Regina Cannot Explain It All
I'm Regina Small. I'm a writer and editor in NYC. I have a lot of opinions.
Interests include: sci-fi/fantasy, literature, summertime daydrinking, trying to be a better person, fancy manicures, philosophy, pictures for sad children, and the role of irony in the modern world. And fandom, of course.
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Steven Moffat on how The Doctor will meet the new companion. (via doctorwho)
OH JESUS. Does Steven Moffat get paid by the hyperbolic word? Everything is the BIGGEST AND THE BEST AND IT’S NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE AND STAY TUNED. Simple stories about exploring new worlds are fine. They really are.
(via doctorwho)
This is the new Doctor Who companion. She is, as you can see, a very lovely lady. And I’ve never seen any of her work, so I can’t speak to her abilities as an actress at all. But I find this choice, of a 25-year-old model-esque beauty, to be totally uninteresting and predictable. I mean, I’m rooting for her because I would like to start enjoying this show again — the truth is that I liked/cared for Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill much more than Amy and Rory, if only because those characters never seemed to really want anything except each other.
But I had hoped that for this companion they might choose someone older, quirkier, less “safe,” someone whose casting would restore my faith in the writers’ and showrunners’ capacity to shake things up. It would be nice to have had a person of color as the next companion, especially since the Whoniverse has seemed overwhelmingly white these past two years. I don’t dare hope that they’ll write this character as gay, because if “Sherlock” taught me anything, it’s that Moffat is a giggling schoolboy about homosexuality (my apologies, Sherlock stans). The most I can hope for is that they don’t explore a ~*romance*~ between this character and the Doctor at all.
Anyway, best of luck, Jenna-Louise Coleman. I promise not to blame terrible story decisions and/or writing on you.
Let’s talk about how much I resent that this is not a picture of Craig from The Lodger/Closing Time.
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This is the first time I’ve ever watched a program where so much and so little happened at the exact same time.
(Also: “Remember when we had the Doctor creatively and intelligently solve problems, without altering the rules that seem to make those problems unsolvable? Yeah, well, let’s stop doing that. Also, robots.” — Steven Moffat)
how-to-kiss-distinctly-american:
You know, I understand that it must be difficult to be a showrunner, dealing with a possessive fanbase who has loved this show for close to 50 years but since we’re the ones who pay for the cable channels and/or the internet downloads, the convention tickets, the comic books, the fan magazines, admission to the interactive exhibits, and care enough about to this show to make it internationally successful, while you rake in the ££, you might want to consider chilling the fuck out every once in awhile.
140 characters isn’t enough to allow us to qualify our criticisms with how much we love the show and thank you thank you thank you for working long hours on it. You need to assume that. You don’t enjoy interacting with your public? Don’t interact with them. You don’t want feedback? Lock yourself in your study and keep writing terrible story arcs. But don’t think you can come to the Internet — in any way — and train “bad behavior” (i.e., criticism) out of people.
Also, being a perfume inventor (who also models? LOL OK VERY REALISTIC THING THAT ALWAYS IS HAPPENING) is not actually that much more compelling or interesting than Amy being a model. One of the very very few things we know about Amy, who I would argue is not much of a three-dimensional character (unless you count “sass” as a dimension, and I don’t), is that she drew pictures of the Doctor when she was a kid. Lots of pictures. So…her becoming an artist with a gallery show might’ve actually made more sense for the character. Should we be proud of Amy for accomplishing something that seems impressive in the abstract but has grown out of literally nothing we’ve ever seen from her?Just stop. Stop trolling the fandom, and stop trying to intimidate the fans and scolding them to “pay attention,” when you can’t be bothered to pay attention to your characters, either.
Christ almighty. Settle down. Doesn’t this scream “WHAAAAT A TWEEST!” to anyone else?
If anything, you should be crying about spoilers.
And you call yourselves nerds. Psh.
(This is also why I fervently avoid fandoms.)
Spoilers?
The only thing vaguely spoilery about this episode was the implication that there’s been some non-linear or closed causal loop shenanigans, with the Doctor saying he’s going to die “tomorrow,” which means — unless he travels a bit earlier in the Amy/Rory timeline — he “broke up” with Amy and Rory BEFORE his death on the beach and before they went on the Great Melody Pond Hunt of 2k11. So at some point after “Let’s Kill Hitler” we might have popped backward into earlier (pre-Doctor death, pre-Melody) Amy/Rory timelines. But that doesn’t really make sense, either, since the Doctor only found out his death date in “Let’s Kill Hitler,” which was post-actual death since Melody’s already been born, and he ruminated on it in “The God Complex,” implying that it follows “Let’s Kill Hitler.”
Unless you mean something else entirely.
I don’t think anyone needs a Twitter account. I think if you (general you) find yourself threatened by criticism of your artwork, you should just not be on the Internet rather than try to muzzle the fans.
You know, I understand that it must be difficult to be a showrunner, dealing with a possessive fanbase who has loved this show for close to 50 years but since we’re the ones who pay for the cable channels and/or the internet downloads, the convention tickets, the comic books, the fan magazines, admission to the interactive exhibits, and care enough about to this show to make it internationally successful, while you rake in the ££, you might want to consider chilling the fuck out every once in awhile.
140 characters isn’t enough to allow us to qualify our criticisms with how much we love the show and thank you thank you thank you for working long hours on it. You need to assume that. You don’t enjoy interacting with your public? Don’t interact with them. You don’t want feedback? Lock yourself in your study and keep writing terrible story arcs. But don’t think you can come to the Internet — in any way — and train “bad behavior” (i.e., criticism) out of people.
Also, being a perfume inventor (who also models? LOL OK VERY REALISTIC THING THAT ALWAYS IS HAPPENING) is not actually that much more compelling or interesting than Amy being a model. One of the very very few things we know about Amy, who I would argue is not much of a three-dimensional character (unless you count “sass” as a dimension, and I don’t), is that she drew pictures of the Doctor when she was a kid. Lots of pictures. So…her becoming an artist with a gallery show might’ve actually made more sense for the character. Should we be proud of Amy for accomplishing something that seems impressive in the abstract but has grown out of literally nothing we’ve ever seen from her?
Just stop. Stop trolling the fandom, and stop trying to intimidate the fans and scolding them to “pay attention,” when you can’t be bothered to pay attention to your characters, either.
All I’ve ever wanted.
