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fandomsecrets2013-12-02 06:28 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-12-02 06:28 pm
[ SECRET POST #2526 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2526 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Doctor Who]
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[Disney]
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[TMNT]
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[Thor: The Dark World]
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[As Told By Ginger]
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[daughter, purity ring]
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[Sleepy Hollow]
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[Attack on Titan/Shingeki No Kyojin]
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[The Producers]
Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 053 secrets from Secret Submission Post #361.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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(Anonymous) 2013-12-03 12:50 am (UTC)(link)But it's not bad writing
That's the sort of mistake the Doctor makes, especially Ten. The Doctor saw it as saving someone vs. failing to save someone, a victory vs. a defeat, rather than looking at what it actually looks like for the person he was "saving". He likes tying things up in what feels to him like a neat bow, and he doesn't stop to think about what the consequences are after he flies off in the TARDIS, and I don't think he even understands 'real life' well enough to be able to conceptualise those consequences. I'd go as far to say its Ten's fatal flaw- it gets seeded as early as 'The Christmas Invasion', with Harriet Jones, and mostly culminates in 'The Waters of Mars'.
In "Love & Monsters", nobody gets up on a soap box and says: The Doctor Made The Wrong Choice. Look At How Wrong That Choice Was. It just lays out that this was a thing that he did, without commenting on it. This is a good thing for a few reasons:
-This episode was quite early in Ten's emotional arc. It wasn't time yet for a big revelation of his flaws.
-It was mostly a sentimental/comedy episode. That sort of thing would not have been tonally appropriate.
-The episode was not about the Doctor. It was from the point of view of characters who idolised him, and who would not have yet realised how badly he screwed up.
In other words, it was good, subtle writing which had a character act in character and display flaws which would later become part of his emotional arc. Bad actions on the part of good characters is not bad writing. Not being anvilicious is good writing.
(I'm not actually an RTD!fangirl. He's not my favorite showrunner by a long stretch, but I do feel the need to defend that episode sometimes)
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* An episode is written as comedic
* It has an ending that's really depressing
* That ending is supposed to set up similar scenes in later episodes that are written as depressing
* That's good writing for setting up the arc, and not bad writing for treating as comedic something we're later supposed to take as depressing
That whole "It was comedic then! But the same thing is depressing now! Why aren't you crying now? It's sad this time!" thing is why I gave up reading Sluggy Freelance. It just didn't feel consistent. Like I said earlier, I'm approaching this from an outside perspective, but I can at least say that this description doesn't really make me want to watch Doctor Who.
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