various who related things

[usuallyhats]

- Bristolians! Cabot Circus are doing some outdoor screenings this summer, including episodes of Doctor Who on the 12th and 19th of June. Anyone up for this?

- I finished The Armageddon Factor last night! (I really like that story, despite its flaws. Merak's utter bafflement throughout makes me laugh. Plus, two Romanas! Sort of. Also K-9 getting to do lots of plot stuff on his own is fun.) Which means that up next is SEASON SEVENTEEN. silly_cleo keeps telling me that I will love it, and I trust her judgement, since I suspect that if I were to draw a Venn diagram with "stuff silly_cleo likes" in one circle and "stuff usuallyhats likes" in the other, there would be significant overlap.

- Also last night I listened to the first part of "The Wreck of the Titan". SIX. JAMIE. I had a big silly grin on my face throughout the first scene. ♥ Also, I did not recognise Miranda Raison's voice at all, even knowing it was her.

- There has been a lot of discussion of Amy Pond recently! Here are a couple of recs: lizbee's post here and misscam on disliking female characters, displays of compassion, standards and feminism.

One thing I have seen cropping up every now and then is the idea that it's unrealistic for Amy to be weird because we haven't seen anything in her past that would lead her to behave that way. I have two problems with this idea!

1) In The Eleventh Hour, we find out that she's an orphan and that her aunt is perfectly happy to leave her alone in the middle of the night. Then the Doctor turns up, takes her fears seriously, fixes the crack in her wall, tells her he'll be back in five minutes... and disappears. And no-one believes that he was ever there. That sounds like a perfectly good set of reasons to me!

2) And even if none of that were true, why does there have to be a reason? Can't that just be how she is? I mean, I identify her quite a lot: she, like me, is very self-contained (I feel like she sees the world as divided into people she knows, with whom she's comfortable, and people she doesn't know, who she doesn't quite know how to interact with properly). We're not identical, of course - she's much more outgoing than I am, for a start (understatement of the century, there), but my point is: I don't have a particular reason for being this way! I had a very happy childhood and have continued mostly happy ever since. I'm not broken. I'm not damaged. I'm just weird.

(And now I am resisting the urge to sing the Raggy Dolls theme tune.)

Comments

[usuallyhats]

I've got one other person who wants to come, but we haven't really made any plans beyond "meet up at some point, ideally before it starts", so if you're still interested in coming, let me know and we can organise timing and so on!

[rainshaded]

I'm still interested! I have nothing to do, so any time is good for me.

[usuallyhats]

Yay! I was thinking I'd probably head down to the centre at about 5.30/6ish, so maybe you could come over around then and then text me when you get into town so we can meet up? Do you know your way from the station to the centre of town?

[rainshaded]

Sounds good. There's a train at five and, catching that, I'd be getting into town around quarter to. By centre, do you mean in the general vicinity of the fountain? (There is a fountain, right? In a square? I hope my memory's not playing tricks on me.) If you do, then yes, I do.

[usuallyhats]

Shiny - I'll come and meet you there at about 5.45, then!

[rainshaded]

:) See you there then. Looking forward to it!