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[kaydeefalls]

There was a new episode of Who! It was fun! I really like Clara! The last shot of the Woman In Charge (didn't catch her name) kind of broke my heart, actually. She sounded so lost. She'd been in this thing's thrall since she was just a little girl, and now she's "restored", and, ugh, all the unexpected feelings about that.

One thing that rubbed me entirely the wrong way, though, was the plane. Which I feel weird complaining about, because I feel like I'm being overly sensitive or something, and I don't consider myself someone who has any real triggers, so, I dunno. And I think in some ways American cultural sensitivity about 9/11 does go too far (see: the "justification" of two completely unjustifiable wars, etc). But as a New Yorker who lived here on that date and was pulled out of my high school class to watch the live footage on TV and wondering if anyone I or my friends knew was down there and not knowing what was going to happen next, the image of a passenger jet hurtling down with a purpose is just...a very, very visceral thing for me. And, again, I feel like I have LESS sensitivity about that than a lot of other people I know. But that was...not good to watch. It felt like a very cheap shot. IDK, it's not that I'm angry about it. It just made me feel incredibly uncomfortable in a way that jarred horribly with the sort of lighter madcap feel of the scene itself -- like, I'm supposed to find the Doctor's not knowing how to fly a plane amusing, I think? Or Clara's fumbling with her mug? But, ugh, really no. That's like a nightmare come to life, and not in the fun creepy-scary way. I know 9/11 was more than a decade ago, but, um, still maybe too soon for me.

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[rabid_bookwyrm]

I was in America, and in highschool, but I lived in California and the attacks on September 11th have never sat as close to my bones as I know they do for others who were closer. So I actually didn't think about that at all during that scene - I was mostly ticked because it takes years to learn to pilot a commercial jet and you don't just yank on the yoke and hope it goes right! It was sort of all rolled into Eleven is being all hopeful and manic and Clara is being all wide eyes and perky which is fine enough but it still feels like they're trying a little too hard, which was my main reaction to the episode.

So anyway - there's a different take on the whole thing. I liked it more than the Christmas episode (ugh) but much less than a lot of other episodes from other seasons.