Nah, I'm not bored. Frustrated, yes, annoyed sometimes, but not bored! Not yet, anyway :-)
Mostly, yes it was the idea of transmitting what I thought were rather disturbing images at just before 7.30pm. I get that we were meant to find the situation horrible and I'd have had no problem with that in a later slot.
I also don't like the fact of a pregnancy and/or child being used as a plot device, although given that this is Moffat, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by now, because that's his MO. His characters act according to the dictates of the plot rather than because that's how those characters would behave.
Added to that, I was really shocked to find that there hadn't been an outcry about those final images - which was when it occurred to me that the majority of the reviews I'd read were a)written by men, b)written by people who were too distracted by the shiny to notice or c) both. I'm not normally one to generalise like that, and I'm certainly not one to cry "sexism" - even given that there are so many things that point to Moffat being somewhat that way inclined; but this was one occasion when it really got my goat!
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Date: 2011-06-07 07:36 pm (UTC)Mostly, yes it was the idea of transmitting what I thought were rather disturbing images at just before 7.30pm. I get that we were meant to find the situation horrible and I'd have had no problem with that in a later slot.
I also don't like the fact of a pregnancy and/or child being used as a plot device, although given that this is Moffat, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by now, because that's his MO. His characters act according to the dictates of the plot rather than because that's how those characters would behave.
Added to that, I was really shocked to find that there hadn't been an outcry about those final images - which was when it occurred to me that the majority of the reviews I'd read were a)written by men, b)written by people who were too distracted by the shiny to notice or c) both.
I'm not normally one to generalise like that, and I'm certainly not one to cry "sexism" - even given that there are so many things that point to Moffat being somewhat that way inclined; but this was one occasion when it really got my goat!
Just in case you couldn't tell... *g*