Sort-of reaction post - more like avoiding a reaction post, really. : comments.
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Aphasian Chornodenian is wonderful, btw, and OBVIOUSLY I love your conversation between Ben and Polly.
Mostly, though, I like it when the Doctor is the Doctor and the Companions are the Companions-- they are so wonderful and distinct, and work well together, so why mix it up? idk, I like Jamie as Jamie and mixing in Two and Zoe would make him a tidge less special. not to mention that it's a slippery slope to "the earth/companions are NOTHING without teh doktarrr!!! he is the only thing werth livign forrrrr!!!!"
BUT. "Staggeringly intelligent, magnificently Scottish, and still Patrick Troughton" sounds very, very attractive. OOH! Mebbe the Doctor could REVERSE THE POLARITY of the metacrisis brain-flow, so the clone, DoctorZoeJamie, gets all the brain stuff and everyone else is normal? THAT would be hilarious. Jamie would somehow cause an argument, and Zoe would make the argument worse. And Two would try to kick it out of the TARDIS. But then it would do something particularly Jamie or Zoe-like and he wouldn't be able to. You know, because he wuvs them. Meanwhile, Jamie and Zoe are MORE freaked out and really want to throw it out, at which point it says something Two-ish, and Zoe decides that they couldn't possibly throw him out after all. Jamie is still antagonistic, until DoctorZoeJamie says something snotty about Two and Zoe that Jamie has sekritly been thinking from Day One, but has never been mean enough to say. AND THEN THEY BECOME BEST FRIENDS.
Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, Jamie having the ability to technobabble with Zoe and the Doctor would be so cute, and he totally deserves it, poor thing. So really, (and I should have seen this coming) either way you want to write this would make me very happy. ^_^ (Didja see how subtly I suggested that you write it? Did you? I'm slick.)
had I been alive when Logopolis was broadcast, I think this would have been my reaction to the Watcher
AHAHAHAH. TBH? I'd kinda forgotten about the Watcher. That little bit of dubious canon re-write slipped entirely from my brain.
Although actually, I thought the mechanism by which Ten avoided regeneration made sci-fi sense, especially because the circumstances were so perfect and are unlikely to ever happen again. None of the other Doctor's had their own hand in a jar, yanno? So the fact that this hasn't happened before ever isn't a problem. HOWEVER, I'm still irritated that RTD felt the need to use a possible regeneration as a cliffhanger jerk-around. And the two Doctors thing, while funny, had really unsettling implications re: the Companions, specifically Rose and Donna.
Side note: am I the only one who really hated the gimmicky "you can hug me, too!" interactions between Donna and Jack? They were out of character for Jack (he will hug anyone, and finds most people-- particularly ordinary people-- attractive) and made Donna look like the lonely/fat/unpopular kid. I guess they wanted to emphasize that she does feel that way about herself, but it just didn't sit well with me. Too clumsily done, I think, and far too effective with Rose and Martha on the same screen. Donna is straight-up awesome and we know it, and Jack would definitely recognize that, too. Seriously. Re-watch his scenes in Season One, RTD.
All that small font is probably hard to read, but I didn't want you to get assaulted by meta if you're not ready for it. ^^
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Which would be why it's here in the journal instead of actually out in a fic somewhere. *nods sagely* It makes for entertaining crack, but once you start taking it even halfway seriously, it loses some of its appeal (not to mention having those unsettling implications you talked about).
I do like the idea much better if Jamie and Zoe remain Jamie and Zoe, because they are marvelous on their own and it would be a shame for them to lose their individuality, and besides it'd be complicated enough figuring out what to do with DoctorZoeJamie without adding JamieDoctor and ZoeDoctor into the mix. Except you know that ZoeDoctor would be cute as a button - still impossibly smart, but now a bit more distractable and prone to clapping her hands together when she's pleased. And I am in love with the thought of Jamie technobabbling at the Doctor and Zoe, and especially with the smug little grin he'd get when they both stared at him. :D
Didja see how subtly I suggested that you write it? Did you? I'm slick.
I almost missed it, that's how subtle it was. Practically invisible, really.
Also, no. No no no I really can't pick up another fic right now I've already got so much backlog with Memory and whoniverse1000 and the kinkmeme and all that and who am I kidding I'll probably end up writing a short crackfic about it anyway. Sigh.
That little bit of dubious canon re-write slipped entirely from my brain.
Which is probably the best thing to do. :D For the longest time, I thought that the Watcher was a completely cracked idea, but, much as with the metacrisis, once I sat down and thought about it it started to make sense. Hell, it even explained the Valeyard, kind of. HOWEVER, the Watcher at least had prior canon to back it up (in Planet of the Spiders, which I saw after Logopolis, which was probably the only reason I had such a problem with it). Of course, nothing in Planet explains why the Watcher's covered in bandages, but I'll take what I can get.
Like I said, now that I give it some reasonable thought, the Hand-regeneration does make a sort of sense, but it was still so sudden and so unanticipated that it felt like a cop-out/someone pulling canon out of their ass. There were ways they could have led up to this - hell, way back in The Christmas Invasion when the plot device first got cut off. And yes, I hated the regeneration cliffhanger. We knew he wasn't really going to regenerate, seeing as the BBC's already adjusted S5 to fit Tennant's schedule. It was just another case of upping the stakes, since we apparently had to top last year's Gollum!Doc.
And I am a bad horrible wrong person for saying this, but it might have been worth it just for that scene where the Doctor and Rose's happy reunion is interrupted by a Dalek (Caan? I forget.) shooting him. I laughed. I LIKE Rose and Ten and I still laughed. I don't think I was supposed to.
am I the only one who really hated the gimmicky "you can hug me, too!" interactions between Donna and Jack?
No, you're not. It made Donna look...rejected. Passed over in favor of the younger ladies and gents. Like even the canonical manslut wouldn't touch her unprompted. It was sad and felt mean on the writers' behalf. DONNA HAS EARNED SOME HUGS, DAMMIT.