My holidays consist of Doctor Who!

[eponymous_rose]

I was reading the novelisation of "The Daleks" today, which was an extremely confusing experience at first because it completely ignores the events of "An Unearthly Child" and sort of borrows from the Cushing movie? Initially, I was all: "Weird time distortion, maybe? I don't remember that from the serial!" Because wouldn't that just make an awesome fic - Barbara, Susan and the Doctor lose track of Ian in some sort of time eddy (insert-SKIENCE-here) and he's lost his memory and thinks he's just a normal guy and quite by chance they run into him (not quite literally) after a car crash and he winds up in the TARDIS and everyone's just trying to act normal. Bonus points for potential Barbara/Ian angst! (Mind you, in the novelisation he's all concussed and very, very confused but still manages to get around to asking her out for a drink. *beams* They are the closest thing Doctor Who has to a universal OTP!)

Like I needed another fanfic on the plate. :D

Anyway, that reminded me of how much I love the (somewhat bizarre) premise of that very first Doctor Who episode. It goes a bit like this:

BARBARA: Ian? You know that strange girl in our class, with the antisocial grandfather?
IAN: Oh, you mean the one who freaks out over having to work in only three dimensions and knows suspiciously a lot about everything ever?
BARBARA: The address she gave to the school leads to a junkyard.
IAN: That's sort of weird.
BARBARA: I think we should follow her home tonight, in secret!
IAN: But couldn't we just-
BARBARA: IN SECRET!
IAN: Oh. Um. Okay.
BARBARA: If you weren't doing anything, that is.
IAN: Nah, I'm free.
BARBARA: Cool.

And they do, at which point the Doctor very kindly kidnaps them. Still cracktastic back in 1963? But of course!

(I am replying at random to my friends-list. Working on it!)

Comments

[scarletsherlock.livejournal.com]

Regarding Barbara/Susan/Ian and the Cushing films, did you see this? I haven't watched them yet. I wanted to get some actual Who under my belt first so as to enjoy the crack more. My Cushing love will never be diminished and to hear someone call him "Doctor" or even "Dr. Who" (huzzuh?) may make me explode with squee, even if the movie is the silliest thing ever.

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually watched the Cushing films yet (*shameshameshame*), but have been meaning to do so! :D

[vkitty.livejournal.com]

Haha, I love your description of the first Doctor Who episode. So true.

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Barbara and Ian: devoted schoolteachers or terrifying stalkers?

YOU DECIDE.

:D

[subsequent]

I was reading the novelisation of "The Daleks" today

Oh, I know. I picked up a copy in a second-hand store a while ago, and the first thing I did when I started it was to check if it wasn't a fake. Who knows what he was thinking - I reject your reality and subsitiute my own?

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

I kept thinking it must be some sort of clever gimmick, but it seemed like they were taking it a bit too far. Very, very confusing.

[tigerkat24.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. And I love how after that scene Ian basically pretends it was all his own idea, and then he spends the rest of the episode flailing about the Tardis and Susan and scientific impossibilities and Barbara's all, "Whatever, just get us home kthx". They are about my only fixed Doctor Who OTP. Though I am partial to Eight/Fitz and Nine/Rose/Jack and Ten/Everyone.
Speaking of Ten, have you seen Voyage of the Damned? He's definitely got a type. Maybe if Martha had dyed her hair blonde she'd've had a better chance.

[eponymous-rose.livejournal.com]

Your Who OTPs are pretty awesome. :D (Although canon seems to frown on the last one and call it Ten/Everyone blonde and attractive. *winks*)

I have to post my thoughts on Voyage of the Damned someday!

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