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snowgrouse

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Apr 01, 2006 06:14

Teh Nos' explains why shipping is bloody weird to us Old Skool Whovians . And I agree. Wholeheartedly. Only fellow Time Lords and fucked-up alien schoolboys don't count. Because, y'know, they aren't nineteen-year old chicks getting it on with 900-year old aliens. OMG, maybe Rose is some intergalactic golddigger? THAT'D EXPLAIN SO MUCH ( Read more... )

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redstarrobot April 1 2006, 03:26:41 UTC

Only fellow Time Lords and fucked-up alien schoolboys don't count.

I'm willing to go so far as, say, anyone a) not fawning over him, and b) anyone you're not really dogmatic about, because, really, any jokey or informal pairing goes over fine, it's the OTPness people seem to mind.

Which reminds me, there was a bizarre pairing I was going to write recently... maybeI should.

snowgrouse April 1 2006, 03:31:26 UTC

Yeah, I may favour certain pairings in various fandoms but I really don't want to be OTP about anything, just because it's so *limiting*, it closes down so many roads you could take with the characters. And suddenly just picking one companion over so many others is not fair on the Doctor or the other companions--he has more sense than that.

redstarrobot April 1 2006, 03:40:24 UTC

I think it's wisdom that applies more to DW than many fandoms,due to the high character turnover. :)

(The not fawning thing is just... the only way to make the whole age/experience/fucking the designated driver thing not squicky. If they're willing to tell him off, really tell him off, with dripping scorn? They may sleep with him.)

snowgrouse April 1 2006, 03:47:30 UTC

Yeah, it's the overwhelming clinginess that's... well, it's just condescending to the viewer, like all pushed 'ships. It's not like people can't make 'ships from thin air if they fancy the characters enough. I mean, jeez, that was all over the place with characters like Mulder/Krycek who barely had *any* screen time together. Ye gods, now I'm sounding like I prefer even "oh, these two would be pretty/cracktastic together" shipping to canonical pushing... and maybe I do, especially if it involves some creativity. Yeah, I'd definitely want to see your weird pairing:). I think fanfic does fulfill a countercultural role when it goes against Being Told What To Think.

lurkerbunny April 1 2006, 03:34:12 UTC

I'm sorry, I'll have to disagree with that essay. I've been shipping old school Who since my first story. If the other fans think I'm barking up the wrong tree, well, I'm not the only old-school shipper. In fact before the new series was ANNOUNCED, there's been a whole 5/Tegan fanfic... movement... ship thingy. (*shudder* Tegan. Poor Doctor.)

snowgrouse April 1 2006, 03:42:00 UTC

Hey, she does mention the tradition of Davison-fancying and all. And yeah, there was a bit of shipping there but reading the fanfic, even some of the writers themselves seemed a bit weirded out by it. And before the new series, it was really, REALLY difficult to find pr0n if you wanted to indulge, wasn't it? There were only a handful of fics:(. I'm not saying all shipping is wrong, just that there are reasons why it is still weird to a lot of old series fans, perhaps most because it's so disproportionate in comparison to anything that happened before. Despite the TVM fumbling about a bit in the realm of shippiness, Who pretty much swung from "a bit of UST now and then" to "always holding hands and having TWOO WUV" overnight. I really wouldn't mind it if it wasn't so wildly different to what was onscreen before, y'know? And a part of it is annoyance at RTD pushing the 'ship so much, hammering it home just so we can't miss it, instead of letting us decide for ourselves whether there's anything or not (like with Five/Teegs and Doctor/ ( ... )