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You know, I feel much better about the last ten minutes of The Waters of Mars after a startling revelation, on the way home from the library today, that the new, darker Doctor is paving the way for the inevitable Bruce Campbell!Doctor.

Yes he is. Think about it. Ten is much, much older than any of the other Doctors and has been through a lot more, yes? In fact he's almost at the same point in his regenerative cycle, though perhaps not the same age, as the Master was when we first saw him conquering planets and things. And, compounded with the fact that the Valeyard is supposed to be from between the Doctor's twelfth and final regenerations, there's certainly credence to the theory that Time Lords start to go bad and lose their restraint over their power as they get older. Indeed, perhaps that's why the regeneration limit was even imposed!

So, naturally, this means as the Doctor gets older, he's going to go madder. He'll start losing respect for his principles, or obeying them in name only (as when he technically didn't break his self-imposed order not to kill with the Family of Blood, opting instead to torture them forever). He'll see himself as the only thing standing between the universe and chaos, and will see fit to impose his will when things aren't going his way. Eventually, even the principle of nonviolence may be thrown out for the greater good.

I can't help but be reminded of a certain Ash Williams, surrounded by his own demon-possessed friends and loved ones (oh, and eventually zombie hoards) and as such rapidly descending from average student to chainsaw-wielding psycho with possibly the most one-liners-per-minute rate in history.

That's right. By the time we hit Thirteen, the Doctor will be so heady with his own power, so warped by everything he's seen and done, that he'll have transformed, literally and figuratively, into Ash circa Army of Darkness. Good, bad, he's the guy with the gun sonic screwdriver.

Disclaimer: I don't actually advocate this, I don't actually like Waters-of-Mars-dark Doctor, and yes, I'm well aware that having the Doctor as a shotgun-toting badass is completely missing the point of the character. But it does make me feel a lot better about a plot development I was previously rather angry about if I can console myself that it will eventually result in Bruce Campbell, Time Lord.

And, really, I'd just like to see that anyway. The idea of a technically-pacifist character played by Campbell is so insane it wraps all the way back around to being awesome again.


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Obligatory navel-gazing: I seem to have this problem where I don't become comfortable with certain subject matter (killing off some characters, for example, or some kinks) until I've written it myself. Otherwise I don't even want to read it. This presents problems because, unless I read other examples of whatever it is I'm uncomfortable with, I have no real way of knowing how to write said subject matter correctly, or what lines, descriptions, etc have already been used and abused. And so I find myself in a bind.

Sigh. Oh, for the days when writing was easy. And inevitably very bad, because I was all of fourteen and that's probably why it was easy.

Also, while I've been writing up my research report, I have been screencapping "Mayhem of the Music Meister", and so soon as I have another long night ahead of me I have a picspam planned. Because I feel like I need to prove that a musical episode of Batman actually exists, and that I'm not just making the whole thing up. Also because the new season of The Brave and the Bold has started and I need someone to squee about it with, and picspams are excellent for pimping fandoms, yes?

To work, to work.