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The Peter Cushing movies - Doctor Who and the Daleks and Daleks Invasion of Earth 2150AD - are the best things in the history of the universe. Ever. Ever! His character is actually called Doctor Who. (It's hard to explain why this revelation necessitated me pausing the DVD because I was laughing too much to follow the dialogue). And he exists in a brilliant, cracktastic fanfic AU where the Doctor is a mad human inventor living with his two granddaughters, Susan (8-year-old uber genius) and Barbara (dating Ian Chesterton, who's there only to make pratfalls and break things) and his niece Louise, who like Barbara is made of boobies. They encounter Daleks, all in glorious technicolour. And they save the day with magnets. And one of them stars Bernard Cribbins who was in all the Carry On movies. And at one point a Dalek's cunning plan is to get Susan to write their enemies a nice note to lure them in - "ADD AT THE BOT-TOM: WE ON-LY WANT TO BE FRIENDS".

Between that and the Fifth Doctor book I'm reading where he seems to spend a lot of time angsting over whether his feelings for his new 19-year-old companion Peri are entirely platonic, I'm a happy bee today.

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Those movies are things of beauty, honestly. Just so cracktastic.

Memo to Five: Just don't let her talk, and she's not so bad. ;)

Every time poor Five angsts "I can't give her the kind of relationship she needs" or mentions, again, that Peri's only 19 I keep thinking "oh, poor dear. Give it a few more regenerations, you'll feel fine about the whole thing...

Maybe Nine was the regeneration of Mid-Life Crisis?

Mathematically speaking, Seven ought to be mid-life :-D

Well, true, but according to one place I looked (I just did a rudimentary Google search) the life expectancy for an American male born in 1996 is 73 years, and 36-37 is too young for a "midlife crisis" in humans, usually.... *g*

where he seems to spend a lot of time angsting over whether his feelings for his new 19-year-old companion Peri are entirely platonic

Yee gods! I still haven't forgiven them for Peri. How do you go from Tegan's balls to Peri's whining (and atrocious American accent!) without clawing your eyes out, I ask you! No wonder he regenerated two episodes later . . .

I've only seen Peri in Caves of Androzani, where I thought she was quite lovely, but her frankly magnificent cleavage may have been a factor...

Hee! Yeah, those are kind of distracting. But of course on this side of the pond, we just couldn't forgive that *voice* . . .

::said in high, nasally JAP whinge:: But, Doooooohc-teer!! ::insert hipcock here::

Oh, the movies are even more fabulous on the big screen. Even if there were a few bits missing from the reels I watched.

Gina

It's Peter Cushing in a wig! Grinning at everything! Cracktastic brilliance, yes.

And there's no proof he's actually human, darnit. He just acts that way.

He definitely didn't come to Earth in the TARDIS, though, since he and Susan have just built it...

Exiled? I do like the idea that he got dumped on Earth and decided to settle down and have a family instead of heroics.

Boy has a thing for 19 year olds:)

It's Bernard Cribbins.

His character is actually called Doctor Who

Oh god. Seriously? Because while I can't articulate it I totally understand the compulsion, following that revelation, to find and watch those movies as soon as humanly possible. *hysterics*

And they save the day with magnets.

Which is so much sillier than saving it with anti-plastic. *smacks RTD for that little WTF moment in the otherwise great Rose*

Hee! Barbara is made of boobs!

I rather liked Peri, even though her American is... not, really. Wait until you hit The Twin Dilemma and hear her say, "It's the diminutive of my proper name, Perpugilliam." I'm not even sure I'd know where to start picking that apart for "Language written by Brits who've never met an American and spoken by an actress whose only claim to the title is that she was married to one at the time."

Didn't Nicola Bryant lie at her audition and they BELIVED her when she said she was American? Or did I dream that?

It sounds familiar, but I dunno if it's fannish urban legend, or The Truth. It wouldn't remotely surprise me.

You mean Fannish Urban Legends may not be True?! O_O

Now is not the time to mention what I know about Santa Claus, is it.

PERI WAS NINTEEN?! O_O

spend a lot of time angsting over whether his feelings for his new 19-year-old companion Peri are entirely platonic

Hee! 19-year-olds are obviously his weakness. At least he gets over the angst eventually :-)

Philosophic question: is it slash if it's canon? Hmm.

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I ran across an old Whovian the other day who was trying to convince the world that the new series and the Paul McGann film belonged to the same AU as the Peter Cushing ones (with the old series being the One True Doctor, natch). To which I say, ppphhhpttt.

It's really weird to come into a fandom so near the tail. The old fans must feel like the Lord of the Rings fandom did after the film :-D

Peter Cushing rocks my little world. I haven't seen the Cushing Who movies, but Cushing makes everything better automatically just by being in it. Star Wars? Would've been brushed off as a crappy Flash Gordon rip-off without the Cushing. Olivier's Hamlet? Some ponce in tights until Cushing came along.

It's all about Peter Cushing. I'm just sayin'.

His character is actually called Doctor Who.

Heeeeeeee. That's marvelous...