A Who-ish Anniversary

[rumpelsnorcack]

So, a few days ago when I was wandering through some fanvids to get my head back into a Rory-fic space, I realised something.  I realised that the fifth anniversary of the end of S5 of Doctor Who (and, coincidentally, Amy and Rory’s fifth wedding anniversary) was today.  It got me all nostalgic.  I’m glad that first Eleven season aired in 2010.  I’

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[rumpelsnorcack]

Fandom can, indeed, be a wonderful thing in time of stress. I definitely found fandom, and particularly my friends, very helpful across that very difficult time. I have lost contact with some of them but I remember them all very fondly -- and many of the most supportive and helpful came into my life as a direct result of S5, which will always have a place in my heart because of that.

I knew you would be my River-fountain :D Thank you so much. Those were all wonderful. I don't mind shippy, of course, because after Amy/Rory my DW ship is 11/River. But it is nice to see River getting recognition for her own awesomeness as well as her connection to the Doctor. That first vid is <3

Hah, I hated the intro in the End of Time, too. As I said, I was super worried about how this was going to be so to fall so heavily in love so very fast was just magical. For no other reason this season would be my favourite anyway. But they also gave me my absolute favourite ever team!Tardis and every time all four of them were together I felt like this show just couldn't get any better -- even if some of the episodes weren't the best, the interactions of the 4 of them were perfect.

It's funny you should compare Amy to River like that because I saw it the other way round. I found Amy to be so blatantly open with her hidden vunerabilities and bravado that I could never understand why people said she was cold and too bossy-and-unfair!Amy as you say. Whereas River I saw as (delightfully, fantasically) Flirty!River and Feisty!River. I didn't see vulernable!River untl after the season was over and I got discussing it with someone else. She opened my eyes to the other side of River and I can see it clear as day now. But at the time ... nah. Whereas Amy was so obviously (to me) hiding her insecurities behind her bravado. That her bossiness hid her insecurities just seemed so obvious to me, in the acting and even a lot of the writing. On the other hand, yours is a complaint I have seen too many times to dismiss. I'm just glad I didn't see it that way. Perhaps it was that I was shipping it so hard so a huge amount of my attention was focused on her. I don't know. I just know that I loved her from the start and I feel like (at least in this series) she developed a huge amount. I have issues with a lot of stuff in S6 in particular, but S5 was a delight to me from start to finish :)

*snuggles you* Thanks again for the vid recs. Thay are awesome. Is there a way to search Vimeo for stuff? It's not a place I've been much so it could have a nice rich vein of things I haven't seen before :D

[flowsoffire]

♥ That’s great it could help you. Fandom helped a lot to keep me sane in the past, too, lol… Though it wasn’t for the same reasons. =P It’s always bittersweet when you lose touch with people, but indeed, the memories remain.

River-fountain, I love the sound of that! XD Yeah, I got what you meant about the shippiness-the ship is WONDERFUL, but River is smashing in her own right and she isn’t just the Doctor’s wife. And IKR? I loved that it started by some Pond family feels :D

Fresh regenerations are always kind of awkward! Capaldi and the kidneys was weird, too. Maybe it also felt like too much of a running joke. Tennant felt all right though.

Indeed, the team was just lovely =) Bigger teams really can be smashing, I’m seeing that in the classics as well. A very special Doctor + companion connection is great, but good team dynamics are rarer and they just give such a smashing effect.

I get you about Amy actually seeming more vulnerable than River, I do agree that part of it might be a personal feeling, how the character resonates with you and what ship one is more sensitive to, as you said. Being really into a ship and/or character, you see all of the little details, and River was mostly vulnerable around the Doctor (and later, Rory and a wee bit of the Ponds). And when you fall in love with a character, you just get them in a way that might be more difficult to grasp for a person who doesn’t necessarily empathize with them so much. It’s great to discover new facets of a character through discussions though =) (I was just discussing that with another friend the other day and wondering why I hadn’t had the same problem at all with Donna, who is also bossy and shouty and hides deep insecurities behind her loudness. I think it’s because Donna’s empathy is much more openly expressed-her vulnerabilities are kept in, but her affections, the things and people she cares about are all out there, whereas Amy protects herself a lot more, including the way she deals with her own feelings. But yeah, she’s growing on me now ;) Reading her and writing about her, especially.)

I am not very familiar with Vimeo either, tbh, I just know a few people and vids through LJ linkage. It does look like a nice place though, maybe smaller and more quality, like AO3 to fanfiction.net? I just know the little search box at the top but I haven’t browsed it much ;) But it looks like there’s a more refined browsing system, with the “watch” tab that allows you to pick categories, channels…