Doctor Who Drabble: Collision

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Title: Collision

Author: badly_knitted

Characters: Tenth Doctor.

Rating: G

Written For: Challenge 021: Boats at dw100

Spoilers: Voyage Of The Damned.

Summary: Even out in space you have to watch out for traffic.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.

Travelling by TARDIS isn’t always completely safe. Safer than most forms of travel, true, but even a living spaceship can’t predict every eventuality. Nor can an over nine hundred-year-old Time Lord. Besides, some incidents are just so unbelievable that it wouldn’t cross the mind of even the smartest person in the universe to consider them.

When you’re way out in the depths of space, getting hit by a boat definitely falls into that category. But there it is, the bow of a ship sticking right through the wall of the TARDIS. Complete with a lifebelt.

The Doctor’s understandably confused.

“What?”

The End

Comments

[akawho.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you really don't expect to crash into the Titanic in space! lol

[bk_forever]

Not the sort of space hazard anyone would expect really!

Thank you!

[owensheart.livejournal.com]

And even more so when he discovered what boat it was.

Great drabble.

[bk_forever]

Yeah, it's not often the Doctor is lost for words, but that left him pretty speechless!

Thank you!

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

RTD never let the Doctor have a moment to himself. Ten wasn't able to feel guilty over Martha.

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The Doctor left alone just starts brooding though and goes to a dark place, he's better off not being left alone. I'm not sure he would have felt much in the way of guilt over Martha anyway, he was more grieving for the Master.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Typical!.

David Tennant did say the Doctor felt guilty for what he did to Martha. So much for that!.

As for the Master. I didn't feel sorry for him until I knew why he heard druming in his ears because he was physically abusive towards Lucy at that point.

Do you think Missy is redemption for that?.

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I hadn't though of that, but it's possible.

I didn't really feel sorry for the Master at all, he tortured, abused and killed so many people. Really, he was quite insane, but locking him up wouldn't work because no jail could hold him.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Since I had to deal with my fathers mental issues. I realized that you can't reason with some people.

I blame part of what the Master did on the Time Lords because they gave him the worst case of tinea, so they could get out of the time lock. Making him more crazier than before.

In general, the innocent always suffer because of psychopaths no matter what.:(

[bk_forever]

The Time Lords have power, but they don't always use it responsibly.

Psychopaths don't care what they do to people.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Just because they rule all of time, the Time Lords thought they knew everything!.

Ten: I'm the Lord of Time.

The Tenth Doctor certainly thought he was superior, depending on who he was talking to.

Psychopaths have no conscious but River Song certainly put a different spin on it. She was never rude?.

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I always saw River as more of a free spirit than a psychopath, she never struck me as evil and manipulative. A cunning and opportunistic criminal, yes, but not a bad person.

Ten ended up being rather arrogant and full of himself, I didn't like that side of him.

The Time Lords decided they were going to lord it over all of time, but I don't think they really had the right to. It's not like they created time, they just learned how to control and manipulate aspects of it and travel backwards and forwards through it.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I use the term loosely. Moffat was very insisted that she was so I just went with it.

Compared to the Master, she would be a piece of cake so to speak.You could still reason with her.

River said she had a conscious, so that goes against her actually being a psychopath. If she isn't lying.

Psychopaths are scientifically proven to be genetically born that way and then how they deal with it depends on how they are brought up.

You can't just be brainwashed into one. Kind of like Morgana from "Merlin".

As little as we saw of Nine. He didn't seem so self righteous. Ten was like a little spoiled brat when people questioned his authority. I blame Rose imprinting on Nine so that he became that way. Donna had to "balance" him out.

As a Fangirl of DT that is hard for me to say. I prefer him in other roles.

I guess Time Lords were very arrogant. They despised the Doctor.

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There is an awful lot of arrogance in Time Lords, they look upon everyone else as lesser beings. Unfortunately, Ten started to display similar traits, especially in the final specials. I think you're probably right about it having something to do with Rose's influence, at least to start with. Later, it seemed to be a reaction to what he'd felt he had to do to Donna, railing against the rules and limits placed on him as a Time Lord, wanting to have everything his own way. then he really acted like a spoiled child.

River's far from perfect, but she does indeed have a conscience. She just doesn't always listen to it.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Rose made the Doctor behave more "human".Ten was like a person with a substance abuse problem.

Martha had to take care of him and he took it for granted. He decided not to do that with Donna and he lost her.

Basically the Doctor is reckless when he is grieving. He was self-destructive after he lost Rose.

I wonder how different River would have been if she had a different storyline. If she hadn't been "brainwashed". Probably still a rebel.

[bk_forever]

Probably. She's certainly full of personality.

The Doctor is an alien, if he lets himself become too human he takes on some of the worst character traits of humanity and loses what makes him the man he is.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

From the Doctor's point of view humans are alien. While some humans forget he is an alien.

From a behavioural perspective, the Doctor is also reliant on human champions to not let his alien qualities get the better of him. In return he inspires them to be extrodinary.

John Smith was pretty simple compared to the Doctor. Although he was a just a man of a certain era.

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The Doctor is a very complex character. Maybe he does need someone to help him interact with other humans when he's dealing with earth matters, but much of the time he's on other worlds where he needs to act appropriately according to very different societal standards of behaviour. Then, acting human is a disadvantage, his alien qualities are what make him able to understand beings that would be a complete mystery to us.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

True. The TARDIS language translation can only do so much. It's the human champions who seem weird when they visit an alien planet. Its strange that half the time humans are already co existing in some of these worlds.

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Well, I expect most of the trips to other planets are in the future, after humanity has gone out into space and settled on various planets. that's the beauty of having a time machine, you can go to any time on any planet.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Donna: Are we like explorers or more like a virus?.

Ten: Sometimes I wonder.

It's easier for the production team to hire actors to play "humans".

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Prosthetic make-up costs money, and not all actors can handle wearing it, that's why even aliens tend to look mostly human. Aliens were at their best in Babylon 5.