Doctor Who, Series 6, Episode 10: The Oedipal Who Waited

Much ink has already been spent on last Saturday's Nu Who episode, 'The Girl Who Waited'. Not wishing to add much which has already been said, here instead is another reading of the episode:

Rory has an Oedipal relationship with the Doctor who he sees as the father figure getting in the way of his 'mother', Amy. (How else to explain his obsessive love with her?) This reaches crisis point when he meets the older Amy who really is now old enough to be his mother. The Doctor forces Rory to choose between the young Amy (who's the right age for Rory and so represents a social norm that the Doctor, as father figure, is trying to enforce) and the old Amy, who is a physical manifestation of Rory's libido.

This explains Rory's anger - 'you're trying to turn me into you!', he says, and what is meant is that the Doctor is, by hook or by crook, trying to make Rory an adult who identifies with his 'parent' and so social norms. That he is forced perform the Doctor's adult responsibilities - to fill his shoes and see things through the Doctor's glasses - is revealing too.

A bright sunny day

For some reason, I doubt I'll be doing much surfing today.

Being Human Series 3, Episode 8 - the review

Ten word summary:

Disappointing, two-dimensional, rushed, badly executed, contrived, shlocky, schmaltzy, overrated, shit.

The trouble with trolls...

...Is that they're going to destroy themselves and the internet. Attracting the ire of the Daily Mail is never a good idea:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360788/Tormented-trolling-The-vile-web-craze-taunted-family-bullied-Natasha-suicide.html

As the mainstream becomes ever more aware of trolling, the more intense the backlash. Moral entrepreneurs will be whooping for joy.

In time we may find how we communicate on the web is circumscribed and controlled because some stooped, warped creatures with mother issues can't resist abusing people.

One way of doing this would be to make site owners liable for whatever happens on their sites. If civil and criminal penalties are imposed, then the glorious days of mocking tragedies and harassing bereaved families may soon be a thing of the past. Oh noes...

The Web is a magnificent thing, but it attract turds.