Worlds Enough and Time

Something about food: routines, comfort foods for rose_griffes

My comfort foods are my favorite Filipino dishes, especially now with everything, and my allergies acting up.

I love eating Arroz Caldo, a savory rice porridge, despite the Spanish name its actually similar to a congee. I love Arroz Caldo when I have a cold especially when I load it up with calamansi. Lots of calamansi. It's like a tiny lime but so, so much more sour.

And pork sinigang, think of Tom Yang without the heat. It's very sour and really good hearty meal to eat with rice. Just like with Arroz Caldo it's fantastic if you have a cold or just want a really good home cooked meal.

There's also manggang hilaw with bagoong, green mango with bagoong sauce (shrimp based sauce).

The theme here is, I really love sour foods. Like, a lot.

Favorite moment for each Doctor in this decade? for justphoenix

Oh, this is interesting, let me think, this decade so... that's 2010's... that's Ten (End of Time), Eleventh Doctor, Twelfth Doctor, and Thirteenth Doctor.

Tenth Doctor happens in End of Time, not my favorite two-parter, but I loved the moment when Ten visits Martha, Mickey, and Rose. Rose, in particular, because I thought I'd never see her again, and that was such a lovely grace note to end it with.

Eleventh Doctor: I went back and forth on this, and I ended up on Vincent and the Doctor, because of this:

Amy: So you were right. No new paintings. We didn't make a difference at all.
Eleventh Doctor: I wouldn't say that. The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. Hey. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant. And we definitely added to his pile of good things. And, if you look carefully, maybe we did indeed make a couple of little changes.

Twelfth Doctor: There are two moments, the speech he made to the Masters:

No! No! When I say no, you turn back around! (catches up with them) Hey! I'm going to be dead in a few hours, so before I go, let's have this out, you and me, once and for all. Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because-- because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun and God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do, because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind. It's just that. Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this at all, but it's the best I can do, so I'm going to do it. And I will stand here doing it till it kills me. You're going to die too, some day. How will that be? Have you thought about it? What would you die for? Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand, is where I fall. Stand with me. These people are terrified. Maybe we can help, a little. Why not, just at the end, just be kind?

But of course, the number 1 moment for me with Twelve, is in Heaven Sent:

There’s this Emperor who asks this shepherd’s boy, “How many seconds in eternity?” And the shepherd’s boy says, “There’s this mountain of pure diamond, and it takes an hour to climb it, and an hour to go around it. Every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain, and when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.” You might think that’s a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that’s a hell of a bird.

Thirteenth Doctor: For Thirteen, I don't think she's had her moment yet, also I don't think speechifying is her thing. There is a momenet in It Takes You Away, I felt was very Doctor-y:

From the Solitract, yes. Don't know if it survived. But it won't be coming back here. Shame. Made a new friend, a whole conscious universe, then I had to say goodbye.

s!10Twelve for 12 please???? i miss my grumpy space granddad, his lesbian granddaughter, his weird cyborg friend, & his spouse/nemesis/constant pain in the ass for yesokayiknow

The Twelfth Doctor, oh, Twelve. Honestly, I had such a journey loving Twelve. I was immediately on board with him the moment I saw his eyebrows and thundered, "No, sir, all Thirteen!"

I screamed when that moment happened because prior to the The Day of the Doctor I stopped watching the show so I haven't been keeping up with the news, I had no idea Matt Smith was leaving or the next Doctor was cast. So, yes, I was on board and I loved Deep Breath, it felt like such a refreshing change from the things that have alienated me from the Eleventh Doctor... until he became so abrasive, Twelve turned me off and I stopped watching again.

Fast forward to learning about Bill Potts, and contemplated starting back again... Then I watched Husbands of River Song, and I was so charmed by it and I feel addressed the things that put me off the River/Doctor relationship, also Capaldi and King's chemistry just popped.

I decided to do a full rewatch starting with The Time of the Doctor and then found myself going through a journey of really loving Twelve, by the time I reached Heaven Sent, he rose the ranks into number 1. And then Bill happened, and Pearl Mackie is fantastic, she has such fantastic chemistry with Peter Capaldi, and IMO series 10 was when Peter really felt comfortable in the role. He truly felt like the Doctor to me.

Not that he wasn't before, but Twelve's uncertainty about himself really came off and he had to have 'Doctor moments' that made me go, each time, oh! There you are!

But in series 10? That feeling was there from the first second of The Pilot.

And the team has settled in with such fun dynamic, the first few episodes with the focus on Bill Potts were amazing, but alas, as much as I adore and love Missy her story arc intruded on Bill's. In a 12 episode season, there's not enough room for two character development arc so by the time The Lie of the Land happened the emotional focus of the show pulled heavily on Missy's direction.

Still, by the end, I honestly love Twelve and the small family unit he made, it's unfortunate we only had one season with them. I love Thirteen a lot but I felt Twelve and Bill could have done with one more season, but ah, well, such is the wheel of Doctor Who.

How about... a fandom that you wish you were more invested in (and why you're not) for rose_griffes

I have to think... I think the only thing I can think of, maybe The Expanse but that's only for season 3 where I've stalled because I really couldn't stand one character and he's marring my enjoyment of the show. I know I shouldn't let him because there are so many awesome women on the show but whenever I see his face and trying to be self-righteous I have a strong urge to close the video.

I have to get over that to get to the good parts or fast forward because I know I'm missing a lot.

This is entirely on me, and not a reflection on a really great show.

Oh! Well, there are a few, I'd like a crossover with Doctor Who:

• Avatar the Last Airbender/Legends of Korra
• Deep Space Nine (Possibly because I really am into an idea of a regenerating/reincarnating immortal support group.)
• Stargate
• Farscape, maybe John meets the Doctor first as Nine around season 3? And then again as Twelve or Thirteen post-series with Aeryn and John
• Legends of Tomorrow (for the shenanigans)
• Buffy
• Firefly
• Other Star Trek: Voyager and Discovery

I already wrote a Person of Interest and Criminal Minds one, sort of.

In-Universe crossover: Thirteen meeting Bernice Summerfield, Class, and the kids from Sarah Jane Adventures

January 1 - At the risk of being predictable, Doctor Who? for feferiactualpeixes

Happy New Year and Happy Doctor Who Day!

My relationship with Doctor Who is very much akin to an on again and off again relationship except, I think much less tumultuous than my other TV relationship, Grey's Anatomy.

I started out with Doctor Who in 2005, I was still on livejournal and I've heard rumblings about the show -- I did have vague recollections about a guy with a long scarf and a guy in a beige suit being replayed on the local station when I was a kid. And I've heard about Doctor Who now and again but never actually knew what it was, cue, 2005 and I honestly can't recall what the catalyst was but I decided to look for the show and started watching Rose.

I was I think, 19 at that time, as old a Rose Tyler was and I was immediately taken in but it wasn't until Nine gave the 'turn of the Earth' speech when I bought it. It wasn't a perfect scene. There was the whole 'RTD glow', and the sound mixing was terrible, I could barely hear anything Nine said but how Christopher Eccleston acted in that moment -- yeah, it got me.

And then Parting of the Ways happened and Nine gave his 'Live, Rose, do that for me. Have a fantastic life' Emergency Protocol thing and let me tell you I was a mess. PoTW was RTD's perfect finale that in my head he had never managed to live up to. It was also a perfect regeneration scene. Heartfelt, gracious, and warm. Just enough time for feelings and heart without high strung and over wrought emotions.

What happened next was discovering Big Finish and Classic Doctors via audio. And the up and down nature of my Doctor Who fandom because boy did I struggle with Ten especially when he started believing his press release. And then the succession of Martha and then what happened with Donna, and I kind of lost interest around that point and barely paid any attention to The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead was not my favorite, and Waters of Mars would have been better if there was another special between WoM and End of Time.

EoT btw, I was, well, DONE.

I adored the cameo of Rose and Jackie and the lovely smile but b o y, was End of Time a struggle. I didn't watch series 5 because Ten had left such a bad taste in my mouth. It wasn't until I saw a gif where Eleven arrived in an exploding TARDIS just in the nick, and River going, "And what kind of time do you call this?"

I was hooked again but series 6 was a bumpy ride and I fell off again. I think my most consistent watch of Doctor Who is with Capaldi to Series 11. I also usually catch up on the show with a good binge -- which helped more when it was on Netflix, and then much less none on Amazon Prime -- which unfortunate as of January 1, 2020 is no longer available on Prime Video on streaming.

And brings me back to today -- where we all waited for a year for a new episode! Hopefully it would live amazing and live up to the hype!

"Do you think Missy ever went to the library to free River out of spite as well as ego and ended up liking her too much?" for thymejot

In honor of the Big Finish Audio coming out....

Because of 'Worlds Enough and time' we know Missy will be annoyed ("if somebody kills you and it's not me, we'll both be disappointed." -- really, anyone who successfully kills the Doctor will have to contend with not only vengeful Companions, they would have to also deal with a pissed off Master).

Add to it, the Master, historically, doesn’t like it when the Doctor chooses their human friends over them. It usually ends up badly for the friend, and I think the only reason Clara lasted as long as she did is because Missy specifically chose Clara for the Doctor.

You know what? Missy is Bananas (her term not mine!) With lesser impulse control than the Doctor I think Missy would visit River. If only to express her extreme annoyance that someone else killed the Doctor. I don’t know if Missy would free River immediately — but again, bananas! Also, Missy will do it, if only to prove she's more technically capable than the Doctor.

I assume River would be confused at first but it would take River several minutes to acclimate but I bet River would try to go toe to toe with Missy, ending with a bit of an impasse.

The thing that would most interest me is how, IMO, River is the healthier version of the Doctor's relationship with the Master. River claims she's a remorseless killer, a psychopath but I never believe her, it always seemed to me as more telling than showing. Sure, she kills people in combat but she's not a heartless killer like the Master is.

Also, for me, the reason why the Doctor is so good dancing the Murder Tango ('Let's Kill Hitler') with River was because it's familiar dance to the Doctor. It would be interesting for River to encounter Missy (would she know about the Master and their relationship with the Doctor, or would River be surprised?).

Then again in 'Extremis' it seemed like Missy had a lot of respect for River, or at least who River was to the Doctor. Maybe, after having a go at River, who manages to escape, Missy would be impressed enough to let River go. After all, with River out and about there would be one more clever shot Missy can play with.