*Shows up late to New Year with a poorly mixed smoothie and a secondhand copy of Nabokov's Lolita*

[kafkaesquely]

Yeah, I know it's a bit late for a New Year post, but hey, whatever. I could say I've been busy, but actually I haven't done what i was supposed to do (i.e. studying) so I'll admit that I've been:

• Knitting (expect progress posts of my infinity scarf)
• Reading (expect reviews)
• Watching doctor who (expect recaps. Spoiler: I don't like the Moffat era, so beware). 
• Watching Adventure Time (I want to catch up with this one)

So that's pretty mucho has been my Christmas break (which won't end until January 9th, but it's close enough to be afraid of finals). And as it's customary: I'M NOT DEAD. 

Comments

[alasse_irena]

Don't worry - you didn't make a jerk of yourself, and there are definitely people out there crying for realism in silly places (see: those people who say "But it's *realistic*" about the lack of female characters in a book which literally has dragons). But I do think there is a place to say things like, "Her friendship with the centaur just didn't seem realistic to me". You know, there aren't any real world examples to compare it to, but we have the imagination to figure out what it *should* be like.

I'll be honest, most of what I read is still teen novels, and that's why I have so much to say critiquing them: I have seen so many things I've loved, or wanted to see again, and I have a tonne of favourite books, but there are also things that, the more I read, the more I *want* to see, that just aren't appearing, and one of them is the "ordinary teenage girl" being, literally, an ordinary teenage girl, whose interesting traits and plot points come from her own choices and actions rather than things she's born with?

I found the way Amy dealt with pregnancy and motherhood and losing her child very unsatisfying, for probably the same reasons. It was like, on the one hand, the writers wanted to make her a mother, and on the other hand, they didn't want to deal with the consequences, so the baby was stolen, and then Any's desire to find her never really followed up. To me, finding Mels and growing up alongside her didn't really satisfy the desire to raise her child I felt like Amy was written with, and so it felt like the show let something that was important to Amy drop without following it up...