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(Anonymous) 2013-01-26 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)The entire point of The Beast Below is that the hard choices are not actually all on his shoulders.
The whole point of Amy's Choice is that he can't save everyone and his dark side is really freaky.
The entire point of The Pandorica Opens was that bad things happen to people with too much power and cause too much fear by flaunting it, and that he has to take personal responsibility for fixing the mess he accidentally caused.
The entire point of A Christmas Carol is that he can't screw around with time and expect it to work out the way he wants it to.
The entire point of The Impossible Astronaut is that he can't fight fate.
The entire point of A Good Man Goes to War (and the focal point of season 6 in general) was the same thing as the Pandorica Opens, with the addition that his actions had some really awful consequences for the people he loves, which is a hell of a lot worse for him than consequences for just himself.
The point of Lets Kill Hitler is that he depends on others a whole hell of a lot for a whole lot of things.
The entire point of The Girl Who Waited is that he can't save everyone or do things perfectly or pull solutions out of his ass.
The entire point of The God Complex is that...he has a god complex that he's fated to never satisfy because, again, he can't save everyone, and him confessing to Amy that she shouldn't have unwavering faith in him because he's a fallible, stupid old man, not a god or a superhero.
The entire point of The Wedding of River Song is him begging River NOT to play god.
The entire point of Asylum of the Daleks is that operating quietly and not being famous would be a big plus in his column.
The entire point of Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and A Town Called Mercy is that he can't handle his saving-the-universe role alone and goes bugfuck insane and loses his soul when separated from his companions too long.
The entire point of The Angels Take Manhattan is that he can't fight fate.
Honestly, my biggest issue with Moffat is that "The Pandorica Opens" was a more than sufficient kick in the nuts for the Doctor, and he didn't need all the subsequent bullshit because it was all repeating the same damn stuff that season 5 did better. However, while I generally prefer RTD to Moffat for a host of reasons (most prominently, because even RTD's most irritating season 4 excesses were never as wall-bangingly awful as Moffat's season 6 excesses), one thing I do like is that Moffat employs "show don't tell" more often instead of having to spell everything out.
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THIS.
One of the reasons I don't buy Doctor/River as a real, healthy relationship is because it seems like at least half her dialogue with him is her telling him what an arrogant, irresponsible jagoff he is... Yes, thanks, Moffat, we got the point the first five times.
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The fact that season 5 seemed to have been COMPLETELY IGNORED is my biggest problem with Moffat, because season 5, despite its uneven quality, was basically everything I ever wanted and was a great lead-out from the really fascinating subject matter of the RTD era and lead-in to the possibility of a show with the Doctor having adventures and saving people in a more (but not completely) classic Who-type way. Especially how it was all about the Doctor taking care of Amy and Rory, not the other way around, showing that he had gotten over/was in the process of getting over a lot of his personal issues and trying to become a mentor-ish figure again...and then season six basically went "NOPE" and went into fucking reverse. *headdesk*
The Doctor/River thing especially irks me since I really, really, really, really liked them in season 4 and 5, when she was just an awesome mad lady who'd pop out of nowhere and cheerfully deflate his self-importance by trolling the fuck out of him and vanish again while never being mystified by him because she knew all about him already. It was so...I dunno, appropriate?
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(Anonymous) 2013-01-26 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)Now I'm starting to understand why people hated series 6 so much (and the River/Doctor relationship) - I can't say I disagree because I understand your points now that they're laid out along with the anon who made the post about all the lessons of the episodes. I don't know why it didn't bother me as much when I watched it (or why it still doesn't even now) I guess I was able to watch series 6 on it's own without thinking about the fact that many of the same lessons were already had in series 5? Or maybe I'm too good at ignoring the deeper issues with certain shows if I'm having enough fun with it otherwise.
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And I relate to you: when I was first getting into DW back in 2008/9, I watched the episodes all out of order, and therefore totally missed a lot of the problems with season 4 because I enjoyed the episodes individually and didn't really connect it in my mind to the arcs of season 2-3 and didn't really care to. It's just a TV show after all, it's for having fun! And they still don't bother me all that much, even though I intellectually notice a lot more problems now, because I remember enjoying them the first time I saw them. Nothing wrong with being able to enjoy things on one level. In fact, I'd say it's a good thing. :)
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(Anonymous) 2013-01-26 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)The more I think about it I think the main thing for me is that I have a tendency to view each episode as a totally separate thing as I'm watching it - so I'm not thinking a lot about how it fits in with the rest of the series at the time. Even if I'm marathon viewing like I have been with Doctor Who ... So even if lessons are repeated I (mostly) don't notice until afterwards when I stop and think about the whole series on a whole (or really when someone makes me stop and think about it). Plus the whole, "I just wanna have fun" thing. Because to me it was a lot of fun.
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I know we already got into a long conversation about all of this about a month ago, but YES, YES. ALL OF THIS.
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Speaking of which, I had the good fortune of mainlining all the 2009 specials in the space of a single day, a month or so after The End of Time came out, and mainlining all of season 6 in the space of about a week, and thank god because I'm not sure my adoration of both Ten and Eleven would have remained so unshaken if I had to watch that shit unfold in real time.
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(Anonymous) 2013-01-27 02:18 am (UTC)(link)Not that I thought Moffat's era was all that great - well, I did really like season 5 and season 7 seems to be maybe starting to look up, but season 6 had so many wrong turns. However, "not criticizing the Doctor when he acts like God" sure as fuck ain't one of its flaws.
If anything, it has the exact opposite flaw: "criticizing the Doctor for acting like God over and over and over again even though everyone already got the memo way back in The Pandorica Opens, by arbitrarily manipulating completely run-of-the-mill standard situations into worst-case-scenarios for no logical reason and dicking around with his companions' storylines just for the sake of screwing him over for the 900th time."
It smacks of RTD's dickery in The Stolen Earth/Journey's End, to be honest. "Oh noes, I don't care that this story sucks balls and is infuriating to people who actually care about the characters, I want to pile more shit on the Doctor because damned if I'm going to let his personality develop quietly!"