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glory_jean) wrote2023-11-05 11:11 pm
glory_jean) wrote2023-11-05 11:11 pm
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Doctor Who Rewatch: Twelve: Listen
have incredibly mixed feelings about this episode.
It's, well it's a hot mess really. Peak Moff. So much unauthorized timeline crossing, weird Tardis shenanigans, and all the general, huh?
Also on side note: I don't know why Clara and Pink ever date. They are pretty toxic together. Maybe if they had focused on -what I guess is supposed to be the A plot - it might have been a standout story, and it might have made Clara/Pink less of a trainwreck? Who knows.
Not gonna lie Twelve having dad skilz was kinda cute.
And now the B plot. I have FEELINGS about Clara meeting baby doctor. Though not as many as the fan boys who went basaltic over it. It was infinitely skip-able though. Just more of Moff's creepy obsession with people influencing their friends and loved ones by messing with their childhoods. EW.
Although - I just sorta think it's funny that we sat through SEASONs of the Moff's fanfic. Like he literally wrote about a bunch of his "particularly stupid theories" on the forums in the 90s * - and then he like Made Them Real. That's a special kind of .... yeah. If you ever wondered what would happen if you let a dudebro fanficcer write show for reals, wonder no more.
* ETA don't believe me: here's the original link https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.drwho/c/fNc0-Zpirpg And OMG he managed he log back in and DELETE his post years after everyone had already seen it. LOL! what a poser
ETA ETA: But not before the Wayback machine grabbed it. Enjoy!
https://web.archive.org/web/20220818003245/https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.drwho/c/fNc0-Zpirpg
It's, well it's a hot mess really. Peak Moff. So much unauthorized timeline crossing, weird Tardis shenanigans, and all the general, huh?
Also on side note: I don't know why Clara and Pink ever date. They are pretty toxic together. Maybe if they had focused on -what I guess is supposed to be the A plot - it might have been a standout story, and it might have made Clara/Pink less of a trainwreck? Who knows.
Not gonna lie Twelve having dad skilz was kinda cute.
And now the B plot. I have FEELINGS about Clara meeting baby doctor. Though not as many as the fan boys who went basaltic over it. It was infinitely skip-able though. Just more of Moff's creepy obsession with people influencing their friends and loved ones by messing with their childhoods. EW.
Although - I just sorta think it's funny that we sat through SEASONs of the Moff's fanfic. Like he literally wrote about a bunch of his "particularly stupid theories" on the forums in the 90s * - and then he like Made Them Real. That's a special kind of .... yeah. If you ever wondered what would happen if you let a dudebro fanficcer write show for reals, wonder no more.
* ETA don't believe me: here's the original link https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.drwho/c/fNc0-Zpirpg And OMG he managed he log back in and DELETE his post years after everyone had already seen it. LOL! what a poser
ETA ETA: But not before the Wayback machine grabbed it. Enjoy!
https://web.archive.org/web/20220818003245/https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.drwho/c/fNc0-Zpirpg