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Doctor Who is powered by all types of love–friendship, romance, familial, altruistic, colleagues, self, etc. etc.
It’s believing in and performing kindness and compassion and courage in the face of hardship and fear and hatred. Kindness is not weakness, but rather a type of ferocity. Kindness is not naivety, but rather a deliberate choice.
It’s believing and acting that we’re all bigger on the inside than we even know, or, at least, that we’re capable of being bigger on the inside than people would expect.
Hello friends, wanna help me?
I am preparing a discussion panel for a DW con (lol, it begins tomorrow, and I am starting only now. Good job, me!). The topic is Moffat’s female characters. I wanna present general negative opinions about Moffat’s ladies or his writing of female characters and explain why I think these are not true. I have the basics (”they are all too perfect”, “they are all the same”, “Moffat was always against the female Doctor”, “it’s Doctor who, not companion who“ etc), but I need as many as possible. Suggestions of things that might not have crossed my mind?
Please help me. I will pay you. (I won’t, I have no money, but you know, friendship and stuff…)
One big one is the whole, “They’re Mary Sues,” thing. You could talk about how the phrase “Mary Sue” has been distorted, and how it’s basically a criticism that needs to be retired. You may have that covered with “they are all too perfect,” though.
I really wish I’d seen this yesterday because you’re probably at the convention now and this will make little difference. Nevertheless, for future reference please check out:
- @moffatappreciationlife‘s Moffat’s Women post series: http://moffatappreciationlife.tumblr.com/tagged/moffat%27s-women-series
- @sarah531‘s epic takedown of the “Amy Pond has no characterization” argument in her Amy Pond has no characteristics post series: http://sarah531.tumblr.com/tagged/amy%20pond%20has%20no%20characteristics
- @taiey‘s Clara’s Motivations post series: http://taiey.tumblr.com/tagged/clarmotiv
- @littleironi‘s The Relatable River Song: http://littleironi.tumblr.com/post/133480229512/the-relatable-river-song
- @the-lazy-cat-bakes-souffles‘ Clara Oswald: A Study of the Impossible post series: http://the-lazy-cat-bakes-souffles.tumblr.com/post/140204204826/clara-oswald-a-study-of-the-impossible
- @sarah531‘s Amy Pond + symptoms of PTSD: http://sarah531.tumblr.com/post/115802673381/amy-pond-symptoms-of-ptsd-as-a-result-of-both
- @littleironi’s The Doctor’s Doctor: http://littleironi.tumblr.com/post/133480240222/the-doctors-doctor
- The Moffat Appreciation Week tag: https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/moffat-appreciation-week
- @sarah531‘s Amy Pond + character development: http://sarah531.tumblr.com/post/140660282601/amy-pond-character-development
- @littleironi’s Moffat’s Women: http://littleironi.tumblr.com/post/103009729587/moffats-women
- The Moffat Appreciation Day tag: https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/moffat-appreciation-day
And I know there are a ton more I’m blanking on at the moment.
So apparently they’re (including Davies and Moffat) doing a series of New Who Novelizations. I can’t find a source for it, so it could still be a rumor, but regardless Thoughts?
I am both surprised and utterly unsurprised that Moffat’s idea of what to do with all his free time now that he’s done with Doctor Who is “write Doctor Who books.”
There’s 4 new seriess novelisations listed on Book Depository, set for release in April 2018.
https://www.bookdepository.com/search?searchTerm=The+Target+Collection&search=Find+book
So that’s Rose by Russell T Davies, The Christmas Invasion by Jenny Colgan, The Day of the Doctor by Steven Moffat, and Twice Upon a Time by Steven Moffat.
I’m not usually interested by novelisations, but these three are such great authors, and I know they’ll add so many fantastic little details and flourishes, that I kind of want to get all of them.
I’m delighted that Colgan was picked for one of these. Just keep letting her get bigger and bigger projects until someone finally gives her a TV episode, please!
rambling thoughts on Bill
I kind of wish we had more scenes with Moira + Bill, or at least Missy + Bill, bc really… that stuff is the actual core of Bill’s story. All the focus on Heather in the first episode seems to set up the series as a love story/journey to find Heather, when overall, as a series, it’s actually about Bill’s fundamental anxiety about her identity and being ignored.
Bravo
thank you!
Honestly, as much as a love her, I was struggling to get a grasp on what Bill’s story was. And then you just illustrated it wonderfully.
I think, with Moffat Who, you just have to assume the Doctor is everybody’s Space Dad, and Missy is everyone’s Space Mom, and therefore they’re a sort of conduit for repressed family issues to be talked about in a show that doesn’t have a whole lot of room for a companion’s literal family.
I mean one of the first important things established In The Empty child, which is Moffat’s entire vision for Doctor Who, whole and complete, and that he has never really strayed from, is that the Doctor is a father. And he resolves the whole issue in that episode because of that. And by helping Nancy speak the truth about who she is. That’s the very basic template for like… every Doctor/Companion story in Moffat Who.
So I’m fairly hopeful it won’t all go screeching off the rails at the end, and make Bill the only Moffat companion to never get a resolution in her relationships because of some boring death. My main anxiety, I suppose… is if it will be triumphant and exultant enough to forgive what she had to go through.
I’ve never before been so compelled to draw fanart of an actress. I LOVE her. #DoctorWho
Well now I need the lining of Thirteen’s coat to be a glittery galaxy pattern and nothing else will do.