I am not so much enjoying the fandom implosion. "It has to be a fake title, because River isn't in the episode, and it's been practically confirmed that she's his wife."
Ok. First of all: this is Doctor Who. "Practically confirmed" is meaningless--only slightly more so than "actually confirmed".
Second: NOT EVEN! I wouldn't mind for River to be his wife, at some distant unspecified future date I never have to actually witness for more than a moment of montage. BUT the show has in no way confirmed her to be the Doctor's wife.
Thirdish: it pretty much has been confirmed that the Doctor's had other wives. He supposedly married Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth I. And unless the LOOOMS turn out to be canon, he very well might have procreated with a female lady wife-type character in the past. (No, he never mentioned marriage in connection to being a father, and he doesn't need to have been married to have a family, but it's not out of the realm of possibility that he was.)
People at doctoreleven were speculating on a Firefly, "Our Mrs.
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I think that's what amuses me about the reaction, actually. People are arguing like we have anything solid to go on, when Who canon is wonky to begin with and we just rewrote the universe. Also we have a showrunner that loves screwing around with people, so anything that is implied, winked about, or all the way up to "confirmed" still has a pretty high percentage of being nonsense (I may have learned to laugh at this behavior by watching Homestuck fandom, though. It has a notoriously wank-baiting creator and a fanbase that thinks everything makes perfect sense). I'm also not trying to participate in any of the arguments, though, which is probably why it doesn't bother me so much that people are bonkers. The looms are so canon, I don't care what canon says! ^_
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That's just it! It's Neil Gaiman! Of course nothing will be straight-forward about the episode!
An "accidental occult wedding", huh? I could be down for that! It's about time Doctor Who shook off the whole "it's a family show!" BS! The show could be so fantastically dark and twisted! (Not all the time, but: every once in awhile. The way the X Files was irreverent and funny every once in awhile, only...opposite. Yeah.)
I don't doubt you could do amazing things with that prompt. If the muse should strike and you find it necessary to creepify my childhood, you have my blessing! (Most of my childhood is already rather creepy. Do you remember Zoobilee Zoo, or are you too young? Anyway, I'm pretty sure that show is single-handedly responsible for my anthropomorphism squick.)
I've always just assumed that the UK had a much more lenient take on "family show", so anything can happen except graphic sex and red blood. Then again, I watched the X-Files with my dad all the time, so that was technically a family show, too. (-; (Doctor Who as reverse X-Files... hmmm...)
The muse is taunting me right now, and has been for the last couple of months. There are a lot of things that seem like great ideas, and sometimes I even get as far as fun scenes, but nothing ever coalesces around them. (This is, incidentally, how I got myself kicked out of thegameison_sh. The other 3/4 of it involved improbably-timed LJ downtime and a mountain. Oops.) I'm just hoping I can whip the two fics I'm working on for sherlockmas into shape this weekend. I've got a feeling the Sherlock in Baltimore one is going to be woefully short, and that makes me sad
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Ok. First of all: this is Doctor Who. "Practically confirmed" is meaningless--only slightly more so than "actually confirmed".
Second: NOT EVEN! I wouldn't mind for River to be his wife, at some distant unspecified future date I never have to actually witness for more than a moment of montage. BUT the show has in no way confirmed her to be the Doctor's wife.
Thirdish: it pretty much has been confirmed that the Doctor's had other wives. He supposedly married Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth I. And unless the LOOOMS turn out to be canon, he very well might have procreated with a female lady wife-type character in the past. (No, he never mentioned marriage in connection to being a father, and he doesn't need to have been married to have a family, but it's not out of the realm of possibility that he was.)
People at doctoreleven were speculating on a Firefly, "Our Mrs. ( ... )
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An "accidental occult wedding", huh? I could be down for that! It's about time Doctor Who shook off the whole "it's a family show!" BS! The show could be so fantastically dark and twisted! (Not all the time, but: every once in awhile. The way the X Files was irreverent and funny every once in awhile, only...opposite. Yeah.)
I don't doubt you could do amazing things with that prompt. If the muse should strike and you find it necessary to creepify my childhood, you have my blessing! (Most of my childhood is already rather creepy. Do you remember Zoobilee Zoo, or are you too young? Anyway, I'm pretty sure that show is single-handedly responsible for my anthropomorphism squick.)
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The muse is taunting me right now, and has been for the last couple of months. There are a lot of things that seem like great ideas, and sometimes I even get as far as fun scenes, but nothing ever coalesces around them. (This is, incidentally, how I got myself kicked out of thegameison_sh. The other 3/4 of it involved improbably-timed LJ downtime and a mountain. Oops.) I'm just hoping I can whip the two fics I'm working on for sherlockmas into shape this weekend. I've got a feeling the Sherlock in Baltimore one is going to be woefully short, and that makes me sad ( ... )
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