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I never thought I'd find something enlightening on fandom wank, of all places, but a comment from there has me seeing an entirely new angle on The Big Spoiler:
The theme of the upcoming season isn't "Rose Comes Back." It's "Companions Come Back." John Barrowman is feeding rumors that Jack is coming back, which would make for a full set of the modern companions, but even without him, we know two things about every single woman who sets foot on the TARDIS in the upcoming season:
1) She left the Doctor.
2) She's back.
This completely wipes out the whole "Rose vs other companions" dynamic. You can't have a companionapalooza without Rose, period. She was the first modern companion. But at the same time, this isn't some "Only Rose Returns" storyline when every other woman on Team TARDIS is also coming back from a break in the same season. There's that pesky alternate universe thing going on, but that's just details. (In fact, you almost need to have that going on to be able to explore the three kinds of mindset a returning companion would have - the one who feared the Doctor too much to travel with him (Donna), the one who had enough of travel (Martha) and the unwillingly left behind (Rose, since Sarah Jane reclassed herself as "had enough" in School Reunion). Whovian storytelling is particularly fond of triads, illustrated most clearly with the three types of adaption (or not) from Torchwood's Out of Time.
Come to think of it, one of the keynotes of modern Who is that the Doctor is having a hell of a time getting people to join Team TARDIS at all. Both Rose and Martha needed to be coaxed with a return visit before they agreed; Jack and Adam were invited in mostly because the alternative was their death.
I sincerely hope that Rusty pulls back from the racist undercurrents that have built up by the way storylines "just happen" to happen to minority characters, but as for anything else regarding companions? No worries, mate.
Links
The BBC has started its Doctor Who ADVENTure calendar. Today's treat is a story by Rupert Laight called "The Frozen." The Doctor and a new companion, Mai. (And this time, the formatting isn't munged by Firefox. Thank you, BBC!)
Anticraft: Knitting, Beading, and Stitching for the Slightly Sinister. Apparently contains chain mail instructions. For the really kinky crafter, Naughty Needles includes directions on how to knit a flogger.
Sunday 7
Cleared a corner of the basement. This involved:
1-2) Two bags of trash, mostly things like very old shoes worn while doing yard work and newsletters from the mid-80s.
3) Lab coat, too tight. Freecycled.
4) Baroque: When you are out of Monet T-shirt. Still in original wrapping (!) Freecycled.
5-8) Freecycled assorted mug racks, a brand new bath scrubbie, magnetic poetry, and a working watch with a broken band.
I have 1 large cabinet and 1 wall o' stuff to go through and that will be the last of the major clearing-out to do. I do not feel inspired to deal with either today.
I think, however, that I will have a less-intensive form of Sunday 7 going on in the next year, as a quick look at the top of the bookcase in the hall shows me:
- 2 bento boxes
- a book that needs to be returned to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shawan_7
- a mailing receipt from Big Finish
- a salt shaker
- a key to an unknown lock
- 1 decorative pin and 2 safety pins
- two dead batteries (one fallen behind the shelf)
- a toy I don't recognize
- a quarter
- a bronze pendant from the rennfaire and its leather thong (untied)
- 1 piece hard candy
- small white silk rose
- and the mouse tongs and mouse jar.
And I had to make a conscious effort not to toss the pen down on it when I finished that list. So obviously there needs to be some sort of ongoing clearing project. I think next year it's going to be the weekly odd job and the weekly "this was cleaned" as opposed to actually getting rid of something every day, because there is little on that list I want to toss. I just need to put it where it belongs.
This part x-posted to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
homekeeping, the place where I learned about the Seven Items project in the first place.
I never thought I'd find something enlightening on fandom wank, of all places, but a comment from there has me seeing an entirely new angle on The Big Spoiler:
The theme of the upcoming season isn't "Rose Comes Back." It's "Companions Come Back." John Barrowman is feeding rumors that Jack is coming back, which would make for a full set of the modern companions, but even without him, we know two things about every single woman who sets foot on the TARDIS in the upcoming season:
1) She left the Doctor.
2) She's back.
This completely wipes out the whole "Rose vs other companions" dynamic. You can't have a companionapalooza without Rose, period. She was the first modern companion. But at the same time, this isn't some "Only Rose Returns" storyline when every other woman on Team TARDIS is also coming back from a break in the same season. There's that pesky alternate universe thing going on, but that's just details. (In fact, you almost need to have that going on to be able to explore the three kinds of mindset a returning companion would have - the one who feared the Doctor too much to travel with him (Donna), the one who had enough of travel (Martha) and the unwillingly left behind (Rose, since Sarah Jane reclassed herself as "had enough" in School Reunion). Whovian storytelling is particularly fond of triads, illustrated most clearly with the three types of adaption (or not) from Torchwood's Out of Time.
Come to think of it, one of the keynotes of modern Who is that the Doctor is having a hell of a time getting people to join Team TARDIS at all. Both Rose and Martha needed to be coaxed with a return visit before they agreed; Jack and Adam were invited in mostly because the alternative was their death.
I sincerely hope that Rusty pulls back from the racist undercurrents that have built up by the way storylines "just happen" to happen to minority characters, but as for anything else regarding companions? No worries, mate.
Links
The BBC has started its Doctor Who ADVENTure calendar. Today's treat is a story by Rupert Laight called "The Frozen." The Doctor and a new companion, Mai. (And this time, the formatting isn't munged by Firefox. Thank you, BBC!)
Anticraft: Knitting, Beading, and Stitching for the Slightly Sinister. Apparently contains chain mail instructions. For the really kinky crafter, Naughty Needles includes directions on how to knit a flogger.
Sunday 7
Cleared a corner of the basement. This involved:
1-2) Two bags of trash, mostly things like very old shoes worn while doing yard work and newsletters from the mid-80s.
3) Lab coat, too tight. Freecycled.
4) Baroque: When you are out of Monet T-shirt. Still in original wrapping (!) Freecycled.
5-8) Freecycled assorted mug racks, a brand new bath scrubbie, magnetic poetry, and a working watch with a broken band.
I have 1 large cabinet and 1 wall o' stuff to go through and that will be the last of the major clearing-out to do. I do not feel inspired to deal with either today.
I think, however, that I will have a less-intensive form of Sunday 7 going on in the next year, as a quick look at the top of the bookcase in the hall shows me:
- 2 bento boxes
- a book that needs to be returned to
shawan_7- a mailing receipt from Big Finish
- a salt shaker
- a key to an unknown lock
- 1 decorative pin and 2 safety pins
- two dead batteries (one fallen behind the shelf)
- a toy I don't recognize
- a quarter
- a bronze pendant from the rennfaire and its leather thong (untied)
- 1 piece hard candy
- small white silk rose
- and the mouse tongs and mouse jar.
And I had to make a conscious effort not to toss the pen down on it when I finished that list. So obviously there needs to be some sort of ongoing clearing project. I think next year it's going to be the weekly odd job and the weekly "this was cleaned" as opposed to actually getting rid of something every day, because there is little on that list I want to toss. I just need to put it where it belongs.
This part x-posted to
homekeeping, the place where I learned about the Seven Items project in the first place.
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Date: 2007-12-02 03:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-02 03:49 pm (UTC)It's a show about a faintly immature alien in a magic box that's bigger on the inside who fights bubble wrap and farting rubber aliens. I'm not really expecting King Lear.
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Date: 2007-12-02 03:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-02 05:54 pm (UTC)I've been following the Anticraft blog/online craft page since their first issue, I really ought to buy the book.
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Date: 2007-12-02 06:04 pm (UTC)And I do, given the nature of the show, wonder if the Rose we're going to see is farther along a linear timeline from and is the same Rose we last saw in "Doomsday"...I mean, she could be from a DIFFERENT alternate reality, she could be from a different reality, she could be ANYTHING.
More clearly...we know Billie's going to be back to play Rose...but WHICH Rose? The same one we've met before? I mean, we know two versions of both her mom and dad, and logic dictates that there are yet other versions of them all out there that we've not met.
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Date: 2007-12-02 06:53 pm (UTC)The Doctor told her once to have a fantastic life; I'm a bit pissed at him for not reiterating that the second time. I want Rose to have a fantastic life. And to erase blubbing on the beach, we need to *see* that fantastic life.
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Date: 2007-12-02 06:59 pm (UTC)And it was definitely unfortunate that he didn't reiterate the "fantastic life" wish.
I actually didn't have a problem with the "this is the story of how I died" thing because of a couple of things. The blubbing on the beach--it's a final goodbye, something always sad. I read the "this is how I died" as referring to two things: this is the story of her "death" as reported in our Earth's universe, and that it WAS a kind of death--the end of her life-as-was both on our Earth and in her travels with the Doctor. It had literally never occurred to me to read it as her implying that she had "died" as in there was nothing left for her at all.
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Date: 2007-12-02 07:17 pm (UTC)I don't like to think of it that way, but I tend to find myself doing so. Which is why I hope that it's an image that is definately erased.
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Date: 2007-12-03 01:50 am (UTC)