Oh, another thing about the Christmas Special

[giandujakiss]

It sort of bugged me that the Doctor was relatively unconcerned with the idea of keeping all those people frozen - including Abigail. Did I miss some bit of canon where they were all released? Or was there still a set of frozen people in the cellar?

I suppose we can assume the guy is nice now and probably let them all go, but still, over the course of several years, the Doctor didn't seem to care that he was leaving Abigail in a refrigerator to be trotted out like a toy once a year, while the other people didn't even get that much freedom. It actually reminded me quite a bit of the Ood - how the Doctor didn't seem to care much about them when he first met them, even though their plight seemed sort of horrifying, and it wasn't until much later that we learned that their exploitation was discussed.

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[laurashapiro]

I totally expected him to release them all at the end -- or for the Dumbledore guy to release them all because he was flooded with the Christmas spirit or some shit.

It's pretty disturbing that that didn't happen, even aside from the wrongth of Abigail as fridged woman/plot device.

[giandujakiss]

And the more I think about it, the more skeeved out I am about bringing Abigail out only on Christmas Eve - because it feels so coerced from her end, you know? She has to be nice to these people, has to like them, has to spend time with them, because she doesn't have other options. Eeew.

[laurashapiro]

Yep.

In a way it makes sense -- Abigail was totally Dickensian: compliant, happy and docile in the face of her own misfortune, eager to please, sweet, and totally without a personality or will of her own.

[wembley]

Oh my God. She was LITERALLY A WOMAN IN A REFRIGERATOR. HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS. *gets feminist card taken away*

[laurashapiro]

LOL. Apparently that escaped the notice of quite a few people.