carmen_lj: (polly - red writing)
carmen_lj ([personal profile] carmen_lj) wrote2007-06-22 06:43 am

Completely Random Thing About Utopia

([livejournal.com profile] who_daily no link please)

I think what makes me find the Ten/Jack ship endearing, more than anything else, is the fact that Ten calls him "Jack." Several times. Nine didn't do that. It makes me want them to hug lots more. Because I'm nauseatingly sentimental sometimes.

That isn't to say that I wouldn't be perfectly happy if all the fic ever written about the finale was purely concerned with Saxon. Because I would.

Also, any blonde woman guest-starring in New Who has nothing to do with Rose. They are all there because of Polly. Always. Because Polly was first and blonde and wore more mascara than Rose. And she bet Cybermen and redcoats and had Mad Plans that generally worked, thus making her very much like the Doctor. And sometimes people randomly fell in love with her, just like the Doctor. This means that if you have watched New Who and fail to realise it is actually all about Polly you are both Wrong and Interrogating The Text From The Wrong Perspective. But I can understand that you might have mistaken the Polly!symbolism for Romana!symbolism, because the Doctor did love her best.

And, incidentally, I can't be arsed doing tags on [livejournal.com profile] dwicons today. Because I read post after post about how Martha was stealing Rose's moments in reviews of season three, or some guff like that, and now there are icons that have photoshopped Rose into Martha's place in the promo shots. Oh the irony. It would burn if I didn't find it so insanely tiresome.

Also, there was character-bashing this week. That was unamusing. There's a reason I refuse on principle to put No Character Bashing in the rules. And it's because it falls into the same category as 'no trolling' and 'no flaming' and 'no slagging off The Time Monster,' in that they're bloody stupid things to do that are obviously going to piss any half-sensible person off.

And for god's sake don't ask me why I'm not okay with character-bashing.

Happily, I am v glad that Rusty has seen fit to match my OTP slash pairing with an easily shippable het-pairing. Well done Rusty. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, there are pictures on the BBC Doctor Who site that explain, yes.

[identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't want that. Think our character war is bad, with people pointing to "RTD said about Rose..."? Imagine the fun when the producers outright dogpiled on the Ritchie fans over there. RTD may have said things about the Doctor/Rose ship, but he has never insulted Martha, insulted her fans, or allowed the tie-in authors to call requests for her to be written accurately to Freema's physical description as "unimportant details."