underappreciated characters meme > A character you were indifferent to until you started defending them
River Song – also known as: Melody Pond, Mels Zucker, Professor Song, and Mrs the Doctor
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Remember I said I wanted to write Martha Jones/Combeferre? I wrote Martha Jones/Combeferre.
[This is set after Human Nature but before Blink for Martha. I had to give Combeferre a first name, so he’s ‘Michel’. Enjoy my odd, tragic take on shipping.]
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I went to look through the tags of that Clara-bashing post. (You know, the one where Rose, Amy et al are rolling their eyes at her, because really what fandom needs in general is more ladies hating other ladies.) It’s all the same. Thousands and thousands of the same comment. “I really dislike Clara. Fucking Moffat.”
Um.
What’s Clara done to be dislikable? She’s an awesome person. She’s kind. She’s selfless. She’s a sister-figure to a pair of kids whom the fandom also hates and a bloody good one. She’s called the Doctor out more than once. She respects and gets along with the other women in the Doctor’s life.
But no. The most common complaint I hear about her (and the point of that gifset, I suspect) is that Moffat elevated her above the others by writing her into old Doctor Who history, going back and inserting her into old clips, all that stuff. But this show about a man was literally rewritten to also include a woman and that’s a bad thing?? No? It makes her a Mary Sue? Oh.
This woman- this lovely woman who looks after people, who gives up her most treasured posession because it’s the right thing to do, who has high self-esteem, who insists the Doctor accomodate her responsibilties, who was literally born to save the Doctor BECAUSE SHE CHOSE THAT (this point cannot be overstated, as it goes completely ignored) she’s useless. Worthless. Because she was written by someone dislikable, she must be too.
All those incredible, wonderful things Clara, Amy, River have done? All that bravery and selflessness and complexity – Clara’s choice to do something that made her a mystery to the Doctor, Amy being incredible enough to more than transcend her terrible storyline, River being, oh yes, a Mary Sue (sorry, I can no longer see that as a negative thing) – swept under the rug, every time, in favour of “fucking Moffat” and I love these ladies, I relate to these ladies, and I hate it.
I’m so fucking disappointed in you, Doctor Who fandom. You may not (thank god) have the power and influence that Moffat has, but you definitely have a large portion of the misogyny.
I think this is it.
I think this is my favorite post on tumblr.
that’d totally be their reactions!!!
Argh okay NO. I saw something about this post but I hadn’t seen it but I’m just going to explain this as best I can and wait for the arguments to evolve. Okay.
Clara is LITERALLY speaking born time and time again with the sole purpose of saving The Doctor (Oswin Oswald, Clara Oswin Oswald and the remaining echoes). So there’s that.
I also don’t think that any of them would react even sort of like this, not even Rose who would be, in my opinion, the most likely to react poorly.
Every one of these girls saved The Doctor and every one of them could lay claim to being born to save him. On many occassions, they make jokes about how he is useless without them and what would he do without them etc, so none of them would even be surprised that he’d need a woman to save him because he tries hard to be clever but he’s old and sometimes he doesn’t see things the way a younger companion does.
Besides all of that, Martha would just be glad he found someone to travel with. Martha is super underappreciate not only because she is a BAMF but because she is so calm and easy going and she gets that The Doctor needs a companion. Donna a)doesn’t remember him [sorry it hurts me too] and even if she did, she was nothing but nice and happy when she met Rose and Martha and even invited Martha to travel with them. Amy too wouldn’t react like that because 1. she didn’t want him travelling alone and would be glad Clara was out there helping him and 2. her daughter was born to kill The Doctor.
TLDR: Everyone of them was technically born to save The Doctor because they all save him and without them he’d be a million kinds of dead. But Clara particularly was literally born in dozens of lifetimes with the sole purpose of finding and saving his life. These reactions aren’t even really fitting to their characters.
(Thank you.)
Who the hell is looking at Doctor Who and thinking “You know what we really need here? More girl hate!”
Amy Pond has no characteristics > She doesn’t have a deep, deep fear of abandonment, a fear which leads her to push people away
(Sarcasm mode off, and possible trigger warning for child abuse/neglect)
Amy expects people to leave her, because that’s all they’ve ever done. (Her parents, remember?) So she says to Rory in disbelief, “We’re still together in ten years?”, she tells the Doctor “I understand, you’re got to leave me.” She hates being ‘clingy’- because everything she’s clung to she’s lost. She even makes fun of Rory for being ‘clingy’ when she was terrified too, and probably would have been even more so if their positions were reversed. When their roles are reversed in the worst way possible, and Rory is dead (er yes, this happened twice) she completely goes to pieces. She either folds in on herself and seems dead to the world, or she becomes utterly hysterical. (Remember?) Plus, her relief at not being abandoned to die in Flesh And Stone leads her to try and sleep with the Doctor, even though he protests, which is obviously not healthy behaviour at all.
But of course you can see where all this comes from. At this point in her story she’s never had a childhood with her parents, and Aunt Sharon doesn’t seem to have been the most attentive of carers. (She left 7-year-old Amy alone in the middle of the night! That can lead to prosecution, in Britain, and it’s just one of those things you just don’t do to a kid, no matter how mature they seem. What the hell, Aunt Sharon?) But once Amy gets her parents back and her childhood is restored, this behaviour lessened considerably. No more mocking people for being clingy, and she generally seems happier all round.
However, we still see Amy working through this fear- firstly in The Girl Who Waited, where she is accidentally abandoned and it turns her cold, hateful and hard. Then in The God Complex, Amy’s greatest fear is represented by herself sitting waiting- but it’s not waiting she fears, it’s waiting and no-one coming for her. True, a lot of that scene is about the Doctor, but it’s about Amy too. Lots of people’s worst fears spring from their childhood experiences- “I stole your childhood” -and Amy’s no different.
And of course, when Amy fears that Rory will abandon her for not being able to have children, she abandons him first. Luckily, she and her husband are able to talk it out, albeit in the most painful and stressful way imaginable. Anyway, there you have it. I think we know, beyond all shadow of a doubt, what Amy’s worst fear is.
milkforthespookffles:
#*dies of emotion* #but what if molly was his companion once #and now he stops by for breakfast #and keeps commenting because it seems like every time #there’s another ginger kid #adn when he sees harry it’s like ha! #i knew they couldn’t all be ginger! #and molly doesn’t bother telling the doctor that harry isn’t hers #because he is after all one of her boys #and she loves him just as though he was a weasley (via dwcompanion)
those tags broke me a little inside
Oh… There’s goes my heart…
“(713): He’s ninety percent amazing leader, brother, and teacher, and ten percent unforgivable douche.”
[via textsfromthetardis]