jmatonak

I miss Donna a lot.

See, the actual Doctor on the actual TV show really seems to have a problem relating to anyone who doesn't immediately and uncritically become a Doctor fan. This isn't something that just cropped up in the new show- it's really funny to go back and watch the First Doctor having what I can only describe as dick-measuring contests with Ian Chesterton. Liz, famous original Romana, Tegan... the companions who, for whatever reason, don't drink the Kool-Aid are the ones who just don't quite fit in. The Doctor, by all appearances, cannot abide having peers.

I'm going to be citing things from Season Six episodes.

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There's always a moment where RTD Goes Too Far.

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Apparently, Michael Moorcock is going to write a Doctor Who novel.

It won't cross over with the Eternal Champion stuff (I hope!), but I can't help thinking...

Is the Time War another manifestation of the Conjunction of the Million Spheres? Because it sure seems like it. The Doctor is a Time Lord hero responsible for the destruction of his people. Since Romana was supposedly retrieved from E-space and made some kind of Time Lord mucky muck, there's room to posit her as the Ermizhad figure....

(Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion novels, which include Elric and almost everything else he's ever written at this point, rely on a cosmology that, frankly, I can't even sum up. If you're curious, try Wikipedia. Or Google. That's what I'd do.

There's always a tragic hero figure, there's almost always a woman who sparks a betrayal of someone/herself by the hero, and all the tragic heroes and the women are manifestations of the same "persons" playing out complicated, predestined schemes. Occasionally, the gender roles get swapped, so we get a tragic heroine and a hapless boy. Most of the time, the hero destroys the world. It started out as an attempt to write pulp fantasy as unlike Conan the Barbarian as possible, and it's better than I make it sound.)

I bet there's a Black Sword of Rassilon. :P If so, the Doctor should run away from it, fast and far.

A cube hovers in front of a saucer:

"We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own."

"EX-TER-MIN-ATE!"

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That ending is not acceptable.

Allow me to expound further.

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Title: I'll Be Right Beside You, Dear
Characters: Rose, the Ninth Doctor, the Tenth Doctor
Rating: G
Spoilers: The Parting of the Ways, Doomsday

This is a little self-indulgent, but I think it could have been worse.

( It took the Doctor a moment to collect himself. )

A medical-science type person recently advised me to spend more time talking about fannish, geeky stuff. I made her repeat it, so I can only assume she was serious.

Is anybody else ever tempted to write fic in script form?

I keep thinking it would be fun to write six issues from a nonexistent comics series. Nonconsecutive, of course. The first issue would have to be from the Silver Age. Then a couple from the seventies and/or eighties. Each script would have to be accompanied by meta discussing the issue itself, and other stories from the same period of the nonexistent book.

I ran a super-hero role-playing game for about ten years. I could swipe stuff from that, or make up entirely new stuff. The toughest part would be maintaining the simulated tone and making it look like the issues were written by different people.

I keep talking myself out of doing it, for the usual reason I talk myself out of fics: I have huge trouble finishing anything that I can't complete in one setting, because as soon as I sit back and look at something, it becomes clear to me how much it totally sucks.

I was not fond of issue 5 of the Buffy comic.

I read Fantastic Four comics for the trippy stuff. And I don't mean a guy who can set himself on fire but not get hurt. I mean a guy with a tuning fork hat who eats planets. Ultimate Fantastic Four has a mixed track record in this regard. For everything I like about the book (Sue Storm is a biologist and a genius), there's something that really rubs me the wrong way (Reed is, like, four, but he still knows everything.)

I'm going to have to keep getting the book, though, because I read Fantastic Four comics for the trippy factor.

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There is a famous statement that the planet Saturn is lighter than water- that it would float if you could find a basin big enough. There's a poster of it doing just that. When I think about how impossibly huge that ocean has to be, it scares the hell out of me. (I'm not kidding.)

To really get the trippy factor out of that situation, though, you'd have to figure out which parts of the physics to deliberately ignore, and which parts to discuss. Like, even if you somehow transported Saturn into a (shudder) really big ocean, it wouldn't stay all nice and planet-shaped unless something would make it do that. Many of the moons aren't light enough to float. So now we have Titan, sinking like the rock that it is, and Io sending out a gush of steam big enough to engulf the Earth as the too-big ocean puts it out like an ember...

If I had a TARDIS, I would totally watch the sun expand, especially if it were going to do it super-quickly.

Title: The Hand of the Rani
Characters: The Rani (sort of)
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None

( The title is from a throwaway line of audio commentary. I had to get it out of my head. )