"This one, or this one?" "...go away."

[rionaleonhart]

A HUSTLE ALMOST WENT HORRIBLY WRONG. I have wanted to see one of them go a bit awry ever since I started watching The Real Hustle, so I was really rather thrilled by this. Although I have to admit that I was genuinely worried that the mark might actually drag Alex off the motorbike and horribly injure him or something

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[emmarrrrr]

and by 'interesting' I mean 'lol watch the Internet explode'

THIS IS TRUE AND SHOULD HAPPEN mostly to prove doctor/master as canon

DON'T EVER STOP GIVING ME CRACKFIC IDEAS.

also i will watch the repeat of The Real Hustle in a couple of hours. ♥

[dracothelizard]

Doctor/Master is canon already. I mean, wanting to give up travelling for the Master? TRUE LOVE YO.

[draegonhawke]

If it helps, I never found Tennant that attractive either....

[rionaleonhart]

I was going to say 'HOORAY, THERE IS ONE OTHER PERSON ON THE ENTIRE PLANET WHO DOESN'T FIND TENNANT ATTRACTIVE', and then I realised that it was you. I assume that you're allowed not to find Tennant attractive if you don't find anyone else in the world attractive either.

Don't ever change. ♥. I genuinely panicked when you made that Rabbit Hole Day post about getting a boyfriend two years ago.

[draegonhawke]

•snickersnort• Technically, I have found people attractive on occasion. Physically attractive, even. It's just that my sense of physical attraction is a function of how much I like/resonate with a person, which leads to perverse little tangles like the fact that I find 9th Doctor quite attractive while Christopher Eccleson kinda puts me off, or I find Daniel Jackson adorable but am apathetic to Michael Shanks.

[rubaiyyat]

[Master] Leaving aside the obvious points, what makes you think the Doctor would care? Time Lord society is not so strictly (or so dualistically) gendered.

[rionaleonhart]

When I was typing it up, that was exactly what I thought. The original draft of this post included the line 'Is gender relevant to Time Lords?', but I stripped it out because it would still create interesting discussion; after all, most viewers will have automatically assigned human sexuality norms to Time Lords, and it would still raise and answer some questions even for those of us who have considered it, er, more than a normal person might.

[rubaiyyat]

[Master] (To be boringly pedantic, it is one of those minor little traits that seem to be mostly random in the history of our biology, and you'll probably encounter variance from universe to universe, but did I mention boring? Science without application is all well and good, but I find I care less for theory these days.)

Keep in mind also that everything you've seen (and, in fact, everything you're seeing now, despite efforts to the contrary) has been presented through a human lens, which will tend to take for granted the similarities between species and brush off or sensationalise the differences.

And while there is a subset of Time Lords who base attraction on physical characteristics, for a large and growing number of Time Lords I'm sure you can see how this would be an unstable proposition at best. (You can compare it, if you'd like, to a human condition predicating attraction on age or some such other transitory state. Paederasty provides one such suitable example.) (Unstable especially as regards the Doctor. Have you

[sideshow_meg]

I was watching The Real Hustle and got a bit nervy when the guy GRASPED the motorbike.

[rionaleonhart]

IT WAS HIGHLY ALARMING. It was sort of great, because they never show the hustles that go a bit wrong, but there was also the sense of 'nooooo! Alex!'

[newbie1990]

YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE GREAT? If Master!Jess went back in time to meet Simm!Master and they had HOT HOT TIMELORD THREESOMES WITH THE DOCTOR. I want for this to happen.

Also I keep forgetting my LJ name. So whenever I see it I am all 'Hey, I know them!' AND THEN I REMEMBER.

Also, my theory as to the Master being Jess is that the Master's sooouuul is contained within the ring, and that when Master!Jess went back in time, she told Lucy to force the ring on someone. When the hustlers attempted to hustle Lucy, she gave the ring to Jess, and the Master is POSSESSING HER. The doctor does not like the idea of the innocent human being possessed, but the Master is adamant that she is helping him and she enjoys the power. Also, some fiddling with perception filters with Alex's appearance in mind was what led Jack to look like Alex rather than be invisible. Jess felt it would be a good idea. ALSO POSSIBLY LUCY IS PAUL. I do not think that Lucy appreciates this. ...I maybe taking this SLIGHTLY TOO SERIOUSLY. :S.

[dracothelizard]

"When the hustlers attempted to hustle Lucy, she gave the ring to Jess, and the Master is POSSESSING HER."

It would be like Ginny with Tom Riddle's diary! That would be genius!