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ladystarlightsj:

Five Things Donna Disliked About Travelling In The Tardis

1) The way the toilet was far away from the console room. Also, sometimes it kept changing location. If you’re in the middle of an adventure, and you don’t want to miss out more than a minute or two because Spaceboy is bound to get himself into trouble when left alone, but biology calls – that was bloody annoying, it really was.

2) Jet lag, or maybe that should be called Tardis lag, she’s not sure. Anyway, if you’re hopping from planet to planet, time zones keep changing, day, night, and about fifty things in between, and it took her a while go get to a point where she could just sleep or stay awake whenever she wanted.

3) By and large, it was a fun part of the adventure to show up not exactly where the Doctor had said they’d go – Donna is all for surprises – but there were times when the combination of his bad driving and the Tardis having her own mind really sucked. Here Donna was, looking forward to show off her scuba diving skills in that planet the Doctor had raved about where all the population lived under water, wearing all the right equipment already, and then they walked out, smack into a really posh getogether, which would have been funny except the posh aliens thought Donna was an assassin because of the scuba diving outfit, and so she had run for her life. In a diving suit.

4) That sometimes, just sometimes, being able to travel through time and space on a constant basis made her want to do go back and change her own life. Tell herself about Lance, for example. Or earlier than that – make herself work harder at school so she’d get a better job afterwards, instead of rebelling by slacking because of her mother’s nagging. Or maybe just to that Christmas Eve, changing her own mind so she’d travel with the Doctor the first time he asked; it would have been great travelling with Martha for longer than just the one trip to Jenny’s planet, and there probably wouldn’t have been any unrequited love awkwardness between Martha and the Doctor, either, if they’d have had someone sensible around. By and large, Donna is okay with not being able to change all that, but you can’t be a time traveller and not wonder, sometimes.

5) Spoilers. Not just River Song’s reaction, though that was disturbing, but the fact that travelling to the future meant finding out some of your favourite tv shows got cancelled, the hot singer you fancied looked like a stiff botox-ridden walking corpse instead of aging in dignity, and the politician you had voted for and maybe had a signed autobiography and signed novel of, and the audio book read by the author, had really been your best mate’s evil alien ex and had gotten you and much of humanity killed in another timeline. Talk about letdowns.

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resolute:

Five Companions We Don’t Know About From Other Fandoms

1) A recent discovery of lost black and white BBC episodes revealed that after The Dalek Invasion of Earth and before The Rescue, the First Doctor, Barbara and Ian were in fact having a strange adventure called The Giant Bullet. The TARDIS intersected mid-flight with a giant bullet seemingly made of steel but in fact consisting of a metal the Doctor was not familiar with. Even more mysteriously, it seemed to be there and not there at the same time, as if transdimensional itself. The Doctor feels a sentient presence and finds out it is a human mutant named Kitty Pryde, from 21st century Earth, it seems. Barbara and Ian are horrified at the idea of a girl trapped in the bullet and insist the Doctor must help her to separate herself from it; however, not only is the a planet in the immediate vicinity which would be hit if the giant bullet, after separation from Kitty, became solid again, as it invevitably would, but the Doctor has the nagging feeling that in her original timeline, Kitty is supposed to be rescued by someone else. Still, he bonds with Kitty, not least because he’s fiercely missing Susan, which is also true for Ian and Barbara After various plot complications, the nearby planet is saved, the bullet disintegrated and Kitty rescued. In the end, she declines to travel further with the Doctor after finding out quite how he and Susan parted (the word “jerk” is used), but events and the fact the TARDIS at that point can’t be properly steered to a specific time period (so the Doctor always claims, anyway) but more or less travels at random conspire to keep her on board a while longer, two or three adventures, until they end up in Kitty’s time of origin, and she leaves. Her argumentative but in the end fond relationship with the Doctor remains a viewer’s delight.

2) “Dude,” said Hurley, “are you sure you’re not an Other?” As it turned out, the company of Hugo “Hurley” Reyes, met by the Ninth Doctor in a hospital for the insane where he ended up immediately after the Time War, was just what Nine needed to get enough a grip on himself to start adventuring again. Hurley thought he was hallucinating anyway to went along for the ride, until that business with the Titanic (the real, original one), as referenced in the episode Rose. The similarities to a certain plane crash were just too traumatic for Hurley, who insisted he “had to go back”, so the Doctor reluctantly followed his wishes and returned him to the hospital before taking off to foil the Autons in London.

3) “Tactful” or “restrained” were no adjectives commonly used in connection with the Sixth Doctor. Nonetheless, he found himself unable to shake off Andrew Wells once he stumbled across him in Rome. Sarcastic or hostile remarks didn’t just get ignored but made Andrew’s eyes lit up in nostalgia, and he was amazingly well-versed in encounters with the unexplained. In the end, it was Andrew’s offer to bake cookies which settled the matter. Not only did the Doctor miss Evelyn and her chocolate cake, he was on a holiday from Mel and her macrobiotic diet (Mel being on vacation from him, with her family, at that point). The travels with Andrew came to an end when they encountered the Master, however. The less said about this incident, the better. Let’s just say neither Time Lord appreciated Andrew’s analysis of their relationship and helpful advice for possible resolution.

4) Anyone who makes a career out of fighting evil robots had to stumble across the Terminator situation sooner or later, especially as it involved repeated attempts to change history and ensueing slightly altered timelines. The Seventh Doctor, after parting from Ace and before getting shot when on his own in San Francisco, found himself meeting the Connors and having to deal with the fact Sarah Connor was a walking, talking paradox, as time travel had transported her beyond the date of her original supposed death. Sorting out the timelines was a mess, and should have demanded Sarah’s death, but the Doctor found another solution; he asked Sarah to come with him once Judgment Day was over, which removed her from the time stream without killing her and gave her the chance to live a free and not anymore destiny-bound life. He had to prove to her humanity was saved first, of course, which for a time traveller was no problem. Sarah and the Doctor bonded over Ace and John, both of whom they had formed in ways not always ethical because they had to, and missed fiercely while knowing they were better off without them eventually. Eventually, Sarah left on the planet Nocturne, where she wanted to try life as a musician but inevitably would be involved in the war there sooner or later, and the Doctor returned to Earth and regeneration.

5) A man who decks you on first sight tends to make an impression on you. All the more so if he eerily resembles another man you like quite a lot. In the Tenth Doctor’s case, his encounter with one Ripley Holden, former owner of an amusement arcade in Blackpool, England, currently in Las Vegas and apparently taking offense at the sight of the Doctor mildly flirting with one of the waitresses, was certainly memorable. It also was a misunderstanding. Ripley, who looked not a little like Jackson Lake, yelled something about “Carlisle, you rat, where is Natalie?”, but after realising the Doctor was not in fact one Peter Carlisle was mollified enough to help with the Doctor’s current case – alien Elvis impersonators bent on taking over the world. Finding out that Elvis himself had also been an alien was something of a blow to Ripley, who couldn’t enjoy Vegas anymore after that, and so the Doctor found himself offering a trip or two. This turned into more like three or four or five before Ripley wanted to return to Blackpool, and involved a lot of shouting and visits to intergalactic hot spots, but never a dull minute. Whether or not there was dancing remains a secret to this day.

(The five fandoms were Astonishing X-Men, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Blackpool; in the later, Ripley Holden was played by David Morrisey, and his rival, Peter Carlisle, by David Tennant.)

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