You know what I want Doctor Who to go back to? Overlapping Companions.

In the new series, we've had Companion teams sometimes - Rose & Adam, Rose & Jack, Rose & Mickey, Rose & Sarah Jane, Martha & Jack, Donna & Martha, Donna & Martha & Jenny - but there's never any overlap. There's never been anything like 'Babs & Ian join the Doctor and Susan, they have adventures, Susan leaves, the Doctor & Babs & Ian have adventures, Vicki joins the Doctor & Babs & Ian, they have adventures, Babs & Ian leave, the Doctor & Vicki have adventures, Steven joins, etc.' Instead, we have Rose joins the Doctor, maybe there is a temporary Companion B who leaves after an episode or two, Rose leaves the Doctor, the Doctor emos about being lonely, Martha joins the Doctor. That's all we've gotten from the new series (with, obv, names swapped out regularly).

It's always last one in, first one out. And that's not an inherently bad formula, but it's gotten very repetitive. Bring back overlapping Companions! Just to break it up.

It would also mean we'd have to have more Team TARDIS groups, but that has nothing to do with my wanting it, noooo.


(Also, I was rewatching The War Games today, and hee. Remember when the sonic screwdriver did stuff like drive screws?)


(ALSO also, but completely unrelated, have some Animorphs-related YAY)

There have been so many excellent posts about this already that it's kinda moot for me to write something up as well but I just kinda wanted to get my thoughts down. Wish they were deep meta thoughts but they're just regular Aislynn-shaped fangirl thoughts, sorry. ;)

Edited to add a few things I missed when I posted last night, sorry! *blush*

( Needless to say SPOILERS FOR DOCTOR WHO THE END OF TIME PART 2 aka David Tennant's final episode as the Doctor :(  )

I actually acquired my copy much earlier this evening, but BBCA is marathoning all of Tennant's episodes and they were in the Martha part of the series and I couldn't stop watching Miss Martha, okay? So I waited until they finished Last Of The Time Lords and then watched it.

( spoilers for The End Of Time Part 2 )


Anyway, the good outweighed the bad, and I think that means I liked it. I'll have to watch it again to be sure, but as BBCA is airing it tomorrow (er, late tonight) that shouldn't be a problem.

Going to bed now.

Well, this is it. End of a decade. (for a value of 'decade' meaning 'ten years', although by that definition pretty much every day is the end of a decade. what i mean is, i'm aware that properly speaking the decade doesn't end for another year -- start counting at the first day of oh-one, end counting at the last day of ten -- but numerically it's nice to count 2009 as the end of a decade and 2010 as the start of the teens)

It's been a weird decade.

Here's hoping the next one is better.

Bah. Felt unwell all day, in that vague way that you can't really describe. The closest I can come is that I felt uneven, which is not an explanation at all. Wound up taking a two hour nap and then I felt a little better.

What also made me feel better: quality dark hot chocolate. Yum.


Unrelated: I am not allowed to app anyone else to beyondtherift until I suck less at playing Jack.


Snagged from kawaiispinel:
Ask me about my unpopular fandom opinion, and I shall spew forth some vitriol for you. Or, you know, express an opinion. Depends how I'm feeling, really.