I Could Be Shaking My Head Right Now.

[rionaleonhart]

I have been rewatching second-season episodes of House! And I've never really read much House fanfiction, but there are a couple of fics that I think I would pounce on and devour like a starving wolf (that, er, eats fanfiction) if anyone were to write them

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[brewsternorth]

Agreed with you on your first prompt. The nearest we get to SF in House is 3x02 "Cane and Able", but even that (no spoilers) has a prosaic, if mind-bending, ending.

[rionaleonhart]

Was that the one with the aliens? You see, had it turned out that there actually had been aliens, that would... well, it would have been completely ridiculous. But also great.

I really want to see how the Princeton-Plainsboro crew would handle a time loop. Or, rather, how a particular character would handle it, because time loops are more fun when only one character is actually aware of it. Chase would probably be the most entertaining.

Also, hello! I don't believe we've met.

[brewsternorth]

Oops, here via friendsfriends.

Yes, that would be wacky and brilliant. Or, if one of the staff turned out to be an alien, and one of the B-plots was someone trying to find this out and someone else trying to stonewall the investigation...

[rionaleonhart]

I bet Wilson's the alien. There's something not entirely human about those eyebrows. House originally suggests it as a joke and is delighted when he turns out to be right.

[wolfy_writing]

We're caught in a time loop!

I once had a completely horrifying nightmare where I couldn't tell if I had brain damage and memories weren't registering, or I'd come unstuck in time and wasn't living events in order anymore. I kept trying to convince myself of the time loop possibility, because it seemed more fixable (weird, I know), but part of me kept going "Great, now you're brain damaged and delusional." Hugely relieved when I woke up and both time and my memories were in working order.

But I think something like that, where there was some unspecified accident in the past, and it wasn't clear if it was time gone wrong or the main character's brain right up until the end would be a cool story.

(Also, this is why I'm not trying for another amnesia fic for TGS for the time being. When I tried to come up with one that had no other crack elements, I gave myself nightmares.)

[captlebubbles]

My memories are a blur. Seriously, I have two clear memories that took place before I was ten years old. Everything else is vague and unclear. Sometimes I wonder if I might have been a pocket-watched Time Lord (or Lady) and something went wrong, so the memories weren't implanted properly.

It would explain the ability to understand the concepts of time travel to a scary degree, the odd immune system, and the way my nature contradicts itself.

Also, there are two pocketwatches on my dad's dresser that don't work and that we've never paid any attention to. I don't even remember where we got them.

[captlebubbles]

Um, there was going to be a relevant point to that, but I lost it.

[wolfy_writing]

That's weird. I've got consistent memories back since I was four. Before that, it's just bits.

I suspect you were pocketwatched. Be careful about opening them, though. Wouldn't want you to be the Master.

My dreams don't tend to be in linear time as often as I want, but aside from that, I have fairly normal relations to time. I'm trying to get myself in the habit of remembering that whenever I start to yo-yo randomly through time, I'm asleep, but it doesn't seem to be working.

[wolfy_writing]

Okay, that could be the best thing ever. A planet run by cats could be simultaneously hilarious and terrifying.

[captlebubbles]

every show ostensibly set in the 'real world' would be improved by having at least one episode in which something completely science-fictiony happens with no explanation

That would be awesome.

I'm trying to think of what shows I watch that take place in the 'real world' and all I can think of are rp stuff like Top Gear and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.

...

A Science fictiony episode of Kitchen Nightmares would be the coolest thing ever.

[wolfy_writing]

Top Gear did the Race for the Universe, which was full of aliens. It taught us a very important lesson about Daleks and cars.

[captlebubbles]

Yes, but Top Gear is already Very Nearly Almost science fiction anyway.

[wolfy_writing]

True. They've got a Stig, which makes science fiction sort of redundant.

[dracothelizard]

I approve of ANYTHING that mixes House with Red Dwarf. Especially if it's Lister bringing in Holly, because well, Holly's ill and House is the best doctor ever!