Belinda's exit was genuinely on the same level as those Classic Who companion exits where they'd have the companion leave to marry a man they just met.
he did it to donna. he did it to martha. he did it to fucking ANITA??? and BELINDA, who had an entire first story about NOT wanting to get married and become a “mrs”?
people call moffat misogynistic, but he treated amy’s predicament as a TRAGEDY, not a gift????
Realised recently that the ambiguity of the verb 'to marry' means that this could be read as saying that Mickey officiated her marriage to someone else (e.g. Tom Milligan), i.e. he 'married' them in a licensed ceremony and therefore 'married' her
UNIT being hyper-militarised really does hurt the messaging that Lucky Day was going for. It's hard to buy them as these scrappy protectors being unfairly targeted by ignorant reactionaries when they're watching the world from their glass tower, armed to the teeth, unchecked.
something clicked and i think anita and the doctor's dynamic proved to me that i need the doctor to stop having teenage companions and start befriending actual adults from now on like they were grown up friends and not #besties or whatever tf idrk how to explain it