"Too Many Dads in Doctor Who" by RitchandFamous →
The last fifteen episodes of Doctor Who have depended heavily upon Steven Moffat’s “Parenthood” theme. Lets illustrate it here:
- “A Christmas Carol” – the story of a boy who grew up with an abusive father, learning how to love.
- “The Impossible Astronaut” &
- “Day of the Moon” – involve an orphanage and a mysterious child who is later revealed to be River, and the child of Amy and Rory.
- “The Curse of the Black Spot” – a story about an estranged father who mends his relationship with his son.
- “The Doctor’s Wife” – we get a break here!
- “The Rebel Flesh” &
- “The Almost People” – a two-parter involving a subplot about a father hoping to get back to his son; also culminating in Amy’s labor.
- “A Good Man Goes to War” – Melody Pond is born, and the Doctor builds an army to non-violently rescue Amy and Melody.
- “Let’s Kill Hitler” – Amy and Rory discover they’ve already raised their daughter – woops!
- “Night Terrors” – a father learns to love his weird alien son, by inviting a stranger into the house in the middle of the night (wtf?)
- “The Girl Who Waited” – break
- “The God Complex” – break
- “Closing Time” – a father learns to love his baby with whom he’s had a hard time developing a connection
- “The Wedding of River Song” – Amy and Rory’s daughter, River, kills Amy’s best friend/her own husband – its like a American soap opera!
- “The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe” – When her children go missing, a mother takes space-miners hostage and drives a future-space mining thing, then pilots her family through the time vortex in order to rescue them.
Gordon Bennet, look at all that parenting!
I wanted to illustrate the frequency of the parenting theme in response to criticisms of “The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe”…
