I agree with you and I think I just am going to accept that this is ~a thing~ for me and it's not for the majority of other people. Or rather, there are two things:
1. Sci Fi pregnancies are never something I am okay with. Lots of bad things happen to lots of companions and I've always been accepting that that's just what happens when you travel with the Doctor, but bringing pregnancy into it, it's like a bridge just too far for me, especially when the episodes are written by men. Being pregnant is something that only happens to women, and for a dude to turn that into a horror scenario is something I've always had a problem with, even when my favourite shows are doing it (which they often do argh). Which brings me to #2...
2. If you're going to do it, the only way I can roll with it is if the show already has built up enough good will with me that I can just kind of coast on that for a bit. The current series hasn't done that for me personally, so instead of the momentum of that good feeling carrying me over the squicky DNW of a sci fi pregnancy, it has pretty much stopped me dead. None of this is helped by the positioning that I feel of it as just another ~~~mystery~~~ to be solved rather than OMG HOLY SHIT THIS VALUED CHARACTER IS EXPERIENCING MASSIVE UNBELIEVABLE TRAUMA NOOOOOO!!! When things like this happen to characters, I want it to be a serious emotional fulcrum, not a rubik's cube.
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Date: 2011-05-29 08:40 pm (UTC)I agree with you and I think I just am going to accept that this is ~a thing~ for me and it's not for the majority of other people. Or rather, there are two things:
1. Sci Fi pregnancies are never something I am okay with. Lots of bad things happen to lots of companions and I've always been accepting that that's just what happens when you travel with the Doctor, but bringing pregnancy into it, it's like a bridge just too far for me, especially when the episodes are written by men. Being pregnant is something that only happens to women, and for a dude to turn that into a horror scenario is something I've always had a problem with, even when my favourite shows are doing it (which they often do argh). Which brings me to #2...
2. If you're going to do it, the only way I can roll with it is if the show already has built up enough good will with me that I can just kind of coast on that for a bit. The current series hasn't done that for me personally, so instead of the momentum of that good feeling carrying me over the squicky DNW of a sci fi pregnancy, it has pretty much stopped me dead. None of this is helped by the positioning that I feel of it as just another ~~~mystery~~~ to be solved rather than OMG HOLY SHIT THIS VALUED CHARACTER IS EXPERIENCING MASSIVE UNBELIEVABLE TRAUMA NOOOOOO!!! When things like this happen to characters, I want it to be a serious emotional fulcrum, not a rubik's cube.