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[doyle]

I have snacks, I have Sudoku, I have no plans for today except listening to the audio of The Dalek Master Plan. Ahh, Saturdays. (I would be joining in taraljc's Life on Mars-a-thon, as I still haven't watched it, but I'm at my parents' and my dad's PC is creaky and weeps emo computer tears if I try to make it do complicated things like play .avi's)

And a meme, seen everywhere but most recently from twinkledru: Name a character or pairing! Then I will ramble on about it! I just like how emphatic it is.

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[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

Fitz!

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to put thoughts together for ages on why I love Fitz (aside from the obvious 'because he really, really loves Eight and so do I' - Sam loves Eight and it doesn't make me fond of her.) Fitz is brilliant because he tends towards being a bit shit at things, really: when he's first introduced he'd like to be a famous rock star and a ladies man but he actually works in a garden centre and has a crap flat and a sick mum and, as far as we know, no friends. And even after he goes off with the Doctor (or in his own words, as best as I can remember them from Vanishing Point, "I met somebody special and went travelling round the universe with him") he still fucks things up and falls in love at the drop of a pair of knickers (often not even that) and smokes and swears and ambles all over space and time being a Sixties dropout, and somehow he manages to help save the world/the universe/the multiverse lots. I don't think post-Earth Arc Eight would have managed nearly so well without Fitz.

I think it's Eater of Wasps where Anji asks how he can be so loyal to the Doctor even when he's acting like an uncaring shit, and Fitz says "because he's good. Because he's so good." And even aside from all slashiness (though it should be noted that Anji responds "you really love him, don't you?") that's just perfect.

Oh, and there's that whole question of how much of him - the Fitz Mk II him - was created by the Doctor in Interference, which nicely hits my obsession with people-who-were-made-up-by-someone-else (Dawn in Buffy, Eve in Angel). *And* he's from 1963 which means it's obviously canon that Susan groupied him at that Soho club he played in and he went to school with Jamie from An Empty Child and he knew Ian and Barbara (the latter probably not in the biblical sense, to his sadness, although he would be quite scared of her, I think.)

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

*latches*

I'm sorry, I can't stop myself from jumping in.

[wishfulaces.livejournal.com]

Somebody I used to know on OG on at least one occasion called Fitz the Everyfan, which to me was a brilliantly concise summation of Fitz Kreiner.

Fitz and the Doctor are just so damned dependent on each other, particularly after the Earth arc--but even in The Taint it surprised me when I reread it recently how quickly the Doctor got his snark on (uh-hem) with Fitz. They just clicked.

And he has all kinds of identity issues that are exactly the kind of identity issues that interest me and really, that's just not fair.

Re: I'm sorry, I can't stop myself from jumping in.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I loved the first half of The Taint, especially the Doctr's first conversation with Fitz involving trying to charm him into giving him a sick begonia for free.

I was very interested in Interference Pt I the comment that the Doctor likes Fitz and feels terribly sorry for him but he doesn't exactly trust him, because I never got the feeling he didn't trust him afterwards. That made me wonder if he, even subconsciously, tweaked some bits he didn't like so much when he was remembering Kode into Fitz (which would fit with him creating Sam as his perfect companion without his knowledge). Mmm, identity crises, I love them.