The only problem is this episode should have resonated way more with Amy and Rory on the "child abandonment" level .
Yes, exactly - and that very thought went through my head, too.
But that's been the whole problem - for me - with this series and the last one. The characters aren't acting as they should in those circumstances. Okay, so I know this is a tv show and a science-fiction based one at that, so our heroes are inevitably going to face circumstances that are not at all "true to life". But Amy and Rory have just lost their baby and are acting as if she'd never even existed. Not just in this episode, but in LKH as well.
I've been trying to like what SM is doing with the show and as a result, I think I've been willing to make too many excuses for some elements of it in the hope that there is some amazing master-plan which will be revealed and which is going to make me jump up and down with excitement. But I'm becoming more and more convinced that's not going to happen. I mean - nobody actually expects the Doctor to really die by Lake Silencio, do they? The Beeb's not going to kill off one of its most valuable cash-cows (and this isn't 1989! *g*) so the Doctor isn't going to expire. Which means this whole series is going to be "unhappened" somehow and I'm not sure that I'm all that interested in how that is made to work any more.
As for River - SM has managed to make me not care about her any more, when previously, I'd always looked forward to seeing her.
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Date: 2011-09-04 08:20 pm (UTC)Yes, exactly - and that very thought went through my head, too.
But that's been the whole problem - for me - with this series and the last one. The characters aren't acting as they should in those circumstances. Okay, so I know this is a tv show and a science-fiction based one at that, so our heroes are inevitably going to face circumstances that are not at all "true to life". But Amy and Rory have just lost their baby and are acting as if she'd never even existed. Not just in this episode, but in LKH as well.
I've been trying to like what SM is doing with the show and as a result, I think I've been willing to make too many excuses for some elements of it in the hope that there is some amazing master-plan which will be revealed and which is going to make me jump up and down with excitement. But I'm becoming more and more convinced that's not going to happen. I mean - nobody actually expects the Doctor to really die by Lake Silencio, do they? The Beeb's not going to kill off one of its most valuable cash-cows (and this isn't 1989! *g*) so the Doctor isn't going to expire. Which means this whole series is going to be "unhappened" somehow and I'm not sure that I'm all that interested in how that is made to work any more.
As for River - SM has managed to make me not care about her any more, when previously, I'd always looked forward to seeing her.