Doctor Who.
Oh my flipping burgers. What? Jess has some negative criticism for an episode of Doctor Who? Is she feeling alright? No, stop. Let's pause for some reflection on what it means to be a doctor who fan.
If you choose to follow this show. A lot will be asked of you. For every incredible episode you have two that are sub par. Not to mention the tv movie. No really, no one mentions it because it's a shitstorm and you have to outright shun the tv movie to appreciate the series. There are rewards of course. The good episodes are often exceptional and the current renaissance of the series is so encouraging for people like me, who has been harboring secret affections for the quirky sci-fi series since I was nine watching Tom Baker and Lala Ward run away from monsters on my five by five inch black and white tv in the dark of my bedroom. There is something to this show otherwise I would have let it go years ago. So anyway what was I gonna rant about?
The christmas episode, yes that's what I wanted to chat about.
Why was the Doctor being so snarky to the girl? Was her name Lily? I think so, anyway what gives? Other doctors in the past have been snarkier, yes I know. But in the past the female character's job was to wonder off find a monster, scream, faint, and be rescued by the doctor. We have made huge strides in the recent incarnation of the series. Lily is not screaming, through the whole show she's asking questions so that she can better understand the weirdness happening around her. Why is the Doctor suddenly the snark factory of snarktown? He's had to explain this shit to everyone else, why does he choose to be particularly terse with this child? Because she isn't brilliant? Ok, then why did you decide to hang out with her family? Oh and he doesn't recognize her worth as a human until he's reminded that she's a baby factory, or will be in a couple of years. UGH. I would have thought, given we're a few years down the road from the 60s now, that Doctor Who would have evolved a little bit further past the mentality of the Don fucking Drapers of the world. (I don't watch mad men, is Don Draper a chauvinistic ass hole? Forgive me but they all look the same to me.) Gross gross gross. Also. I love how the Doctor's biggest pet peeve is changing history. Spoiler in three.....two...... The daddy dies. Lot's of people's daddy's died during world war II, several of them at Christmas I'm sure. Why is this one savable? Considering there was nothing in the telegraph saying he was MIA. He's going to have some explaining to do considering his plane went down but he's turned up in the countryside with his family. It's not that I didn't for the sake of the story want him to be saved because it's christmas and miracles and baby jesus but..... can you say court marshal? Can you say deserter? What happens when this guy tries to report for duty, or worse doesn't and is discovered trying to buy groceries one day. And what about Johnson....or who ever the fuck was down in the belly of the plane who was 'in a bad way.'(They're always called Johnson aren't they?) There was lots of hugging, not a lot of first aid giving. Also what a waste of a perfectly good Bill Bailey.
Still, not the worst Christmas episode ever....at least they left Kylie Minogue out of this one.
Rant over.
Topic for next rant. Probably something to do with the plantation. Likely.
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