Somebody tell him about the looms

[promethia_tenk]

So, literally the best thing to come out of my foray into Big Finish so far is the bonus commentary track for An Earthly Child, the episode where Eight reunites with Susan and meets her son, Alex. So Paul McGann is commentating on the episode, and at this point he's been playing the Doctor on the regular for years and he's like 'Why did I never hear the Doctor has a family before this? Is there a reason nobody told me? Do we not talk about it? Is it because nobody thinks he has sex?'

Oh, my sweet summer child. lmfao

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[promethia_tenk]

Well, obviously they are both.

[owlboy]

true, true

[promethia_tenk]

Do you have a serious reason for liking looms now, tho?

[owlboy]

I kind of like the idea that Time Lords are screwed up because they consider themselves above/beyond nature to the degree they'll go to ridiculously complex lengths just to avoid fucking, and the dr / missy are the outcast weirdo freaks because they're all sensory-hungry in ways Time Lords aren't supposed to be

i like that as a sort of cultural context for their relationship, like Missy goes on about how Time Lords are Above It All but as soon as the Dr is in the room she can't *not* touch him, and neither of them have figured out they're completely in love with each other bc a class of weird repressed quasi clone people probably doesn't even have a vocabulary for complex romantic relationships like that

[promethia_tenk]

Mmmm. 's a good point. Looms always did make rather too much sense, despite their obvious absurdity.

[owlboy]

the dr is half human tho and his mum is scottish

[promethia_tenk]

Is the Scottish bit in the EU somewhere?

[owlboy]

... probably

[promethia_tenk]

Everything is canon in the EU, somewhere?

[owlboy]

http://ileolai.tumblr.com/post/171964570399

[promethia_tenk]

Lmao.

I've always loved the supposition that his name is, like, super basic, but he's just embarrassed about it.