eponymous_rose

A third rec on

calufrax has utterly, completely made my night (so thank you

doyle_sb4). If I drank (hush), rest assured that it would take very little to have me clinging to all of you (and all of you, the viewers at home!), declaring my undying love. I might just do it anyway. I'm such a sucker for feedback.

I'm going to witter on a bit, to make up for all the drabbles I'll be posting as school continues to eat my brain:

I have just noticed that all three recs have been for fics about the Third Doctor. Hee. What can I say? I really do love writing about each of the Doctors (and I have written about each of them, which sort of surprises me), but Three-era stuff seems to get under my skin. Recently, anyway. Why is that? I think it might be the fact that, stuck as he is on Earth, the Doctor's got a full supporting cast from week to week, each with a personality and story arc (Mike Yates, much?). It's not so much the Doctor + companion(s) + people introduced over the course of one serial. There's more room to mess around with it - and it gives me the chance to write the human-centric storylines I seem to be enjoying all of a sudden (I love the idea of humanity being worse monsters than the rest of the universe combined - it's an old meme, but I love it. Well. Love writing about it, anyway.).

Also, London in the early 1970s is about as alien to me as Peladon or Gallifrey! Ahem.

So why the Third Doctor? I haven't a clue. He's arrogant, very frequently childish, so determined to prove that he is a Time Lord, really, even if he doesn't remember how to travel in time and everyone's just humouring him. He's living the closest possible thing to an everyday sort of life, and that makes him a bit more accessible, easier to write. Maybe.

And then there's the transition - all of the Doctors change over the course of their life, however brief, but some do it in more fascinating ways than others. The Third Doctor and Liz? Always at loggerheads (which is utterly fascinating in and of itself, and Liz is, obviously, just brilliant at it). And then Jo comes along ("I'm your new assistant!" "Oh, no.") and, strangely enough, everything changes.

I'm gonna save my thoughts for a proper ramble on the dynamic between Three and Jo, but there's something really awesome about it that seems to fascinate everyone, despite the variable quality of the scripts (when I feel the urge to watch even the long, expositiony bits of a six-parter again and again, there must be something going on). As always, though, I should probably leave my meta to fic-writing, where I'm more coherent about it.

So why Three? Maybe I'm just a bit of a self-centered, standoffish, showoff of a so-and-so myself. (I like that explanation!)

And why this ramble? Because I'm putting off my drabble. Oh, dear.