“…and thus the whirligig of time brings its revenges.”

Shaksespeare, Twelfth Night, Act V

It was funny how you could convince yourself you were over somebody until the moment you saw their face again. Then you realised you’d been avoiding that face for nearly fifty years, just so you could keep that illusion intact.

It was just after ( Read more... )

"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,' said Scrooge. 'But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me."

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

Some things are fixed and some in flux. But even a Time Lord doesn’t always know which is which. Thing is, ( Read more... )

Bless those women; they never do anything by halves. They are always in earnest.

A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

Time runs in parallel lines, and parallel lines, as every schoolboy used to be able to tell you, never intersect.

That’s the official version, anyway.  They liked things neat and tidy, those old Time Lords. Predictable. ( Read more... )

Typical, isn't it? The Earth's about to go belly-up again, you ring the Doctor and you get a voicemail message:

( You have reached the TARDIS )

AUTHOR: sensiblecat

WORDS: 4185

CHARACTERS: Ten, TenToo, Rose

SPOILERS: Up to "Planet of the Dead"

RATING: R this chapter, may go up later.

DISCLAIMER: The characters depicted are the intellectual property of the BBC and no personal profit is intended.

He can get everybody else home. It’s himself that’s the problem.

This is an occasional series - I honestly don't ( Read more... )

I've been having a little think about Donna and where Rusty could be going. Here's the link. Obviously, if you're keeping spoiler-free

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The fate of Donna Noble?

I've been putting down a bit of meta about the way the story of Peter Pan and his ongoing relationship with Wendy parallels the Doctor and Rose relationship - if you're interested in that kind of thing, follow the link:

What happens when Wendy grows up?

One of the more endearing features of “The Writer’s Tale” was that he’s so open about his struggles to wind up the Doctor/Rose romance in a convincing way - though I’m not entirely persuaded that he ever really did.

With Donna’s fate, it’s more difficult to work out what went wrong. If indeed, anything did go wrong.

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Thinking a little bit more about RTD's original plan for resolving the D/R ship, I've been considering Jack's part in it. I'll put the rest below a cut.

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In the beginning (the beginning of S4, that is), there was Penny.

Penny was going to be the Doctor’s new companion, and she was about the first thing concerning S4 to come into focus in RTD’s mind. He writes about her with real affection and excitement, and some of the things he says are quite interesting.

“Thoughts I’ve had about Penny…..a bit ( Read more... )