#i deliberately avoided watching the ending of that ep bc i wanted to be surprised but ya there is no doubt in my mind theyre doing that lol
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thinking about ep 35 again because i rewatched it for natsumi's birthday and i find it interesting that kururu goes out of his way to defy keroro's orders to try to find out what gift natsumi would like. that's so awfully nice actually, in a fun chaos inducing way which is exactly his style
#i love that in the end they all gave her gifts that r basically stuff they themselves like. but they tried. there was an attempt#ep 35#kururu#LIKE AT LEAST HE ASKED. kinda crazy#also when rewatching that episode i kinda spoiled myself for 87 bc now im certain whats happening there is theyre pulling kero's plan on him#i deliberately avoided watching the ending of that ep bc i wanted to be surprised but ya there is no doubt in my mind theyre doing that lol#which in its own way is flattering for him bc like hey good plan. ykno#and still good angst for me. i win. get ignored on ur birthday bitch (deeply affectionate)#it's a surprise i think... i BELIEVE...? well theres an inkling of wondering so i guess im not spoiled just YET. and don't you dare spoil me#i will watch it and find out for myself when i wanna do it. probably tomorrow for his birthday anyway#i did watch his freakout moment WITHOUT SOUND as a way to like. sneak peek đ it was so good (sad) amazing#maybe one of the best examples that he shows his sadness thru anger anyway. thats what his meltdowns are... + other stuff#oh boy here i go talking abt keroro again... THIS POST WAS ABT KURURU! sorry for brainrotting
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" #13 is already scary club!!!!! #she's just more emotionally mature than men 1 through 12" THIS, I am fully into this and agree!
Yeah, I mean, the first run through of season 11 I ended up focusing more on her chipper side, so I deliberately watched out for anger and personality faults on my second go through, and really, itâs all there in Whittakerâs performance. Especially in Resolution, which isnât surprising considering what the bad guy was, it was also, strictly speaking, the first proper barometer weâve had to measure thirteenâs reaction to something weâve seen the other doctors react to.
I just have a lot of very jumbled thoughts about the actual narrative, where i think theyâre going with this, and kind of⌠Weariness?? At the logic behind wanting a âsnapâ from 13 just to prove sheâs angry?? I ended up using this as an excuse to vent stuff iâve been trying to say but am bad at putting into words, oops.
I mean, 13 was Clearly not in a good mood over that Dalek. Compare her reaction to seeing Tim Shaw again to seeing the Dalek again and thatâs brutally obvious. She blatantly mocked Tooth face, and regarded him so little that she just marched off away from him and pretty much forgot entirely about him while trying to put those planets back where they came from, even After she realises that Tim Shaw pretty much slaughtered the inhabitance of a handful of entire planets she still totally disregards him.
Which, frankly, is kind of terrifying in itself considering what he did to (potentially) many billions of people, and says a lot about the doctorâs view on casualty counts, but not currently my point. In the end, she doesnât even end up doing a single thing about him, and just leaves him in the stasis pod that itâs Very unlikely anybody will come across ever again considering the planet messes with the brains of whoever walks on it, even time lords!
Aaaaaand compare and contrast to Resolution, 13â˛s entire frame of mind in the whole episode was in crisis mode, she did not let it get one over on her, but she was Clearly incredibly more worked up in this episode, which, contrasting with the previous ep, is kind of jarring.
Sheâs erratic, frantic, at times perversely entertained, accidentally changed the entire tardis colour scheme to red in a fit of temper, takes out time more than once to taunt the dalek (and uhm.. she does this and it gets away and the next scene is of it slaughtering a bunch of soldiers), oh⌠And that thing where Ryanâs dad was like, about to get spaced and die horribly with the dalek and she just froze and did absolutely nothing about it. I mean, in the same episode she controls the tardis with a clap of her hands⌠which i will assume was just her doing it telepathically and being weird about it, which means she really doesnât get to use âwell i was holding on myselfâ excuse to get out of That one, and this is among other things which iâm sure iâve forgotten.
More importantly, i can trace the above things back to moments in previous episodes, like, perverse glee??? Demons of the Punjab. Anger??? King James just had that effect on her even when he Wasnât actively being a sexist asshole, she didnât like him hitting too close to home. Threatening? Kerblamâs âif i ever find out youâre lyingâ. Taunting? she legit taunts Krasko into straight up throttling her. Sacrifice one for the good of the many? Kerblam, you could easily view Charlie as her first proper kill. It all has roots, didnât come from nowhere.
Iâve spoken before about how sheâs deliberately tempering her anger, and how it all roots back to âlaugh hard, run fast, be kindâ, but i feel like thatâs kinda made it seem to people that sheâs not scary just because sheâs not being openly ostentatious about it?? When in actuality sheâs just performing intense amounts of emotional labour in a genuine effort to improve herself, and itâs not gender based because canonically this utter disaster had no clue how lousy theyâd been to their female companions or anybody else until some very blunt life lessons⌠in an episode in the back half of the season, so canonically we legit Canât write her previous behaviour off on any kind of female socialization. Â
And while I feel like we are heading to 13 crashing and burning, you know, figuratively (but sheâs still the doctor so i wonât rule out a 50% chance of literal crashing and burning), bottling isnât a super idea either and sheâs probably going to combust, iâm justminorly uncomfortable with the insinuation that the base line of all anger is the explosive outbursts the doctor is prone to. Iâm not against her snapping and having a classic doctor outburst, pretty sure thatâs where theyâre heading because sheâs slowly but surely gradually losing ground with the image sheâs trying to project and the only time weâve already seen her called on it (king james) she⌠Did not react positively.
I just have issues with the insinuation that to be the doctor she has to act out their worst qualities when we can see them in her clearly without her doing so just to Prove sheâs the doctor. Sheâs already angry and arrogant, itâs there in the show, itâs just⌠Angry outbursts arenât good? And having the storyline framed around her snapping actively being scary and bad for both her and others is more where my head is at, I think i feel like this is where itâs going, for it to be a breaking down moment rather than framed as something liberating, i just donât feel comfortable with the grandeur surrounding it potentially happening in a liberating fashion.
I mean, from a gendered perspective, women having to temper reasonable anger is bad and oppressive and i understand the bad optics of it and wanting it it happen for the very reason of avoiding that, but also? Men Not having to bother to temper violent angry outbursts is also an awful thing on the list of shitty things about patriarchy, but that doesnât just mean everybody should be able to have angry violent outbursts, it means nobody should, itâs not about stooping, it means work on self improvement if you do do this and stop, not âhey everybody gets a free pass to be an explosive scary jerkâ.
The discussion around this all often makes me uncomfortable in the ways we treat violence and anger. Iâm not a fan of loud/cold/threatening outburst kinda people, real or fictional, which is probably why my favourite Who characters are almost never the doctor. But I Do recognise theyâre finally making an effort these days, and I do recognise and appreciate it in 13 and it makes me like her a lot more than a number of the other doctors. Theyâve reached a stage where theyâre actually working on it, methods aside, i respect that I can see all of the doctorâs questionable qualities within her but i can also see some kind of attempt to actively work on them. Â That is laudable.
I mean, ok, maybe Not the best story to go with after 12+ men and suddenly one woman, but it Did start with 12 and Capaldi whose presence bought age and wisdom to it, Whittaker is just following the thread, really. It also Probably wasnât purposeful that it ended up like this??? Considering new management and writers etc etc, but i also very much feel like s11 was a groundwork season and even in that i can see the fascade slipping away episode by episode, in resolution she even tells them one of her deepest shames, at the time with little context, but if any of them think back on it, theyâll Understand.
(disclaimer: I donât have anything against anybody who wants a snap (if written well, i would also enjoy it, i like angst), i just have an issue with our cultural relation to violence in certain circumstances and this narrative kind of creeps towards the idea that if youâve had outbursts before that you canât stop yourself the next time and I donât like that as a message, i donât dislike any of the doctors, i just like the companions Significantly more 90% of the time, and yes i would very much like to be able to show anger as a woman without being demeaned for it, but there is a difference between being looked down upon for being justifiably angry, and thinking itâs ok to let your anger take control of you and scare others. Also: Not all emotional labour is bad, i have to write this bc iâm publishing on tumblr so yeah. )
#danni watches doctor who#this Got Away From Me#and u didn't even ask a question im sorry lol#also#all i can think of abotu her trying to return those planets in the finale#is the monsters inc 'put that thing back where it came from or so help me'#and her doing the little dance#oops?#aaaand i added a disclaimer bc the last time i wrote an opinion on this show i got rudeness#and the time before that actually#but honestly i think it's gonna start caving round her ears soon#me: i can't wait!!!#also me: don't hurt me Or them Chibnall they're perfect angels who don't deserve it#i hate publishing opinions on this site but also i'm sick of the frame of mind#that means i don't so i'm#publishing#doctor who#also i feel like this would have more meaning if i'd Watched the end of 12's run instead of just read about it all#i don't have binge watch kind of time#tho
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