EDA squee

[kindkit]

I just finished The Blue Angel, by Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad. It's amazing, although I think I may need someone to explain to me what the hell happened. Whatever kind of crack Magrs and Hoad are smoking, it's gooooooooood and I want some.

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[gillyp]

"*happysigh* I wish there were lots and lots of fic about the Doctor and Fitz (Compassion is very, very optional) living in their big alternate-universe house and not having any adventures at all..."

That whole domestic world, with the doctor going out to his cafe with the scrubbed pine tables and tending the garden and making toast and scrambling eggs (perfectly)just fills me with squee - it is by far the most perfect bit of the story - though I also loved Iris (*why* was she so unpopular with such a swathe of the fandom?) and her bus, and the boy, of course...

But it was, as you put it the curtain fic that got me most and why this book is up there in the list of my most favourite EDAs - I have it on the table, here, beside me aamof.

It's much better than Interference, IMO

[kindkit]

I totally agree with you about the appeal of the novel's domestic world. Even though the main plot was inventive and interesting, I was much less engaged by it than by the cafe, the garden, and the cooking.

So Iris is unpopular? That's strange. And also depressing, as it seems to confirm the theory that fandom tends to reject the really cool female characters. I'll admit that I don't care to think of Iris as the Doctor's old flame, but that's because I don't like het 'ships, not because I don't like Iris. Iris is pretty damn fab, all rakish and James Bond-y.

[gillyp]

Well I'm going back a bit (re the Iris debate) - to when the fandom was all about newsgroups; rec.arts.doctorwho specifically - overwhelmingly male, aggressive and combative; they all seemed to *hate* Iris - and Magrs, too, for that matter. ::shrug::

Things are much nicer these days (though I rarely hear Iris discussed anymore, tbh).

[kindkit]

Things are much nicer these days

I'm always a bit terrified when I hear old-school fen say that, because to me as a newbie, Who fandom seems pretty combative and kerfuffle-prone. It must've been hardcore nasty back in the old days.

[gillyp]

::holds palm to heart:: I'm old school fen? Right on! *G*

[kindkit]

Heh. Well, Doctor Who has been around for so long that it's probably dangerous to describe anyone who didn't start watching in the sixties as "old school." *grins*

But from my perspective, as someone who's only been involved in any fandom since 2003, someone who remembers the days of newsgroups is a wise elder of the tribe!

[gillyp]

A wise elder... Mmmm. I like that, but...

::gulps. Takes deep breath. Twists toe in sand::

I did start watching in the 60's; Nov '63 to be exact, right from Day 1 (but I was very, very small, honestly. I don't remember much before Jamie and Zoe. *G*)