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elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote2011-08-13 01:12 pm
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More... *intensity*!

The Girls decided to watch The End of Time this morning, and I watched key bits in amongst doing other things. Ah, nostalgia...

The Master was delightful as always (I could watch him read the phone book), but MY GOD, TEN!



He is just this WALKING BALL OF PAIN and he DOESN'T SMILE AT ALL and at the end (when he visits EVERYONE) they ask him questions and he just LOOKS AT THEM with DEEP DEEP PAIN IN HIS EYES.

(I just kinda want to shake him and go 'It's NOT THAT BAD! get a grip already!')

Oh and then when at the end he STRUGGLES towards the TARDIS, Impish Girl started singing 'Happy Death Day to you,' and then decided that it'd have been so much better if the Ood had been wearing a fez. Heh. I love my children.

Anyway, then came Eleven and he was HAPPY and SMILING and 'Yay, I'm crashing!' and everything was well. ♥

Disclaimer: I'm very fond of Ten, honestly. But the EPIC self pity needs mocking.

ETA: Because my brain can't think about these things without a bunny hopping along.

Scene: The Tenth Doctor is STRUGGLING towards his TARDIS. There is a FLASH and suddenly there appears a bowtie wearing man in a tweed jacket, with a fez on his head and a mop over his shoulder. He looks around.

MAN IN FEZ: Oh dear, wrong place. And time...

He spots Ten.

MAN IN FEZ: Ah. Definitely wrong time.

He taps his wrist and frowns.

TEN (confused, but still weighed down by his TRAGIC FATE): Who... who are you?

MAN IN FEZ: I... Nevermind. You're busy dying, better focus on that. Ood Sigma should be along any moment. Excellent fellow, he'll cheer you. Or not, as the case might be.

TEN (even more confused, and also somewhat insulted at the other man's tone): What? Listen-

He doubles over in pain, his whole mind blanking out for a moment.

MAN IN FEZ: Yes I really should be off.

He points the mop at Ten.

MAN IN FEZ: You have fun, OK?

Another FLASH and he disappears.

TEN (looks around): Wait, what- what just happened?

Then Ood Sigma appears and suddenly there's beautiful music and Ten valiantly struggles on, desperately trying to stop his mind from collapsing and having a vague idea that something just happened, but he can't quite remember what. All he knows is that dying is UNFAIR and that NO ONE UNDERSTANDS.

~

And in a rapidly collapsing universe Eleven shakes his head and, smiling to himself, mutters something about youthful self-indulgences.
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[personal profile] eve11 2011-08-13 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
And in a rapidly collapsing universe Eleven shakes his head and, smiling to himself, mutters something about youthful self-indulgences.


ILU! LOL. And "Happy Death Day", ha, your kids are awesome. If/when I have kids they had better be as awesome as yours.
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[personal profile] promethia_tenk 2011-08-13 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I love EVERYTHING about this scene. The complete disconnect in tone. The dramatic irony. The contrast between Ten collapsing and the universe ending. "You have fun, ok?" The harbinger of the future-ness. The fact that, had it actually happened, the audience would have been left scratching their heads for months wondering what the heck it was about. It's like Ten--->Eleven in a nutshell, with time loops!

Would that this had happened!!
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[personal profile] promethia_tenk 2011-08-13 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Sad is happy for deep people. *nods*
EOT was a regular old deep people's party, then.

And I would just have called it 'crack'. Thank you! :)
Well, yes, but then so's the show . . .

Also, hey look at perfect icon - I'd almost forgotten I had it! *g*
<3

(Yours is awesome too btw.)
I've wanted one for *ages* and finally found it! How did Ten manage to walk around the universe for three whole years without *anybody* ever calling him that? It staggers the imagination.

[identity profile] ladymercury-10.livejournal.com 2011-08-13 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree with all of this. :D
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[personal profile] owlboy 2011-08-13 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
oh Ten, so ronery and sadry arone...<3

I totally imagined the EPIC MUSIC OF TRAGEDY cutting out when Eleven appears, then restarting when Ten begins his STRUGGLE again

[identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com 2011-08-13 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm - and now I have a mental image of an Ood in a fez showing the doctor, in a bowler hat, into a changing room in a fancy dress shop....

(Have you ever seen mister Ben? If not this will make evn less sense to you!)

[identity profile] sofia666.livejournal.com 2011-08-13 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Your children sound wonderful :) that is totally what I would have been saying, at that age, if I had been watching the End of Time. It brings back fond memories of me and my sisters mocking Angel's more intense brooding angsty moments. good times.

And that scene is comic brilliance! Little would Ten know the complete personality change he was about to undergo, LOL.
and I think that is why Eleven is MY doctor, because I like a good dose of considerable humour and good cheer, and Eleven does have that. He is completely charming. I love this line-
MAN IN FEZ: I... Nevermind. You're busy dying, better focus on that. Ood Sigma should be along any moment. Excellent fellow, he'll cheer you. Or not, as the case might be.

as well as the part about youthful self-indulgences, because despite his looks Eleven can seem very old at times, and Ten was portrayed so often as someone fighting a lot of issues, and his outlook on life does seem youthful at times.

I now really want to see this scene in Doctor Who, despite the whole 'rapidy collapsing universe'!
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[personal profile] mb2u 2011-08-13 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh.

I agree that ubermopeyTen is not a good thing.

[identity profile] slackerspice.livejournal.com 2011-08-13 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Impish Girl started signing 'Happy Death Day to you,'

Heh.

D'you think he ever figured it out?

[identity profile] quean-of-swords.livejournal.com 2011-08-13 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Youthful self-indulgences! LOL!

Love this!

[identity profile] slackerspice.livejournal.com 2011-08-13 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Man, he must've felt stupid...
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[personal profile] promethia_tenk 2011-08-13 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I totally imagined the EPIC MUSIC OF TRAGEDY cutting out when Eleven appears, then restarting when Ten begins his STRUGGLE again
*stifles laughter* I am now in a state of mild mourning that this will never be shot.
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[personal profile] promethia_tenk 2011-08-13 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
That level of hair gel dependency should never pass without commentary.

And I'd like you to know that I just laughed my way through the diner scene in EoT. Obviously I blame you.
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[personal profile] owlboy 2011-08-13 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I would 100% animate it if I could find someone to play Ten and Eleven. It is a thing that needs to exist.

It also reminded me of Moffat saying about EoT, "There's this huge, epic tragedy of the Doctor, and his ultimate fate.. is to turn into Matt Smith."

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