Nice article! That said... I do have some thoughts...
I'm probably going to come across as hideous and unfeeling but I'm glad Jenny's (sorta) dead!
That's right!! Mediocre episode, although not without its better moments... But she was just... woeful! Too chirpy and bubbly, annoying, rather thick (ok, ok, she's five minutes old) but... UGH. It doesn't really make sense... They used only the Doctor's DNA.. which would imply that she'd be a clone, rather screwy at the best of times, what with all that Regeneration stuff going on, but why is she blonde?
I'll tell you- she's (the actress) is actually the Fifth Doctor's daughter. Pulling in favours? Yup. Can she act? Nope.
I would have far, far, far more enjoyed an episode dealing with all those hints of the family the Doctor left behind on Gallifrey... In the very first season, he was in a pretty old incarnation and he had a GRAN-daughter. Which would imply he a had a Time Lady at some point, Time-kids and therefore... you get where I'm going with this.
Totally cocked up opportunity, if you ask me. Don't get me started on that buffoon that follows her around.
Moving on to victim number two.
Finally. She shuts the hell up! Goodbye Padmé! Amidala! Whatever the hell your name is!
Terrible queen, crappy public speaker, failed general and ineffectual but loud and annoying Senator. Natalie... you're better than this!! And if you didn't want anything to happen with you and the psycho from Tatooine, why did you wear the tightest, most revealing leather halter-neck your slave seamstresses could make??
Ok, rant over. Any mother that so blithely gives up while they've just heard their babies' first cries in the world is either a terrible person, or is mentally and emotionally broken.
George totally screwed his continuity by having Luke remember nothing of his mother, but Leia specifically having some memories and before you shout at me that it was Bail Organa's wife- NO.
Leia remembers her mother as being very sad. Why would Mrs. Organa be sad? She has a beautiful baby girl, a good husband and lives on a gem of a world? (I would totally go skiing on Alderaan) It makes far more sense if Leia had been in her real mother's keeping at least until she died on Alderaan. Far, far safer to have the mother with the newborn infant, surely?
Luke sadly, would not have that, but you know... He has Ben Kenobi for a bit then his aunt and uncle (who turns into a really shitty uncle over the years, doesn't he? Lying to him FFS)
Anyway, I think the twins' birth which was about to be an amazing scene for me.. was then marred by mawkish sentimentality where it should have been about what the twins represent- A NEW HOPE!
Pardon the caps.
