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This cost like £13 and took me 30 minutes to read.
If I wasn't the sort of fan who buys everything with 'Doctor Who' on it I might be annoyed about that.
:eyeroll:

Amy wasn't very Amy specific. There were some nice references to old old old canon, lots of Dalek stuff from planet monochrome. There was running around and enemies and alien technology and stuff. I didn't much like the conclusions. Depressing.

Wasn't impressed. Not planning to read it again.
... I should really think before I buy things, shouldn't I?

Tasha Yar... such a missed opportunity. Unfortunately not a missed character. The writing kind of massively sucked, which made liking her hard.

I was reading a thingy a bit ago about fake-strong female characters. The story will tell us, usually with words, that they're strong, in a physical sense, they're good fighters. Then it sets them up to be the damsel, always in danger, always getting their arse kicked. The only difference is she'll be annoyed with herself for falling for it. That description? Tasha Yar. Writers never gave her goals of her own or anything to do or actual successes. Why even bother inventing her?

Also her background is made of *facepalm*. It's like she had to have a huge great excuse to be in Security. And then at her funeral she's all 'you taught me I could be feminine without losing anything' and, just, arrrgh, the layers of rubbish assumptions in there. Who wrote that? Can I send them a... no, wait, pacifist, can I send them a strongly worded *facepalm*?

The major fail with that funeral scene though is who is, and isn't, there. There's just the characters we know the names of. Not even everyone we've seen on the bridge. Not her sports team. Not whoever she practices with for martial arts tournaments that isn't Worf. Nobody from Security. Wesley Crusher is there, but nobody from an adult social life. And all that she's saying about Picard being a father figure? WTF? Would you say that to your Captain? Plus, also, there has been flirting, so no. Plus, and this is the biggie, she's only been on Enterprise less than a year. New ship, new crew. They don't *define* her life. She started before the series, even taking into account that she left her homeworld behind. And it's a huge great ship, very many crew, but that's what a memorial service looks like?

I been watching Enterprise this week and the duplicate Trip that only existed for a week got a better funeral than that. More people turned up. More ceremony. Actually more demonstration of how people get woven in to lives.

Tasha deserved better.

Plus it's a horrible example of tell-not-show while the writers take the opportunity to tell us who the rest of the cast are meant to be. Deanna is the feminine one! Data has childlike wonder! Picard is fatherly! Notice, everyone, notice! *facepalm* *shakes head*

The only good bit of it is the last bit.
No goodbyes. Just good memories. Hailing frequencies closed, sir.

... and that's partly because about half her lines were 'Hailing frequencies closed', with the other half being 'open'.
... okay, no, she got clunky speeches sometimes, usually about how horrible crime is. But you get what I mean.



Is so sad. She could have been Starbuck. She could have been interesting even.


... which, you know, not the kind of in-world reaction you want to a funeral scene.

:eyeroll: