The rewatching continues

[dira]

Two things, and I can't remember the first one.

2) I would really like some post-"Doomsday" Jackie/Pete fic. (Or intra-"Doomsday", I guess, with the tag. Anyway.) Jackie/Pete, is what I'm saying. I mean, honestly, how did THAT work out?

...Crap, now I want Jackie/Pete with background Mickey/Jake and Jackie and Mickey commiserating about the weirdness of replacing your dead doppelganger.

If by any chance this fic already exists, somebody point me at it? Please?

OH! Now I remember the first thing.

1) I think this is a vaguely unpopular opinion but I sort of love "Fear Her" in the way where the ending kind of makes me cry every time I watch it. And I really, really want David Tennant to carry the torch in 2012. (I feel like actually being the one to light the Flame is a bit much, but I want him to carry the torch.) Actually, after plotting this out in very nearly fic-like detail to Iulia the other night, what I really want is a (very short, they're not athletes, that's not the point) eight-man relay of the living Doctor-actors. Actually, physically handing off a torch to one another. I want to actually see Paul McGann right there as the bridge between Slyvester McCoy and Christopher Eccleston. And then, right, the companion-actresses and actors could be alongside and--yeah, that's where I became conscious of exactly how insane it was, and still.

Words cannot express how happy that would make me. And I have half convinced myself now that it could happen. I am an Olympic torch relay tinhat.



Okay but seriously: Jackie/Pete. WANT.

Comments

[fox]

Actually, physically handing off a torch to one another.

It's a little on the nose, isn't it? :-) A nice idea, though, definitely. Especially if they could manage to get Tom Baker to do it.

[dira]

If I am going to admit to being an Olympic torch relay tinhat, I am not about to scruple at my metaphors being a touch literal. :)

[ellen_fremedon]

I am an Olympic torch relay tinhat.

...and now, so am I. Damn you.

[glittertine]

I have wanted Tennant to carry the torch, at least just for a bit, since I *saw* Fear Her for the first time. I'm so very much not into the Olympics, but this, I would watch, and I'm going to be so disappointed if it doesn't happen.

[aria]

I am pretty sure I have vague plans to write Mickey/Jake already, and now that you mention it, there should absolutely be Jackie/Pete in there. *makes note*

I adore Fear Her, but I am under the impression that it is a vaguely unpopular opinion, yes. And if Tennant doesn't carry the torch, something is horribly, horribly wrong with the world.

[giglet]

Yes, but you are an adorable Olympic torch relay tinhat.

Also, I'm a little in love with fandom for making this idea something that we have space to talk about, as opposed to something lurking in the back of a few fans' minds.

[dira]

\o/

(There's a petition you can sign. And some Facebook groups.)

[dira]

Yeah, I kind of rediscover my longing for Tennant in the relay every time I see the episode, but this time it turned into full-on plotting-out and the eight-man relay and I had to share. :)

[dira]

Yaaay, Mickey/Jake with Jackie/Pete! I find myself kind of plotting it in my head, but it takes an immediate detour into How Pete Tyler Became Rose's Dad. Which is probably a closely related but still distinctly separate issue.

And, for reals, Britain! Get on that! David Tennant in 2012!

[dira]

Well, I try. :)

And, yeah, this is definitely one of those moments when you realize that, no, it's true, Fandom Means It's Never Just You.