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wibbley-wobbley timey-wimey stuff
Some thoughts about Dr. Who:
1. Jack Harkness has stated that he used to spend a lot of time in Pompeii, in the days right before its destruction, doing his Galactic Con Man bit. That means, in Pompeii, in the days right before the volcano went off, there was a) Captain Jack Harkness (possibly several times over) and b) various time agents Captain Jack Harkness was swindling. Which begs several questions: Shouldn't one of the above have *noticed* the alien influence all over the bloody place? In that case, was whole thing in fact actually the unintended consequence of Jack's meddling? And given that the Doctor knew Jack had been there, why did the TARDIS end up in that particular time and place anyway, hmmm?
2. I've been re-reading "The Tale of the Five" by Diane Duane ('cause there are a few bits of it I don't have memorized yet) and Hasai's story is really making me think about the Doctor. Hasai, see, is a member of a long-lived, space-faring race that has a... complicated relationship with linear time, in that they know the past and the future in much the same way and see both past and future as utterly mutable and not at all, which for someone currently steeped in Time Lord lore, is really interesting, because you see the effects of that much more intimately in Hasai's story than DW canon has ever looked at.
See, in the books, Hasai gets too involved with human ways of thinking and ends up being instrumental in a drastic and traumatic event that completely changes his entire species' way of life unimaginably. But since his people remember-ahead as well as back, for his entire life people have been "remembered" him doing this thing that they can't comprehend but are scared of, and as a result he's always been seen as outcast, rebel, and slightly mad in a society where everything is ordered and serene and stands apart, and as a result he *becomes* outcast, rebel, slightly mad, and spends too much time hanging around turning points in human history.
...you probably have to read the books to get the real subtlety of it. But I really, really want to read fic that sees the Doctor's timeline through the lens of what happened to Hasai.
Actually, I really just want to see fic where the Doctor and Hasai hang out and comisserate. And all the Doctor's mdeihei get to come out, too. :D "Tale of the Five" is tangentially part of Young Wizards canon, and so is Dr. Who, so by the Transitive Law of Tommy Westphall, they are part of the same universe; I ought to be able to get them to meet; I just can't figure out *how*.
3. Speaking of crossovers, Jamie MacCrimmon is awesome. He also happens to be from a clan closely associated with the MacLeods, and fought for the Jacobites at Culloden despite the leadership of the MacLeods being Hanoverian.
Duncan MacLeod and Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod also fought for the Jacobites at Culloden.
All of the above were presumed dead after the battle, but later turned up in rather suprising times and places.
Incidentally, Highlander and Dr. Who are the two most crossovered fandoms *ever*, and mesh seamlessly.
SO WHY HAS NOBODY WRITTEN THE STORY WHERE MAC RUNS INTO JAMIE, in, say, the 28th century in a mall on Titan, while they're both on secret missions, and they get roaring drunk reminiscing together and then save the universe (while Two and Methos get bored and wander off to take naps)? THIS IS A TRAVESTY AND FAILURE OF THE INTERNETS. INTERNETS, YOU HAVE FAILED ME.
1. Jack Harkness has stated that he used to spend a lot of time in Pompeii, in the days right before its destruction, doing his Galactic Con Man bit. That means, in Pompeii, in the days right before the volcano went off, there was a) Captain Jack Harkness (possibly several times over) and b) various time agents Captain Jack Harkness was swindling. Which begs several questions: Shouldn't one of the above have *noticed* the alien influence all over the bloody place? In that case, was whole thing in fact actually the unintended consequence of Jack's meddling? And given that the Doctor knew Jack had been there, why did the TARDIS end up in that particular time and place anyway, hmmm?
2. I've been re-reading "The Tale of the Five" by Diane Duane ('cause there are a few bits of it I don't have memorized yet) and Hasai's story is really making me think about the Doctor. Hasai, see, is a member of a long-lived, space-faring race that has a... complicated relationship with linear time, in that they know the past and the future in much the same way and see both past and future as utterly mutable and not at all, which for someone currently steeped in Time Lord lore, is really interesting, because you see the effects of that much more intimately in Hasai's story than DW canon has ever looked at.
See, in the books, Hasai gets too involved with human ways of thinking and ends up being instrumental in a drastic and traumatic event that completely changes his entire species' way of life unimaginably. But since his people remember-ahead as well as back, for his entire life people have been "remembered" him doing this thing that they can't comprehend but are scared of, and as a result he's always been seen as outcast, rebel, and slightly mad in a society where everything is ordered and serene and stands apart, and as a result he *becomes* outcast, rebel, slightly mad, and spends too much time hanging around turning points in human history.
...you probably have to read the books to get the real subtlety of it. But I really, really want to read fic that sees the Doctor's timeline through the lens of what happened to Hasai.
Actually, I really just want to see fic where the Doctor and Hasai hang out and comisserate. And all the Doctor's mdeihei get to come out, too. :D "Tale of the Five" is tangentially part of Young Wizards canon, and so is Dr. Who, so by the Transitive Law of Tommy Westphall, they are part of the same universe; I ought to be able to get them to meet; I just can't figure out *how*.
3. Speaking of crossovers, Jamie MacCrimmon is awesome. He also happens to be from a clan closely associated with the MacLeods, and fought for the Jacobites at Culloden despite the leadership of the MacLeods being Hanoverian.
Duncan MacLeod and Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod also fought for the Jacobites at Culloden.
All of the above were presumed dead after the battle, but later turned up in rather suprising times and places.
Incidentally, Highlander and Dr. Who are the two most crossovered fandoms *ever*, and mesh seamlessly.
SO WHY HAS NOBODY WRITTEN THE STORY WHERE MAC RUNS INTO JAMIE, in, say, the 28th century in a mall on Titan, while they're both on secret missions, and they get roaring drunk reminiscing together and then save the universe (while Two and Methos get bored and wander off to take naps)? THIS IS A TRAVESTY AND FAILURE OF THE INTERNETS. INTERNETS, YOU HAVE FAILED ME.