I'll have to support your sister: Deciding requests is awful. What if you change your mind later? Anyway, I hope I educate myself about Yuletide during the year, and most likely I'll participate next year. I really need to keep the writing up, since I'm losing my skills.
I pretty much agree about everything. From Capaldi's season, I've only watched Deep Breath, which I didn't really enjoy. The Doctor doesn't treat Clara well (why does he has to say she's ugly and a control freak ALL THE TIME), and Vastra and Jenny (and their relationship) has pretty much disappointed me over the course of their story arc. Plus sexual jokes. Plus naked jokes.
I think what I miss the most about Doctor Who are personal relationships. On the RTD you could get attached to the way two characters interacted, and you could feel their relationship (whether it was romance, friendship, father and son... ). Now we're told two characters love or care about each other in any way, and we have to believe it because apparently everything happens out of camera (and if it didn't, well, we wouldn't have enough time to see dinosaurs and explosions). And every relationship involving the Doctor has to be romantic or sexual at some level, BECAUSE EVERYONE WANTS TO MAKE SWEET LOVE TO THE DOCTOR. Ugh.
I'm sorry this became a long rant about how I feel about the newest Who.
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Date: 2015-01-05 11:58 am (UTC)I pretty much agree about everything. From Capaldi's season, I've only watched Deep Breath, which I didn't really enjoy. The Doctor doesn't treat Clara well (why does he has to say she's ugly and a control freak ALL THE TIME), and Vastra and Jenny (and their relationship) has pretty much disappointed me over the course of their story arc. Plus sexual jokes. Plus naked jokes.
I think what I miss the most about Doctor Who are personal relationships. On the RTD you could get attached to the way two characters interacted, and you could feel their relationship (whether it was romance, friendship, father and son... ). Now we're told two characters love or care about each other in any way, and we have to believe it because apparently everything happens out of camera (and if it didn't, well, we wouldn't have enough time to see dinosaurs and explosions). And every relationship involving the Doctor has to be romantic or sexual at some level, BECAUSE EVERYONE WANTS TO MAKE SWEET LOVE TO THE DOCTOR. Ugh.
I'm sorry this became a long rant about how I feel about the newest Who.