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[doyle]

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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[that_mireille]

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. ;)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

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...

[that_mireille]

Maybe Nine was the regeneration of Mid-Life Crisis?

[owl]

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

[that_mireille]

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*