Augh, Rita. She was so awesome! :( I hate that I'm so used to awesome guest characters dying in TV shows (especially if they are women and/or PoCs) that from her first scene, I was like "I like her so she is probably going to die." :-\
The bad-sitcom "lol my wife hits me" stuff was so weird that when I was watching the episode, I actually interpreted it as a hint that there was Something Wrong (e.g. one or both of them was possessed, replaced by an alien duplicate, etc.). But no, it was just another case of "writer does not know how to write a married couple without resorting to stereotypes."
And the "Amy Williams" thing, urgh. I guess I get what they're trying to do with that, but it did not please me. Mainly because she apparently does not get to decide what she wants to be called.
As a religious person, I'm still sorting through my thoughts/feelings about the role of faith in this episode. Really don't have it pinned down at all yet.
I'm still on the "yes" side of the "am I enjoying this or not" line, and I expect I'll stay there unless the finale is like super-epic levels of fuckery or something. That said, sometimes I think about how awesome a feminist-run Doctor Who would be. (And then I think about how it will never happen, and I get sad.)
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The bad-sitcom "lol my wife hits me" stuff was so weird that when I was watching the episode, I actually interpreted it as a hint that there was Something Wrong (e.g. one or both of them was possessed, replaced by an alien duplicate, etc.). But no, it was just another case of "writer does not know how to write a married couple without resorting to stereotypes."
And the "Amy Williams" thing, urgh. I guess I get what they're trying to do with that, but it did not please me. Mainly because she apparently does not get to decide what she wants to be called.
As a religious person, I'm still sorting through my thoughts/feelings about the role of faith in this episode. Really don't have it pinned down at all yet.
I'm still on the "yes" side of the "am I enjoying this or not" line, and I expect I'll stay there unless the finale is like super-epic levels of fuckery or something. That said, sometimes I think about how awesome a feminist-run Doctor Who would be. (And then I think about how it will never happen, and I get sad.)