Miscellany

[beer_good_foamy]

1. Just got caught up with s3 of New Doctor Who and while I wouldn't say I'm completely sold on it yet, it does have a lot of great things about it (RTD's scripts not always being one of them, but...) So if anyone has any fic or similar stuff that I just *have* to read, I'd appreciate a rec! (Also, I need a dalek icon. Daleks > Everything Else In The Universe Ever.)

ETA: Thanks stormwreath for the icon!

2. A couple of Buffyverse recs, since I don't rec nearly enough stuff:

• Of All the Wonders That I Yet Have Heard by girlpire (Angel/Darla, R). Fantastic take on what might have happened post-"Lullaby."
  
• frogfarm finished Big Country (Faith/Willow, R). Post-"Chosen" (slightly AU, see pairing), but the past just never lets Faith go...
  
• I'll Have What She's Having by spuffyduds is a Twin Peaks crossover! (Faith/Audrey, PG13). (And I do have my own take on the pairing, which will be appearing shortly.
  
• Come Into My Parlor by bookishwench (Tara/?, PG13). Excellent pre-canon look at Tara (as is frogfarm's One Summer, My Far Horizon, though that one heads off-canon into very believable Faith/Tara).
  
• And finally, Buffybot's Big Adventure! by Alex Wert sees the return to the Buffyverse of one of my favourite humour ficcers. This is a WIP taking place post-"Bargaining", but so far he always finishes his stories and they usually end up hilarious. (Buffybot/Various, R)
  
• Also, I put some recs up at buffyversetop5: Faith/Buffy, list-type fics, drabbles, episode rewrites, season 8.

3. Finally, a couple of icons I've made on a whim and never posted here.

Comments

[elisi]

RTD's scripts not always being one of them, but...
*snerk* RTD is very Joss-like - he'll shun logic etc for the sake of his story if necessary. He just uses 'science' instead of a Hellmouth...

Kinda stuck when it comes to recs (except for my own story of course), since I read v. little Who fic... But here is a brilliant time-sex macro series. DW is so macro-able it *hurts*! :)

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

we call babys "the" after me

Love it! :-D It is a pretty show, isn't it? Right now I'm trying my damnedest to NOT make a Master vid... I think I'm going to fail at that.

My main problem with RTD's scripts is that... well, he can't write scripts. He's good at the whole metaphor/character/UST thing, but he can't plot a story. Every single episode of his seems the same:
1. Problem
2. Doctor says something funny
3. More problems
4. Doctor and Martha run around like headless chickens for 10-20 minutes, jumping/crawling through hoops/tunnels and dodging bullets/lasers/daleks
5. Doctor (or possibly Martha) says something smart (if it's the Doctor, he may get to be a little psycho while saying it)
6. Problem solved until RTD ties back to it in the last episode.
As much as I'd like to think that the Doctor's tennis shoes are a fashion statement, it seems more like a practical consideration; all that running would be impossible in better shoes...

[elisi]

Love it! :-D
Thought you might like it! *g* (ihasatardis might be just your thing...)

It is a pretty show, isn't it?
Oooooh yes. Even the bad episodes are usually gorgeous visually (and the people are pretty too of course...).

Right now I'm trying my damnedest to NOT make a Master vid... I think I'm going to fail at that.
Do not fight it! I'd *love* to see what you'd make. (I have lots of vid recs btw...)

My main problem with RTD's scripts is that... well, he can't write scripts. He's good at the whole metaphor/character/UST thing, but he can't plot a story.
See this is where I'm probably way to easy to please, 'cause I can cope with a rubbish plot if all the rest works. (Can't do the opposite which one reason why s8 ain't working for me.) Also - thankfully - he's not the only writer! Stephen Moffat is my new idol btw. Have you seen 'Time Crash'? (The 'Children in Need' special.)

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen "Time Crash" yet, I'll have to get around to that. Generally speaking I'm not too hung up on plot either, but since I watched all of s2 and s3 pretty much in two weeks, I suppose the similarities started getting to me.

Moffat seems pretty damn sharp, yes. "The Girl In The Fireplace" and "Blink" were both great.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Re: Time Crash:

"Did he still have that rubbish beard?"

"No, no beard this time. Well, a wife."

Literally LOL!

[elisi]

Literally LOL!
As I said, Moffat is something resembling a genius. The thing is only a little over 5 minutes, but every line just *shines*! (I wrote a squee/meta thing after it aired. *g*

(Also, Doctor/Master 4eva!)

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

I read that late last night, enjoyed it lots!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Oh, and also, I got this crossover plotbunny that's going to be almost impossible to make sense of, but just to put it out there:

Puppet!Angel vs Gollum!Doctor. Cagefight for the Champion of Humanity lightweight title.

[elisi]

*giggles very quietly so as not to wake the toddler asleep on shoulder*

Oh! I've written a tiny little crossover fic, way back during S1 of DW: Three leatherclad Musketeers.

ETA: One reason I don't read a lot of Who fic, is that the show is still on and I much prefer a closed canon. My own fic ('Not The Last') is wildly AU, so won't interfere with whatever happens in the future of the show. Actually I've read a fair bit of Torchwood fic, but then the fic is usually better than the show. And also it can be totally cracktastic and porny without seeming at all farfetched! ;)