Nanni

The Young TARDIS, Doctor Who

Because I talked about Agape yesterday, and the TARDIS is just as much of an oc, here we go!

The young TARDIS that Susan Foreman found cowering in her front garden under the apple tree is a war model – its growth artificially accelerated and rushed onto the frontlines a good fifty years before it should have seen full service. When its pilot was killed in battle near the end of the Time War it panicked and bolted – and there's nothing that can bolt like a TARDIS. Instead of returning to base, it ran, looking for whatever TARDISes that don't trust anyone or anything look for, and found Susan's little complex knot of local spacetime, where it pulled the most best camouflage it could think of: a doghouse.

( Cut for length )

Every time someone suggests The Master/The Rani, I just see the Rani in my mind's eye, looking up from an experiment to fix her interlocutor's gaze.

"No," she says, with utter finality.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm. HMMMMMMMMM. hmmmmmmmmm.

I finally watched Day of the Doctor properly, and I enjoyed it but at the same time felt like something was unsatisfying and off there. Narratively speaking, mostly, more than character wise.

( cut for spoilers because I am paranoid and hey, I hadn't seen it yet )

I'm starting to get more blathery and less coherent than I like. So I guess I'll stop there. Well not quite there.

John Hurt was awesome. (And there needs to be like a million The Doctor Poaches Companions From Himself stories where he does not join in the poaching because he feels like he shouldn't be around people really, especially not these people whom he loves - but various companions contrive to be poached anyway, much the way Clara kicks the chair over to him in that quiet moment. And also there needs to be fic where SPACE TIME ACCIDENTS and he and Clara interact more and have adventures.)

Considering that I haven't ever learned to vid anyway, wasting a lot of time sulking over the fact that there's barely any surviving Ben & Polly footage to vid seems pretty silly, even if I am having kind of a ridiculous lot of otp feelings over them lately.

The second day of my Post Every Day resolution and I have been thwarted by technology! Yesterday my laptop's fan stopped working. It can be fixed, but it may be a while. (I'm writing this from my brother's computer, which he has kindly lent me.)

This is an extra shame, since the reason I didn't post in the early afternoon is that the folks and I had plans yesterday to watch the Second Doctor serial The Web of Fear in the evening, and I thought I might try liveblogging it. That didn't happen, but we did watch the first four episodes! (Out of six - we'll finish up soon.)

The folks have watched a lot of New Who, but are pretty much context free for most of Old Who. They've seen An Unearthly Child, which kind of shocked Mom at how flat out awful and frightening the Doctor is in it, and Mom has seen some of The Invasion which convinced her she likes the Second Doctor. (Dad made us watch the ENTIRE Caveman Politics story that follows Unearthly Child, which gets worse every time I see it I swear, but he insisted he was enjoying himself.)

This meant me needing to explain when exactly Victoria and Jamie are from. The folks, of course, having seen New Who pretty much exclusively, are not really that used to companions who don't know basic common sense rules of the twentieth century, like "Don't try to walk on the railroad tracks."

Let's upgrade "want a TARDIS" to "could really use a TARDIS, shame they're fictional and come with a horribly mucked up authoritarian regime."

That said, I'm trying to get back into my former letter writing habit of a letter a day to someone, and I'd like to make sure I have the right addresses and people who I've let correspondence lapse with still would like mail. So! The comments are screened, so you can drop a corrected address (or a new to me address, do please feel free) in the comments if you'd like, or e-mail me (tiamats_child @ yahoo . com).

I would love to write to you!