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astrogirl2

I Have Chosen My Companion!

Jul 03, 2006 12:31

OK, having declared my Choose Your Own Companion fic done, I see that other people are already starting to post theirs (although it looks like the master list hasn't been updated recently). I am therefore posting mine, if only so I can cross it off my to-do list. Here ya go!

Title: Box of Tricks
Author: AstroGirl
Doctor, Companion: Four, Vila ( Read more... )

doctor who fic, ficathon, crossover, blake's 7 fic

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eve11 July 3 2006, 19:25:43 UTC

ha! Very amusing :) I really like your Fourth Doctor voice, and it seems like Vila and the Doctor might make a good team ;)

Not his fault for abandoning Blake and the others, then. Couldn't be helped, could it? It didn't make you a coward or a bad friend if you left because you'd been kidnapped by an alien.

There's something very Rygel-esque about this bit; dunno Vila but he seems to be a fend-for-yourself kind of guy, eh?

astrogirl2 July 3 2006, 19:49:25 UTC

I think they would make a good team, actually. I'd love to read their further adventures, although I'm not going to be the one writing them. :) (Fortunately, vilakins is writing the same combination. I'm really looking forward to seeing her take on it.)

There's something very Rygel-esque about this bit; dunno Vila but he seems to be a fend-for-yourself kind of guy, eh?

Vila's kind of interesting, because he really is basically a nice guy, and he likes having friends... But the B7 universe is pretty much a place where you have to be fend-for-yourself, and hanging out with the people he has been is highly dangerous to his own skin, which he does regard as extremely precious. :)

(Actually, it's occurred to me Rygel would fit into the B7 universe frighteningly well, if he weren't a tiny green alien.)

snowgrouse July 3 2006, 19:53:54 UTC

I want to see Rygel and Vila together now, just... imagining the conversations makes my brain hurt the good way. 8-) I can hear Vila saying "You're just like Avon, only smaller and greener. No fun at all.":)

astrogirl2 July 3 2006, 19:58:07 UTC

I did sort of request something like that for Multiverse, actually. :)

snowgrouse July 3 2006, 20:02:35 UTC

Ooh, that sounds great. And Vila is so wonderful he works in lots of universes:)

Hm, now I'm thinking of Rygel as A Bad Evil Mastermind S3-Style... the Lib crew run around from evil traps and nefarious plans for 40 minutes, only to realise a little green slug is behind all of them. "Yes. That is how I'd reasoned you would look". *krmpfh*:)

redstarrobot July 3 2006, 21:11:40 UTC

Farscape and Doctor Who both cross over so well with B7. Possibly not so well with each other, but they'd give it a go. :)

astrogirl2 July 3 2006, 21:14:36 UTC

Farscape and Doctor Who cross over reasonably well. Who's fairly easy to cross with just about anything, really. Now, Farscape/B7, I think is much harder.

redstarrobot July 3 2006, 21:31:52 UTC

I think Who's tone makes it difficult to cross over with a lot of things. The physical opportunities to do it, yes, but the ability to mesh the styles, no, and that's what I think is important - unless the tone can match, everything is OOC. And your Farscape/B7 comment goes counter to everything you've said to me for two years, and counter to the origins of a canon Farscape character. :)

astrogirl2 July 3 2006, 22:13:22 UTC

The physical opportunities to do it, yes,

I have to say, physical opportunities and how plausible the crossover possibilities are do count for a heck of a lot with me. Probably more than for most people.

And your Farscape/B7 comment goes counter to everything you've said to me for two years, and counter to the origins of a canon Farscape character. :)

Well, not everything I've told you, I hope. :) But I do actually think it's party a matter of style... Farscape and B7 do have a lot of similarities in tone and in the way the universes work, and, yeah, at least one FS character appears to have been lifted wholesale from B7. So in a lot of ways, FS has reminded me of B7 from the word "go." But there are also very large differences in feel... The FS universe, to me, feels much bigger and wider, more colorful, more alien. It doesn't quite mesh easily with the constricted dystopian feel of B7, I think. Which isn't to say that it can't be done of course, because I'd look like a total idiot saying that, all things considered. :) ( ... )

redstarrobot July 3 2006, 22:28:47 UTC

I'll comment on this later, I'm about to run out the door. :)

astrogirl2 July 3 2006, 22:17:37 UTC

And, hey, my opinion is apparently so flexible that I think I lost track of my point in there somewhere and appear to be arguing the exactly opposite of what I said above. :)

But I do think that one of the interesting things about Doctor Who crossovers is that you don't necessarily need the tones to mesh. The Doctor tends to feel slightly out of place everywhere he goes, really. Which, paradoxically, makes him out of place nowhere. :)

redstarrobot July 3 2006, 22:27:40 UTC

I kind of disagree. I really hate the "The Doctor has just popped into some other SF universe for a chat and an adventure" stories. They're facile. And there is a tone to mesh, threads of authorial voice and theme, it's just that most people aren't good enough writers to pull it out of the hodge-podge of DW. Shows like B7, it doesn't matter, because it's so much like a subset of Who anyway. But some of the others I've seen are just sloppy, and don't realize how incongruous they are.

astrogirl2 July 3 2006, 22:57:50 UTC

I really hate the "The Doctor has just popped into some other SF universe for a chat and an adventure" stories. They're facile.

I'd say that depends entirely on the story.

redstarrobot July 3 2006, 23:19:27 UTC

Yes, that's true, of all things. :) But I realized why I react to it the way I do... it's a bit like saying "And then the Enterprise had a transporter accident to facilitate my concept". Sure, it's a reasonably canonical way to accomplish these things, but it's also a bit of a story-telling cop-out, you know? It just kind of makes me go "Whatever, they ran out of ideas for this week's episode ( ... )

astrogirl2 July 3 2006, 23:59:01 UTC

Yes, that's true, of all things. :)

It is, and maybe it's something that goes without saying, but I feel the need to say it anyway, because I think it's really important to keep in mind. But then, statements of the type "X are [insert bad thing here]" in this kind of context immediately sorta hit my buttons or put my back up (or, y'know, choose your own metaphor :)). Because, IMHO, anything can be handled well or badly, and just because certain things are, well, easy to do badly doesn't mean that any particular example is going to be. (I'll also admit that having written a story or two that can probably be categorized as "the Doctor pops into another universe for a chat and an adventure" doubtless makes me a bit more bristly than I'd be purely on principle, too. I'm having to slap down the internal emo teenager in the back of my brain a bit at the moment, to be honest. She's been in a bit of a mood lately and is far to quick to read comments like that and try to translate them as "you write sucky stuff and you suck!" *slaps ( ... )

redstarrobot July 3 2006, 22:30:14 UTC

(I should point out, I don't regard this story as a "The Doctor pops into another universe for a chat and an adventure" story, even aside from the fact that it's B7. I'm not sure I can put my finger on it, but it simply doesn't feel the same. A chat and a kidnapping, yes, but that's very different.) :)

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