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alasse_irena) wrote2014-12-04 11:26 am
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December meme: If I were in charge of the next season of Doctor Who
I am already late with this, but hey, it's still December 3rd somewhere, right? My first post for the December meme. Thank you melannen for such an excellent topic!
So I was torn for a while between writing a list of things I would enjoy in the next season of Doctor Who, and going all out and writing an entire plot. I discussed it with my sister, and we went for the latter. The short version: I like Time Lords, stand-alone episodes, Romana and Doctor/Master interactions. The long version is under the cut.
All right, so in episode one, we meet a new companion. She is an older woman - like she appears similar in age to Capaldi's Doctor (I'm not having any of this father-figure-and-vulnerable-little-girl stuff). They don't click immediately, but over the next few episodes, their friendship develops, and she seems to really get the Doctor, and they get on really well. She comes across as just as clever as him, and easily holds her own beside him, and tells him off often when he starts thinking he's bigger or better than short-lived creatures like humans. There is no romantic interaction between them - not a single little flirtatious comment. I am so over that stuff.
The main thrust of the plot for the first half of the season is that we go looking for Gallifrey - or at least, we go looking for the Master, because we think she probably knows what's happened to Gallifrey. Which means that we go to a lot of places where something suspicious is happening, or someone seems to be taking over a planet or frivolously destroying things.
So the Master leads us on a merry chase through various historical periods and well-developed alien planets with interesting non-human cultures (aliens with non-binary gender), and sometimes we catch up with the Master, and sometimes we don't, and sometimes the Master turns out never to have been there at all - it was some other megalomaniac doing it, and sometimes we get sidetracked fighting injustice, so it takes us a little while to even encounter the Master. I really love episodic self-contained Doctor Who: some of my favourite episodes are ones like "Midnight" and "The Unicorn and the Wasp", which you can watch in isolation without feeling unfinished or really confused. So we'll get a few of those before we get to the actual meeting with the Master.
When we do get there, the Doctor's interactions with the Master are intense and flirtatious, with lots of veiled references to their shared childhood and adolescence, and all that red-sky-and-silver-grass stuff that I'm so easy for. The Doctor's awkward high school romance with the Master is finally mentioned on screen. His companion is very understanding of the nature of their foe yay thing. he asks her about it. She shrugs, and says something to the effect of, "I've been where you are. Everyone has some weird relationships."
So eventually the Doctor and his friend get to Gallifrey, and the Master, sure enough, is there. I don't know - she's probably in charge of Gallifrey, having spent some of that time while the Doctor's been on a wild goose chase after her manipulating Gallifreyan politics to put herself in a position of power. What a cunning evil megalomaniac. Cue the dark Gallifreyan political drama arc!
I really love Time Lords - I like their stultified, stratified, stagnated society, and their silly robes, and ideally, their complex political machinations. I want to see Time Lord children, and Time Lord families and Time Lords going to school and coming home and dressing up to go to fancy Time Lord parties. I don't know, somewhere around here we can have a Doctor-lite episode which is a Time Lord family drama. Maybe with Romana. Or something. Yes. And then at the end of that episode that reintroduces Romana, she encounters the Doctor and his companion.
Okay, so Romana's in the process of trying to bring down the Master's regime through cunning political schemes, and when she finds the Doctor and his companion, they join her, and she's like, "Doctor! Long time no see," and then she looks at the companion, and she's like, "Doctor! Long time no see," and the companion shushes her and says, "I wasn't going to tell him yet," but it's too late - the Doctor's on to her now.
So we have a big reveal where the companion turns out to have been a future incarnation of the Doctor all along, and they have a moment where the Doctor's ticked off at her for knowing where Gallifrey was and not telling him, and he tries to find out how far ahead of him she is, and how he dies and regenerates, but she's not letting on about that either (all he gets out of her is, "Don't worry, it's not too awful," and a knowing look exchanged with Romana). And then the Doctor's like, "No wonder you understood about the Master so well," and Romana laughs and is like, "Doctor, everyone knows about you and the Master."
And then we overthrow the Master, Romana reclaims presidency, and the Doctor agrees to take the Master elsewhere and keep him occupied. So then the two Doctors and the Master have a steamy threesome - or possibly the Master suggests a steamy threesome, and the Doctor is like, "Seriously, Master, you've known since school that I'm ace. But I could go for a cup of tea," and then they all sit in the TARDIS and have tea.
THE END
If you still want to prompt me something, I've got lots of space left, and the link is up there at the top of the post.
Thank you!
melannen for such an excellent topic!So I was torn for a while between writing a list of things I would enjoy in the next season of Doctor Who, and going all out and writing an entire plot. I discussed it with my sister, and we went for the latter. The short version: I like Time Lords, stand-alone episodes, Romana and Doctor/Master interactions. The long version is under the cut.
All right, so in episode one, we meet a new companion. She is an older woman - like she appears similar in age to Capaldi's Doctor (I'm not having any of this father-figure-and-vulnerable-little-girl stuff). They don't click immediately, but over the next few episodes, their friendship develops, and she seems to really get the Doctor, and they get on really well. She comes across as just as clever as him, and easily holds her own beside him, and tells him off often when he starts thinking he's bigger or better than short-lived creatures like humans. There is no romantic interaction between them - not a single little flirtatious comment. I am so over that stuff.
The main thrust of the plot for the first half of the season is that we go looking for Gallifrey - or at least, we go looking for the Master, because we think she probably knows what's happened to Gallifrey. Which means that we go to a lot of places where something suspicious is happening, or someone seems to be taking over a planet or frivolously destroying things.
So the Master leads us on a merry chase through various historical periods and well-developed alien planets with interesting non-human cultures (aliens with non-binary gender), and sometimes we catch up with the Master, and sometimes we don't, and sometimes the Master turns out never to have been there at all - it was some other megalomaniac doing it, and sometimes we get sidetracked fighting injustice, so it takes us a little while to even encounter the Master. I really love episodic self-contained Doctor Who: some of my favourite episodes are ones like "Midnight" and "The Unicorn and the Wasp", which you can watch in isolation without feeling unfinished or really confused. So we'll get a few of those before we get to the actual meeting with the Master.
When we do get there, the Doctor's interactions with the Master are intense and flirtatious, with lots of veiled references to their shared childhood and adolescence, and all that red-sky-and-silver-grass stuff that I'm so easy for. The Doctor's awkward high school romance with the Master is finally mentioned on screen. His companion is very understanding of the nature of their foe yay thing. he asks her about it. She shrugs, and says something to the effect of, "I've been where you are. Everyone has some weird relationships."
So eventually the Doctor and his friend get to Gallifrey, and the Master, sure enough, is there. I don't know - she's probably in charge of Gallifrey, having spent some of that time while the Doctor's been on a wild goose chase after her manipulating Gallifreyan politics to put herself in a position of power. What a cunning evil megalomaniac. Cue the dark Gallifreyan political drama arc!
I really love Time Lords - I like their stultified, stratified, stagnated society, and their silly robes, and ideally, their complex political machinations. I want to see Time Lord children, and Time Lord families and Time Lords going to school and coming home and dressing up to go to fancy Time Lord parties. I don't know, somewhere around here we can have a Doctor-lite episode which is a Time Lord family drama. Maybe with Romana. Or something. Yes. And then at the end of that episode that reintroduces Romana, she encounters the Doctor and his companion.
Okay, so Romana's in the process of trying to bring down the Master's regime through cunning political schemes, and when she finds the Doctor and his companion, they join her, and she's like, "Doctor! Long time no see," and then she looks at the companion, and she's like, "Doctor! Long time no see," and the companion shushes her and says, "I wasn't going to tell him yet," but it's too late - the Doctor's on to her now.
So we have a big reveal where the companion turns out to have been a future incarnation of the Doctor all along, and they have a moment where the Doctor's ticked off at her for knowing where Gallifrey was and not telling him, and he tries to find out how far ahead of him she is, and how he dies and regenerates, but she's not letting on about that either (all he gets out of her is, "Don't worry, it's not too awful," and a knowing look exchanged with Romana). And then the Doctor's like, "No wonder you understood about the Master so well," and Romana laughs and is like, "Doctor, everyone knows about you and the Master."
And then we overthrow the Master, Romana reclaims presidency, and the Doctor agrees to take the Master elsewhere and keep him occupied. So then the two Doctors and the Master have a steamy threesome - or possibly the Master suggests a steamy threesome, and the Doctor is like, "Seriously, Master, you've known since school that I'm ace. But I could go for a cup of tea," and then they all sit in the TARDIS and have tea.
THE END
If you still want to prompt me something, I've got lots of space left, and the link is up there at the top of the post.
Thank you!
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(Except I'm not 100% sure about the thing with the companion turning out to be the Doctor all along? EXCELLENT twist, definitely, but I'm kind of tired of all the companions turning out to be super-special. I kind of hope the "twist" is just Romana and the companion screwing with him, and she's actually an ordinary human woman. Well, reasonably ordinary. Well, possibly grown-up Ace? :D )
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So I suppose I have to examine my reasons for putting that twist in, and I think it goes something like this: Do you remember that moment in the latest finale where Clara claims that she's actually been the Doctor all along and all that Clara stuff is just a story? I was watching that thinking, "They're kidding, but god that would be great." Which I think was partly on account of the fact that if Clara was the Doctor, that would annul a whole lot of that "I was born to save the Doctor" stuff, as well as making the Doctor a woman along with the Master, which, I dunno, seemed nice and symmetrical to me. And then my disappointment about that carried over into the season I was plotting now...
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