three completely unrelated things

[aria]

1. It is 81°F here. It's basically dark out and still this warm! Oh my god, why do I live in the South, I miss New England, I think something must be broken in me.

2. Fic rec: Zenith, a Star Trek high school AU. It's also a ... fusion, I guess, of Twilight. Wait, don't run away! It's great, honestly. I mean, yes, it's basically the plot of Twilight, only with aliens instead of vampires and a plot all the way through, but Jim Kirk is the best Bella ever, and Spock couldn't be a stalker even if he tried really hard. There's also time travel, the premise actually makes sense when Spock explains everything, and nothing is better than teenage Sulu and Chekov running Riverside's GSA and watching for crop circles. Well, almost nothing. Gaila as Alice pretty much takes it.

3. So there was a Doctor Who Comic Relief special today! (Handily up on YouTube, here and here.) Um, first I have to once again reiterate that what makes me all stupid and starry-eyed about Moffat's take on Doctor Who is that he realizes they have a time machine! It's weird and recursive and can land inside itself and have glitches, and oh my god, I can't even. Also, I wasn't aware that I could love Amy Pond any more than I already did -- I mean, yes, okay, every time there is more of her I love her more, but it is a constant delightful surprise -- and since when meeting myself I would totally get my flirt on, I am so happy that Amy did too. Amy/Amy, guys, let's get on that. I'm pretty sure Rory can come to.

...I think sometimes I am shallow. Just maybe. But oh Doctor Who! Also, rubbish, Easter is late this year and I do not approve of it being back so late. Grumble.

Comments

[gehayi]

Rory seemed to LOVE the idea of Amy/Amy. (But poor Rory! He didn't get to flirt with himself at all!)

[aria]

I guess Rory's just not that into himself! Or he was too busy trying to stay on top of all the wacky stuff that was happening. Or he was paralyzed by the hotness of two Amys. :D

[gehayi]

I'd go with the last one.

[(Anonymous)]

But, uhm...
Wasn't it Nine who said it's not allowed to see your own self from a different time?
Just asking...

But I loved the clips anyway :D

[gehayi]

Considering that The Three Doctors, Logopolis, The Five Doctors, The Two Doctors and Time Crash all involved two or more versions of the Doctor co-existing at the same time, Father's Day never made ANY sense to me at all. It's never been a good idea to disrupt the time stream that way, but the universe always managed to survive it.

[ellen_fremedon]

I think Time Lords can get away with violating the Blinovitch Limitation Effect, but mere mortals can't. Remember when the Brigadier met himself in "Mawdryn Undead"-- it didn't call down the Reapers when they touched, but there was a tremendous BOOM and the Brig had amnesia for six years.

(Of course, that still leaves "A Christmas Carol unaccounted for.)

[aria]

Not only A Christmas Carol, but also Amy's ability to interact with her younger self in Big Bang! My general assumption is that Moffat has a cavalier attitude about canon: he'll use it if it fits and ignore it if it doesn't, and Who contradicts itself often enough that I'm just not fussed, and willing to enjoy a good story.

[sentientcitizen]

(Major spoilers for Father's Day in this comment, on the slim chance someone hasn't seen it yet and still wants to. Also some for The Big Bang.)

I thought that the Reapers was a side-effect of the Time War; without Gallifreyians around to patch up the holes, the universe finds other ways to clean things up, type of thing. But in Father's Day time had already been made sort of, um, brittle by Rose undoing her father's death, creating a sort of reversed Grandfather Paradox; touching her own young self make things shatter. In Christmas Carol, time is healthy and so the Doctor can bend it without causing things to break.

And in The Big Bang there just isn't enough universe LEFT to muck up; you can get away with all kinds of crazy stuff because the entirety of reality is now less than a solar system in size. The Reapers may well have gone POOF along with the rest of existence and honestly, even if they had accidentally broken time, could they actually have made things WORSE?

Also, it’s entirely possible that I think about these things too much. *sheepish*

[aria]

Everything about this comment is smart and you should feel excellent about it. :D

[innocentsmith]

It was so adorable! And yet I followed the links to watch it over at Fandom Lounge, and all of the people there were bitching. My squee: it is harshed. And part of the bitching was people who thought Moffat writes too much time travel into his stories. FOLKS, IT'S A SHOW ABOUT A GUY WITH A TIME TRAVELLING SPACESHIP. WTF DO YOU WANT?

So it is nice to see someone agreeing with me that (a) Amy Pond is freaking adorable and great, and (b) time travel stories are FTW.

[alpheratz]

And part of the bitching was people who thought Moffat writes too much time travel into his stories.

Ahahaha what.

Amy/Amy <333

[aria]

That is ridiculous! Your squee should not be harshed; Moffat writes exactly the right amount of time travel into his stories! And -- good god, they haven't been to 21st century London in a WHOLE SEASON, this is EXCITING.

The conclusion I have long since come to about Who fandom is that I stay sanest by just reading my friends' reaction posts, and occasionally trotting over to the comms for wild speculation time around finales. It is very soothing. :)

[labellementeuse]

Amy flirting with herself is so (inexplicably) hot that I think your poll would have had a different result if you'd run it today. hoshit.

[aria]

I KNOW RIGHT. Nngh. I mean, I don't think it was that inexplicable -- Amy is kind of a hottie! Suddenly there's two of her and she's awesome and confident enough to recognize that she is a hottie! THERE IS NO BAD HERE. It was amazing how much chemistry Karen Gillan had with herself, though. :D

[jolly_utter]

Eeeee, that was the best thing to wake up to! Tea and two Amy Ponds. =D

And I really enjoy getting to see a snippet of what goes on in between adventures- I bet this sort of ridiculous thing happens on a fairly regular basis when you live in the Tardis. Also, what the Doctor has to deal with when traveling with a just-married couple. <3

[aria]

Yay! I am delighted to have brightened your morning with Amys. :D

I bet this sort of ridiculous thing happens on a fairly regular basis when you live in the Tardis.

Hee, absolutely. Rory even seemed kind of resigned to it, like, "Well, I'm not entirely sure what's going on but I've learned by now that it's best just to go with it." And meanwhile as usual the Doctor's making dramatic statements about how they're trapped here for all eternity, and Amy is bursting through doors announcing that this is where things get complicated, and yep, just another morning on the TARDIS.

Poor Doctor. Rory crashes the TARDIS because Amy's wearing a great skirt! Doctor, perhaps they are in need of more honeymoon planets.

[jolly_utter]

Also, that is a ridiculous temperature for March. But you are coming back to New England this week! This is an excellent plan. =)

[feverbeats]

he realizes they have a time machine!
THIS THIS THIIIIIIIIS. He actually makes use of the universe!

#3

[mergatrude]

OMG! THANK YOU FOREVER!!!!

*joins you in the shallow end of the pool*

Re: #3

[aria]

Hee! Very glad to provide you with Amys. :D

[china_shop]

She flirts with herself!!!! *adoooores so much*

/late to the party

[carrieann]

Multiple Amys flirting with each other was awesome, but I -adored- Rory with the helping the Doctor and the goggles and the dropping things because Amy's wearing a skirt and there's a glass floor and the whole thing he said when they came through the door. Oh, Rory, I love you so much.