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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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[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

The one Doctor/Companion pair who were utterly, indisputably in love and doing it madly offscreen. IMHO. Four's the one Doctor who doesn't seem to actually want pesky companions spraining their ankles and asking "what's that, Doctor?": he's got his TARDIS, he's got his robot dog, and he's happy puttering around the universe interfering in things and taking the odd day off to do some fishing. Then Romana gets dumped on him and it's all a bit screwball-comedy (overcompensating for something, indeed). After she regenerates, Romana seems much more keen to get into this whole adventuring lark, and this seems to be when they really hit it off (there are the obvious real-life reasons why the chemistry suddenly shoots off the charts, but they don't count because It's All Really Really Real, obviously) so there's running around Paris holding hands and matching sonic screwdrivers and "you are wonderful"s.

The fact that she's a Time Lord gets rid of most of the Doctor/Companion issues right off the bat, though I'm sure there was some gossip on Gallifrey about how that previously sensible PhD student suddenly ran off with that renegade 600 years her senior. I love that Romana's cleverer than the Doctor but much less experienced. I love that she finally runs off to be just like him. I agree with nos that it's very hard to write them together without being twee (plus factoring in the whole alien sexuality thing) but they're just Love.

Eight/Romana are Love too. Just that he looks a lot younger now and is hyperactive and if you go by extended universe-canon she's a proper grown-up and the President of Gallifrey and she can't go running off with him whenever she feels like. But they'll always have Paris.

[gwynnega]

Yay! And that's true, she does run off to be just like him...

But they'll always have Paris.

And Cambridge! :-)

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

And I'm sure that schoolgirl outfit is still hanging up in the wardrobe room. But at the back. So it doesn't make him sad.

[gwynnega]

Awwwww...

::pictures the Doctor (any of them) finding the schoolgirl outfit and smiling wistfully::

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

*experiences happy shipper glow from reading this*

The whole "you are wonderful" routine kills me. I had to watch it four times before I returned the "State of Decay" video to the library.

*goes back to watch the "Shada" webcast again*