SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET!

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I need to just back away from the internets tonight. Everywhere I turn, someone is Wrong and Needs to Be Told.

For one thing, I need to stay away from anon memes. It's all fun and games when it's LOLcats and "Which Doctor would you shag?", but then someone has to go and say Amy Pond has poor characterization. I mean...what? Of all the criticisms I've heard of Series 5 in general and Amy in particular, poor characterization? What? What? You keep using that word: I do not think it means what you think it means.

Also: people are allowed to enjoy whatever television programs they want, right?

*sigh* I have started, and then (wisely) backed away from so many replies tonight...

Comments

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Disliking Amy is fine! What bothers me is this:

Saying: "I don't like Amy" implies a personal judgment belonging to the speaker.

Saying: "Amy is badly characterized/ poorly written" implies an objective evaluation of the character's merit; which in turn implies that people who disagree are objectively wrong.

Which, you know, is a fine argument to make: if they can make it. But that sort of statement requires different evidence than if they'd said they didn't like her.

I would agree that a lot of Amy's speech and actions (especially at the beginning) are very 'surface' and superficial; however, I would disagree that we don't get a peek at what's inside. I can find dozens of examples where we've seen the "inner Amy". The sadness of little Amelia when she admits she doesn't have a Mum and Dad; when grown-up Amelia shouts, "Why did you say 5 minutes?"; the heart-broken look on her face when he leaves without her yet again. And those are all from the first episode. No, they're not big emotive speeches where she spells out her inner workings; but then, it's not in her character to do that.