Doctor Who: reaction but no plot spoilers

[neadods]

I'm holding off until next week for a full comment, but so far, it seems paint-by-numbers. Meh.

In the rest of the news, Rapture not happened. However, furniture starting to go into the newly refinished sections of the house is happening.

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I liked the fact that Rory did what he thought was right, instead of letting Amy and the Doctor push him around. Nice to see him standing up for himself finally.

Laughed this morning when the 6am news presenter on the radio announced the rapture hadn't happened. Darn, I was so busy, I didn't notice! *rolls eyes*

[neadods.livejournal.com]

In one of the novels, Rory showed a lot of attributes that have finally started showing up on the screen - the caring, the willingness to help that led him to become a nurse in the first place. And Amy supported him in it (at least at first) which made me think a lot better of her.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I still haven't read any of the novels. :(

I find Amy hard to really like - I just can't seem to engage with her.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I very much would prefer to see the Amy and Rory of the book than of the screen - for her, onscreen a lot of what I think we're supposed to see as feisty and determined comes across as selfish, whereas his devotion is making him a bit of a puppet as opposed to the guy we saw starting to crack the mystery by himself in Eleventh Hour.

In the book there was a huge passage about how Rory had tried to be a doctor for Amy, but discovered that he really liked nursing, that it let him have more time with his patients and be the nurturing carer that he wants to be. And he follows Amy not because he has nothing better to do or even because he's so besotted that he's blind to her bad traits, but because 1) he loves her in part because she needs someone to care for her and 2) at the end of a day full of life and death decisions, in many ways she's *his* version of the madman in the box - someone who sweeps him off on adventure and lets him leave his burdens far behind.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Which of the books is that in? One of the earliest ones, I guess?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I wish I could remember now; all my Who books are barricaded by boxes of stuff from the library. It was one of the latest set - King's Dragon? Glamour something or other? I wibbled about it at the time, but that was almost a year ago.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the Glamour Chase - I remember you raving about it. I'll see if the library has a copy I can borrow.

[tiggerallyn.livejournal.com]

It's in Gary Russell's The Glamour Chase.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I could NOT remember that for the life of me! And it's buried behind a wall of stuff, so I couldn't pull it out.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks!