elisi | Birthday day post. :)

Meant to do a proper post, but now it's late, I'm watching the IT Crowd (laptop yay! It's old and slow, but it works) and just too lazy to write anything long.

Firstly though thank you to

the_royal_anna for the (snail mail) card [that got here in time!] and the fireworks, and to

kathyh and

kittyzams for the e-cards and to everyone else for the birthday greetings - I love LJ! *squishes to all*

Had a very lovely birthday with nice presents - most notably gorgeous winter boots and the softest bathrobe ever. *snuggles further in* Oh, and the girls got me S3 of Red Dwarf. :)

In the evening Darcy made a wonderful meal, followed by a Cassandra cake (he meant to make a TARDIS, but at the last minute realised he didn't have any blue food colouring). And then he whisked me off for my surprise, which turned out to be ballet! Wuthering Heights to be specific. Does that work as a ballet you wonder? And you know what? It *does*! Hurrah for dark, broody angstfests with men in tights! ;)

And that's all for now. Sleep well everyone. :)

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Hi,

I realise I suck for this post being very late, but I have a 'lil birthday gift for you if, in true Mission Impossible style (the original TV series - and not the... well, that's not mention that one), you choose to accept it.

Many Aeons ago, when the original Dr.Who show had finished, and after the violent end of Blake's 7 had started me writing stories, I came up with an idea for restoring the show.

It's very patchy (it has been 20 years after all), but this is something like how it went.

I believe I'd just read the novelisation of Susan's (the Doctor's grand-daughters) final story, and wondered what had happened to her after she had been left behind on Earth.

I set the story over a thousand years later (well she is a Time Lord), and the Doctor, who has been defeated, YES, defeated, and was suffering from some very serious physical & psychological side effects of that. I imagine that he'd made some very-Joss Whedon-like decisions of a very grey moral nature which, of course, had gone very badly wrong.

As for Susan, she is one of the few surviving leaders of a resistance movement fighting a losing battle (in the British Isles, naturally...) against a fascist world leadership that sprang from groups who had collaborated with the Daleks and could use their technology. She's also become very cynical, and extremely bitter, as well; not loved by her followers, who really have no-one else to lead them (think S7 Buffy).

That 'war' is coming to an end, due to the fact that Susan's resistance movement has to steal everything it needs to survive; cannot move freely about, even in these islands, which have been left largely uninhabited by the ruling regime (I imagine a heavily-forested envionment allowing the use of a lot of SG-1 / B7 forest settings).

1) what kind of grey moral decisions would she, as a terrorist / resistance leader (take your pick depending on whose side of the story you're telling. Think who the heroes would be if the Nazis had won and had had a thousand years of re-writing history behind them) have had to make, which would set her against, in her head, her memories of her grandfather, and how has she been able to justify them, given that she shared those beliefs when they parted.

2) what happened to the man she married? And also what happened to her in the time between then, and now? Did she have to sacrifice someone she loved, or did someone she trusted, intimately, betray their cause? Did she have any children? Were they victims of such a betrayal; sacrificed to save other, or even the traitors?

3) how do they reconnect after so vast a period of time? Susan has to have developed feelings of abandonment, particularly after fighting such a long war without the help of the grandfather who'd raised her but, apparently never checked up on her. Presumably they've both done thing they feel certain the other will find objectionable, and will find it difficult to tell the complete truth.

And that is as far as it where it stands. Naturally some of the reconstructive imagery is influenced by Joss, but you can take what you want and disregard what you don't, particularly as you will be far more influenced by the new show.

Hope you'll pick up the baton. I don't see myself doing anything with it, as don't have the interest in the who-vian verse that I once did.

Very-belated happy birthday,
Still under Willow & Tara's spell,
Ray.

Well thank you for your very belated gift, and sorry about being late responding to it... (RL's busy. You know how it is! *g*)

It is certainly a very juicy plotbunny, and I'm very flattered that you chose to give it to me. I shall certainly put it in a hutch along with all the others, although I can't guarantee anything. Partly because I have about a gazillion stories to write already, and partly because I've never actually seen Old Who, and would feel totally at sea writing characters I've only ever glimpsed. If, however, I one day managed to get round to (/find the time for/means to) watch the old show, this might develop into something though, since it is certainly my kind of thing!

Thank you again for this - it's definitely made me think!

Hi,

there's no reason you can't use one of the Docs you're familiar with, you'd just need to read up a bit on Susan. The old novelisations, Target Books, must be available somewhere, and there must be a host of nostalgia books, and I know there's a bunch of fans that have been doing video interviews, now on DVD, virtually since the old show ended.

Still under Willow & Tara's spell,
Ray.

Birthday day post. :)

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