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Okay, so:
I have finally caught up to the end of S4 of Who, as well as the first two or so episodes of Sarah Jane Adventures (which pretty much is totally better than Torchwood). So many thoughts! So many questions! So many fic ideas!
Approximately eight million companions in the TARDIS FTW! I was forced to wonder about the other "Children of Time," though. Theoretically a whole bunch of companions should have been alive and kicking and I wanted to see the lot of them darnit, but do understand the desire to keep it strictly to the new stuff. This will not stop me being a pedantic wanker forever, though. I won't truly be happy until they get William Russell on for one last go.
Torchwood makes me happy in my pants. I really really want to ship Jack/Gwen/Ianto but I love Rhys too much to be happy with that result. I also want Martha to join Torchwood and be sexy with Jack forever, because there is nothing on Torchwood that sexy can't solve.
I may have detached a cornea rolling my eyes at the whole beach scene 2.0, but at least maybe with her consolation prize she will be gone forever. We can only fucking hope.
Mickey! Mickey is still the best of them! And he's finally moved on from Rose, which is extra fab. What happened to Jake, though? Did he get eaten by Daleks? Did he finally decide the whole Mickey/Ricky split was just too creepy? Am I putting way too much thought into a one-off character I happened to get attached to? The world may never know. Except that last one. That's a yes for sure.
Sarah Jane and Luke fill me with happy. I am a total sucker for well-adjusted (okay, or really, really fucked up but fundamentally loving-see also: Bennet, Noah) family relationships in my fiction, and they are just too sweet. Also, Clyde is awesome, and I like Maria a lot more than I thought I would.
Overall, new Who as a whole doesn't seem to make me as angry as it used to. Nothing this show can do will ever match the UNIT years and I'm okay with that. It was nice to see this season get back to more of the classic themes and a more traditional Doctor/companion relationship. Also the fact that nobody was whining about mortgages or absolutely ruining everything awesome about the Master helped a whole lot. There were a lot of things I really didn't care for, but I just don't have the energy to go into that and take away the first struggling vestiges of Who!squee I've had in years.
Fic ideas:
x Some kind of resolution for Mickey/Jake. Yes, it's a blatant fix-it and I don't care because it would make me happy. Unless of course I go the angst route and kill off alt!Jake because Mickey never catches a break ever. I don't know.
x Something with Adam in, because I like Adam. He was a fuckup, yes, but he still got a pretty raw deal. As much as I loved Nine, his treatment of Adam was the first push in the wheels falling off New Who forever for me. It was the first of many things that screamed 'this isn't the Doctor you knew,' and some of the childhood magic slipped away for good.
x Matt Ryan, roller disco studWhoops, wrong fandom.
x Jack/Martha, because there needs to be more. Ianto can play too.
x I have a deeply long-winded idea about the great and sweeping tragedy of Sarah Jane Smith, which I've wanted to write some variant of for years now. Basically it drastically reinterprets her comments about having someone once (hint: it wasn't the Doctor), and incorporates her reluctance to being responsible for the lives of others as well as her disdain for Torchwood. In other words, Mike Yates, Torchwood Four operative, MIA. My batshit shipping, let me show you it.
I have finally caught up to the end of S4 of Who, as well as the first two or so episodes of Sarah Jane Adventures (which pretty much is totally better than Torchwood). So many thoughts! So many questions! So many fic ideas!
Approximately eight million companions in the TARDIS FTW! I was forced to wonder about the other "Children of Time," though. Theoretically a whole bunch of companions should have been alive and kicking and I wanted to see the lot of them darnit, but do understand the desire to keep it strictly to the new stuff. This will not stop me being a pedantic wanker forever, though. I won't truly be happy until they get William Russell on for one last go.
Torchwood makes me happy in my pants. I really really want to ship Jack/Gwen/Ianto but I love Rhys too much to be happy with that result. I also want Martha to join Torchwood and be sexy with Jack forever, because there is nothing on Torchwood that sexy can't solve.
I may have detached a cornea rolling my eyes at the whole beach scene 2.0, but at least maybe with her consolation prize she will be gone forever. We can only fucking hope.
Mickey! Mickey is still the best of them! And he's finally moved on from Rose, which is extra fab. What happened to Jake, though? Did he get eaten by Daleks? Did he finally decide the whole Mickey/Ricky split was just too creepy? Am I putting way too much thought into a one-off character I happened to get attached to? The world may never know. Except that last one. That's a yes for sure.
Sarah Jane and Luke fill me with happy. I am a total sucker for well-adjusted (okay, or really, really fucked up but fundamentally loving-see also: Bennet, Noah) family relationships in my fiction, and they are just too sweet. Also, Clyde is awesome, and I like Maria a lot more than I thought I would.
Overall, new Who as a whole doesn't seem to make me as angry as it used to. Nothing this show can do will ever match the UNIT years and I'm okay with that. It was nice to see this season get back to more of the classic themes and a more traditional Doctor/companion relationship. Also the fact that nobody was whining about mortgages or absolutely ruining everything awesome about the Master helped a whole lot. There were a lot of things I really didn't care for, but I just don't have the energy to go into that and take away the first struggling vestiges of Who!squee I've had in years.
Fic ideas:
x Some kind of resolution for Mickey/Jake. Yes, it's a blatant fix-it and I don't care because it would make me happy. Unless of course I go the angst route and kill off alt!Jake because Mickey never catches a break ever. I don't know.
x Something with Adam in, because I like Adam. He was a fuckup, yes, but he still got a pretty raw deal. As much as I loved Nine, his treatment of Adam was the first push in the wheels falling off New Who forever for me. It was the first of many things that screamed 'this isn't the Doctor you knew,' and some of the childhood magic slipped away for good.
x Matt Ryan, roller disco studWhoops, wrong fandom.
x Jack/Martha, because there needs to be more. Ianto can play too.
x I have a deeply long-winded idea about the great and sweeping tragedy of Sarah Jane Smith, which I've wanted to write some variant of for years now. Basically it drastically reinterprets her comments about having someone once (hint: it wasn't the Doctor), and incorporates her reluctance to being responsible for the lives of others as well as her disdain for Torchwood. In other words, Mike Yates, Torchwood Four operative, MIA. My batshit shipping, let me show you it.