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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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Susan fascinates me. She occasionally annoys me, too, with the continual shrieking-and-being-a-bit-useless because the writers needed someone to be a damsel, but that's just the companions' curse and so I'm not going to judge her for it *g* She's so wonderful in An Unearthly Child: I love how odd and alien she is in the school scenes without being over the top.

In a couple of years Susan goes from (presumably) being a young teenager no Gallifrey, to going on the run with her grandfather, to living on Earth, to travelling with her grandfather and Ian and Barbara, to being 16 and married and stranded in a post-apocalyptic future Earth. Talk about your character arc. And what about Susan and the Time War? That last scene in Dalek Invasion is heartwrenching on its own, but taken in conjunction with "before this war I wasa father and a grandfather..."/"I know the feeling" it's devastating.

Oh, I've been reading some of the Target novelisations and headdesking at Terrance Dicks' fondness for Susan calling her own grandfather 'Doctor'. She *is* his granddaughter, dammit!

Also one of the Big Finish audios, Auld Mortality, is an AU where One never left Gallifrey, and Susan's now grown-up with grandchildren of her own. It made me blub shamelessly.