Freedom; Fic; Donna

[ameretrifle]

Free. And still the worst judge of my own work ever. ("An e-mail... saying she was impressed with my final? But... I thought I was half-assing that. How in the hell...?") Of course, keeping that in mind's gonna help me during the ficathon I recklessly joined. "Maybe this fic isn't a shame upon my family's honor for which I will have to commit

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Oh, good. ^^ I am going to try to catch "Fires of Pompeii" this week (I'm pretty sure that's the one that's showing)-- granted, the main reason I missed "Partners in Crime" last week was because I was asleep, god only knows why; but I really am finding S4 hard to even approach. RTD's had enough prior success at defying even my lowest expectations; if it should actually be fairly good, and my expectations should creep up higher in spite of myself, well-- that could be a hell of a crash, and once was more than enough for me, thanks. Maybe he's learned something. Even flatworms can learn things. About this quickly, too.

I've started wondering-- if Ten were suddenly written better, and Tennant dropped all of his most annoying mannerisms, would that be enough for me to forgive him, or would I have to have some sort of comeuppance as well? And would that be a bad thing?...

Ten was overwriting and co-opting Nine's arc -- this is why it's probably a bad idea for me to start with 'Fires of Pompeii'. x.x Though from what I've heard, I doubt there's any less of it in any other episode. I doubt I have the emotional maturity to take that gracefully. And I think there's probably a finite number of fics written for the sole purpose of beating up Ten that I can get away with. (I was astonished enough when I got away with one. That might be the limit.)

The new Robin Hood-- I tried the first episode, as I recall, but it didn't exactly catch my attention. Not in any favorable way, at least. Can't even remember why exactly at the moment. Was it pacing issues, or campy in the wrong ways? *shakes head* Been too long. I don't know what about the promos has been making me nervous-- my best guess is that my conditioned reflexes toward Tennant have generalized to include any cheeky British prettyboy making wisecracks about how awesome he is. (In Tennant's case, I use the word 'prettyboy' advisedly.) 'Robin Hood' probably doesn't deserve it, though I did think I saw the Sheriff of Nottingham wearing sequins and delivering a terribly campy villain speech-- so, revise that-- even if Robin Hood does happen to deserve it, I don't think I'm reacting to it for its own sake. I'm just irritated at this hold they still have over my psyche. I'm not going to allow it.

[nina_ds]

Another quickie you might enjoy: This pinged my Google alert this morning.