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On Amy Pond and Steven Moffat

Seeing the news that Moffat was coming back to Doctor Who spurred me on to write this article, Steven Moffat Was a Good ‘Doctor Who’ Writer, but I Can Never Forgive Him for What He Did to Amy Pond.

Ideally I would embed the article, but WordPress lacks that very basic functionality. Here’s a snippet:

My trouble in those days started when I fell utterly and totally in love with Amy Pond. She was the first of Moffat’s Who companions and she was everything I wanted in a female character. She was smart, she was witty, she was beautiful, she was… oh wait, this girl is messed up.

taiey:

wasted-women:

ROUND 2B, MATCH 4 OUT OF 4

Which fridged woman deserved better?

Bill Potts (Doctor Who)

Charlie Bradbury (Supernatural)

See Results

Cause of Death & Propaganda Under the Cut:

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Bill Potts is literally resurrected by her girlfriend. They walk off to travel the universe together. I’m not even sure “resurrected” is the right word because it’s unclear if she is fully dead at any point. She is not even removed from the narrative for a substantial period except “to travel the universe with her water/spaceship girlfriend”. Why is she even in this poll guys?? Vote for the one who was actually killed off.

Yeah she’s definitely not dead. Here’s the Doctor Who Wiki page explaining what happened to her. She’s fine! Not a cyberman!

Actually while we’re at it, here’s the canonical short confirming what happened to Bill after her girlfriend saved her. Pearl Mackie worked on it and added the lines referencing the Black Lives Matter movement: