Re: RTD not pandering to the fans, I agree. And perhaps because of the reactive response to a scattered fanbase, we're getting something rather incoherent. I don't know what sort of message (even a "dark" one) they're really trying to send by contrasting the smiting in FOB with the "forgiveness" in LOTL. Whatever it is, I don't feel like the writing is strong enough, nor is Tennant's performance, to make it work as a whole concept. And passing it off as "alien" just seems lazy.
"42" was kind of depressing for me. It just seemed so shoddily constructed and poorly acted for the most part. In some ways, it probably wasn't the "worst", but it's definitely my least favourite.
I also agree on the anti-Romanticism (and free will, for that matter!) of imprinting tropes. Not only that, but the idea that I often see connected with fans who love/push that idea of "he's cute/sexy now, he's what she always wanted," which I find distasteful and demeaning to Rose; it also, of course, is derogatory to Nine and their relationship. But worst of all, again, it seems like another retroactive undermining of Nine's progress. IMO, it is incontrovertible that Rose loved Nine; but if he was still so insecure that he felt he needed to turn into a stereotypically/fashionably "cute" guy to get her attention, then that makes me quite sad indeed. It means that inside the Doctor's fragmented psyche, Nine is still in pain and Ten thinks he's foxy and an improvement/more worthy, and that hurts.
Ten's silliness and jokiness didn't have the serious undercurrents that we see in Nine.
Yeah. Sigh. I know that it's written that Ten has that combination of dark and light that we got with Nine, but I really don't get it from watching. I see people saying, "See! In that scene right there, the Doctor is so dark and powerful." But I don't see it in Ten. That "I used to have so much mercy" seen is a good example of "falling flat" for me, and to a certain extent the extermination of the Rachnoss scene, although that was improved a bit by the cinematography. But it wasn't coming from the acting. Nine was truly the Oncoming Storm.
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Re: regeneration
Date: 2007-08-21 06:09 pm (UTC)"42" was kind of depressing for me. It just seemed so shoddily constructed and poorly acted for the most part. In some ways, it probably wasn't the "worst", but it's definitely my least favourite.
I also agree on the anti-Romanticism (and free will, for that matter!) of imprinting tropes. Not only that, but the idea that I often see connected with fans who love/push that idea of "he's cute/sexy now, he's what she always wanted," which I find distasteful and demeaning to Rose; it also, of course, is derogatory to Nine and their relationship. But worst of all, again, it seems like another retroactive undermining of Nine's progress. IMO, it is incontrovertible that Rose loved Nine; but if he was still so insecure that he felt he needed to turn into a stereotypically/fashionably "cute" guy to get her attention, then that makes me quite sad indeed. It means that inside the Doctor's fragmented psyche, Nine is still in pain and Ten thinks he's foxy and an improvement/more worthy, and that hurts.
Ten's silliness and jokiness didn't have the serious undercurrents that we see in Nine.
Yeah. Sigh. I know that it's written that Ten has that combination of dark and light that we got with Nine, but I really don't get it from watching. I see people saying, "See! In that scene right there, the Doctor is so dark and powerful." But I don't see it in Ten. That "I used to have so much mercy" seen is a good example of "falling flat" for me, and to a certain extent the extermination of the Rachnoss scene, although that was improved a bit by the cinematography. But it wasn't coming from the acting. Nine was truly the Oncoming Storm.