Anonymous asked: bud bud bud what do you think of river song

Okaaaaaaaaaaaaay

So.

Here is my complicated stance on River Song.  

On the one hand: her whole plot of going rogue against what she was designed to be and living her life backward relative to the proper timeline and fighting for what she believes in and being badass and snarky with the hair and the heels and the guns and the rest?  INTO IT.  INTO IT UP TO MY EYEBALLS ANON.  HERE.  FOR.  IT.  HONESTLY KIND OF BITTER I DIDN’T COME UP WITH THE WHOLE ‘LIVING TIME BACKWARD’ THING MYSELF.

On the other hand: A, I don’t like the way the narrative handles her, B, I don’t like the change toward companions needing to be Special, and C, I’ve never been able to get into her and the Doctor as a thing.  This got long.

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Tags: asked and answered anonymous doctor who dw i have some complaints okay and like i feel bad because SO FEW of these are actually about her as a character they're about how the narrative treats her and handles her and displays her honestly i think her plot would have been vastly improved if she'd been focused on as kind of a vigilante alternative to the doctor rather than a love interest and companion if they'd had a little bit of a tenser relationship with a little more of a rivalry over the Right Way To Do It RELATEDLY i honestly do not care to hear hate about this and will delete it out of hand i reserve the right to have opinions i don't put them in the tag i'm bitching about and i don't rant unless people ask but yeah basically my opinion on river song is FURIOUS ENRAGED BITTER EXASPERATION LIKE LOOK AT THIS POTENTIAL? LOOK AT THIS POTENTIAL THAT WAS W A S T E D ON A GODDAMN TYPICAL SEXIST LOVE INTEREST PLOT honestly river song deserved more so yeah that's what i've got and i am ride or fucking DIE for doctor/rose so like