I predict my cut fails

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- That actress who played Oswin was quite familiar, I thought she was the new companion but clearly not, I should use IMDB to look her up. ETA: wait, she is the new companion? So confused. I wonder how this is going to work.

- I think this episode had the perfect percentages of Amy/Rory, Eleven, and Single Episode Companion. I like there to be a good balance, so it never feels like the SEC is tacked on or else too important (except obvs. in the belowdecks episodes).

- The plot twist was a good one, but far too similar to SitL/FotD, sorry. I mean, I wasn't expecting it and it was very well done and creepy, but I did have a little moment of, "again?" (And did predict that something was going on in her head when a couple of boards kept Daleks out.)

- I'm sure there's a lot of talk out there about how it's sexist for a main female character to turn out to be essentially dead, but whatevs, I liked it and found it great to have a female hackerish kind of person who oversees everything like a god and makes everything work (which is so often a male character). And how incredibly strong she was not to give in to them.

- Did seem a bit manufactured that Amy and Rory would have lived through months (years?) of marriage and Rory'd never managed to convince her that he loved her despite her lack of fertility. I mean, it is well-known that I love "I'm giving you up for your own good even though it's KILLING ME inside ;_____;" storylines, (plus Rory's "we've always known you don't love me as much as I love you ;_____;") but it just felt a bit ... not built up. It might have been better if they hadn't been all the way to a divorce, but only having friction and secretiveness within the marriage.

- The noise of Dalek eyethings coming out of people's foreheads was really creepy and exactly what something like that ripping through skin would sound like.

- Mr. Weasley and Filch next week?!

Comments

[lliira]

I'm sure there's a lot of talk out there about how it's sexist for a main female character to turn out to be essentially dead, but whatevs, I liked it

I know nothing about Who. But I get really sick of this. There are of course sexist ways to kill off a main female character, but the fact that a female main character dies is not inherently sexist, and this idea that it is that seems to have taken hold drives me up the wall.

Also the idea that if a female main character is physically weak, that must be because of sexism. Even when that character is like eighty years old and running around with a bunch of twenty-somethings, camping outside every night and fighting monsters for months on end. I just know if Bujold had made Miles a woman, she would have been called sexist for making him have physical problems.

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She actually turned out to have had her brain put into an evil alien robot (Dalek) because ... oh, crap, trying to remember why things happen on this show ... I think it was so she could be in charge of their jail? But she resisted becoming One Of Them to the point that she constructed a fantasy world where she was hiding out in a bunker, and it turned out that being Dalekized let her use their psychic network as though she were your usual hacker character. So it's not quite a death, but ... but still very cool!

Doctor Who is an excellent fandom for finding arguments about why literally every female character is bad, which is somewhat amusing but also means that I watch every single new episode looking for what people are going to be saying on the internet. It doesn't help that after years of the same thing happening in HP fandom I know every reason a female character can be sexist.