Xmas viewing

[kangeiko]

I'm going to second selenak's squee over the Doctor Who Xmas special. What better way to squeal over the holidays than to indulge in the Doctor?

Comments

[selenak]

Does that cake include more Angel/1602 fic, hmmmmm?

Where is this Villiers fic?

Occupational Hazard, at your service.

Forgive my lack of Who-knowledge, I am but a mere newbie, but is it significant that he said it on-screen? I thought that it was canon...

Oh, it is, but the name hasn't been spoken on screen in the new series. Since Rusty killed off all the other timelords off screen (which on the one hand was an understandable move to solve the 40 years of continuity problem by making it easier for newbies to start the show without having to know who these chaps are and what the Doctor's relationships to individual members was, as well as giving the Doctor a trauma he did not have in the old show, but on the other was like, say, restarting Buffy and telling fans in the first new episode that all the Scoobies died off screen), such nods to Old School background have been rare and thus get appreciated all the more. Personally, I think he's doing his homages in just the right way - for example, the Doctor taking the pseudonym "Jamie McCrimmon" in the episode "Tooth and Claw" isn't something you have think about as a new fan, but as an old fan you're tickled because that's the name of Two's Highlander companion, and no time is wasted on exposition - but still, Gallifrey is a major thing, so I was very happy indeed to hear it spoken out loud.

Not least because, like many an old fan, I hold out hope at least one other timelord may have survived (I mean, if the Daleks pop up now and again?), and the Doctor mentioning Gallifrey on screen could be a hint of that...

[kangeiko]

Does that cake include more Angel/1602 fic, hmmmmm?

You know, it's funny you should ask, 'cause that is one of the things I'm working on over this break. I want to have the first draft of part 2 done by the first week of january, so. But I don't want to promise anything 'cause I'll jinx it.

Occupational Hazard, at your service.

Thank you!

Oh, it is, but the name hasn't been spoken on screen in the new series. Since Rusty killed off all the other timelords off screen

Wait - off screen? That part I did NOT know! I can only imagine the outcry... I thought that things were changed with - Paul McGann? Do I have that right?

Gallifrey is a major thing, so I was very happy indeed to hear it spoken out loud.

Ah, it all makes sense now!

Not least because, like many an old fan, I hold out hope at least one other timelord may have survived (I mean, if the Daleks pop up now and again?), and the Doctor mentioning Gallifrey on screen could be a hint of that...

You know that's going to mess with my head, now...

[selenak]

Nope. The American tv movie with Paul McGann did many dreadful things (among others, it made the Doctor half-human, because you know, a fully Alien hero is unthinkable apparantly - something which first fandom and then the BBC, bless it, decided was not canon when they revived the show, and methinks the Daleks yelling "half human - blasphemy!" in "Parting of the Ways" is a tongue-in-cheek-reference to that one), and is, aside from Sylvester McCoy being great in his final appearance as Seven and Paul McGann being great as Eight, a horrible mess... but: the timelords made it out of that one alive. No, that was solely RTD in the new series. He's the one who killed them off and made the Doctor the last one.

Surviving timelord: the Sun reported more than once that the Rani will show up in s3, though RTD has denied it. (The Rani was a minor villain, which actually would be an advantage because she doesn't have as much baggage as the Doctor's arch-nemesis the Master, but she WAS a villain, and having another member of his species - and THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES - show up and let it be someone who never could stand him and vice versa could be promising.) And of course Four/Romana 'shippers want her back with a vengeance. It's a double-edged thing - on the one hand, the Doctor being the last is a quintessential characterisation thing of the new series, on the other, like I said, there are story possibilities, and it's a very recent addition to the Who myth...