Yes, I suppose you can see why someone would want an icon of Delgado!Master, because he is kind of excellent, but Sutekh?? and a Sontaran?? I don't know, I sort of have to admire Sutekh; whatever else you may say about him, there was someone who really enjoyed his work. And I always felt like the Sontarans got a bit of a raw deal, going from Linx, who was like some sort of uber-capable one-man A-Team (how did the Rutans think they had a chance when the Sontarans had an army of guys like him?!) to being basically the jokes of the universe. A situation that I, hypocritically, do nothing to remedy by making them the subject of ridiculous Victorian music hall numbers in my fic. The SJA Sontaran two-parter is more or less the entire Sontaran story-arc condensed into fifty minutes of television. Seriously.
My English A-level experience made me feel about DH Lawrence the way you feel about Frost; we had to read his collected poems, which are, quite frankly, not that great (he was definitely a much better novelist than a poet), and ever since I have been unable to shake my prejudice against him. His wife was a cousin or something of the Red Baron's, though, interestingly enough.
And yeah, regarding the Time War, I am the kind of person who says things like "you know, some things are better left mysterious", while simultaneously making up ridiculous backstories about Mrs Who and Susan's mum and the Doctor's mysterious birth, and exactly what all of RTD's completely bogus and throwaway references to Time War battles actually mean (the Fall of Arcadia's one I always seem to come back to for some reason). It's a weakness of mine, I guess. :D As you say, it's a Big Unexplained Plotty Swirly thing in space...
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My English A-level experience made me feel about DH Lawrence the way you feel about Frost; we had to read his collected poems, which are, quite frankly, not that great (he was definitely a much better novelist than a poet), and ever since I have been unable to shake my prejudice against him. His wife was a cousin or something of the Red Baron's, though, interestingly enough.
And yeah, regarding the Time War, I am the kind of person who says things like "you know, some things are better left mysterious", while simultaneously making up ridiculous backstories about Mrs Who and Susan's mum and the Doctor's mysterious birth, and exactly what all of RTD's completely bogus and throwaway references to Time War battles actually mean (the Fall of Arcadia's one I always seem to come back to for some reason). It's a weakness of mine, I guess. :D As you say, it's a Big Unexplained Plotty Swirly thing in space...