Yeah, she wasn't true to her character. This is the same girl that not 5 episodes before broke open the TARDIS to go save Nine ... and he's trying convince us she'd stand around moping for 5.5 hours? Lol no. I read this great fic once where (since it's the 51st century), they manage to eventually get ahold of Jack Harkness via his vortex manipulator to come save the day -- now THAT I could see!! XD
And then there's jealous!Donna in the Library eps where Moffat seems to have assumed she'd fancy the Doctor and nobody told him otherwise
Forgot about that! But yup.
I don't have a problem with the Doctor chasing after Reinette, though, he's never seemed all that monogamous before or since.
I questioned that until I heard the Moffat/Noel Clarke MP3 interview on the BBC website (at least it was there before the s5 redesign ... but it's still on megaupload at least. But I digress). Noel specifically asks Moffat about that, and Moffat said that no, he doesn't think there was any "DANCING" going on - that when he wrote the line, he had Reinette using that word because after being in his head, she knew it was a double entendre and was flirting with him, but that she "wouldn't be that quick". Which I was glad to hear him say, tbh, because that would have been mega-OOC in an ep that was already swimming in it.
What irks me more than anything about the ep though is you're right that it's portrayed as love-and-loss ... but then it never gets even a passing mention ever again. And they're all laughing and joking at the beginning of the next ep like nothing had ever happened. Heck, even poor Joan got a mention in EOT - even Jabe and poor ill-fated Lynda-with-a-Y and Astrid did in JE!! But Reinette? Nope. (Maybe that was intentional though - I know it's a pretty polarizing ep, so maybe Rusty was like "uh oh, let's just forget about this one, shall we?" lol).
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Yeah, she wasn't true to her character. This is the same girl that not 5 episodes before broke open the TARDIS to go save Nine ... and he's trying convince us she'd stand around moping for 5.5 hours? Lol no. I read this great fic once where (since it's the 51st century), they manage to eventually get ahold of Jack Harkness via his vortex manipulator to come save the day -- now THAT I could see!! XD
And then there's jealous!Donna in the Library eps where Moffat seems to have assumed she'd fancy the Doctor and nobody told him otherwise
Forgot about that! But yup.
I don't have a problem with the Doctor chasing after Reinette, though, he's never seemed all that monogamous before or since.
I questioned that until I heard the Moffat/Noel Clarke MP3 interview on the BBC website (at least it was there before the s5 redesign ... but it's still on megaupload at least. But I digress). Noel specifically asks Moffat about that, and Moffat said that no, he doesn't think there was any "DANCING" going on - that when he wrote the line, he had Reinette using that word because after being in his head, she knew it was a double entendre and was flirting with him, but that she "wouldn't be that quick". Which I was glad to hear him say, tbh, because that would have been mega-OOC in an ep that was already swimming in it.
What irks me more than anything about the ep though is you're right that it's portrayed as love-and-loss ... but then it never gets even a passing mention ever again. And they're all laughing and joking at the beginning of the next ep like nothing had ever happened. Heck, even poor Joan got a mention in EOT - even Jabe and poor ill-fated Lynda-with-a-Y and Astrid did in JE!! But Reinette? Nope.
(Maybe that was intentional though - I know it's a pretty polarizing ep, so maybe Rusty was like "uh oh, let's just forget about this one, shall we?" lol).