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Three Metas
One Icon
One Mini-mix
One Macro
Two Mini-spams
My fave character : Amelia Pond
Watching Amy and the Doctor together was like watching a bad television show. You know, the kind where the girl has been hurt by the man in the past, managed to build herself back up (with the help of her awesome boyfriend) and get over him? And then the guy shows up years later and all the work the girl has done falls down and she’s back at being vulnerable? And you just know one day he’ll leave again and she’ll be even more destroyed? Yeah. Watching these two felt that way for Rory.
Bff-ness : The Doctor Donna
The Doctor: The last time, with Martha, it got complicated. And that was all my fault. I just want a mate.
Donna: You just want to mate?
The Doctor: I just want a mate!
Donna: You're not matin' with me Sunshine!
The Doctor: A mate! I want a mate!
Donna: Well, just as well, because I'm not having any of that nonsense! I mean, you're just a long streak of nothing, y'know, alien nothing!
A ship : The TARDIS
Time And Relative Dimensions in Space. A ship of the bluest blue. Did we say it’s bigger on the inside?
The TARDIS is the Doctor’s most faithful companion. She is his best companion. Part-ship, part-life form, she is known to often not behave in the most unfortunate moments. This is why the Doctor keeps a mass next to the control board, I think. She often regenerates with his Doctor and moreover, she guides him through his regenerations.
She’s old and new at the same time, she’s neither part of the present, the past nor the future. She’s an idea, a concept and the coolest ship you could ever wish to have. Did we say it travels in time?
Someone you hated, but now love : River Song
We were introduced to River Song in Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, the epic two-parter of series 4. She is a mysterious woman who knows the Doctor from his future, which is her past. They meet in the wrong order, you see.
I hated her. True, deep and burning hate. She was arrogant and self-satisfied and kept telling the Doctor he was not the Doctor yet.
Then she came back in Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone and I fell in love, hard. She was younger than the first time we’d seen her, blonde, and awesome. She mothered Amy, handled the Doctor roughly as a lover would, and she was on par with him intellectually. She was like the Doctor but down-to-Earth and willing to explain to Amy what was going on.
The third time we saw her, in The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang, it only confirmed my love. She defaced the oldest cliff in the universe to get the Doctor’s attention. I don’t want to spoil anyone so I’ll stop here. We’ll get to finally know who she is in series 6 and I seriously can’t wait.
Your choice : Doctor/Master
(Oh and if you see it on the cheezburger network, I didn’t steal it. I was just too lazy and used their poster builder. No stealing, I swear.)
A minor character : Madame de Pompadour
What’s Under My Bed? - The Horrorpops
Monsters chasing after me
I get no sleep
I'm running but no matter what
It gets me no where
Something is under my bed
Snapping at my leg
I'm frozen
I'm not freaked out.
But you and I both know, don't we, Rose, that the Doctor is worth the monsters. One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.
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Something old : Doctor Who
It’s impossible to describe the Doctor without eventually saying ‘just watch an episode and you’ll understand.' This is why this meta isn’t about the Doctor, but about the show itself.
Doctor Who began in 1963. That’s before The Beatles invaded America. This basically means that most of the original production and cast teams is dead. The three first Doctors are dead. The first was born in 1908. That’s what I call old.
Now counting a mind-blowing thirty-one seasons, 768 episodes (108 were lost by BBC over the years), Doctor Who is listed in the Guiness World Record book as longest running sci-fi television show in 2007, as well as the most successful sci-fi series ever in 2009. Yet, most people don’t know it. Just imagine if it were mainstream outside of the United Kingdom.
The secret to its longevity is the regeneration of the main character. Long story short, when the Doctor is fatally wounded, he changes his entire biology (and, to a certain extend, his personality) to survive. We now watch the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor.
The show is usually split in two. There’s the classic era, which spans from 1963 to 1989, when the show ended. In 1996 came a television movie which, even now, is still considered half-canon. Great debates actually exists to decide whether the Eight Doctor (portrayed by Paul McGann is canon or not). It came back officially in 2005 when Russell T. Davies (Queer as Folk, Torchwood) picked it back up.
Once a show filled with cardboard monsters and terrible special effects, it has now evolved into a full-blown sci-fi show with CGI monsters and epic deep space battles. Something stayed, such as the Daleks (those blasted Daleks, they’re like cockroaches), the Cybermen and several other classic monsters who came back after getting a rejuvenating cure to fit the 2000’s standards of monsterness.
Another particularity of the show is the companions. The Doctor always picks up humans (or humanoids) to travel with him. Either to not be alone or to have someone to stop him, it’s unclear, but they change the dynamic of the show with their personality. There have been more than thirty-five companions over the decades and most of them were females.
All in all, the reason we love this show so much is pretty simple. Even when the special effects are a bit lame, the one thing they always relied on was the stories. Every episode has a well-constructed, intriguing and interesting story and this excuses the rest. The show is based on values such as courage, friendship and philanthropy. I am yet to meet someone who hasn’t been positively influenced by the Doctor’s personality.
Here’s a wonderful fanvid not made by me going over the eleven Doctors to conclude this way-too-long meta.
Three Metas
One Icon
One Mini-mix
One Macro
Two Mini-spams
Watching Amy and the Doctor together was like watching a bad television show. You know, the kind where the girl has been hurt by the man in the past, managed to build herself back up (with the help of her awesome boyfriend) and get over him? And then the guy shows up years later and all the work the girl has done falls down and she’s back at being vulnerable? And you just know one day he’ll leave again and she’ll be even more destroyed? Yeah. Watching these two felt that way for Rory.
Bff-ness : The Doctor Donna
The Doctor: The last time, with Martha, it got complicated. And that was all my fault. I just want a mate.
Donna: You just want to mate?
The Doctor: I just want a mate!
Donna: You're not matin' with me Sunshine!
The Doctor: A mate! I want a mate!
Donna: Well, just as well, because I'm not having any of that nonsense! I mean, you're just a long streak of nothing, y'know, alien nothing!
A ship : The TARDIS
Time And Relative Dimensions in Space. A ship of the bluest blue. Did we say it’s bigger on the inside?
The TARDIS is the Doctor’s most faithful companion. She is his best companion. Part-ship, part-life form, she is known to often not behave in the most unfortunate moments. This is why the Doctor keeps a mass next to the control board, I think. She often regenerates with his Doctor and moreover, she guides him through his regenerations.
She’s old and new at the same time, she’s neither part of the present, the past nor the future. She’s an idea, a concept and the coolest ship you could ever wish to have. Did we say it travels in time?
Someone you hated, but now love : River Song
We were introduced to River Song in Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, the epic two-parter of series 4. She is a mysterious woman who knows the Doctor from his future, which is her past. They meet in the wrong order, you see.
I hated her. True, deep and burning hate. She was arrogant and self-satisfied and kept telling the Doctor he was not the Doctor yet.
Then she came back in Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone and I fell in love, hard. She was younger than the first time we’d seen her, blonde, and awesome. She mothered Amy, handled the Doctor roughly as a lover would, and she was on par with him intellectually. She was like the Doctor but down-to-Earth and willing to explain to Amy what was going on.
The third time we saw her, in The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang, it only confirmed my love. She defaced the oldest cliff in the universe to get the Doctor’s attention. I don’t want to spoil anyone so I’ll stop here. We’ll get to finally know who she is in series 6 and I seriously can’t wait.
Your choice : Doctor/Master
(Oh and if you see it on the cheezburger network, I didn’t steal it. I was just too lazy and used their poster builder. No stealing, I swear.)
A minor character : Madame de Pompadour
What’s Under My Bed? - The Horrorpops
Monsters chasing after me
I get no sleep
I'm running but no matter what
It gets me no where
Something is under my bed
Snapping at my leg
I'm frozen
I'm not freaked out.
But you and I both know, don't we, Rose, that the Doctor is worth the monsters. One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.
Social Networking
Colours
Something old : Doctor Who
It’s impossible to describe the Doctor without eventually saying ‘just watch an episode and you’ll understand.' This is why this meta isn’t about the Doctor, but about the show itself.
Doctor Who began in 1963. That’s before The Beatles invaded America. This basically means that most of the original production and cast teams is dead. The three first Doctors are dead. The first was born in 1908. That’s what I call old.
Now counting a mind-blowing thirty-one seasons, 768 episodes (108 were lost by BBC over the years), Doctor Who is listed in the Guiness World Record book as longest running sci-fi television show in 2007, as well as the most successful sci-fi series ever in 2009. Yet, most people don’t know it. Just imagine if it were mainstream outside of the United Kingdom.
The secret to its longevity is the regeneration of the main character. Long story short, when the Doctor is fatally wounded, he changes his entire biology (and, to a certain extend, his personality) to survive. We now watch the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor.
The show is usually split in two. There’s the classic era, which spans from 1963 to 1989, when the show ended. In 1996 came a television movie which, even now, is still considered half-canon. Great debates actually exists to decide whether the Eight Doctor (portrayed by Paul McGann is canon or not). It came back officially in 2005 when Russell T. Davies (Queer as Folk, Torchwood) picked it back up.
Once a show filled with cardboard monsters and terrible special effects, it has now evolved into a full-blown sci-fi show with CGI monsters and epic deep space battles. Something stayed, such as the Daleks (those blasted Daleks, they’re like cockroaches), the Cybermen and several other classic monsters who came back after getting a rejuvenating cure to fit the 2000’s standards of monsterness.
Another particularity of the show is the companions. The Doctor always picks up humans (or humanoids) to travel with him. Either to not be alone or to have someone to stop him, it’s unclear, but they change the dynamic of the show with their personality. There have been more than thirty-five companions over the decades and most of them were females.
All in all, the reason we love this show so much is pretty simple. Even when the special effects are a bit lame, the one thing they always relied on was the stories. Every episode has a well-constructed, intriguing and interesting story and this excuses the rest. The show is based on values such as courage, friendship and philanthropy. I am yet to meet someone who hasn’t been positively influenced by the Doctor’s personality.
Here’s a wonderful fanvid not made by me going over the eleven Doctors to conclude this way-too-long meta.
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Date: 2010-08-04 08:36 pm (UTC)The entire thing is great, but your motivational poster makes me glow with glee.
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Date: 2010-08-04 08:40 pm (UTC)Oh, that poster. I did the screencap myself so that means I had to watch the entire scene. I cried again. I'm hopeless.
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Date: 2010-08-04 08:43 pm (UTC)I'm in that sinking boat with you, love, haha.
Although the "You could be beautiful" bit is what's most likely to make me cry, even if I can keep it together for the others.
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Date: 2010-08-04 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-04 08:52 pm (UTC)But what about the tears in the Master's eyes in the scene I mentioned?
Almost as moving, I think.
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Date: 2010-08-05 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-05 01:28 am (UTC)♥
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Date: 2010-08-05 02:19 am (UTC)♥
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Date: 2010-08-05 02:33 am (UTC)Also your macro is win!
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Date: 2010-08-05 02:37 am (UTC)