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The past is another country...
So [for long unimportant explanations] I was looking through old LJ entries, and came across one from the 13th of May 2006. Amongst other things I wrote:
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A Doctor Who question: Was last week's episode *important*? We missed it what with being in London (specifically I think we were on the tube at the time) and then for some annoying reason it didn't show up on replay! *grumblegrumblegrumble* Anyway - any major plot developments that I should be aware of?
Here are some of the replies:
gamiila:
Was last week's Who important? Erm...no, not really. It just had the Doctor falling for Mme de Pompadour and abandoning Rose and Mickey on a starship 3,000 years into the future without a moment's hesitation.
scarlettgirl:
Was it important
Wha....????
::flails::
Of course it was important! Was "Fool for Love" *important*? Was "Darla" *important*?
Elisi!!!
It was just beautiful and heartbreaking and...it very nearly broke fandom.
the_royal_anna:
I have last week's Doctor Who on tape and can send it to you if you like? Then you can make up your own mind. :)
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Looking back, I DO remember all the furore over The Girl In The Fireplace (all the Rose fans were outraged, I was thrilled because the Doctor got laid...). But it's disappeared in the distance, blending into the canon of the show. The issues of *now* are so very different.
Also, the fact that someone had TAPED it, and POSTED IT TO ME, is so adorably quaint that I am all aflail.
ETA: OK, so I ended up having to find & watch this:
And then feeling sad that it's so old that it doesn't include all the Ten/Liz I snogging... Also, RTD cast Tennant when he was Casanova, what did people expect? ;)
Here are some of the replies:
gamiila:
Was last week's Who important? Erm...no, not really. It just had the Doctor falling for Mme de Pompadour and abandoning Rose and Mickey on a starship 3,000 years into the future without a moment's hesitation.
scarlettgirl:
Was it important
Wha....????
::flails::
Of course it was important! Was "Fool for Love" *important*? Was "Darla" *important*?
Elisi!!!
It was just beautiful and heartbreaking and...it very nearly broke fandom.
the_royal_anna:
I have last week's Doctor Who on tape and can send it to you if you like? Then you can make up your own mind. :)
Looking back, I DO remember all the furore over The Girl In The Fireplace (all the Rose fans were outraged, I was thrilled because the Doctor got laid...). But it's disappeared in the distance, blending into the canon of the show. The issues of *now* are so very different.
Also, the fact that someone had TAPED it, and POSTED IT TO ME, is so adorably quaint that I am all aflail.
ETA: OK, so I ended up having to find & watch this:
And then feeling sad that it's so old that it doesn't include all the Ten/Liz I snogging... Also, RTD cast Tennant when he was Casanova, what did people expect? ;)
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It was the most HILARIOUS thing to me. Because all the Doctor/Rise shippers were up in arms and I was just sitting in a corner, eating popcorn and enjoying the spectacle. I have nothing against the Doctor snogging people (humans, zygons, I don't judge), but I am very much against them having a relationship with a companion - the power imbalance is off-putting.
I love digging around in old entries. It's good to remember our past selves occasionally.
Very much so.
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Yes, precisely. At the time I didn't care too much about a one-off character like Madame de Pompadour but rather viewed it as a harbinger of further Doctor-companion relationship drama. Which it totally was. Of the six "main" companions we've had so far (Rose, Martha, Donna, Amy, Clara, and Bill) only Donna and Bill have been completely spared.
(Well, I assume Bill's completely spared, I've only seen a few episodes with her so far and I know Moffat and Gatiss have made their fictional lesbians fall for men before but I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt they wouldn't do that with the Doctor & Bill.)
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I don't mind as long as the human character stays put (see Marilyn Monroe and so forth), because they retain the power that comes within the life/role. It's when they travel that the problems crop up.
but I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt they wouldn't do that with the Doctor & Bill.
He's very much the old professor. <3 Honestly Bill & Twelve (and Nardole!) are one of my favourite TARDIS teams.