Worlds Enough and Time

Thoughts on Killjoys? What fandom do you love to revisit? for aurumcalendula​

I really really love Killjoys and I'm forever sad it never became popular in fandom as it should be. I love the complicated dynamics between the characters and I adored the worldbuilding in the first two seasons, especially the politics and religion of that world because it played off nicely with each other, especially the religion. Because it made sense, the Qresh was the main planet and the water levels rose and swallowed up the majority of the other lands, the other people fled, the remaining people became royalty called the Nine Families.

Birthright is based on land ownership and where they're born rather than blood ties, hence the important royals all have "Land" attached to their names. The Trees are rare and became sacred to them and are folded into their religion, "Praise the Trees".

If I think about it, it's really just so elegant which makes me sad they moved away from all of this to pursue more intergalactic storytelling. It took me a while to like the new direction of the show, which involved fewer Killjoys and politics and more outright war.

I do love the whole theme of memory and living on through that legacy, and how Dutch struggled hard for that remembrance.

Most of all I love Dutch a lot because she's strong but flawed, she was raised to be an assassin but the toll of that was something she wore heavily around her shoulders. Also, this is the first show I watched the engaged honestly with abuse and how it's not a cut and dried emotion because Dutch both hated and loved Khlyen, her father.

I love Dutch's stronger than blood relationship with Johnny and eventually, I did come around D'avin (much, much, much later).

This was such a fun cracky show with excellent characters and even better characterizations.

Favorite moment for each Doctor in this decade? for justphoenix

Oh, this is interesting, let me think, this decade so... that's 2010's... that's Ten (End of Time), Eleventh Doctor, Twelfth Doctor, and Thirteenth Doctor.

Tenth Doctor happens in End of Time, not my favorite two-parter, but I loved the moment when Ten visits Martha, Mickey, and Rose. Rose, in particular, because I thought I'd never see her again, and that was such a lovely grace note to end it with.

Eleventh Doctor: I went back and forth on this, and I ended up on Vincent and the Doctor, because of this:

Amy: So you were right. No new paintings. We didn't make a difference at all.
Eleventh Doctor: I wouldn't say that. The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. Hey. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant. And we definitely added to his pile of good things. And, if you look carefully, maybe we did indeed make a couple of little changes.

Twelfth Doctor: There are two moments, the speech he made to the Masters:

No! No! When I say no, you turn back around! (catches up with them) Hey! I'm going to be dead in a few hours, so before I go, let's have this out, you and me, once and for all. Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because-- because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun and God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do, because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind. It's just that. Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this at all, but it's the best I can do, so I'm going to do it. And I will stand here doing it till it kills me. You're going to die too, some day. How will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand, is where I fall. Stand with me. These people are terrified. Maybe we can help, a little. Why not, just at the end, just be kind?

But of course, the number 1 moment for me with Twelve, is in Heaven Sent:

There’s this Emperor who asks this shepherd’s boy, “How many seconds in eternity?” And the shepherd’s boy says, “There’s this mountain of pure diamond, and it takes an hour to climb it, and an hour to go around it. Every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain, and when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.” You might think that’s a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that’s a hell of a bird.

Thirteenth Doctor: For Thirteen, I don't think she's had her moment yet, also I don't think speechifying is her thing. There is a momenet in It Takes You Away, I felt was very Doctor-y:

From the Solitract, yes. Don't know if it survived. But it won't be coming back here. Shame. Made a new friend, a whole conscious universe, then I had to say goodbye.

s!10Twelve for 12 please???? i miss my grumpy space granddad, his lesbian granddaughter, his weird cyborg friend, & his spouse/nemesis/constant pain in the ass for yesokayiknow

The Twelfth Doctor, oh, Twelve. Honestly, I had such a journey loving Twelve. I was immediately on board with him the moment I saw his eyebrows and thundered, "No, sir, all Thirteen!"

I screamed when that moment happened because prior to the The Day of the Doctor I stopped watching the show so I haven't been keeping up with the news, I had no idea Matt Smith was leaving or the next Doctor was cast. So, yes, I was on board and I loved Deep Breath, it felt like such a refreshing change from the things that have alienated me from the Eleventh Doctor... until he became so abrasive, Twelve turned me off and I stopped watching again.

Fast forward to learning about Bill Potts, and contemplated starting back again... Then I watched Husbands of River Song, and I was so charmed by it and I feel addressed the things that put me off the River/Doctor relationship, also Capaldi and King's chemistry just popped.

I decided to do a full rewatch starting with The Time of the Doctor and then found myself going through a journey of really loving Twelve, by the time I reached Heaven Sent, he rose the ranks into number 1. And then Bill happened, and Pearl Mackie is fantastic, she has such fantastic chemistry with Peter Capaldi, and IMO series 10 was when Peter really felt comfortable in the role. He truly felt like the Doctor to me.

Not that he wasn't before, but Twelve's uncertainty about himself really came off and he had to have 'Doctor moments' that made me go, each time, oh! There you are!

But in series 10? That feeling was there from the first second of The Pilot.

And the team has settled in with such fun dynamic, the first few episodes with the focus on Bill Potts were amazing, but alas, as much as I adore and love Missy her story arc intruded on Bill's. In a 12 episode season, there's not enough room for two character development arc so by the time The Lie of the Land happened the emotional focus of the show pulled heavily on Missy's direction.

Still, by the end, I honestly love Twelve and the small family unit he made, it's unfortunate we only had one season with them. I love Thirteen a lot but I felt Twelve and Bill could have done with one more season, but ah, well, such is the wheel of Doctor Who.

Oh! Well, there are a few, I'd like a crossover with Doctor Who:

• Avatar the Last Airbender/Legends of Korra
• Deep Space Nine (Possibly because I really am into an idea of a regenerating/reincarnating immortal support group.)
• Stargate
• Farscape, maybe John meets the Doctor first as Nine around season 3? And then again as Twelve or Thirteen post-series with Aeryn and John
• Legends of Tomorrow (for the shenanigans)
• Buffy
• Firefly
• Other Star Trek: Voyager and Discovery

I already wrote a Person of Interest and Criminal Minds one, sort of.

In-Universe crossover: Thirteen meeting Bernice Summerfield, Class, and the kids from Sarah Jane Adventures

“Choosing a child free life.” for shoulditrustyouagain

The last! And the one that’s most late!

I like kids and babies but I’m also really honest about myself and while I like kids… I also know that I want to return them back to their parents after a day with them.

I’m nothing like Cristina Yang, I’m not driven like her, I don’t have a driving ambition to be the best but I feel this spoke to me.

(Also, out of topic, this is one of the reasons why I dislike Owen a lot.)

“What fictional universe would you like to vacation in? would you want to take any of the characters along? what would you do there?” for @cacchieressa

I thought about this long and hard, much as I would love to be in a Doctor Who world, I think my chances of survival will be really down if I’m not traveling with the Doctor (and even then!).

I mean, what if I end up with Team Torchwood? I would really be dead. They’re terrible at their jobs!

I thought of Star Wars verse but again, chances of my survival would be nil. 

Star Trek would be a step up but I don’t know. 

Then I remembered! Avatar-verse! Sure, it’s dangerous but in between that there are wonders also, there’s a lot of people around me who can do martial arts and help keep me alive. 

But if I visit there I think I’d want it to be Korra-era Avatar-verse, first, because: Indoor Plumbing and second all the cool steampunk tech and fantastical creatures around.

Also, I’d love to see real life bending! I’d also love to be a passenger in one of Asami Sato designed Luxury Air Ship. Bonus, if I get to travel with the Krew! It would be fun! 

Especially since this would be post-series Krew and not hot headed teens! 

“Which season is your favourite with regards to the 12th doctor?” For thecatwriter

Series 10!

I liked some episodes in series 8 (Deep Breath, Time Heist, Mummy On the Orient Express, Flatline) and I thought series 9 was a step up in terms of Twelve’s characterization (The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar, Zygon Inversion/Invasion, Heaven Sent/Hell Bent) with the magnificent, magnificent best in class episode in Heaven Sent.

Husbands of River Song was really really fun but it’s series 10, I think where Twelve as a Doctor has coalesced into the Doctor he’s meant to be. He’s not trying too much in either direction (Am I a Good Man? / And acting like a Teenager) Twelve is finally settled in himself. The 24 years with River and the 70 years with Missy and being around humans seems to have really help calm down.

And one of the best elements of series 10 is Bill Potts and her relationship with the Doctor, it’s a shame Bill’s story gets muddled into Twelve’s ending story and Missy’s redemption arc. But before it happened Bill Potts was amazing and Pearl Mackie had such great chemistry and dynamic with Peter Capaldi. I’m forever mourning Bill is a one season Companion, I would love for Bill to meet Thirteen.

I love how Twelve was with Bill, and I love that Bill questioned Twelve about his ‘if a person has a gun to his head, you have no time to mourn’ mentality to everything. Bill truly felt like Twelve’s student and a sort of parallel to Susan.

I will always remember the touching bittersweet scene in Twice Upon a Time :

Bill: I hope we talk about it loads. I hope we spend years laughing about it. Come back alive. Twelve: Be here when I do.

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Bear for jbslasher

Bear is amazing and a good dog, and currently enjoying his life belonging to Shaw because she spoils him like no other and, when they’re alone even does the baby talk thing Harold did with him, only in Dutch.

He also gets to bite bad guys.

Bear is living his Best Life.