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[rynne]

This is very ironic, coming on the heels of my last post. Maybe the world doesn't want me to like Steven Moffat? *ponders*

I very sincerely hope that this is the tabloids blowing things out of proportion, and that what really is there will make sense with context. I...really need to hope that.

But if it's exactly what the tabloids are saying, and basically another single-story romance...I think I will probably give up on ever watching S5. If Steven Moffat can't be bothered to respect the character arcs already set up, I don't think I can trust him to run a good show. I was already dubious about his ability, but these rumors have just exponentially increased my doubts.

If Moffat keeps giving the Doctor random love interests, making him really another Captain Kirk or James Bond, then I'll feel like he's cheapening the Doctor's feelings. He lasted for nine hundred years without more than one love interest (Susan's grandmother--and even she is only implied by the existence of Susan), and if one of the results of the Time War seems to be to make him more reluctant to connect with people because he'll inevitably lose them, which is canon, then giving him more love interests just doesn't make sense.

His previous--hmm, not asexuality, but maybe celibacy--emphasized how different his connection with Rose was, and made his relationship with her mean something. I only just managed to come to terms with Reinette, but introducing this River Song (gag, that name) as a love interest, whether or not romance happens in the episodes or in the future, feels like it will just cheapen his feelings for Rose. Feelings that, btw, were constantly explored and respected throughout all four seasons thus far.

Not to mention that it's very difficult to create a believable relationship in two episodes. I doubt I'd be able to believe it.

I hope the rumors are blown all out of proportion. In the mid-season trailer, we got no hint of anything like this. Of course, not everything is shown in the trailer, but what we did get emphasized how important Rose is. And even the trailer at the end of the last episode made no mention of anything like this. Surely it's the kind of thing they would put in the trailer, like how they had the clip of Jenny calling the Doctor "Dad".

But if it does happen the way the tabloids say...I guess I'll just always think of Steven Moffat as a douche, even more than I do now.