promethia_tenk: (river hello sweetie)
Listened to The Diary of River Song 5x01. I think I would have been happier if they just locked them both in a room for an hour and let them have it out, but look, I'm never gonna say no to some River'n'Missy caper action.

I had to pause for a solid thirty seconds to cackle out loud when spoilers, sweetie )
promethia_tenk: (clara who)
Randomly woke up at 3am and realized something:



If the Clara in the Library with Ten died to save him, she would have been scooped up by CAL.

Which means there's a very good chance that there's been a Clara hanging out in the Library computer with River all this time.

I can't believe it's taken me five years to think of that.
promethia_tenk: (metaphors)
Warnings: Includes spoilers for Pyramid at the End of the World and the next time trailer for Lie of the Land. So long. So very long. Not properly edited. Seven years of accumulated symbolism is such an unwieldily thing, guys, I'm sorry.

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Bill started out on this show, I thought, remarkably devoid of symbolism. Clara and River and even Amy, to an extent, all entered the show dripping in symbolism. With names that begged to be analyzed and new veins of metaphoric imagery flowing from them.

Amy was about fairy tales and growing up. Apples and stories. She and the Doctor were lost children, running away together, learning how to grow up.

River was about life and the power of grace and the flow of time. She was associated with water and forests and music, life and death and renewal. Her appearance told us the Doctor was going to grow and heal and and again be a force for life and wellbeing.

Clara was about clarity and power and rules, and about mirroring the Doctor. She brought with her flowers and eggs and birds: symbols of fruitfulness, rebirth, and freedom. On her first appearance she symbolically healed the Time War by severing the Doctor’s connection to the Daleks.

Missy came in and co-opted all the symbolic threads the others had established and made them evil: a twisted mother figure. Queen of no natural forces, but of the undead. And her influence twisted up Twelve and Clara and spread over their whole era, as they gripped tighter and tighter to each other, unwilling to let time and nature run their course.

To see even an episode or two of any of these women was to understand, quite quickly, major things about what they would mean.

This did not happen with Bill. Bill was remarkably, intriguingly, and somewhat reassuringly . . . flat.

Read more... )
promethia_tenk: (twelve flowers)
So Knock Knock was very boring, I thought, except as ENGLISH MAJOR CATNIP.

Let's talk, shall we? )
promethia_tenk: (clara who)
So I made a vid . . . my first . . . please be kind *frets*

title card

Title: The New Age
Fandom: Doctor Who, Moffat era, Clara
Song: 'Radioactive,' by Imagine Dragons
Length: 3:04
Spoilers: Through 'The Rings of Akhaten'

Summary: Clara Who

A/N: For Elisi. Who likes vids, I hear ; ) And without whom this would not exist.
This has basically been eating my life for a month and a half.
I assume this song is horribly over-vidded?

Download, streaming, and lyrics under the cut )
promethia_tenk: (eleven tardis sun)
*deep breath* Ok, if you're gonna play at guessing at Moffat Who, sooner or later you have to put your cards on the table. So here's how I see this whole thing going. It's a question of . . . aesthetics. Let me show you:

Narrative seeking order . . . )

(If you leave a comment and I've disappeared, I'm sorry. I have today off and then life goes sideways for awhile. I will do my best.)
promethia_tenk: (river rory fraked)
*dusts the cobwebs off this place* Hello, all! I've missed you. I've missed fandom. I've missed staying at all up to date with my flist. And I've missed things being normal and boring and quiet the past few weeks. Isn't Christmas supposed to come with a vacation? Sheesh.

Word of advice, children: I can't really recommend proper employment as a life choice, so study hard and stay in school. And fail all your tests so they can't make you leave.

Anyway, would like to find a way to both keep myself in coffee and rent money and to stay moderately active online again, and then realized that this is why they have those fandom challenge things, isn't it? There is a Doctor Who-ish one going around right now, but that is so clearly for actual Doctor Who fans and not people like me who are Moff-Who fans who also enjoy making fun of Rusty recreationally in their spare time. So the Fandom Snowflake Challenge it is.

Also: hello to various new people! Please stop in. I shall endeavor to be at least a bit entertaining for you, so you may feel the friending worthwhile : )

Day One )

Am actually feeling like I would like to get back into make Doctor Who stuff again, but not sure that what I want to say about this fantastic complexity that the show has become (or the emotional labyrinth that is the Pond family) is really gonna fit into words. I think . . . I might . . . feel a vid coming on? How do I vids, anyway? *scratches head* Is there a Vidding for Dummies post somewhere?
promethia_tenk: (river eleven the big bang)
My descent into fandom bum-hood continues with, perhaps, the worst-explained post of all time. If you follow this, you get all the gold stars, but frankly, I won't blame you if you don't want to wade through my brain-dump. Input welcomed and desired, though.

Spoilers through A Town Called Mercy )

Goodies

19 Jul 2012 10:53 pm
promethia_tenk: (eleven amy)
Let's have some Doctor Who, shall we? Good, I'm glad we're agreed ; )

Things with whose perfection I am entirely incapable of putting up right now (vid edition):

Moves Like Jagger (Eleven/everyone) by [livejournal.com profile] lady_with_cats So, I have this song on my iPod at the moment, and I keep cracking up at inopportune times because . . . well, you'll see. Because the Doctor knows he is a smooth gq fucking rockstar, and he might even be right.

Safe to Shore (Amy, Eleven) by [personal profile] niyalune This vid almost makes me feel like we are back in season five again, just enjoying the joys and sorrows and adventures of Amy and her Raggedy Doctor, all while connecting it to season six and its complexities, and oh I love it so. The essence of these two together.

I Would Hurt a Fly (Eleven, his relationships, and his journey) by [personal profile] gnattery I won't mince words: this vid is the reason for this post. Because somebody made an epic, meat-y, meta-y vid about the relationship between the Doctor/the TARDIS/the Time Lords/the Master/the Universe/the Doctor's own darkness/Amy/Rory/River/and everything else. Oh, and it's beautiful. That's all.

(I know I owe comments on my last post--please forgive me. But I loved your insights and I will get back to it. Also: have watched Avatar: Legend of Korra and suspect it might be amazing, if flawed.)
promethia_tenk: (eleven river amy confront)
And just like that, apparently, I'm thinking about Doctor Who again . . .

Warning: complete and total ramble below. Unforgivably unedited. Sloppily-defined literary terminology. Off the top of my head. But either I give you my thoughts like this, or you're not getting them at all, so. This has been your disclaimer.

Been thinking a bit more about why the case of Amy this season is so troublesome:

Ten points if you can follow this . . . )
promethia_tenk: (pond family)
Hi guys *waves* Is anybody still around? I'll apologize here for my general Not Being Here for the last I've Lost Track of How Long. You'll have to excuse me because Life and also Things Far Too Boring to Talk About and, yes, you may feel free to hate me for abandoning you /guilt

But the internet is for dissecting television in obsessive detail, so on to the Doctor Who:

I've had another thought that I'd like to contribute to the ongoing efforts to fanwank season six into some sort of emotional continuity for the Pond family. This time it's about Amy and what I think has become the accepted wisdom about her behavior in the second half of the season (?): that she was repressing her feelings about what had happened with Melody because that is Amy and how she deals with adversity. This is the girl who had never told her fiance she loved him, after all.

Not buying it )
promethia_tenk: (Default)
Hello, flist! Long time, no see. In answer to your questions: yes, I have been avoiding you. Have also been avoiding Doctor Who and watching Fringe at a frankly unhealthy rate (Mini rxn: Fringe! <3 <3 <3). I have lots of lovely posts queued up for reading, though, and shall be trying to catch up with you all as soon as possible.

I'm back, though, because I have finally had a eureka moment on a question that's been eating at me ever since Let's Kill Hitler: What the frak did they do to Melody? And I know I'm not the only one who had a hard time seeing any River in Mels or who was dissatisfied with Moffat slapping a "psychopath" label on her and counting that as explanation enough. So here's my theory:

My theory, which is my own . . . )

promethia_tenk: (metaphors)
I've worked out the thing about LKH that's been bothering me and that I was trying to get at in my fic:

Spoiiiiiilllers . . . )
promethia_tenk: (Default)
So, Hurricane Irene proved mercifully short, but that doesn't mean I wasn't left stranded for almost 24 hours with no power, no internet, and trying to decide what I think of Let's Kill Hitler all by my lonesome. What's a fangirl to do? Well, besides bring River and Fry!Master together to do drinks and talk shop in the Meta.

Title: A Psychopath Walks into a Bar
Fandom: Doctor Who, River, the Master
Length: 1,000 words
Rating: PG
Spoilers: 6x08
Summary: Meta fic. River and Fry!Master talk shop after Let's Kill Hitler.
AN: This will seem a tad less bizarre if you've read Evilness vs. The Doctor first, but the essentials are this: Meta is a blank, white space that exists outside of the narrative, where characters can come to talk about their storylines. After The End of Time, the Master regenerated into Stephen Fry and decided to retire to the Meta because he was tired of playing narrative pawn to the Doctor's ideas of evil. He and River get on well.


Stop me if you've heard this one . . . )



promethia_tenk: (bigger on the inside)
This is one of those fics you finish and realize you've been waiting around for:

The Moon Rises Over and Over Again by [livejournal.com profile] quidly (Doctor/River, Amy/Rory, the TARDIS, 11500 words, R)

A 'this is why I read fic" fic. A "this is why I watch this show" fic. An "oops, didn't realize I'd stopped breathing there for a moment but I don't really care" fic. It's about . . . people being bigger on the inside. And how those spaces relate.

Give yourself a good hour to read, but please, read!


promethia_tenk: (river scans)
1) Vid rec: Land's End by [livejournal.com profile] cherryice (River Song, awake in the waiting sea.) OMG, guys, go watch this now. It's . . . a River vid. I mean about River, about her life (and all the rest of their lives, too--I think especially Amy). Anyone struggling with the AGMGTW reveal, I think this might . . . actually . . . help? In a cathartic sense, cause it's not really a pretty picture. At any rate, it's amazing. Go watch many, many times!

2) Question: I've been meaning to ask for awhile, but it seemed very a propos to the vid above ('let the walls cave in'): if I were to write something up comparing River to Echo from Dollhouse, would that be of any interest to anyone but me? It would basically be about both women and their boxes (Echo and the Dollhouse/ River and the TARDIS, the astronaut suit, Stormcage, the Library computer, etc. . . .) and the complicated, push-pull, quasi-symbiotic relationships they have to them. Or is bringing up Dollhouse enough to put everybody off from the get-go?

3) Observation: Watched "The Pandorica Opens" last night for the first time since AGMGTW, and it struck me that . . . )


promethia_tenk: (fairytale)
I've made no secret around these parts of the fact that "A Good Man Goes to War" has left me in a right funk. And I know I'm not the only one! If you're anything like me, though, perhaps you are tired of your funk. Maybe you would like to have your show back and to just be excited about it again. Remember how this felt?:

tardis float


No, me either, really. But I want to. So I've made a big ol' rec list of Doctor Who stuff what has made me happy of late, and I share it with you now in the hopes that one or more of us may again be squeeful in advance of the rest of the season!

Some days are special . . . )

promethia_tenk: (river amy)
Hey, look at me trying to write things \o/ I still have no idea of what to do with AGMGTW, really, but as I finally found myself getting excited for the show again with the prospect of MOAR AMY + RIVER GOODNESS, I figured as good a place to start as any would be to stick them in a room and see what happens. Really very thoroughly unpolished, all dialogue, not sure if I even like and/or agree with all of this, and I wasn't terribly comfortable writing Amy even before Moffat decided to change everything we knew, so . . . /nervous rambling

Anyway, I think transparency in the writing process is a good thing, so here's me practicing what I preach!

Spoiler/Spec Warning: Spoilers through AGMGTW. Some speculation based on a close study of some shots from the trailer for the second half of the season, developed from a conversation that I don't think contained any specific spoilers about what was going on, but you know how these things go in fandom . . .

promethia_tenk: (river amy)
From Comic-Con, Karen Gillan talks to Alan Sepinwall about how interesting and important the relationship between Amy and River will be going forward:

 


Obviously this requires icons and MUCH FLAILING, omg I want them to have ALL THE GREAT SCENES.  ALL OF THEM.  WHY IS IT NOT DOCTOR WHO AGAIN YET???????????

(From here.)

promethia_tenk: (bigger on the inside)
I really, really didn't like the big reveal in the last episode at first, but I'm gradually coming around by realizing it's a lot more complex and interesting than it seems on the surface.  Then I realized this:

Spoilers for all episodes . . . )