Through the looking glass-

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I- yes. I mean. Really. Yes. With the- And the- Um. Yes.

Oh, I love this show. I love it like a basket full of kittens and cookies and possibly other things.

I adore anything to do with little, everyday choices spinning way off - possibly because it makes it easy to be optimistic when you consider every moment an utter catastrophe averted, hurrah - and this just did that brilliantly. Things that never happened, like dreams, changing the universe. Of course, you can look at it the other way, which hardly anyone ever does, which is a shame. Turn right and the world becomes a better place than you ever thought possible - but that doesn't bear thinking too hard about.

(But GOSH DARN IT, the entire premise behind my Liz/Barbara fic is going to look like a total ripoff, now. Hee! Serves me right for not posting sooner.)

Speaking of ficly connections and stars going out and things, was I the only one who had "The Boy Who Killed Time" flashbacks? Yes? Is this a sign that I have spent too long in fandom, possibly? Yes?

Oh, man. When they mentioned Clyde and Maria's names on that news report, and the pictures of Sarah Jane. Oh, well-played. That was very nicely done.

Donna. She was just. Oh, my goodness. I adore Donna so, so much and want very much to write a ridiculously long and epic fic about her exciting adventures with the Doctor through time and space, and I love that feeling.

And Rose! A bit brilliant, a bit ruthless, a bit like- well, there was this fic once (shaddup, I don't spend too much time in fandom), and I would like to find it again because it portrayed her much like this, like seeing the Doctor without that Doctorish lens. I love that, and I think I'll love the related uproar in fandom, because that's the whole point, then, isn't it?

Bad Wolf, guys. I was spoiled for it, and I still got that adrenalin rush like in "Parting of the Ways". A bit like the "You can't always get what you want" in House. It worked.

(Anyone else overcome with the urge to write an AU (that term has special meaning in this fandom, hee) fic about UNIT's time machine failing and then Donna and Rose teaming up to save the world/universe in some other way?)