Here via recs from both laura_shapiro and such_heights.
This is a lovely post. I particularly love Liz Ten (oh, how I wish we would see her again!) and River Song and Nasreen Chaudry, for all of the reasons you list.
Rosanna I admit was an interesting and very well-played character. I would have been more enthusiastic if Isabella hadn't been fridged as a point in her plot arc, and if her character hadn't included whole woman-comes-up-with-a-plot-that-involves-raping-other-women plot, which is too familiar and too infuriating for me to swallow. And Dr. Ramsden struck me as existing to show how henpecked Rory is--a he-even-gets-bossed-around-by-a-brown-woman kind of thing.
Nevertheless there is a lot to celebrate this season, and this post does a marvelous job of speaking to that succinctly. Thanks so much!
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This is a lovely post. I particularly love Liz Ten (oh, how I wish we would see her again!) and River Song and Nasreen Chaudry, for all of the reasons you list.
Rosanna I admit was an interesting and very well-played character. I would have been more enthusiastic if Isabella hadn't been fridged as a point in her plot arc, and if her character hadn't included whole woman-comes-up-with-a-plot-that-involves-raping-other-women plot, which is too familiar and too infuriating for me to swallow. And Dr. Ramsden struck me as existing to show how henpecked Rory is--a he-even-gets-bossed-around-by-a-brown-woman kind of thing.
Nevertheless there is a lot to celebrate this season, and this post does a marvelous job of speaking to that succinctly. Thanks so much!