elisi | Snow Day #3!

First of all the Happiest of Birthdays to

lostakasha! May your day be fabulous and the coming year full of turnips! :)

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As the subject line says, this is our third snow day. The girls' school decided to just shut for the week, which is understandable (and I am grateful that I don't have to drag them through the snow every morning), but it means that my Life of Childfree Bliss lasted for precisely one day... Still, it is *beautiful* out there, with the sun shining brightly on all the snow. Not that this is impressing the girls: 'It's cold! We've played in the snow for days! We're not going outside again!' *headdesk* (I could probably cope if they'd just be QUIET! *tries not to go spare*)

Oh and the iMac's *definitely* dead, which makes me very, very sad. :(

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By the way - in case anyone missed it - I posted the final part of The Problem with Boxing Day.

In other Who-related 'news', I (thanks to

kerkevik!) watched the very first episode of DW - 'An Unearthly Child'. For anyone curious, you can find it here:

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2czi2HltlQ

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYEW6Px33wo

Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd0hxTKbwVo

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Which reminds me: I've enjoyed your Alexander stories very, very much, especially the Boxing Day one.
OMG really? *is thrilled to bits* The Boxing Day one took me by surprise, to be honest. But it proved the perfect excuse to touch upon a lot of issues that I knew I wanted to address - like the Doctor's parenting and the change in Alex pre- and post-Schism. (The only problem with the 'verse is how utterly incompatible it now is with canon. At some point I'll do a 'return of Davros' story, but otherwise I can't really use anything from the show. Which is a shame, because CoE especially would have been brilliant to re-write. Ah well, it's not like I haven't got *entirely* too many plotbunnies anyway. And thank you for taking an interest, it really means an awful lot!)

Here is a nice collection of funny moments of the First Doctor's era.
Oooh, shiny! Must go start making tea, but will have a look once things are bubbling away. Thank you! :)

Oh, but I'd love to see this universe's version of CoE. Because the 456 coming to Earth is not dependent on anything that happened in DW post Sound of Drums; it's dependent on something that has already happened in the 1960s. So basically the second visit should happen in your timeline as well.

How everyone reacts is of course dependent on whether CoE is a fixed point type of event or not. There is also the problem in terms of story suspense that if the Doctor has his TARDIS available and it isn't a fixed point, he could and would deal with the 456. (Not with the politicians.) Which would cut a fascinating story short. If it is a fixed point, something that has to happen a la Pompeii or Waters of Mars, then things get really tricky. On the one hand, the most practical if very cold thing would be for both Time Lords to get Alex and Lucy and leave shortly before, not to come back until after. On the other end of the extreme, there is the Doctor in Time Lord Victorious mode (in which case he'd not only deal with the 456 but with the politicians as well while he was at it), but it takes a lot of breakage until he gets to that point in WoM, and these things did not happen in your timeline. My guess is that it would be something in the middle, i.e. he would let it happen as it has to play out but would try to substitute another method for taking out the 456 at Day 5 so Jack doesn't have to kill his own grandson. Whether or not he'd succeed with that is another question.

As for the Master, his basic attitude towards other alien invaders is "team up with and use first, discover am over my head and ally with Doctor temporarily to get rid of same later", but having a child of his own at stake would of course change that. I could see him going for either the "let's get the hell out of here" or "why not take over the planet ourselves to show them how to properly deal with the 456?" solution.

And on a different note, because one can't watch it often enough:

Oh I LOVE all your thoughts!!! *does a happy dance*

It would really, really help if they'd tell us *why* the Doctor wasn't there in CoE - fixed event or maybe the 456 cut communications? Because as you point out the Timelords' actions depend on this a fair bit. *is frustrated*

My main reason for not doing a 'my version of' is because I'd have to change so MUCH of the story - both the Hub, and Ianto, are intact 20 years later, so I'd have to change an awful, awful lot of plot... Unless I do it as a straight AU [from the AU! *headdesk*]

Actually the problem is that I've known exactly how it'd play out ever since I watched CoE, but characterwise I can't make it work with what comes later - unless I mindwipe them all, and that seems a little drastic. *sigh*

And on a different note, because one can't watch it often enough:
True. *re-watches* :)

(Good grief it's taken me almost an hour to write this! Stupid interfering RL!)

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