Another fannish meme
Meme found in the wild: Make a list of all the characters in your icons. (Although you may have more than one icon of a single character, they only go on the list once.) Alphabetize it. Take the first two people on the list; that's your first pairing. Second two people; second pairing, etc. Treat us to some commentary once you're done.I thought it'
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* Harry Sullivan and Henry Gordon Jago: I agree with you completely. (Not that I've seen Jago, but I've seen his actor in a different role? o_O ...when I don't admit this stuff I can carry on quite a Knowledgeable Who-Fan impersonation. XD)
* LIZ/LEELA FOR ALL OF THE EVERS NOW PLSKTHX. I WANT FIC OF THIS. (I might even try to write some myself if I'd seen more than, er, five minutes of Leela. Oh library, why must you be such a pain. Oh Netflix, ditto ditto.)
* Six/Silver and Seven/Servalan: I don't even know. Wow. I think the universes would explode. (I barely know Servalan, but if she is as... not "sneaky", what's the word I want? The same thing Seven is. Chess-master-ish. If she's as that-word as I get the impression she is, they would totally outmaneuver each other until they blew up the universe.)
(Six and Silver, OTOH, would just blow it up on principle through being too much alike. That amount of somewhat self-centred shininess can't exist in one universe without breaking something, I do think. XD)
* I love that you actually got Ten/Three (chained together, of course, and covered in cake. Goes without saying, which is why we keep saying it. *g* I'm working on one, y'know, intermittently, although I seem to have settled on the one possible plot that requires me to watch the entire third season of NuWho...)
ETA: Also, I am glad my flist is interesting to you! XD
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Servalan is pretty sneaky, but probably not quite up to Seven's level. It would be an interesting match, though. Oh, yes... :-)
Actually, Six and Silver, I hadn't thought about them being the same. They come at their smugness from such different angles. I can't quite explain. Six is bombastic and boasts of his cleverness and is, well, Six, but he's the Doctor. He can forget all that and be tactful, caring and compassionate when the moment comes, more so than quite a few of his other incarnations. It's not quite just an act, but it partly is. (I love that contrast in him; it's why he's such fun to write - you can go OTT on the first aspect and it's lovely, and then you can come down to something quiet and serious.) Whereas Silver, for all his deliberate mischief and annoyingness, his smugness is actually kind of fundamentally him... but also just a fact rather than big-headedness? He's been made very shiny and he's happy about that, and he is sure that everyone else will apreciate it (and him), too, but it's not anything he did. Although he does like to play on it as well, true. Heh. But, yeah, what they would do together, I don't know. Actually, it could be a showdown; it would most likely involve something quite pragmatic as to the why; but it could also be surprisingly sweet, much more so than Silver/Other Doctors. Or Silver might just be scared of him. I really don't know. (Ten/Silver made me wonder, what if he'd had to distract other incarnations, so, I er, had considered it in passing before. *cough*)
It's terrible, I think about everyone/Silver sometimes... *dies* Basically, as you can tell, I have been thinking about S&S almost constantly for the past 8 months. It's scary. I should find something else to obsess about, but this seems to do the trick nicely. The most mysterious things are always the most beautiful. (Also S&S has more David Collings.)
Of course, I got Ten/Three. The internet knows the rules by now. And, ooh, really? And, wait, you have a plot in mind? I didn't think any of the rest of us needed one of those. Oh, except Prim, of course. ;-) (Well, maybe other people as well, but it was mainly just Ten, naked, chained to Three and covered in cake at the hands of the Master. It seems to work.)
Also, bad, bad Library and Netflix. They should give you Classic Who at once! What is this failing on their part? *glares at them*
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Holy Hannah, what a plethora of parentheses. ;P
* S&S is a perfectly reasonable thing to obsess about! ;-) I went off it rather quickly because my way of obsessing is to write fic and I cannot write timey-wimey fic to save my life. But there is much prettiness and good writing, and all the stars are good actors, and the special effects do not try to do what they can't. And what more do you need in a show, really? XD
* By "plot" I really more mean "setup". I couldn't just do "Delgado!Master has an Evil Plot", even though that is the cutest, because it's been done to death and I have to feel slightly Original. ;P But being a totally knowledgeable Who fan, of course I have seen Masters other than Delgado... ;P *facepalm*
(And of course I had to throw in Martha being Awesome. Because she deserves some, and she is a Ten companion, but I can't actually write Martha because I've only seen her in three eps and one of those was Blink. Hence having to see the whole of S3 instead of just the finale three-parter.)
*glares at library and Netflix too*
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Also, John Nathan-Turner had his faults (costuming, primarily, :lol:, although I like Six's coat. Why the hell should the Doctor's outfit be normal or tasteful?) but there was an amazing amount of rubbish happening behind the scenes with DW in the 1980s, and he did some great stuff when he was working with a script editor he got on with. (Not that I mean you should mutter against Eric Saward, unless you wish. Although, maybe you should a bit. *cough* It sounds more like one of those things all round, really.) But the thing is, he's dead now, earlier than he should have been, and he gave up his career to keep Doctor Who alive, and never got to see it come back in triumph, which I'm sure he would have loved. If he'd walked away from DW in the mid 80s, there wouldn't have been a better producer, hurrah, there'd have been no more show, because nobody else was willing to do it. They tried to find someone else, and they couldn't. A number of the powers that be wanted it dead from well before Colin Baker even started. (Sorry. Just, you know. Mutter kindly, okay? Enough people have heaped more than enough hate on his head.) It's hard to believe anyone managed to make Trial of a Time Lord under the circumstances they were working in. (Sorry. I am so sick of 1980s Who-bashing.)
No, no, no, the Master (any of them) has an Evil Plot that makes No Sense is always okay. Originality is OOC for him. :lol:
I found, watching S&S, that the basic idea of the stories was something I'm always sort of writing - and with S&S you don't even need to explain it too hard. ♥ And all my aliens are always psychic, and the first time I make up a OC, she's a displaced Victorian housemaid. What can I say? I'm just dying to get my hands on it properly, writing-wise, although I'm still trying to get my head around Elements, which makes it even more fascinating. Plus, I have all this time and nothing better to do, heh.
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(Although there have been some amazing fem!Six cosplays I have seen. I still need to draw those pictures of the fem!Doctor costumes from my story, actually...)
I never did get to the library for those, no. Would you, please? :-) I don't recall if you sent me Spectre of Lanyon Moor, but I think that and the Frobisher one were the ones I was specially interested in. You needn't bother with the others at first (I am slow with audio stuff, it takes me more energy to listen to a story than to read one. And I can't follow dialogue at all on the bus.)
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And it's no problem - I deleted everything from 4Shared now, I think, but I can reupload those 2 for you (I'll email you again once its done. Give me a couple of days or so.) You'll like Lanyon Moor - it's very traditional, and it's got the Brigadier!! :-)
You know, it's a terrible confession, but I have this complete blind spot over Seven's tank top. When people talk about the question marks, I always think that Seven didn't wear any at all; he just had his umbrella. (It's a pattern, my brain says. :lol:). (Sylvester, btw, came up with the umbrella, but didn't like the jumper much, either.)
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