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[dreamer_easy]

Voyage of the Damned is better than I remembered, too. Lightweight, as the specials tend to be, but some gorgeous images and a cracking cast (Kylie's great, and Tennant's performance gives the weaker material one hell of a boost). As with the Master trilogy, fandom made it all but impossible to enjoy the story at the time. With that taste of ashes no longer in my mouth, it was a pleasure to just watch it for itself. (Jon provided commentary in the form of reading out funny bits from Writer's Tale. :)

Mr. Copper says: "Of all the people to survive, he's not the one you would have chosen, is he? But if you could chose, Doctor, if you could decide who lives and who dies - that would make you a monster."

Ohhhhhh shit.

(Although of course I'm still waiting for the line about becoming a vengeful god to pay off.)

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RE: "Television doesn't work like that," well, heck, look at the Doctor/Rose storyline. You never have a main series character who falls in love with another character and then they ride off into the sunset together for a happily-ever-after because it'll destroy the series . . . And yet, Ten (well, Handy) and Rose ended up doing just that. It involved making some really bizarre crack!fic into canon in the process, but RTD had the cojones for *that,* so I see no reason why he wouldn't have some Master Plan (as it were) covering several seasons' worth of stories. Hell, that's a far more conservative move, really.

Yeah, the Big Red Reset button's been in my mind, too, and nothing in WoM contradicted that possibility, either (only reinforced it, to my mind). Wonder how fandom will explode if it comes to pass . . .