ParentsWhouffaldi and their babyreblogging for @antennapedia tags: #okay I shall recontextualize this for you #they have hired rigsy to paint clara’s flat for the baby
i know y’all mean well and I’m in denial about Clara’s death too but this is truly uncomfortable? (not the scene, the moment was great) but this scene was amazing for Rigsy, because it showed Rigsy having moved beyond where we’d seen him last. he has a partner who loves & cares about him, he’s started a family, he has a place in the world where he is understood and cherished and deemed worthy, as opposed to being treated like dirt which is how he was treated by others in Flatline. he’s a happy proud dad who clearly loves his child and from his later phone conversation with his partner you can tell he cares about them both & is sensitive to them. (further it gives context to Clara’s sacrifice later on and ties her actions back to other moments from her life, including the death of her own parent & the way she consistently tries to care for children who aren’t hers–as an au pair, in Rings, as a teacher, when she meets both young Danny and the young Doctor etc., but i’m gonna focus on Rigsy here since that’s his baby)
and this moment was brilliant shorthand to show all of that, so to take that moment, strip Rigsy’s growth as a character out, strip him out of his family’s life & make him just a housepainter in someone else’s life, and to give his child to a different set of characters is kind of uncool?
reblogging for capalxii’s comments here