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

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

It always surprises me when I hear that there are people in fandom who don't think that River is awesome. Because clearly she's awesome.

Ugh, fandom is stupid. I saw a thing which said that Canton being revealed as a gay was homophobic because it's a joke at the end, and another thing about how Moffat's clear sexism is totally clear and sexist because, I don't know, River and Amy were hot while River was using a gun and Amy was doing things or something. It was stupid. There was also something about how the Doctor's a murder-y jerk who gets all those poor helpless aliens killed.

Whatevs, fandom. Whatevs.

I handwave all that and instead watch the scene where River twirly-shoots bad guys again.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

...Fandom. It does not know how good it has it.

*goes off to do the same, having listened to it three times while at work today*