I like your theory/opinion! You should have them more often! XD. Yeah, the Doctor/companion thing really is special, isn't it, and NuWho has never really captured it just so (although as you say, the early signs for Eleven and Amy are kind of hopeful), and multi-Doctor anniversary stories notwithstanding, living in the past is never an attractive thing. I mean, I'll admit I'm very taken with Doctors/Romana (it's just the way I roll), but I don't think I'd like to see him obsessing over past companions all the time on the telly. As you say, Ten/Rose...
Well, no, I agree that they really started to overdo the Seven darkness in the spin-off media. The NAs weren't actually that bad to begin with, but as they grew further and further away from the TV stories, you got some very grim stories indeed and Seven became something of a grim character. Which isn't right; even when he is at his scariest and most manipulative in the TV stories, he maintains that quirky humour and whimsy, and the closeness between him and Ace always shines through. So, while I liked most of the story ideas in the NAs, I think the later ones were definitely the poorer for not having that.
Although, as you say, Benny did play a positive role; I think Seven always needed someone he could be more open with, in between the adventures, someone who understood him a bit too well, someone he couldn't fool. A friend, basically, and that's what Benny was to him. I like The Dying Days, too, the jokey little epilogue bit notwithstanding; it's like the bestest fanfic ever written, and I just wish they'd have the Ice Warriors in NuWho and portray them exactly the way Lord Szaal, or whatever his name is, and his followers are portrayed in that book, because they were great. :D
I want...I want to write a fic about Seven and Ace as seen from the POV of some redshirt guard or secret policeman or something in some empire they're toppling - how they would be just about the most terrifying thing some part-of-the-problem lowgrade scumbag like that could possibly encounter, but also staying true to the qualities I mention above. I wanted to do it for that Big Finish thing, but I found myself pressed for time in the end and kind of forgot my first idea, and for some reason ended up doing something slightly different and Ace-POV instead. I kind of wish I hadn't now... *sighs*
But yeah, Seven/Beatrix Potter...I don't know where that came from either - it was a flash of inspiration, or a moment of madness. It's not a bad idea, though, is it? I like the idea of them just bumping into each other on some lakeside path on a rainy day in the Lake District, and just having a little whimsical, melancholy sort of conversation about talking animals and William Wordsworth (because Four or someone totally used to go hellraising with those Romantic poets, I'm sure). In the rain. Under the brolly, looking out across the grey, hazy lake...yeah... And then he wanders off because Ace is waiting for him, and they never see each other again...
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Date: 2010-04-12 06:46 pm (UTC)Well, no, I agree that they really started to overdo the Seven darkness in the spin-off media. The NAs weren't actually that bad to begin with, but as they grew further and further away from the TV stories, you got some very grim stories indeed and Seven became something of a grim character. Which isn't right; even when he is at his scariest and most manipulative in the TV stories, he maintains that quirky humour and whimsy, and the closeness between him and Ace always shines through. So, while I liked most of the story ideas in the NAs, I think the later ones were definitely the poorer for not having that.
Although, as you say, Benny did play a positive role; I think Seven always needed someone he could be more open with, in between the adventures, someone who understood him a bit too well, someone he couldn't fool. A friend, basically, and that's what Benny was to him. I like The Dying Days, too, the jokey little epilogue bit notwithstanding; it's like the bestest fanfic ever written, and I just wish they'd have the Ice Warriors in NuWho and portray them exactly the way Lord Szaal, or whatever his name is, and his followers are portrayed in that book, because they were great. :D
I want...I want to write a fic about Seven and Ace as seen from the POV of some redshirt guard or secret policeman or something in some empire they're toppling - how they would be just about the most terrifying thing some part-of-the-problem lowgrade scumbag like that could possibly encounter, but also staying true to the qualities I mention above. I wanted to do it for that Big Finish thing, but I found myself pressed for time in the end and kind of forgot my first idea, and for some reason ended up doing something slightly different and Ace-POV instead. I kind of wish I hadn't now... *sighs*
But yeah, Seven/Beatrix Potter...I don't know where that came from either - it was a flash of inspiration, or a moment of madness. It's not a bad idea, though, is it? I like the idea of them just bumping into each other on some lakeside path on a rainy day in the Lake District, and just having a little whimsical, melancholy sort of conversation about talking animals and William Wordsworth (because Four or someone totally used to go hellraising with those Romantic poets, I'm sure). In the rain. Under the brolly, looking out across the grey, hazy lake...yeah... And then he wanders off because Ace is waiting for him, and they never see each other again...
Awww... :)