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Self Promo Meme Day 5
Jul. 30th, 2014 12:01 amIn exchange for teaching her to drive, I have negotiated occasional use of my sister's bicycle.
The bad news is that I have completely shredded the muscles in my thighs. The good news is that totally unbeknownst to me, I apparently have muscles in my thighs.
Day 5. Something for a major fandom/pairing/character
This is Tomorrow (the getaway driver remix) (Doctor Who; Donna Noble, Christina de Souza)
Doctor Who is doubtless the biggest fandom I've ever been in, but it's also one that I've drifted away from in recent years. From my perspective the biggest difference between RTD Who and Moffat Who is that RTD Who appealed to me on a fannish level, while Moffat's stuff doesn't, at all.
Which isn't to say that one's objectively better than the other. They've been re-running some of series two and three recently, and some of those episodes had fallen right out of my head, and with good reason (the treatment of Martha, and the clique of Ten and Rose were both worse than I remembered.) That said I do think the last christmas special was a stinker, and a sign that Moffat is reaching the end of his imagination as showrunner; Capaldi's arrival may well give him a shot in the arm, but some new blood behind the scenes is probably called for.
I think the main difference is that when Moffat Who does something to annoy me, I just go "meh" and wander off; when RTD Who did something to annoy me I wrote thousands upon thousands of words of fic fixing it. Also, pretty much all of my qualms about the Tennant era got drowned out by series four, which even though it only was one series still defines Doctor Who to me. Ten and Donna and their bickering BFFs in space dynamic hit sweet spots I didn't know I had.
So even though Donna's fate was horrible I approached it with a sort of "la la la, let me fix that for you" attitude. Because there's no way Donna's never going to remember, not even a little, not even subconsciously, there's no way.
So, yeah. This is the one where bits of Time Lord knowledge are leaking in around the edges of Donna's mind and she ends up running off with Christina de Souza in a flying bus. I must say that I didn't come up with that combination of characters, that was from the fic I remixed. I'd actually read and loved the original fic when it was first posted, and gone, damn, I wish I'd thought of that.
There are two kinds of really interesting fics to remix, I think. The first is something that you would never write--
Not something that you dislike or just aren't interested in; one of the reasons I'm so bummed that the mooted female character remix never got off the ground, because a lot of the time I'm plain not interested in stories about dudes.
--something that it would never occur to you to write, where you have to tweak your brain 180 degrees to the right to come up with an angle that's you. The second sort is a fic that you read and wish you'd written, and now you get to! This was definitely the second type; it's the most fun I've ever had writing a remix. My entire Donna Noble phase was hugely enjoyable, actually.
The bad news is that I have completely shredded the muscles in my thighs. The good news is that totally unbeknownst to me, I apparently have muscles in my thighs.
Day 5. Something for a major fandom/pairing/character
This is Tomorrow (the getaway driver remix) (Doctor Who; Donna Noble, Christina de Souza)
Doctor Who is doubtless the biggest fandom I've ever been in, but it's also one that I've drifted away from in recent years. From my perspective the biggest difference between RTD Who and Moffat Who is that RTD Who appealed to me on a fannish level, while Moffat's stuff doesn't, at all.
Which isn't to say that one's objectively better than the other. They've been re-running some of series two and three recently, and some of those episodes had fallen right out of my head, and with good reason (the treatment of Martha, and the clique of Ten and Rose were both worse than I remembered.) That said I do think the last christmas special was a stinker, and a sign that Moffat is reaching the end of his imagination as showrunner; Capaldi's arrival may well give him a shot in the arm, but some new blood behind the scenes is probably called for.
I think the main difference is that when Moffat Who does something to annoy me, I just go "meh" and wander off; when RTD Who did something to annoy me I wrote thousands upon thousands of words of fic fixing it. Also, pretty much all of my qualms about the Tennant era got drowned out by series four, which even though it only was one series still defines Doctor Who to me. Ten and Donna and their bickering BFFs in space dynamic hit sweet spots I didn't know I had.
So even though Donna's fate was horrible I approached it with a sort of "la la la, let me fix that for you" attitude. Because there's no way Donna's never going to remember, not even a little, not even subconsciously, there's no way.
So, yeah. This is the one where bits of Time Lord knowledge are leaking in around the edges of Donna's mind and she ends up running off with Christina de Souza in a flying bus. I must say that I didn't come up with that combination of characters, that was from the fic I remixed. I'd actually read and loved the original fic when it was first posted, and gone, damn, I wish I'd thought of that.
There are two kinds of really interesting fics to remix, I think. The first is something that you would never write--
Not something that you dislike or just aren't interested in; one of the reasons I'm so bummed that the mooted female character remix never got off the ground, because a lot of the time I'm plain not interested in stories about dudes.
--something that it would never occur to you to write, where you have to tweak your brain 180 degrees to the right to come up with an angle that's you. The second sort is a fic that you read and wish you'd written, and now you get to! This was definitely the second type; it's the most fun I've ever had writing a remix. My entire Donna Noble phase was hugely enjoyable, actually.