Doctor Who: Wishing Well

[beccaelizabeth]

Good things: Old people who are Not Useless. Or at least as Not Useless as anyone gets to be around the Doctor. And also they had a little emotional arc thing going on. And some moments of funny.

Not so good things: Martha smiling shyly at guys to get them to be muscular. I mean, I can see how the punchline of 'she's with the geek' is of the good, but... Martha? Meh.

Now I have run out of books again.

I could start trying to read some of them books that were written when DW wasn't on TV. There's a whole bunch of those. But I read one once and decided it was peculiar and didn't read anymore. So I don't know which ones are peculiar and which ones are good to read. Much to my surprise all of the recent DW tie in books have been readable, and sometimes rather good. I like the one where they couldn't tell fact from fiction the best. That got scary. And also, there was Jack.

I'm kind of bored. I could write Torchwood stuff but everything but the porn is going to be transformed by new canon on Wednesday. And I doubt I'll be in the mood for that particular porn for another few weeks. Meh.

I could write a Doctor Who story. I thought of a whole bunch. Unfortunately they all depend on a New Shiny Not a Mary Sue At All Companion, and I suspect the audience for that is even more limited than usual. Meh.

I go have sandwiches or something.

Comments

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

But I read one once and decided it was peculiar and didn't read anymore. So I don't know which ones are peculiar and which ones are good to read.

Any particular Doctor/companion/genre you'd be interested in? I've read a ton of the damn things... (what was the peculiar one about?)

[beccaelizabeth]

the peculiar one may have been about alien drugs. I'm not entirely sure. I read it because it was in the bookshop at the student union and I was bored, and I haven't reread it since then. looooooong time. mostly I remember thinking it was not very like Doctor Who.

Erm, what I'd be interested in... I don't know really. I'm just kind of brain hungry. More story. Like TV with adventures and stuff. And the Doctor. But probably not the 6th Doctor because of the annoying. Or 1st or 2nd maybe cause I've still only watched like 3 adventures between them.

What I like in the DW books I've read lately: There's a bad thing and the Doctor will stop it. Some people will die horribly along the way and it'll get a bit scary but the actual point is people standing up and saving the world together. I don't have to check the back of the book to see if anyone makes it out alive, because I know how the books work. And I don't have to worry that the book will suddenly think it would be cooler if he was a vampire and abandon its whole moral stance and have messy killing sprees and sex. I mean I read the fanfic for the sex but it is pretty clearly labeled. Books that pretend to be about stopping the bad things and turn out to be about sex can get annoying.

I also like it when there's female characters that can save the day pretty well themselves. Or at least wander off on their own and find things out and get saved and then save the Doctor and then together save the world, sort of thing. Stories that turn out to be about the women getting sent to look after the children while the men save the world are Very Annoying.

Emotional character stuff is nifty too. Moments of Doctor angst are fun. And the thing where it ties in to stories that go back further than I do is just neat.

In fanfic I read about 9 and 10 and Jack and Martha and the Master. Somehow my fanfic habits are entirely different for the New series. Possibly having to do with the pretty.


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