Doctor Who 6.06 The Almost People

[prodigy]

I have no idea what to say about this episode. Seriously, I'm not sure I can muster enough for bullet points. I guess:

- What?
- The sad part is that no matter how disjointed that was, I could still follow the plot, which put it above most of this season. Uh, until the end, anyway.
- What?
- Shut up, soundtrack. Doctor Who has the most overwrought soundtrack I've heard on a TV program recently. It's not succeeding in compelling me to feel things.
- What?
- Why is Doctor Who so obsessed with evil women and the havoc they wreak on sympathetic men? What is this, Supernatural?
- What??
- How is it we're six eps in and still haven't had a genuinely good one?

Comments

[prodigy]

Sandman is, I think, great, as a piece of comic-book storytelling; I haven't read it in a while but it's sort of a "if you read one thing by Gaiman read Sandman," and it helps he's a much better comics writer than a prose one.

Sure am familiar with his anti-woman sentiments, unfortunately, and I wish it wasn't so unsurprising. I think River Song's been treated terribly in both seasons so far, in the backhanded way of a writer who doesn't take female characters seriously -- in that she can be "bad" and dangerous in a way a male character wouldn't get away with because Moffat would actually consider him menacing, because if a woman does it it's spunky and amusing, due to how inherently nonthreatening Moffat thinks women and female characters are. Also, Eleven treats her like crap, condescends to her, and is generally uninterested in her except to vaguely string her along and make fun of her, I think.