Re Amy: yes, that was something I was quite interested in at the beginning of Amy's arc, and then it was all about Amy fancying the Doctor (having fancied him since she saw him that one time when she was a kid??), which was disappointing. (Not to mention that that arc contained one of the early appearances of Moffat's weird non-consensual kissing kink...) In the end, I just never really connected with her the way I did with RTD's companions.
(I also remember being really ticked off at the Doctor for making a mess of a seven-year-old's kitchen in the middle of the night, promising her a trip away, and then buggering off... Seriously, it's a time machine. Couldn't he have rocked up 20 years late, gone, "Oops, missed a bit," and then headed back? Or at least stuck around to clean up.)
I think the thing where people complain about realism in movies that are not going for realism is not so much an idiot saying, "Those look *nothing* like the dragons I've seen in real life" as it is just people having difficulty expressing the lack of believability. So when they say, "The way it flies is just not realistic," what they mean is that when they looked at it, they weren't convinced... Not jerks, just people not expressing themselves as clearly as you need them to?
With regard to teen novels, I would just really like to see a protagonist who learns about the existence of a hidden supernatural world and doesn't turn out to already have some sort of secret connection to it. Because a lot of the nice thing about that kind of novel is reading it with the feeling that, yes, this could happen to any normal person, and it would be really nice if it really was "any person" and not, "any person whose estranged father was secretly a sorcerer".
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(I also remember being really ticked off at the Doctor for making a mess of a seven-year-old's kitchen in the middle of the night, promising her a trip away, and then buggering off... Seriously, it's a time machine. Couldn't he have rocked up 20 years late, gone, "Oops, missed a bit," and then headed back? Or at least stuck around to clean up.)
I think the thing where people complain about realism in movies that are not going for realism is not so much an idiot saying, "Those look *nothing* like the dragons I've seen in real life" as it is just people having difficulty expressing the lack of believability. So when they say, "The way it flies is just not realistic," what they mean is that when they looked at it, they weren't convinced... Not jerks, just people not expressing themselves as clearly as you need them to?
With regard to teen novels, I would just really like to see a protagonist who learns about the existence of a hidden supernatural world and doesn't turn out to already have some sort of secret connection to it. Because a lot of the nice thing about that kind of novel is reading it with the feeling that, yes, this could happen to any normal person, and it would be really nice if it really was "any person" and not, "any person whose estranged father was secretly a sorcerer".