DW 6x04 - sigh.

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I have never read anything by Neil Gaiman that I didn't find pervasively gross, and I know that's partially on purpose - I don't care at all for grotesques, and that's his genre, and okay, fine, I don't have to like all the genres. I actually didn't hate what this did to DW canon as far as rearticulating and fleshing out the back story of how the Doctor and the TARDIS fell in love. ...I think that was the only thing I liked, though.


1) Idris died horribly and in a really cruelly-framed way so that we could have this comic romp, and it's completely free of any kind of palliation or mercy, which is one of those things that I avoid other genre shows for doing. The only resolution is that the entity that kills her also dies unhappily and in pain, which doesn't count in my book, and anyway no one gives a shit that she got murdered even then.

2) Then her body explodes, which is a nice moment for Rory to reference the season arc and that was actually a good moment of character-building except that NOT YOURS, PLOT. NO. That body damn belonged to someone. It wasn't the TARDIS's fault but honestly even one of those clichéd "sorry"'s would have been easier on me. They cared more about the freaking Ood, and they didn't care much about him.

3) I hated the whole thing with Rory and Amy in the corridors. Are they going to kill Rory every single episode till the end of time to torment Amy? SHE LIKES HIM NOT DEAD. WE GET IT. COME ON.

ETA: I thought of something that I liked! I liked that the TARDIS recognizes Rory's good looks, at least. I liked the character of the TARDIS in general; I just hated all the Gaimaning at the margins.

I think it's probably okay that I don't like it; I'm glad other people did, but man, not for me at all. Which is my feeling about Gaiman in general! ... Sorry, internet :( I keep trying with him. Please, please do not read this if someone complaining will harsh your squee. I love your squee, and want it to be happy.