Sort-of reaction post - more like avoiding a reaction post, really. : comments.
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The hand business: I kinda loved the hell out of Nate, but I was a bit weirded that the series arc was leading to that, and the hand thing was...yes. Weird. I think it's only because he already just happened to have the hand available that he had somewhere else that was matching, technically of his own body, to put his regenerative genetic information. Had it not been there, and in most to virtually all cases I'd say a Gallifreyan wouldn't get that opportunity, we'd have Eleven. So that's what I'm explaining it as so it isn't so random.
Davros even called him "destroyer of worlds." Of course, Davros was deflecting accountability and has Issues, but still. I was more wtf over the pointlessness of the Red Dalek than over Davros. Anyway, I kind of like the exploration of the unintended dark side that really always haunts the Doctor, but I think that's constantly visible even when not being directly addressed, so it could do to pace itself more in being presented.
On Rose, this is how I see it: I've already decided she came back as a Torchwood agent who knew him to find the Doctor for help, and took the personal perks of the job with her, because I can't be dealing with risking-reality-for-a-shag crap, even if I'm not fond of her. And as to the ending: Despite her not being over him, she was much more casual about it than last we saw her, so that helped me not want to harm anyone quite so much. And she didn't seem especially interested in Nate (the other Doctor), who seemed very much his own person(ality), either. So it just doesn't seem like it's going to stick. Not to mention, since he's the metacrisis and a metacrisis, as we've heard, is doomed, I'm really figuring that poor bastard is doomed to die right quick. Any way you cut it, there's no permanent boxing up of Rose into that life as I saw it. So she'll move on with her Torchwood job and it'll be fine and that helps me out.
"part Sarah, part Brig, and entirely confused"
I love this sentence fragment.
Also, remember that Adric and Nyssa aren't human and already have brains the size of planets. There could be variance.
"Fascinating language; completely inaccessible to anything living in linear time."
THAT'S SO COOL. Kinda reminds me of my Meeples, with their genders and names indistinguishable to non-Meeples. ...I should do more with them.
OH POLLY, I LOVE YOU. <3
Wait, Leela!Four?! I WANNA SEE FOUR!LEELA!!! Her running around, spouting off surly technobabble and eating candy and growling at people as though she's got no time for this shit between threatening to stab them.
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I like your explanation. Mind if I use it too? :D No, now that I sit down and think about it like a reasonable person the hand thing makes some sort of sense skientiffically, but it still just feels like it came out of nowhere, and I would have liked a little more leadup and/or foreshadowing. Although I suppose Jenny's notdeath in TDD could have been foreshadowing that, in an oblique and strange way. Somehow. I don't know.
...I actually forgot about the Red Dalek. No lie. I completely forgot he was there. That's not a good sign.
I'm a fan of occasional bouts of dark!Doctor myself, since he has the potential to be both an interestingly flawed person and unsettlingly un-human, but...I don't know, it was just laid on so damn thick in Seasons 2 and 3 that I got sick of it, and I was glad we didn't touch it for much of Season 4. Plus, all the Mighty Smiter rhetoric changes the facets of the Doctor from flawed human and non-human/alien to flawed human and Elder God. Not as interesting for me.
Also, I like your explanation for Rose and will be using it as well, since one of the things that irritated me the most was the idea that Rose hadn't moved on with her life. Had she been trying to get to him because the universe was collapsing like a souffle and she didn't know anyone else who could fix that, I wouldn't be nearly as cranky.
And I know that this makes me sound like a horrible person, but I'd almost like it better if Xerox!Ten did die of metacrisis - not because I dislike him, mind you, because I don't, but because I found it massively unfair that he got to walk away while Donna had to be mind-wiped. Yeah, yeah, I know, human brain can't handle Time Lord Brain but TLB can handle human brain, etc etc, but that doesn't mean I like it.
Also, remember that Adric and Nyssa aren't human and already have brains the size of planets. There could be variance.
Excellent point - they probably would be able to handle metacrises just between the two of them, going by canon rules, and would likely be the least affected in a three-way split. Tegan, on the other hand, is probably stuck with Doctor!Brain, the poor thing.
I made up the language off the top of my head, actually - I needed a reason for it to be unpronouncable that would sound sufficiently skiency, and if part of a word consisted of two or more simultaneous syllables or sounds, humans wouldn't be able to duplicate it without sound equipment. And yes, you should do more with the Meeples! I love seeing interesting aliens in DW fic, since there aren't as many as you think.
FOUR!LEELA WOULD BE AWESOME. She'd act all distracted and wide-eyed and occasionally technobabble at you and then suddenly she'd have a knife at your throat.
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It kinda makes me feel better about Nate dying, too. Mind you, I ADORED him. But I just don't see how in hell that would only apply to one of them when they were each halves. As soon as Ten brought it up to Donna, I was like "Um, well, there goes the other one." It sucks the last inkling of sop from Rose's scene, too (a scene that mostly succeeded at implying a lot of ambivalence more than the sop it might've intended, anyway. Or maybe it did intend ambivalence).
Yeah, see! So much Who fic is character stuff, and while that's awesome, I kinda feel like I'd be Doing It Wrong if I didn't try to keep with the central driving force of the show.
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That happens a lot, I've found - I don't know if it's deliberate or not, but there are a lot of scenes in New Who that don't say what they think they're saying. I like to think it's deliberate, since I do occasionally give the writers the benefit of the doubt.
I've heard speculation that the ending was a jab at fandom as much as anything, giving Rose and Ten a superficially happy ending that was in fact not terribly happy at all. I don't think I believe that, but it's an interesting way of looking at it.
So much Who fic is character stuff, and while that's awesome, I kinda feel like I'd be Doing It Wrong if I didn't try to keep with the central driving force of the show.
Same here, really, although I'm guilty of doing the mostly charater-centric stuff just because actually coming up with engaging and believable sci-fi plots and aliens and things that haven't been done ad nauseum already can be a lot of work for me. I love a good character piece, but I love a good adventure just as much, aliens and all.
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