random thought about 6x1&2

[lyssie]

er, cut for spoilers to be safe (this is not earth-shattering or anything)

Smug.

If Canton Edward had been a woman, would fandom's reaction have been this mountain of squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee over her?

Somehow, I doubt it. Somehow, given the character traits he shares with River (being smug, knowing more than everyone--if only for a short time, fucking shooting things, jesus fucking christ), I'm pretty sure a woman would have been called 'flat, uninteresting, boring, another in a long line of Moffat's failed female characters'.

And I desperately want the Moff to fucking troll fandom and create a bunch of female characters similar to Canton. I'm sure fandom as a whole will miss the obvious, and never actually fucking get how sexist they're being as they decry the new crop of Mary Sues.

Comments

[havocthecat]

I'm so tired of this idea that Moffat can't create decent female characters, when there are A BUNCH OF AWESOME ONES out there. That, yes, he created. (I am not saying they are immune to critique. I'm just tired of people declaring that Moffat's female characters are so misogynistic, especially when said people usually don't bother to critique the female characters that RTD created.)

Apparently declaring attachment to someone in a shippy sort of way is sexist?

Also, because I forgot to answer:

If Canton Edward had been a woman, would fandom's reaction have been this mountain of squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee over her?

Please. They'd have hated her. They would have presumed she wanted to marry a black man or a Communist, and then, when they found out she wanted to marry a black woman, they'd have hated her even more. Because she'd be so super Mary Sue-ish, just because she was a confident lesbian in a historical era.

I'm presuming femslashers would've been all over her, by and large, because, duh. And now I'm desperately wanting Jaime Murray on Who. She doesn't have to play H.G. Wells again, even though that would be awesome.

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

And now I'm desperately wanting Jaime Murray on Who. She doesn't have to play H.G. Wells again, even though that would be awesome.
*flails* God, yes.

[havocthecat]

It would be, like, the best non-official crossover ever. Because she makes an amazing H.G. Wells, and that would be a PERFECT character for Doctor Who!

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Dr Who already guest-starred HG Wells, in "Timelash" (as a rather silly, superstitious youth who waved a crucifix at the Doctor).

[havocthecat]

That must have been old school Who, which I have only passing familiarity with. Surely with the timelines messing up all the time and the universe rebooting, Amy could misremember H.G. Wells as a woman?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

....That is an intriguing fic idea.

[havocthecat]

I am relieved that Amy knows nothing of Silentsce in the Library. So clearly she misremembered River as NOT DYING in there. Or something. Whatever, the universe rebooted, RIVER'S NOT DEAD.

I realize this has nothing to do with anything you said. I just needed to point out that this is what I cling to in Who.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Amy is completely confused at the idea that River is dead. Obviously. Much like the Doctor being dead confuses her. =D

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Yep, old school, Sixth Doctor adventure (& one of the ones generally considered among the show's worst, but it has its campy charms).

Time can be rewritten!

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

There was a female HG Wells on TV?

...Rebecca West slash, anyone?