Female characters don’t have to avoid traditional women’s roles to be realistic and compelling. They just have to do other things at the same time. A mother with dreams and regrets and a rich emotional life is a character. A woman who exists to bring a baby into the world (so that it can grow up and make out with Matt Smith) might as well be made of cardboard.
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— Lindsay Miller on the problem with Amy Pond, http://tigerbeatdown.com/2011/08/04/the-girl-who-waited-why-i-hate-amy-pond/

(Every article I read on Tiger Beatdown just makes me love it all the more.) 
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