Doctor Who Drabble: What?

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Title: What?
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 392: Exclamation at dw100.
Spoilers: The Runaway Bride.
Summary: The Doctor is confounded
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.




“What?” The startled exclamation is all the Doctor can manage. One second he’d been alone in the TARDIS and the next instant there’s a flash of light and some redheaded woman in a wedding dress is standing right there!


How she got aboard the Doctor doesn’t know. It shouldn’t be possible; the TARDIS is in flight! But there she is, large as life, looking even less pleased with the situation that he feels. He’s got a horrible feeling she’s going to blame this on him, even though he’s done nothing. He’s sure of it.


“What?” is the only logical response.



The End

Comments

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know who Catherine Tate was at that point. Her gobsmacked expression on first meeting was priceless.:)

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I knew her, but I didn't like her. I love her as Donna but not as any of her 'comedy' characters.

Thank you!

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that Catherine Tate could use her professional acting skills instead of comedy. It certainly change a lot of peoples minds on how she'd be as a companion.:)

I guess not being a local means that I miss out on some of the "stunt casting". If I didn't look things up or come across information on said actor. I'd have no idea. Maisie Williams is one example.

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I still don't know Maisie Williams. I heard she was in Game of Thrones but I've never seen that. She didn't strike me as a particularly good actress though.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I didn't get the hype around her. She only pulled two expressions and one of them was smug. I wish Moffatt had hired a more experience actress.*sighs*

"The Woman Who Lived" was written by radio script writers. Which is why there was a lot of dialogue in that episode.

I'll take Peter Capaldi talking to himself in "Heaven Sent" over whatever she said during her story arc any day.

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I agree with all o that, and I wasn't even sure I'd like Capaldi as the Doctor.

Radio script writers should stick to writing radio scripts.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I like each Doctor for different reasons. The Twelfth Doctor had some of the sassiness that Nine had.:)

It just seem like some of the episodes Twelve was in were written more for Eleven. Which some people have pointed out. This could be due to the fact that Matt Smith almost stayed longer.

It's like asking a plumber to do carpentry. It's sort of in the same domain but has an entirely different principle. I use this term loosely.

I recall Clara and Eleven talked quite quickly with each other from time to time. But they weren't in that particular episode. Well Clara was right at the end of it, but that hardly counts.

Radio script writers could write for Gilmore Girls. They do it on purpose on that show.

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It's always a bit different transitioning to a new Doctor, especially if the same writers are being used. They have to find their voice for the new Doctor just as the new actor is finding his voice in the role. Some writers ave an easier time adjusting than others.


I've never seen Gilmore Girls so I can't comment =)

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Yes. During the first episode for each actor, I'm still thinking about the previous incarnation. Especially because they are still wearing the formers clothing too.

Twelve: Never again! I can’t keep on being somebody else! Wherever it is, I’m staying! No! I will not change...

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Thirteen: Oh Brilliant.

No worries. It was one of my favourite shows but I lost interest when one of the lead characters kept doing stupid things for dramatic purposes. I really hate that.:(

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Even the new actor must be a bit adrift, figuring out how he wants to play the role. twelve was the grumpy Doctor ad I ended up loving him for it.

That's one of the quickest ways to lose fans. Characters shouldn't have to be manipulated by the writers into stupid acts just to create drama. That happened in Torchwood too.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Ten: I wanted to be ginger. I've never been ginger. And you, Rose Tyler, fat lot of good you were. You gave up on me. Oh, that's rude. That's the sort of man I am now, am I? Rude. Rude and not ginger.

I didn't fully warm up to Ten until 'The Girl In The Fireplace". I kept seeing DT's previous acting role as "Casanova".

As soon as Eleven said "I'm the Doctor". I believed it. I was tired of Ten at that point because he went through a lot. So it was nice to see the Doctor be more "alien" again.

With Twelve it was at the end of "Robot of Sherwood". I recently saw Peter Capaldi on "The Thick of It" and all I see is the Doctor swearing.:D

Especially when they don't learn from their mistakes! I just switch off!

I like the Torchwood episode "Out of Time". It signified the end of that awful Owen/Gwen affair. I was glad that was finally over. I just wish they had given Tosh more to do. Such an underrated character.

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I had the advantage of never having seen any of the actors who plated the Doctor in New Who (aside from Peter Capaldi) in anything else, so it was easy for me to accept each new Doctor provided the actor did a good job, but like you I was tiring of Ten by the end of his run. Eleven was such a breath of fresh air, and so much fun right from the start. Maybe that's why he quickly became my favourite. Te was soured for me by the way he treated Jack, and because he developed an arrogance I didn't think the Doctor should have.

Out of Time was a good, if tragic episode, but Gwen annoyed me in her obliviousness of Owen's relationship with Diane. The again, Gwen annoyed me most of the time anyway, doing stupid things and blaming everyone else or relying on others to save her life.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Peter Capaldi was in both Doctor Who and Torchwood as other characters before playing the Doctor. But he left a lasting impression as the Doctor for me.:)

I think the majority would say Ten's regeneration scene went on for far too long. He really needed Donna to keep him from going "Dark Doctor".:(

I hated how dismissive Ten was over seeing Jack again. Well at least Jack got his own spinoff with Torchwood.

That was Gwen for you. A bad observer despite being trained as a policewoman. She wanted to make Jack jealous of her with Rhys but had an affair with Owen because Jack wouldn't commit to her. I'd rather had seen more of Tosh's story arc. One flashback wasn't enough.*annoyed*

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I know, and it was his role in TW Children of Earth that made me worry I wouldn't be able to watch him as the Doctor. He was completely different though.

That was RTD grandstanding. I though that whole regeneration mess was completely unnecessary.

Yes, but the spin-off could have been so much better if it hadn't focused on Gwen and her soap opera life. It should have been more about the Rift and what came through it, and about the rest of the team.

We only really found out more about characters other than Gwen when they wee just about to be killed off, in order to make us care more about them so their deaths would have a greater dramatic impact. Lazy, manipulative writing.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

For me, he played it understated. Just like his appearance in "Fires Of Pompeii" Which I was thankful for. Considering the fate of his character in Torchwood. That was pretty dark.

I had to remind myself that Ten was actually dying. It should of been done as a dream sequence or something more logical. All those farewells. The one person I wanted him to say bye to was Donna and he couldn't even do it!

Gwen was unrelatable. I'd rather it from Jacks perspective and the rest of the team. Rusty confuses me because I can only admire the fact he brought Doctor Who back successfully. Torchwood could have been so much better.*sighs*

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Frobisher was the one who put the kill order out on Torchwood, which naturally upset me. e deserved his fate in CoE as far as I'm concerned. That was why I wasn't sure I could watch the Twelfth Doctor. His natural Scottish accent certainly helped, he sounded nothing like Frobisher and didn't look like him either.

Revisiting all those past companions seemed totally unnecessary to me, especially fixing Jack up with a replacement for Ianto, as if that would fix Jack, make him suddenly happy again after everything he'd just been through =(

Torchwood had massive potential but then it was just wasted by focusing on the least interesting character to the exclusion of the others. I don't think the show needed the Gwen character at all, and would have been better without her. Everything the audience needed to know they could have got from the team's interactions, and maybe the characters who got caught up in whatever came through the Rift, just before they were retconned.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. That did leave a sour taste in my mouth. He was playing the middle man who was out of his depth.A coward really. John Barrowman said that if Frobisher had just waited a little longer, the latter wouldn't have had to commit murder suicide on his own family.

I guest the Torchwood team had to be hunted down for plot purposes. I was so annoyed that the Torchwood hub was destroyed and Jack suffered painfully again.:(

Especially since we all know that Jack couldn't possibly get over the lost of Ianto just like that. There was no need for that supposed hook up.

Well. RTD had writing restrictions so I can't blame it on him entirely. Too bad that when Torchwood was set in America, it wasn't written under Joss Whedon or something like that. The best thing about Gwen was having Rhys be part of the group unofficially.

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The entire plot of CoE was a train wreck, most of it made no sense. The rest of the world wouldn't have given up 10% of their children just because the British PM said so. It was an illogical premise from the start. RTD just wanted to have horrific 'drama' like the murder suicide, Jack killing his grandson, Jack being buried alive in concrete. It was all for the 'shock value', and Jack and Ianto were supposedly the 'comic relief'. The whole thing still disgusts me.

It was like a deliberate taunt of the Ianto fans, since RTD thought all Ianto fans would just LOVE Ianto's dying declaration of love, and when we hated it he made fun of us.

RTD is just a poor writer obsesses with 'realism' that's never realistic and 'drama' that comes from killing characters and making them miserable. He likes to leave viewers feeling depressed and hopeless because his heroes are helpless. Except Gwen of course, who can miraculously do everything and never regrets anything. (I'm in a grouchy mood today, you may have noticed. CoE and RTD bring out the worst in me).

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I wouldn't want to rewatch it. I was wondering what John Barrowman thought of all this! RTD has a very dark mind to conquer up a "worse of humanity" plot line like that. The Doctor Who episode "Midnight" was intense as it is.

But that's his thing. Either that or people sacrifice themselves. Where is the hope, injustice or morale of the story? I watched Torchwood till the end of it's run because I was silly to think it would be worth it. I don't know. It was just too much.*frowns*

Everything that I liked about Torchwood was short-lived. I should have stopped watching after series 2. Yep. I'll just pretend the rest didn't happen.

This topic is such a downer. So I hope you're feeling in a better mood now despite all the nonsense that happened to a promising show.