The meta café is back! (And no one's around. Ah well, that's life. *g*) Before we start, a little background for this particular meta:

A while ago I re-watched one of my favourite RTD-era vids of all time: hollywoodgrrl’s Marble House. It is utterly stunning visually and the editing is incredible (the first minute is... unlike anything else), but it is also ( Read more... )

Because we are watching one long, continuous story, and it's timey-wimey and told backwards, but also hugely dependent on what came before (i.e. Ten).

( Spoilers up to LKH, just to be on the safe side )

Are there any Tenth Doctor vids to 'I'm So Ronery'? And if not - WHY NOT???

ETA: THERE IS! \o/

Check the comments. :D

topaz_eyes and I were having a v. interesting conversation on solitary_summer’s LJ, but when she posted the following comment I realised I needed to make a post, because even just thinking about the answer I knew it’d fill up about 4 comment boxes. (It ended up around 8000 words, in the end. Approximately.) Plus it was wildly off topic for the post it was in ( Read more... )

I have had what I can only describe as a backwards epiphany. And I’ve even managed to think up an metaphor for it...

The thing is, that for years I’ve been saying that Ten is *broken*, and damaged. (This is not exactly news, just look at ‘Handlebars’). But for me it was like a tune that I knew well. I fitted Ten beautifully, but I was sure I’d ( Read more... )

Firstly, then the icon really says it all. The post is merely an attempt at explaining my thinking behind it.

Secondly, most of this sprang out of long and complicated conversations with promethia_tenk, who deserves credit for at least half of this, if not more.

Thirdly, HUGE thank you’s to kathyh for making the icon, for lo, it is awesome and everything I wanted ( Read more... )

Firstly then thanks for all the lovely comments - I shall try my best to get to them, honest.

Secondly, then one of the things I love most about LJ is the way discussions spread outward. I bring you two posts related to 'The problems with Ten becoming Eleven' - partly inspired by my post, partly by Maia's:

Character Transition and Living Heroes ( Read more... )

The comments in this post made me see Ten's attitude to his death (something I know a lot of people have a problem with) in a new light...

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green_maia has a very interesting post here about enjoyment of abuse of power versus abuse of power rooted in despair. This is just me turning thoughts over in my head, so lots of rambling. ETA: Or you can just read my reply to her post, since that's like the whole of this post in two lines...

( The Doctor's actions in Family of Blood. )

( Spoilers for everything. Also v. neat insight into Ten's control issues )