"Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up." - Thomas J. WatsonMajenta Pryce does not sleep ( Read more... )

I have made the decision to make Majenta Pryce from the DWM comics part of this Doctor's canon. Why? Because she's an amazing companion and I think she should be! Like Frobisher, she's only a companion in the comics, but I adore her (though perhaps not as much as our favorite penguin-shaped shape shifter). EDIT: Sorry, I've been reminded that ( Read more... )

( Anatomy of a Scene. Cut for spoilers to 4.10 'Midnight'. )

( Cut for spoilers to 4.09 'The Forest of the Dead'. )

"Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live." Haruki Murakami.

( They begin things at the end. Cut for spoilers to 4.09 'The Forest of the Dead'. )

Danny Ocean: Does he make you laugh?
Tess Ocean: He doesn't make me cry.
-- Steven Soderbergh's remake of Ocean's Eleven

"So, when did this happen?"

(  The Doctor doesn't have to explain. Cut for mild spoilers to 4.04 'The Sontaran Stratagem'. )

( Cut for spoilers to 4.02, 'The Fires of Pompeii'…though really, it was only a throwaway line… )

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you aren't afraid of dying, there is nothing you can't achieve.
- Tao Te Ching

( Anatomy of a Scene. Cut for spoilers to 4.02, 'The Fires of Pompeii'. )

It all came about rather suddenly, he thinks. After he left the Master's body burning, after Martha took her shivering parents home, they met back up at the TARDIS. It was still red and painful with the remainder of the paradox machine, but Martha went immediately to her bedroom, where everything was turned over and poked through by the Master ( Read more... )

So, this trip didn't go nearly as well as he'd hoped ( Read more... )