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Doctor Who / The West Wing: The Doctor for America

Aug 17, 2007 23:17

Title: The Doctor for America
Recipient's Name: anjenue
Fandom: Doctor Who/The West Wing
Rating: G
Character(s): Ten, Josh Lyman, the Bartlet for America staff
Summary: Josh is forced to take on an assistant - a rather unusual assistant.
A/N: This is set during the Bartlet's first campaign, and after season two of Doctor Who, with no season three ( Read more... )

2007 ficathon, character: josh lyman, fandom: doctor who (new), !fic, character: tenth doctor, fandom: west wing

Comments 9

anjenue August 18 2007, 04:51:00 UTC

HEEHEE!!! Oh, the slice of life-ness about this is absolutely perfect. I love how quirky everyone is - the quirkiness of all the various characters fits together so well, doesn't it? And poor Josh, having to deal with the Doctor as his assistant! He's awfully sane, all things considered, for thinking the Doctor's crazy.

Anyway, lovely fic, and thank you SO much!

kerravonsen August 18 2007, 05:36:58 UTC

Intriguing. I haven't actually seen The West Wing, so I don't know who the characters are, but as said above, the slices of life are lovely. We often don't get enough of the introspective "likes to talk to ordinary people" Doctor.

In one sense, it's kind of behind-the-scenes of his life. I mean, we know that in canon, he keeps on mentioning having known various famous people before they were famous, but we never see those parts of his life -- but here we have.

shadowesque13 August 18 2007, 06:54:54 UTC

I'm saving this for-fucking-ever and will force it upon my family. Or at least my brother. You got the characterizations SO RIGHT ON, and the sentiment, and...wow. It's just WOW is what it is, it's BEAUTIFUL. (Also, now I totally think this should've/must've happened, because Ten as Josh's assistant 'til Donna? Win mental image. Would've driven everyone nuts in an endearing sort of way.) LOOOOOVE for all time. I thought the Ave Maria CD was especially touching.

lady_w August 18 2007, 18:05:15 UTC

How wonderfully lovely! :D *memories*

waterfall8484 August 18 2007, 22:35:59 UTC

Oh, this is wonderful! I haven't watched much of TWW at all, and still I had no problems following this. It was funny, and a bit sad, and I liked it very much.

Yes, it's hard and frustrating and it makes me impatient. But words are so beautiful. There's such life in them, such expression. When you can put them together in the right way they echo off the page. They're powerful, and majestic and never put together in exactly the same way more than once. They're poetry and history and life and death and if you don't love them, then you shouldn't be in the business of working with them.
I agree with this 100 percent! And it's so beautifully phrased too... I may have to quote you in my LJ.

waterfall8484 August 18 2007, 22:40:05 UTC

And I just realised that whoever wrote this can't respond (yet). Duh! I'll lay off the quoting until later. :~)