#amy8benson

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Hi!

I don't know if you've seen it yet, but they seem to have released a full performance recording:

El Silmarillion (El Musical) | Actuación completa (Palacio de Congresos de Granada)

https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=mMET8mbPKsc

INDEED THERE IT IS

EL SILMARILLION EL MUSICAL is now available to watch ✨️

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Pass the happy!🌻🌿 When you receive this, list 5 things that make you happy and send this to 10 of the last people in your notifications! 💝💝

1. the moment when I can feel a specific bad feeling or mood start to shift and lighten

2. Trees! Green leaves! The sun through green leaves! Even a tree in a non-nature place, like at the bank or at school is magic to me every time I really look at it.

3. Unexpected sweet calls or messages or texts or even social media comments. It always lifts my heart so much.

4. Ice cream.

5. The smell after the rain.

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Since you've mentioned Jacqueline Rayner, do you know by any chance if she's still writing for Doctor Who in any medium? Doctor Who and the Pirates is, in my opinion, one of the best DW stories ever, and her Suspicious Minds in The Legends of River Song was (almost) everything I'd ever wanted from a River Song story. I wish she had another go at River and Eleven...

I believe so? The last thing I recall hearing she wrote was stuff for 2016′s Twelve Doctors of Christmas, so that’s fairly recent. She also did two comic stories with Clara for Doctor Who Magazine in 2016, including Blood and Ice, which is notable for being a story about Clara meeting one of her echoes.

Looks like the last time she did an audio was 2014, though. That’s a shame.

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amy8benson replied to your post “Unpopular opinion: I enjoy the american Elementary show more than...”

Yeah, on Elementary tag every third post or so is how it's better than Sherlock, so it's not really unpopular these days. Imho, it's run out of steam after 2 or 3 seasons. I still like it, and it's cute, but not much happens there, and cases get boring and monotonous after a while, while character drama is mostly in the background. And Irene/Moriarty is still their best arc by far. The rest just didn't click for me.

So after 4 series of Sherlock and 5 series of Elementary, I prefer Sherlock, with its magnificent fuckups. But may be procedurals just aren't my thing.

I agree, I think. The show really hit it stride early on. The casting was amazing and Lucy Liu as Joan Watson was a great move. The attention to the character drama was way, way above average for procedurals. Combining Irene Adler and Moriarty and casting Natalie Dormer in the role was a genius move. Mrs Hudson being a trans woman? A+. Cases didn’t tend to be mindblowing, but solid.

I think the show started losing me in the series 3 finale. I still watched almost all of series 4 but it never gripped me as much. A couple of months ago I tried to get back into it by just watching what was airing at the time, but there was nothing there which caught my interest, it felt like a show that had lost a lot of its charme... I’ll probably see that I’ll catch up once it’s all on Netflix and I don’t feel like judging something I haven’t really seen, but from the opinions I’ve seen around “Elementary used to be much better” is a fairly common opinion.

I’d totally recommend the first three or so seasons, though!

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Have you come across any Doom Coalition fanfiction? Cause I need more of this TARDIS team, like, yesterday. Or River crossing paths with any of them.

I haven’t, no. I don’t think any fanfic of Helen even exists, sadly. Something that needs to be fixed for sure.

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amy8benson replied to your post: Was reading a list of good things about...

Imagine if Miss Quill appeared in an episode written by Moffat! She’d go right into that clueless post about “Moffat’s women-in-black-etc”. At least in Class she is safe, for now :D

Too late, I’ve already seen a reviewer make that claim.

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I've read a lot of people complaining that there are no "ordinary people" or "normal people" as companions in the Moffat era, but I think that most (if not all) are, I mean they are all normal with something that makes them special, but they all started being very normal (clara, rory and amy). I think that when people say they want to see someone "normal" they refer to their definition of normal, there are as many ideas of what a normal person is as as there are people in the world

Yes, it's really subjective. I mean, I don't think I necessarily can empathise a lot here, because a lot of times what people seem to mean with regards to the RTD era is "normal like me". You see that in a lot of the relatability discussions as well, "ordinary, so I can relate to them". Which is a mindset I can't seem to put myself into.

Clara, Amy and Rory, at their core, aren't less "real" than any RTD companion. They all did extraordinary things happen to them (Rory being brought back to life as a Auton) or achieved extraordinary feats (Clara choosing to scatter herself through time), but this is almost a requirment for someone travelling with the Doctor. In Amy's case, this might have happened during childhood, but that little girl that this happened to was a normal child. And while she's consistently portrayed as someone different from her surroundings, that's hardly something which doesn't happen in everyday life.

But really, what's the problem here? Why is this fandom so hesitant to accept anyone who doesn't fit into their own narrow conception of what it means to be normal? The longer I spent on this website, the more I think this approach is something which deserves to be challenged, rather than appeased. Maybe it's truly time to bring on companions from the past or the future, from alien planets, companions who aren't human.

Because it's starting to become mildly disturbing that people seem to think it's only possible to care when it's someone like you on the screen. That isn't even true in a Doctor Who context - we all seem to be perfectly fine with the Doctor. But as soon as it's a female companion on screen, the idea that she might not be someone's particular brand of 'ordinary' appears to be offensive. (And isn't it just interesting that Jack seems to be accepted where River isn't...) Make of that what you will.

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amy8benson replied to your post “Oh god, what did I do, I’m not sure this is a good idea…”

It's an extremely reasonable post, with all the right points raised :)

onaperduamedee replied to your post “There’s a constant, continued commitment to paint “Moffat stans” - or...”

*slow claps* Thank you!

joscribbles replied to your post “There’s a constant, continued commitment to paint “Moffat stans” - or...”

you're a star, just so you know <3

millyblank replied to your post “Oh god, what did I do, I’m not sure this is a good idea…”

Thank you for that post about anti Moffat people...His DW has saved my life several times.

oagwriter replied to your post “Oh god, what did I do, I’m not sure this is a good idea…”

Awww don't worry, I loved everything you read