelligence and work out alien plans before the smartest man in the room.

The female head of a vast religious order. Was willing to die defending the doctor, a planet and its people. Had the strength of will to overcome Dalek conditioning to help save the day. Refuses to grow old, desiring to keep her youthful appearance. was willing to destroy a planet to stop the time war regenerating. Changed the papal mainframes entire goal to silence.

I don’t really know why I bother watching, they are all the same character, their stories are all so similar…

I don’t even get what op was trying to accomplish. Did they just think “oh, I’m gonna post a bunch of pictures of Moffat era women and declare them to be the same person without anything even resembling support to my claim.”

Let’s break it down some more. Firstly, wow: what definition of companion are they using? You could argue for River and Jenny, but Tasha Lem? Liz X? Liz I? What’s a series 5 character doing in a list otherwise comprised of characters who appeared in series 7? Well, at least they didn’t include Reinette.

Next, the pictures they picked do not remotely aid their argument. We have two people firing guns but one of them is gleeful and the other distraught. Jenny looks hopeful, a little innocent; Tasha Lem proud, commanding, mature. Clara’s sad and Liz I’s worried, while Amy… I’m trying to approach these images as if I don’t know their context (I know the context of every single one) and I don’t know how to read it sans the confident bravado of its site. There’s a quiet power in her eyes. These characters do not look like the same person.

Finally, do not think this person is trying to launch a feminist critique.

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Something tells me he wasn’t.

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lecapunk:

forgivenalwaysandcompletely:

Steven Moffat has addressed some timey-wimey confusion following events in The Time of the Doctor.

In his production notes in the latest DWM a reader asks that if the Doctor in fact prevented his own death how could his tomb be there in The Name of the Doctor?

Moffat replies: “I’ve often wondered about that. Fortunately, late one night, the Doctor turned up in person and explained it to me:

“THE DOCTOR: Changing time is tricky. It’s a bit like a detective story: so as long there isn’t an actual body, you’ve got a certain amount of wiggle room – for instance, if the body has, rather conveniently, been burned on a boat in Utah.

“Here’s the thing: I can change the future so long as the future has not already been established as part of my own past. I can’t rescue Amy and Rory because I already know that I didn’t.

“But what do I know about Trenzalore? There’s a big monument that looks very like my TARDIS. There’s a temporal fissure leading to my timeline. Maybe it’s my grave. Maybe, one day, it’s my burial ground. Maybe it is something else entirely, and we got it all wrong. Don’t know. Don’t plan to find out for as long as possible. The main thing is, Clara still jumped into my time stream, and ended up helping me through all of my life. All that is established, unchanged – but there’s wiggle room!”

…wait.

so you can’t save them because you already know you didn’t?

you are a time traveller with near omnipotent powers and a penchant for taking ridiculous risks to see/help his friends.

and you’re not going to try to save them anyway?

because you saw the future and know you’re not saving them?

but then if you don’t try because you think it won’t work, then the SAME THING HAPPENS.

but what if the reason that you didn’t save/visit them is because of THIS MINDSET and your conclusion that you CANT just because you never did before/after.

that shit’s not heroic, that’s lazy ass protagonisting.

On the other hand, as nonsensical as The Angels Take Manhattan is, I’m glad he never went back for Amy. She’d made a choice to let him go, and I think unless the Doctor had made the sort of drastic effort he never makes, his relationship with Amy would’ve just sunk into massively unhealthy territory…

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Rory Williams character study: Doing it properly

A tiny little character detail I always loved– Rory’s respect for the dead. Whether it’s because of his nurse’s training or some deeper reason, he’s always quietly adamant that things are done properly. Returning Alaya back to her kind, covering up the Doctor, pushing the funeral boat out to sea…whether the dead person in question is a friend or an enemy he treats them the same.

And, in The Big Bang Rory doesn’t get really angry with the Doctor until he casually steps over Amy’s dead body. Watch his face and body language! You can see how this is a man who’d willingly protect his true love’s corpse for two thousand years.

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moffatappreciationlife:

matt-smiths-deactivated20150324:

“You never interfere in the affairs of other peoples or planets,

…unless there’s children crying?”

#the reason ‘saving’ gallifrey doesn’t upset me is because it simply twisted a heartbreaking story into a bittersweet one#the doctor was always willing to use the moment – he had the intent and motivation – even after seeing who he’d become#he was bloodsoaked because of the time war long before posessing the moment#and in that moment – no pun intended – he was entirely capable of using it and almost did unbeknownst to him#and although he’s unaware gallifrey is safe at this time#he was incredibly willing to use the moment and i believe this would haunt him regardless#even if he was aware gallifrey was safe#it’s bittersweet because now he has a genuine opportunity to make it up to them#because although he ‘saved’ them#the fact he almost pressed that big red button must be horrifying to him#he was willing to murder all those children and all those innocents#had nine been able to remember#i could see him saying this exact same line of dialogue#despite the arguably more positive outcome of the war#because intentions are sometimes more relevent than actions#and his intent was definitely to destroy both gallifreyans and daleks#and although this changed and he’ll eventually remember#it’ll haunt him (via amypuddles)

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Russel T Davies’s quote about Rose from the Radio Times in 2005 -“when she meets the Doctor, she gets the chance to show she’s better than the life she’s been leading” really does strike me as being incredibly classist. I haven’t seen it in context so that may not be what he intended, but – think of how many people actually live on council estates and eat chips and work in department stores. They’re not suddenly gonna get a TARDIS whisking them off to adventure and opportunity: TARDISes don’t exist. I’d like to think that RTD really doesn’t think as little of working-class life/working-class people who aren’t Rose as much he’s always implied, but I can never tell.

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overcrowdedtardis:

taiey:

Clara Oswald’s normal, everyday life — here meaning her biological family (Mum, Dad, Gran, Linda), her quasi-adopted family (Angie, Artie, and Mr Maitland), or her job as a teacher — has been a part of 70% of her episodes so far. Not always a major part, but there is a continual commitment to showing her roots, that travelling with the Doctor is an addition to her normal life and not the whole of her life.

When people say Clara has no characterisation and her whole existence revolves around the Doctor, I honestly wonder if they’re watching the same show as me.

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