Sick Me Update and My Thoughts on That Thing...

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I went to the doctor and I have walking pneumonia. Chris is home now for the next twelve days and I'm going to crawl under a rock and die. Erm...I mean, I'm going to sleep for a week.

I may write while confined to bed for the next few days. I may not. I've written very little in the past few days, feel more like I'm on zombie status.

Meanwhile, I finished The Stone Rose and watched all of season one of Supernatural and have started on season two. I like it. I've watched Jensen Ackles since his soap opera days (Sami's twin brother on Days of Our Lives) and when he was on Dark Angel and Jared Padalecki since Gilmore Girls. I only ever saw most of the first season before, and then we went off cable for a year during season 2 so I have two more seasons to get through plus part of season four. Should be a lovely way to recuperate. They are extraoridinarily pretty.

 

I'm sure everyone already knows about DT by now and if not then this will be spoilery, but since I've known since it was leaked early, I imagine everyone else on my f-list already knows anyway. I am bummed about the DT on DW news a little bit but it was not unexpected for me.  I felt it coming.  He's at the top of his career and can write his own ticket in Britain.  Why wouldn't he want to? And Who is exhausting.  But I wish they'd just gone ahead and done it in The Stolen Earth/Journey's End with Ten2 still forming from the hand. It would have been a brilliant and unexpected place to do it at and a well kept secret and we would have gotten a full fifth season in March instead of these half-assed specials. I could put up with the specials because David would be back, but now since he's not I feel cheated. I would rather he did four eps of season five and someone else took over for ep 5 instead of what they are doing here. I hope they give us a couple of long term companions, too. None of this one year business.  The only thing I can hope for is that this means the whole River Song storyline has been completely abandoned.  I can't bear to see Ten fall in love with anyone other than Rose.

With Rose gone for good and happy-ish with Ten2, I am ready to see a new Doctor.  Don't get me wrong, I will miss David almost as fiercely as I miss Chris but this is probably the best time and hopefully when he regenerates this time his heart will heal up and his love for Rose won't be so prominently placed in his mind and he can be happy, and funny, and clever and not drown in angst for the next three or four years.  You know, like the olden days.  Unless there is extraoridnary on screen chemistry between the new Doctor and a female lead, I don't want to see romance again for a long time on this show.  Not with the Doctor anyway.  Two companions that fall in love I could ship happily, but I don't want any more broken Doctor hearts.

I don't know if I will write for the new characters, but I will continue to write Nine/Rose, Ten/Rose and Ten2/Rose until I run out of stories to tell.  And that's a long time from now.  I can be happy in my own shippy universe, and still watch whatever is coming.  Hopefully with joy and not like the spectator at a train wreck.

Comments

[maniacalshen.livejournal.com]

And Who is exhausting.

Is it? I'm honestly curious as to why so. It's only 13 episodes a year! Lots of shows do 24.

The only thing I can hope for is that this means the whole River Song storyline has been completely abandoned.

A-frickin-greed. And I think a companion romance could be pleasant, but a Doctor one? They've worn us out on a Doctor with a love life. Fatigue is a natural symptom of violent heart removal after all; thank you, Journey's End. But more than just that, there was Martha's puppy eyes and the Astrid thing... yeah, enough.

[salimali.livejournal.com]

12 hours a day, 6 days a week for nine months, plus promo- sounds exhausting to me. Also don't forget its not filmed in DT's home town, so often he's whizzing back up to London (approx 160 miles) for a day to do promo, go home etc. And of course, he's in nearly every scene, so exhausting - def!

Don't get me wrong, I'm gutted for Who that he's going, but at this time in his career, its a brilliant move. I'll miss him terribly and I'm not sure how on Earth they are going to replace him- but then thats Moffett's problem not mine!

It has been suggested that he knew what Moffett wanted to do with the Doctor and that he disagreed- I'm not buying that one, I just think he knows if he stayed for Moffett's era, he might never leave.

River Song?!?! I could never believe that one and I'm hoping this has now died a death (as they say).

I'm with you too- no more romance - please x