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I Need a Doctor
I officially finished the Third Doctor era yesterday and it already feels so bittersweet. I know many elements of that era carry over into the first season of the Fourth Doctor's run, but I know it won't quite be the same. I'm honestly glad I'm taking a break from it for a couple of months, since it'll allow it all to sink in even more. In the meantime, reflecting on all of it has given me some writing ideas for that era, and I'm gonna try writing a Christmas fic for it as well as the Second Doctor's era. Like, I really just want to write a story where the Brigadier is saddled with throwing this Christmas party and Liz Shaw shows up for the first time in ages and Jo returns from her trip and Sarah Jane is stressed out because she keeps walking in on Mike Yates snogging someone different. And maybe there's some kind of festive cookies?
Finishing this chapter of the show has also helped me zero in on a preference I have with Doctor Who: I enjoy eras more when they feel cozy. Like, there's a setting to them where all the characters could just settle down together and hang out without there being a major source of internal strife looming over their heads. Thirteen's era hasn't quite landed that for me because part of Series 11's structure involved Graham and Ryan avoiding dealing directly with Grace's death, so whenever the show touched down in the modern day setting that just kind of looms over everything in a way that's not particularly fun (and the one story that didn't deal with it - Arachnids in the UK - just sucked). Series 8 had a similar problem for me because the Clara-Danny relationship always had this sense of doom even before that big finale twist, to the point where all the characters seemed pretty on edge whenever they were just hanging out in 2015 London. Series 9 was able to shed this, even with Clara dying towards the end of the season, so I'm hopeful Series 12 won't continue dragging that baggage along. But knowing Chibnall's writing from Torchwood and Broadchurch I'm not overly optimistic about it.
Writing is going okay. I finished a draft I originally churned out for a Fictober fill yesterday but looking back at it now I'm realizing I'm gonna have to rewrite chunks of it and I'm not thrilled. Unless Disney+ somehow swallows my whole evening I'm hopeful I'll have a handful of things ready to post tonight, including the first Buffyverse Bingo square. I'm going to a con this weekend, Anime NYC, and even though its anime themed I'm hopefully it'll put me in the mood to write some more nuts-and-bolts Buffy stuff.
Classic Doctor Who season 11 review will be up at some point this week. I really spaced out my viewing so there are a couple of serials I don't remember quite as well as I would like, so I suspect it'll take me a bit longer than usual to turn it out.
Finishing this chapter of the show has also helped me zero in on a preference I have with Doctor Who: I enjoy eras more when they feel cozy. Like, there's a setting to them where all the characters could just settle down together and hang out without there being a major source of internal strife looming over their heads. Thirteen's era hasn't quite landed that for me because part of Series 11's structure involved Graham and Ryan avoiding dealing directly with Grace's death, so whenever the show touched down in the modern day setting that just kind of looms over everything in a way that's not particularly fun (and the one story that didn't deal with it - Arachnids in the UK - just sucked). Series 8 had a similar problem for me because the Clara-Danny relationship always had this sense of doom even before that big finale twist, to the point where all the characters seemed pretty on edge whenever they were just hanging out in 2015 London. Series 9 was able to shed this, even with Clara dying towards the end of the season, so I'm hopeful Series 12 won't continue dragging that baggage along. But knowing Chibnall's writing from Torchwood and Broadchurch I'm not overly optimistic about it.
Writing is going okay. I finished a draft I originally churned out for a Fictober fill yesterday but looking back at it now I'm realizing I'm gonna have to rewrite chunks of it and I'm not thrilled. Unless Disney+ somehow swallows my whole evening I'm hopeful I'll have a handful of things ready to post tonight, including the first Buffyverse Bingo square. I'm going to a con this weekend, Anime NYC, and even though its anime themed I'm hopefully it'll put me in the mood to write some more nuts-and-bolts Buffy stuff.
Classic Doctor Who season 11 review will be up at some point this week. I really spaced out my viewing so there are a couple of serials I don't remember quite as well as I would like, so I suspect it'll take me a bit longer than usual to turn it out.
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Aww. And that's quite a sensible plan. It's all too easy to binge stuff, sometimes! Although I shall be eager to see what you make of the next new old Doctor, of course.
I don't think Classic Who has any other era where there's a place they hang out other than the TARDIS, but there are definitely some really cozy/solid team!TARDISes to come. (The Sixties was especially good for that, but you've got Sarah-Harry-Four next up, which is a combination I'm very fond of.)
*salutes Three* Planet of the Spiders is a very mixed thing, but it's a pretty moving and good regeneration. ♥
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I really enjoyed Three's farewell and the resolution to his arc. With One it just kind of happened and Two's felt like it was resolving One's arc more than his own. I'm really looking forward to Four and spending time with all these companions I've heard so much about over the years in vague terms. I never expected to love the Three era as much as I did so I'm pretty optimistic about what's to come.
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