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for jarodrussell: What Rodney McKay thinks of Stargirl.
Rodney likes:
1. She's cute, she's blonde, and the spandex bike shorts or whatever they're called on a -- how old is she again? -- are a nice change after years of women in *practical* combat gear.
2. She seems reasonably bright - given a few years of post-graduate education, there's the possibility she'd one day be smart enough to truly appreciate Rodney's genius!
3. The golden device she's carrying around seems to have all sorts fascinating applications.
Rodney dislikes:
1. There was no good reason to refuse to let him take her staff thing apart. He *said* he'd put it back together after, and even make improvements if he thought of any!
2. No, seriously, *how* old is she again? That's just not fair.
3. That time she was talking to John and swept the room in an expansive gesture, hitting Rodney in the back of the knee with her glamourised walking stick. Rodney went down, and his dessert went down after him, and, no, getting strawberry Jello up his esophageal passageways is *not* funny, he almost *died*, and she probably did it on purpose to get him out of the way. Atlantis would have been wide open for the invasion of the pep squad or whatever group thing kids do these days when they aren't scheming his demise.
for katarik: What the (10th) Doctor thinks of Kara.
The Doctor likes:
1. Kryptonians are a fascinating, exquisitely designed people. Tragic what happened to them, of course, but if you happen to be in the system during Jana-El's presentation on reflective counterpoints in stable DNA patterns, make sure you stock up on absorbent tissue paper. He's snuck in four times, himselves, and at the point where Jana calls up the graph illustrating Kryptonian protein paths in powerful red and the crystal flutes sing high over the humming fields, their echoes framing the unrelenting entropy of the universe and bringing to focus the seeds of life organizing under the protective gaze of Rao... Trust him, there's not a dry eye in the conference hall.
2. It makes for a nice change, having a Companion he doesn't have to worry about when the death rays start flying. (The fact that she has death ray vision herself feels a bit like cheating, but no more so than, eg, armfuls of explosives.)
3. There is something fundamentally easier about travelling with a person who has also survived the destruction of their homeworld. She's sympathetic, but there's no pity pressing down between them. There are topics they both prefer to leave unspoken, and when he gets caught in a memory, she can usually tell whether to leave him to himself or to suggest an outing to a place with monsters and unstable authority figures with doomsday weapons.
The Doctor doesn't like:
1. Their individual mythologies interfere with each other in unpredictable ways. In the Kallani colonies, the two of them were seen as figures from opposing mythologies, and they nearly sparked a religious war by going out for ice cream. On Omolo IV, a red-sunned planet ravaged (relative) centuries ago in a battle between a Time Lord and a rogue member of the House of El, they spent a lot of time running. And often they'll meet people who simply assume that *he* is *her* sidekick, and won't be convinced otherwise by either his protests or her comments that, really, she likes to think of them as *partners*.
2. Her tendency to fall for whowhatever makes pretty eyes at her quickly gets tiresome. It's not as... distracting as travelling with Jack, but Jack never seriously considered staying behind on Romaine III (or New New Earth, or Plxtvauo ...) after falling in love with the Magistrate's clever son (or the lonely, brave Queen, or the shiny prototype of a person-shaped "thinking machine"...). She can usually be dissuaded with a quick reference to timelines and exploding galaxies, but he's getting uncomfortable flashbacks to his third son's teenage years.
3. She refuses to be properly impressed with his magic box. When she first stepped into the TARDIS, she didn't even blink twice, and when he pointed out that it *was*, just in case she hadn't noticed, bigger on the *inside*, she asked him what sort of tesseract containment it used. It lead to an energetic debate about Planck-join plateaus, but he realized after that he really counts on that initial wide-eyed amazement from his Companions. He's not sure he likes what that says about himself.
Rodney likes:
1. She's cute, she's blonde, and the spandex bike shorts or whatever they're called on a -- how old is she again? -- are a nice change after years of women in *practical* combat gear.
2. She seems reasonably bright - given a few years of post-graduate education, there's the possibility she'd one day be smart enough to truly appreciate Rodney's genius!
3. The golden device she's carrying around seems to have all sorts fascinating applications.
Rodney dislikes:
1. There was no good reason to refuse to let him take her staff thing apart. He *said* he'd put it back together after, and even make improvements if he thought of any!
2. No, seriously, *how* old is she again? That's just not fair.
3. That time she was talking to John and swept the room in an expansive gesture, hitting Rodney in the back of the knee with her glamourised walking stick. Rodney went down, and his dessert went down after him, and, no, getting strawberry Jello up his esophageal passageways is *not* funny, he almost *died*, and she probably did it on purpose to get him out of the way. Atlantis would have been wide open for the invasion of the pep squad or whatever group thing kids do these days when they aren't scheming his demise.
for katarik: What the (10th) Doctor thinks of Kara.
The Doctor likes:
1. Kryptonians are a fascinating, exquisitely designed people. Tragic what happened to them, of course, but if you happen to be in the system during Jana-El's presentation on reflective counterpoints in stable DNA patterns, make sure you stock up on absorbent tissue paper. He's snuck in four times, himselves, and at the point where Jana calls up the graph illustrating Kryptonian protein paths in powerful red and the crystal flutes sing high over the humming fields, their echoes framing the unrelenting entropy of the universe and bringing to focus the seeds of life organizing under the protective gaze of Rao... Trust him, there's not a dry eye in the conference hall.
2. It makes for a nice change, having a Companion he doesn't have to worry about when the death rays start flying. (The fact that she has death ray vision herself feels a bit like cheating, but no more so than, eg, armfuls of explosives.)
3. There is something fundamentally easier about travelling with a person who has also survived the destruction of their homeworld. She's sympathetic, but there's no pity pressing down between them. There are topics they both prefer to leave unspoken, and when he gets caught in a memory, she can usually tell whether to leave him to himself or to suggest an outing to a place with monsters and unstable authority figures with doomsday weapons.
The Doctor doesn't like:
1. Their individual mythologies interfere with each other in unpredictable ways. In the Kallani colonies, the two of them were seen as figures from opposing mythologies, and they nearly sparked a religious war by going out for ice cream. On Omolo IV, a red-sunned planet ravaged (relative) centuries ago in a battle between a Time Lord and a rogue member of the House of El, they spent a lot of time running. And often they'll meet people who simply assume that *he* is *her* sidekick, and won't be convinced otherwise by either his protests or her comments that, really, she likes to think of them as *partners*.
2. Her tendency to fall for whowhatever makes pretty eyes at her quickly gets tiresome. It's not as... distracting as travelling with Jack, but Jack never seriously considered staying behind on Romaine III (or New New Earth, or Plxtvauo ...) after falling in love with the Magistrate's clever son (or the lonely, brave Queen, or the shiny prototype of a person-shaped "thinking machine"...). She can usually be dissuaded with a quick reference to timelines and exploding galaxies, but he's getting uncomfortable flashbacks to his third son's teenage years.
3. She refuses to be properly impressed with his magic box. When she first stepped into the TARDIS, she didn't even blink twice, and when he pointed out that it *was*, just in case she hadn't noticed, bigger on the *inside*, she asked him what sort of tesseract containment it used. It lead to an energetic debate about Planck-join plateaus, but he realized after that he really counts on that initial wide-eyed amazement from his Companions. He's not sure he likes what that says about himself.