Doctor Who - A Good Man Goes To War

[raven]

OH MY GOD DOCTOR WHO.

I have NOTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE to say about this episode. Nothing. You have already all talked about the AMAZING Silurian Victorian-lady-detective and her adorable human girlfriend! And about AMY and RORY and HOW MUCH I LOVE THEM and oh the army of adorable sidekicks and Strax the mighty nurse who is GENUINELY MIGHTY and oh by the way I love that. I love how Rory and Strax are heroes. Everybody is a big goddamn hero on Doctor Who. You can be a nurse and be a hero. You can be a pirate and be a hero. RIVER SONG IS A BIG GODDAMN HERO.

River. Oh, River. I am not surprised, but that works for me exactly how I want it to work for me, that is right, that is proper. River Song is a human being who's a little bit Time Lord, she's Amy and Rory's daughter, and wouldn't Amy and Rory's daughter be exactly like that? Yes. I love her so, so, so much, and I still completely love her and the Doctor together. Oh, River, oh I love every character in this series so much. I love the relationships between them, too - this series, and a little bit the last one, has been careful to set up a relationship between River and Rory, and I do love that they took the time to do that, this is in no way out of the blue. And also I love SO MANY WOMEN! Even if they are not River that is not their fault! Crime-fighting Silurian women! Creepy antagonist women! Amy! (And, er, I am all on board with the idea of forced childbearing being violence against women. Good thing the show presents it just as such, then.) Lorna! Lovely ladies! I love them all.

I love this vignette storytelling style, too, and I loved the creepy headless monks, and just, so much love for this! And basically I do not wish to be profound. I wish to SQUEE AT PEOPLE. And poss draw hearts around River Song. Many hearts. Lots of sparkly hearts. Hearts that are fucking awesome and save the universe. River! <3!

Comments

[such_heights]

SQUEE. HEARTS. PONDS. RIVER. EVERYTHING IS THE BEST. <33333 I AM IN LOVE.

[raven]

RIVER RIVER RIVER. There is literally no one in this episode I don't love. but RIVER.

[silverhare]

*draws hearts*

[raven]

SO MANY HEARTS! Also, I love your icon!

[gavagai]

IONA THE SONTARAN NURSE WAS KIND OF MY FAVOURITE. DOES THIS MEAN I HATE WOMEN. HE JUST HAD THE BEST DELIVERY EVER.

[gavagai]

I MEAN, I ALSO LIKED THE LESBIANS, EVEN IF EMPLOYER/EMPLOYEE STUFF SQUICKS ME.

[raven]

I LOVED HIM TOO. "I look forward to slaying you on the field of battle. Also get some rest." <33333

[philomytha]

RIVER ♥ I don't have anything else to say about her either :-).

And yes. SO MANY wonderful women. I loved the Victorian Silurian and her maid a lot. And I also really liked the eyepatch woman.

And Rory the Centurion was just so very excellent too. I loved everything he did.

In short, lots more sparkly hearts here!

[raven]

omg I am still very excited. Many sparkly hearts! And also, why is Rory dressed as a centurion. Why did the Doctor make Rory dress as the centurion. Is it because he finds it attractive. Probably.

[livrelibre]

<3 <3 <3

[raven]

SPARKLY HEARTS!

[brightlywoven]

Isn't she wonderful??? They were all so wonderful!!! I wanted them all to do a big dance number at the end, all 'we are family' like, but I guess that wouldn't have fitted the mood.

(AMY IS THE DOCTOR'S MOTHER IN LAW!!!)

(are there people suggesting that show was in some way endorsing enforced childbirth? really??)

[raven]

omg I would totally watch the Team-TARDIS-do-dance-numbers show. I wold totally watch anything with them in. ALSO OMG I DIDN'T THINK OF THAT. That is so GREAT.

(are there people suggesting that show was in some way endorsing enforced childbirth? really??)

Not exactly.... there are people saying, don't want to watch a show with yet more violence against women qua women, which I suppose is fair enough. But, yeah, at the end of last week's I was thinking, yes, the writing here knows this is a violation: we're meant to think that. But.... yeah. After the Amy-River-lady-detectives-hero-cleric extravaganza, I am not on board with "Doctor Who = misogynist".

[tieleen]

I think it's mostly the fact that this happens so very often to women in sci fi. But I agree they handled it very well.

[brightlywoven]

I can sort of see that point.

(I was just massively relieved when they didn't kill the black general, after so so many dead bros walking in the earlier moffat military episodes)

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward with some apprehension as to how Amy's trauma (at being separated from her baby and then being confronted with a grown-up Melody whom she's known off and on for some time) will be dealt with.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I sincerely hope she works out some feelings by shooting some people. :)

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

I sometimes think Doctor Who could really be improved by more shooting (yes, Violence Is Wrong, but how awesome was it when River shot everyone in Day of the Moon? VERY, that's how).

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

River Song Beats Up Everyone!

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

I would like to watch that even more than I would like to watch River Tam Beats Up Everyone.

[macadamanaity.livejournal.com]

...And Explains It All. OH WAIT SHE ALREADY DID.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

BECAUSE SHE'S AWESOME.

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Dalek Voice: 'MERCY. MERCY.'

*gunshot*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

"It died."

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

Squeeing and drawing hearts around River are definitely excellent reactions. *loves River*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

RIVER. I LOVE HER.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

I would subscribe to your sparkly hearts, River loving, Amy rooting, Rory is a BAMF and River/Doctor OTP 4ever newsletter.

Wow, I need more WHO!Squee fans on my Flist.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*grins* ALL SPARKLY HEARTS ALL THE TIME.

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

I know, right?!

After watching the episode, I kept wanting to talk about it, but all I could manage was incoherence and squee-filled rambling. :)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Sing it, sister. :)

[tau_sigma]

Many sparkly hearts of joy! *g*

I am mostly incoherant about this episode, but it was great. Very much great.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Made of great! I think by September I need to get a TV to watch it on.