Doctor Who Drabble: Funeral For A Friend
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Title: Funeral For A Friend
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Characters: Tenth Doctor
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 092: Bonfire / Gunpowder at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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Spoilers: Last Of The Time Lords.
Summary: The Doctor consigns the Master’s body to the flames.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
It takes time to gather enough wood, piling it high. The Doctor does it himself, the hard way, his penance for… what exactly? Failing to save his old friend? The Master was the only other Time Lord left; now the Doctor is the last of his kind again. It hurts.
So he builds the biggest bonfire he can, a funeral pyre for his childhood friend, wishing things hadn’t ended this way. The Master could have regenerated. Why didn’t he? That question will never be answered now.
Lighting the fire, consigning the lifeless husk to the flames, the Doctor walks away.
The End
Author:
badly_knittedCharacters: Tenth Doctor
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 092: Bonfire / Gunpowder at
dw100.Spoilers: Last Of The Time Lords.
Summary: The Doctor consigns the Master’s body to the flames.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.
It takes time to gather enough wood, piling it high. The Doctor does it himself, the hard way, his penance for… what exactly? Failing to save his old friend? The Master was the only other Time Lord left; now the Doctor is the last of his kind again. It hurts.
So he builds the biggest bonfire he can, a funeral pyre for his childhood friend, wishing things hadn’t ended this way. The Master could have regenerated. Why didn’t he? That question will never be answered now.
Lighting the fire, consigning the lifeless husk to the flames, the Doctor walks away.
The End
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Date: 2016-10-09 11:40 am (UTC)The Master really knew how to hurt the Doctor.:(
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Date: 2016-10-09 04:03 pm (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2016-10-09 05:31 pm (UTC)Missy is still up to her old tricks...
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Date: 2016-10-09 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-10-10 04:12 am (UTC)Master: Its always the women.
Now he is one.:)
Missy may go about her evil plans a different way since the gender swap but two main things will remain.
(1)There's always some common ground between Missy and the Doctor. Because of their semi-mutual background.
(2)Missy will always be jealous of anyone who gains the interest of the Doctor to the point she tries to kill them. Usually its the companions.
Shes "bananas" and she knows it.
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Date: 2016-10-10 10:18 am (UTC)The Master is completely cracked, no doubt about it.
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Date: 2016-10-10 11:44 am (UTC)The Master thinks humans are beneath Time Lords so he doesn't understand why the Doctor likes hanging around them.
Missy orchestrated Clara to met the Doctor because shes a "control freak". A means to an end.
At least Missy isn't as physically violence like her past incarnation. So far...
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Date: 2016-10-11 09:41 am (UTC)Missy really is a control freak, more so I think than Saxon.
The Doctor still sees humans as primitive, but at least he recognises their potential.
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Date: 2016-10-11 10:42 am (UTC)That sounds about right!. But I still like Missy.;)
I didn't warm up to Saxon until the very end after I knew the Time Lords made him crazy with the constant drumming in his head.. But he really did match Ten to a tea.
I like that the Master and the Doctor both have Scottish accents.
Thats why the Doctor brings humans with him on his travels. I think he is turned on by intelligence sometimes.;)
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Date: 2016-10-11 08:27 pm (UTC)I like that Peter Capaldi uses his own accent, unlike David Tennant who is just as Scottish but used an English accent.
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Date: 2016-10-12 09:58 am (UTC)He believes his doing a duty of service to humanity by expanding the horizons of one human at a time.:)
Sometimes he benefits from them in return.
Apparently DT wouldn't have minded either way. It was up to RTD. I have a feeling that it was all part of his way of implying that Rose effectived Nines regeneration in that regards.*whatever*
It only bothered me at first because DT talked with the same mannerisms as when he did his Casaonova role so I was trying to block that out.:D
I guess Amy influenced Eleven then?
But Donna influence Ten/Eleven to have Twelves face.
Clara: You can take the girl out of Blackpool...
Clara influence the War Doctor because he became Nine with the Northern accent.
I wonder what it will take for the Doctor to either change gender or become ginger?
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Date: 2016-10-12 10:29 am (UTC)The Doctor influences his companions, so it's only fair that the reverse is true, to varying degrees and in different ways. Their reactions to different things make him look at those things in a different light. Even the Doctor isn't too old to learn.
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Date: 2016-10-12 11:20 am (UTC)Its just tricky to keep them away from spoilers.
He needs their perspective so he doesn't lose his own in a way.
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Date: 2016-10-12 07:57 pm (UTC)Yes, there are a lot of spoilers out there, but I'm sure the TARDIS helps with avoiding them.
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Date: 2016-10-14 07:19 am (UTC)The Doctor lies but the companion shouldn't.
The TARDIS went to Messaline paradoxically before Jenny was created so that she caused her own existence.
Sometimes outside interference's will effect when and where she goes.
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Date: 2016-10-14 07:26 pm (UTC)The Doctor shouldn't lie either, but sometimes he has to.
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Date: 2016-10-15 04:51 am (UTC)It was nice that Jenny decided to take Donna's speech to heart about the Doctor but I wish she had considered contacting her father to say she was alive.:(
Ten was angsty enough without thinking she was dead too.
Nope, off she goes, just like her father.I guess its just one of those loose ends.
Clara: I'm an incredible liar.
Yeah, the Doctor lies. But its more of a bunch of white lies. It was just a bit strange when they used that as part of Clara's behavioral trait.
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Date: 2016-10-15 10:24 am (UTC)Maybe it's just a case of Jenny being too like her father. he should have let him know though. Maybe she'll pop back up sometime, but most likely she's either been forgotten about by the writers or RTD won't allow his creation to be used. Any idea who wrote the episode she was in?
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Date: 2016-10-15 11:26 am (UTC)Its either lazy writing or children are suppose to read between the lines. Claras reliance on lying went either way.
Even though I didn't particularly like Danny that much, I disliked Clara lying to him even more.
I wrote in a fic that Jenny knew it was too late and had no way of finding the Doctor so decided to go on an adventure instead.
Kids grow up so quick...
Moffat asked RTD not to kill her off. Was that as far as it goes?
Is that why we never saw Jack again?. Although the last time we saw him, it wouldn't have been that much fun.
I forgot which of the other co-writers made the script. I think it was Helen something...
I'm bad. I need to look it up.
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Date: 2016-10-16 11:34 am (UTC)Maybe Moffatt was tired of seeing RTD kill off characters all the time for no good reason.
With RTD I mostly blame lazy writing. Moffatt is usually better but the lying was annoying.
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Date: 2016-10-17 04:07 am (UTC)That sounds so mean. At least on "Heroes" Claire didn't feel pain.:(
On the other hand,Moffat took the direction of dying where you almost forgot that it happened. At least it felt that way in my opinion.
The lying thing was a theme addressed since River stated it. But I'm sure it was intentional of Moffat for it to be seen as a negative for the most part.
I hope Bill isn't a big liar.
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Date: 2016-10-17 11:08 am (UTC)Yeah, it's so harsh for Jack, he feels so much pain. Claire was lucky, she had the good parts of the power without the bad.
I hope so too.
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Date: 2016-10-17 11:33 am (UTC)Eleven: Amy, you need to start trusting me. It's never been more important.
Amy Pond: But you don't always tell me the truth.
Eleven: If I always told you the truth I wouldn't need you to trust me.
The Doctors motivations are sincere but its hard to be on the receiving end.
River talking about the Doctor: Listen, all you need to know is this, I trust that man to the end of the Universe.
By then the Doctor always had Rivers back. She jumped off a building, assuming the he would catch her!
I wish we had seen more interactions between them to know how he got Rivers trust like that.
Oh!. You watched Heroes!. The first season was good wasn't it?.:)
The rules differ from each SF series. Claire's ability may have been physically painless but since she could heal more easily compared to Jack, no one knew the emotional turmoil she endured. Remember when she was almost sexually assaulted? She had a good friend in Zack though.
*wishes really hard*
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Date: 2016-10-17 06:50 pm (UTC)They have to do things differently so that everything on TV isn't "Oh, seen that before."
I think the Doctor would like to be able to tell people everything, but... Spoilers! That's why he needs companions to trust him even when he can't tell all. Not that it makes it ant=y easier for companions to do.
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Date: 2016-10-17 11:37 pm (UTC)I have three words for you..."The Writers Strike".
If I miss an episode of a series I like, I just think I'll go back to it when the opportunity is there and see it as a "flashback" episode. That is if its not too hard to keep up with the plot.
The only time someone else had the upper hand to that extend was River Song. Eleven didn't trust her at first. He played it safe by trusting her mother Amy. Although he didn't know they were mother and daughter at the time.:)
The Doctor places all his trust in his companions in different ways. They in turn believe in him despite the circumstances.
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Date: 2016-10-18 10:37 am (UTC)For both the Doctor and his various companions, there has to be a leap of faith. Is it safe to trust this crazy stranger or not? Is it a good idea to take this human aboard the TARDIS? They have to make huge, potentially life-altering decisions when they've barely met each other, and then live with the consequences. That has to be scary, when you don't know what you might be getting yourself into.
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Date: 2016-10-18 11:05 am (UTC)They either reduced the number of episodes for the season or got cancelled. Which was a shame. I thought Bionic Woman had potential.*disappointed*
Cause I got to have faith!.*sings*
In the beginning, Rose tried to look the Doctor up to see how credible he was. Not that it really took much to get her to go with him. She had reservations later, sort of.
Donna's first meeting of the Doctor would have been full on from her point of view. She saw the TARDIS on the inside first.
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Date: 2016-10-18 08:11 pm (UTC)I prefer short seasons to outright cancellation. I didn't see the remake of Bionic Woman, but I remember the original.
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Date: 2016-10-21 04:20 am (UTC)Most of the focus was on Ten not being able to grieve over Rose. I would have been shocked too like Donna, but maybe not as loud.
At least Donna's encounter with the Doctor was slightly different to Rose and Martha. Most likely because it wasn't planned.
No one would have any interest in the Doctor unless he makes an emotional or personal impact on them. There is no real source of information. He is like an enigma.
I know that the original "Bionic Woman" was a spinoff of the "The Six Billion Dollar Man". My mum use to watch re-runs. All I remember was the music.
Obviously the special effects in the failed remake were much better. Michelle Ryan pulled off a convincing American accent. Just like the actress who played Sarah on the show "Chuck"
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Date: 2016-10-21 09:17 am (UTC)The Doctor is such a magnetic personality people just get drawn to him, he's exciting and unpredictable.
I watched both as a kid. Back then, special effects weren't s realistic as they are now, but it was what we were used to so we didn't know any better.
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Date: 2016-10-21 09:48 am (UTC)CT was playing a two dimensional character at least until she turned down the Doctor.
Although the scene where no taxi drivers would pick Donna up was a bit mean.
How about the "Jenny" that became a soldier to meet the Doctor again. Was that suppose to be a throw away scene because Eleven didn't remember ever meeting her before?
Like the strings on a puppet. You know its there but you choose to ignore it.
I also overlooked the Cookie monster not digesting the cookies. They flew out of his mouth.:)
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Date: 2016-10-21 02:28 pm (UTC)Yeah, but perhaps she was meant to seem two dimensional, because she really developed through her time with the Doctor.
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Date: 2016-10-22 10:59 am (UTC)Sometimes going overboard in the special effects will become a mistake in the future. Moffat said it may look outdated if it doesn't become true.
Donna was suppose to be a one-off. RTD didn't think CT would come back. Luckily it seem plausible that Donna eventually changes her mind.
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Date: 2016-10-22 07:50 pm (UTC)People seem to be endlessly trying to outdo each other with special effects these days. Sometimes I miss the outdated kind.
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Date: 2016-10-09 04:29 pm (UTC)great drabble.
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Date: 2016-10-09 08:26 pm (UTC)Thank you.