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My friend took his damn alligator to petco

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Searching for a Dramatic Moment

There is a consistent problem I’ve been having with Season 7 of Doctor Who: in a constant effort to create the dramatic Hollywood-movie feel Moffat promised Season 7 would have, the writers have failed to create the actual drama of the plot which truly make those moments dramatic. The writing has been rather shoddy, leaving me feeling as if the episodes are ultimately hollow.

Or, to put it in Tumblr form, every time I watch an episode, a day later I’m just like:

There are many, many examples I could give of this, put lets look at the “iconic” moment of this season and how it compares to other comparable episodes to really see where the drama is lacking.

Midway through “Asylum of the Daleks,” the Doctor tricks a Dalek into exploding itself, and in the ensuing explosion, Amy is knocked unconscious, leaving the Doctor to carry her prone body out into a field of destroyed daleks. This image became the “defining” image of Season 7, frequently used on BBC’s promotional materials both before and during the season’s airing and featuring prominently in the Season 7 trailer.

Yet there was nothing truly iconic about the moment. In “Asylum,” that scene was barely important, a minor throw-away scene we could’ve done without. It didn’t progress the plot, nor did it serve as a necessary focal point of the plot. In fact, the whole scene felt rather contrived, as if it were another of Amy’s photo shoots to capture an image of the Doctor carrying his helpless companion.

Now, most critiques have focused on how the image makes Amy seem helpless and is anti-feminist. However, I was mostly dissapointed at how…well…boring the moment felt. Because if done well, the Doctor carrying a helpless companion can be one of the  greatest and most dramatic moments of the episode.

Consider Season 2, for example. At the end of “New Earth,” the Doctor catches Rose twice to prevent her from collapsing when she is un-possessed by Cassandra. In this instance, Rose’s collapse was the climax of the underlying subplot: Rose and the newly regenerated Doctor were still unsure about each other, where they stood, and what their new relationship would be like. After both a literal and figurative out-of-body experience, they both finally feel fully comfortable in themselves and in their relationship with each other. The are, quite literally, comfortable in their own bodies.

Or consider the beginning of Season 3, where the Doctor carries Martha’s unconscious body through the hospital at the end of “Smith and Jones.” In this case, there is an element of dualism and reciprocation. The Doctor is willing to sacrifice himself to save the hospital, and Martha finds him prone and unconscious after he is nearly killed by the Plasmavore. Due to her efforts, he survives, but Martha exhausts herself resuscitating him and passes out due to lack of exhaustion. Now the Doctor reciprocates the favor by caring for her while he ensures that the Judoon return them to Earth.

Finally, we have the finale of Season 4, where after having her memories wiped by the Doctor, Donna collapses into his arms, and he holds her up in what is probably the most devastating hug in Doctor Who’s history. As Dalek Caan predicted, by erasing her memories the Doctor has effectively killed Donna Noble; or at least, he has killed the Donna that he knew. She has reverted back into the person she was before she met the Doctor, a shallow, self-absorbed woman with a narrow perspective on life. When Donna collapses, she’s not merely prone and unconscious to the Doctor, she is effectively dead to him. So the Doctor is not carrying her to protect her or save her, he is carrying the burden of what he has done. He is carrying the body of one of his best friends.

It is devastating, it is emotional, and it is dramatic.

Show me the Doctor carrying Amy, and I’ll shrug. Show me the Doctor carrying Donna, and I’ll dissolve into a puddle of feels and tears. It’s as if the writers are demanding that we feel something without adding in the necessary detail to make us actually feel it. A moment doesn’t become dramatic because you have a bunch of explosions and then show a beloved character carrying another beloved character, a moment becomes dramatic when the plot weaves emotion, purpose, and action together. Character’s actions must have emotional depth ad subtext to them, otherwise we are left with a flat moment that leaves us feeling hollow and ultimately disappointed. 

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I didn’t mean to ship it, it just happened. 

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moby dick why not moby vagina you sexist sack of shit

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me about after spending hours on tumblr, giving the goodnight: I'll see ya tomorrow, unless I pass out for the exhaustion, hit my head and die.

me: or unless you wake up from the coma and come back to your normal life.

me: night

friend: now, I was about to say that

friend: ...

friend: THAT HORRIBLE POST THAT IS MAKING ME DOUBT!

me: I KNOW! FUCK YOU!

friend: I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANYMORE, WHAT'S MY LIFE?

friend: but maybe if you saw it too we're not in a coma

friend: or we are in the same coma together.

friend: ... okay going to sleep, it's better. Hope I won't wake up from the coma.

me cheerfully: night!

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when i see really attractive people i just laugh because i know if we lived in the aztec culture they’d be sacrificed to the gods for their beauty 

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SHIT IM LATE FOR SEWING CLASS

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lettinggoofadream ha iniziato a seguirti

enigma-eggroll ha iniziato a seguirti

argylepumpkin ha iniziato a seguirti

WHAT? I leave two days and I get three followers? Is leaving the key?

and enigma-eggroll you were in my tumblr crushes too

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I had to share, because rplaying Logan is killing me.

I think he’s finally met his match, ladies and gentlemen!

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Discussing Winter Soldier

Me: When Captain America 2 comes out I think my legs are going to break from Sebastian Stan and everything i think i'm gonna cry why don't

Friend:

Me:

Friend:

Me:

Friend: do you even listen to a fucking thing you say holy shit

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I'm going to download your videos just to make some Rogan gifs by myself lol (beautiful videos by the way)

thank you!

New Rogan RP

Questionrogue and Questionwolverine are just getting started and I’ve been told they’re going to eventually be Rogan, which as far as I know, is the only RP doing that on tumblr (correct me if I’m wrong). Check it out and give them some support!

questionrogue.tumblr.com

questionwolverine.tumblr.com

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reblog if you are a true 1300’s kid 

hha peasant for life scribe it

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Agent Coulson and his love for Captain America