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SO PURE!
“Did you seriously think that that was going to work on me?”
#so a thesis#clara is the sort of person whose emotions are kept so far beneath the surface#especially the intense ones#that when they come bursting out they’re usually raw and bitter and ugly#and that’s to her credit#because she’s still an incredibly compassionate and kind woman#but she also is fully capable of being cruel and destructive#and the doctor is ALL OF THESE THINGS#he’s all these things and we love him for it#clara is all these things and people hate her for it#but the doctor understands that in this moment she has to be brutal and bitter and seething#and she has to do a terrible thing (or so she thinks) because#that’s the only way she’ll reach that last shred#that tiny final scrap of breaking apart#so she can build up again#‘i’d say i’m sorry but i’d do it again’ is that breaking point#and that’s when the doctor slowly pulls her back to her feet#and we need to remember#that she’s doing all this for LOVE#she’s doing this out of love/grief for danny#and she’s doing this to the doctor because of love and grief for him#and his ability to do the impossible#he’s her impossible hero#if anyone could bring back the dead#and give her a chance to say she’s sorry#it’d be him#but he can’t and she knows it#so she grieves and breaks all over again
OMG @romanticzomedy , your tags, but also:
when I initially saw this scene, I didn’t like it. I felt like the whole “I’m in control!” “NO, I am!” argument was…not great, because it almost seemed to paint Clara as this tantruming child while the Doctor had everything all cool and under control, and I wasn’t fan…but looking deeper at it in retrospect, I actually love it?
Because what actually happened here was that the Doctor caught onto the fact that Clara was about to have a full-on destructive breakdown. The scene wasn’t about how much more mature and sensible the Doctor was being. It was about Clara needing to have that breakdown and the Doctor catching her and giving her a safe space to have it in. Clara needed to lose control, and the Doctor gave her a safe non-destructive bubble where nothing could really go wrong, where he took the real wheel for her, so to speak. And that’s…actually really lovely.
YES YES YES, I mean, this scene is ugly and brutal, but in the larger perspective of their relationship it’s actually quite surprising in how tender it is underneath it all. Not on the surface, not at all, but at the heart of it, it’s Clara needing to break down after an entire series of denial and lies and repression, and it’s the Doctor knowing she needs this and letting it happen. And it has to happen, because to deny her that would be even more cruel. It’s like lancing a wound to drain the pus: something ugly has to come out so the healing can begin. And yeah that’s pretty gross, but so’s grief and sometimes, so’s love.
It also provides context for his response to Missy later on when she’s begging for his friendship after trying to trash the planet. Clara [justifiably] points out that letting her continue is insane, but from his perspective, all he sees is a grief-stricken friend.
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I wonder what Clara would have been like as Ten’s companion
Actually, the more I think about this, the more I wonder. Because Eleven as Clara knew him was very gentle and very kind and loved kids and so he meshed with who Clara wanted to be very well. And then Twelve came along and Clara gradually became more and more like him—or rather, like herself.
But Ten? Ten didn’t have Eleven’s gentleness, and he didn’t have Twelve’s stability either. He wanted desperately to be a hero, just like Clara, and he was very good at hiding his more ruthless persona, just like Clara, and I feel like they would have swept each other off their feet. But they wouldn’t be moderating influences on each other at all.
The thing that made Twelve and Clara work so well was Twelve’s basic security in who he was. The only person whose approval he cared about was Clara. And that made Clara very good for him up to a point, because she did care what people thought, very much. And so she softened his rough edges a bit and made him more considerate of the people around him.
Ten, like Clara, cared a lot what people thought of him. And so the very thing that made Whouffaldi work so well—Clara’s encouraging of Twelve’s more heroic side—would have been disastrous for Clara and Ten. She might even have encouraged him to save the crew on Mars, and would have ruled right along with the Time Lord Victorious, because their greatest weakness was always the desire to right every wrong in the galaxy.
It’s an interesting pairing to consider.Bringing this back more than a year later because I still maintain that Clara and Ten are basically the same person with extremely similar storylines, only Clara’s (unhealthy, understandable) urge to be a Hero at the expense of all else is actually acknowledged.
Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer at the 76th Golden Globe Awards Red Carpet | January 6, 2019 @ the Beverly Hilton Hotel
Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer at the 76th Golden Globe Awards Red Carpet | January 6, 2019 @ the Beverly Hilton Hotel
Sandra Oh wins Best Actress – Television Series Drama for KILLING EVE
Sandra Oh wins Best Actress in a Drama Series for Killing Eve at the 2019 Golden Globe Awards
Canadian Sandra Oh wins best actress in a drama TV series at Golden Globes
Sandra Oh has won the Golden Globe for best TV drama actress for her role in Killing Eve, giving an emotional tribute to her parents.
The actress thanked her parents, who were in the Beverly Hilton Hotel ballroom Sunday night to watch Oh win her second Golden Globe Award, and also co-host the ceremony.
She won her first Globe in 2006 for Grey’s Anatomy. In BBC America’s Killing Eve, she plays a British operative who becomes obsessed with an international assassin.
YouTube’s algorithm…I mean yes this is about flat-earthers, and we all like to laugh about them, but something has to be said about the fact that conspiracy theories are spread so easily to impressionable youth at a GLOBAL scale. And its not just flat-earthers, it’s Naziism, it’s anti-Semitism, islamophobia, it’s all the terrible radicalization that is happening. It’s all connected, and it’s so so easy to become radicalized because of YouTubes algorithm.
They do this for just about anything, too. Even if you watch overtly left-wing videos they will recommend hard-right video and conspiracy theorists to you. I got a white supremacist creator recommended to me from watching a Bernie Sanders interview.
They run hard-right ads over Left-wing creators now, too. Over a Majority Report video I got an ad for an “anti-PC,” pro-Trump news network. LGBTQ creators I watch are consistently getting gay conversion therapy ads played over them.
The Right loves to scream censorship when they get warning for using racial slurs or demonitized for pushing conspiracy theories, but the Left get hits just as hard if not harder on social media.
This happens even in videos where the title and subject matter do not make it immediately obvious. Watch any videos about video games? Prepare to be recommended videos that start on somewhat valid video game criticism and somewhere in the middle slide right into “GAMES ARE BEING RUINED AND IT’S ALL THE FAULT OF FEMINISM AND THE ESS JAY DOUBLE YEWS!” Nazis are going hard for that demographic and the shit is everywhere.
I’ve been experiencing this more and more lately and it’s growing increasingly disturbing. I always click on “not interested” to try and fix” the algorithm and train it to find content I actually DO want to watch… but it hasn’t helped. Sometimes I end up clicking “not interested” on every single video that pops up in the recommended section and it’s frustrating because all I wanna do is watch good videos, I don’t want nazi propaganda and right wing rhetoric being recommended to me.
In my opinion a lot of this could EASILY be solved by allowing the user to explain WHY the user is “not interested” in the video. As of right now the only options are “I do not like the video,” “I have already seen the video,” and “I do not like this channel.” There’s no nuance or ability to say “I do not want to be recommended nazi content,” or even something as simple as “I like this channel, but just not this particular video.”
More options for training the algorithm would solve a lot of the problem. But YouTube won’t do that because honestly at this point I don’t think even THEY know how their algorithm works… which is an entirely different problem.
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Peter Ramsey, a director for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
accepting the Golden Globe for Best Animated Movie
Sandra Oh wins Best Actress – Television Series Drama for KILLING EVE
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Lucy Liu arrives at the Beverly Hilton for the 2019 Golden Globes (Jan 6)
