#mrv3000

lmao NONE I'm banishing him into the void, may everyone be free from his eternal torment

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Doctor Who (2005) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler Characters: Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Sarah Jane Smith Additional Tags: Humor Summary:

It might only be fanon, I’m not sure, but I’ve seen in fics that initiaties (under thirteen-year-olds) have assignments where they study their home planet/culture, to provide them with some background for themselves. They don’t seem to learn about their families, of course, but they do learn about their people. 

And I’ve always really liked that idea! Especially if each initiatie has to give a little report to their class/clan about “My People and What That Means”. So that everyone understands each other better. 

This is the kind of thing I hope we’d see more of at some point: what being a youngling or initiate is really like, before the Clone Wars and Order 66. I know there’s a few bits and pieces that we see in Clone Wars, like with the clan that Ahsoka is helping retrieve their kyber crystals and build their first lightsabers, but I want more! 

i must be moving out of my Mood because this very difficult to do! the most-most highly rated characters on- and off-screen in trek (spock, data) totally deserve it, and honestly WHO KNOWS how a character is rated in fandom, because tumblr trek is always collecting and loving the characters that larger trek fandom dislikes (see: janeway and bashir).

but on-screen at least, i’m gonna go with the doctor on voyager.

this is part of a larger issue with the back half of voyager: the ensemble is sacrificed because all the character development points are held by seven, the doctor, and.... you know, i don’t know if janeway’s slow burn untreated psychological distress is character development, exactly, but the show definitely did not spread the love around to the entire cast.

and in that, my early season love for the doctor wears thin. some bloggers i follow made the good point that a character shouldn’t have to be likeable when fighting for their rights any more than a real human person should be, or be openly grateful to their “oppressors” when they’re well-treated, so why should i be cool with data and annoyed by the doctor -- who is objectively treated worse by his crew -- just because he’s abrasive about it?

and i don’t know! i have to do some more soul-searching on this. but i get exhausted having so many doctor-centric episodes because eventually, his personal development comes with a level of carelessness about the larger effects of his actions, and he’s not held accountable by the narrative when he causes harm to his friends.

“tinker, tenor, doctor, spy” is the last doctor-centric episode where i really, unequivocally LOVE him. he wants to grow!! but he wants to do it with the consciousness of being part of a community and wanting to serve his ship and crew as well as expanding his program and exploring the new frontier of hologram life.

but then you get like... “virtuoso.” (🎶fame! i wanna live foreverrrr🎶) he demands to leave the ship and wants to delete his medical database so he can explore an opera passion project -- but he shows no concern that as the only doctor, leaving the ship will absolutely eventually result in members of the crew dying. he argues that every other crewmember made a choice to serve on the ship (the maquis?? everyone else who signed up for a three-week mission??) and that janeway would never deny a flesh and blood crewman the right to self-determination for the good of the ship -- when she already has (b’elanna, in “nothing human,” and for the same reason: the entire community relies on them for survival). 

but mostly what bothers me is that so many of his episodes toward the end of the series put him in inappropriate and sexist situations with seven of nine (that fucking bet leading to the romantic grooming in “someone to watch over me”; using her body against her wishes in “body and soul” -- i mean hilarious tour de force from jeri ryan or not, that’s fucked uppppp man). and it’s always his POV, not hers. she has to forgive him, and we’re supposed to feel sorry for him.

“Leia, Luke, we’ve told you before that if you want to bring pets into this house, we must discuss it as a family,” Padme admonishes as she steps behind her husband. 

Gary the tooka is growling, and he looks very...

Unhappy.

“He’s nice, Mama, can we keep him?” Luke pleads. “We love Gary.” 

“We can’t keep him,” Anakin says firmly. “He’s a feral tooka, they’re not supposed to be inside.” 

“But he’s so fluffy,” Leia pouts. “And he likes to sleep in my bed.” 

“Which is now covered in fleas probably,” Padme mutters. “We have to set Gary free. He’s not an indoor pet. He probably misses his home.” 

“He didn’t have a home,” Luke argues.

“Feral tooka’s homes are outside,” Anakin says. 

Leia’s lip wibbles. “But-” 

Luke joins in. “But-” 

Anakin sighs heavily and turns to Padme. “Isn’t there a feral tooka colony on Naboo?” 

Padme nods. “There is. Not far from Varykino.” 

“Then we’re goin’ to Naboo,” Anakin says. “And Gary will have a nice life at the tooka colony with other tookas, and we can visit him whenever we visit.” 

Leia sniffles.

“Ani...” Padme sighs.

“we can’t keep this tooka, Padme, he’ll eat us in our sleep.”

“He won’t!” Luke argues. “He woulda ate me days ago!”

I HAVE SOME THOUGHTS

so basically, they had to soften her up and flatten her out to introduce her to people who don’t know who she was. random people are going to recognize Boba Fett, but not her. it’s frustrating, because Sabine LITERALLY GAVE HER THE DARKSABER, but there’s a fairly easy headcanon (she lost it, so now she’s a bigger believe in the Legend). i just want to hear it out loud, because otherwise it makes her look like she’s manufacturing drama.

she ruled Mandalore from The Clone Wars until sometime after Star Wars Rebels, and she didn’t GET the darksaber until close to the end. it makes as much sense as anything else in star wars, which is to say: for the love of apples, don’t poke at it.

i love her as Satine’s sister, the one who loved Mandalore and chose violence, putting Satine in danger and putting the sisters on opposite sides of the civil war. that’s just good drama, and the thing is, they both had good points! after Satine’s faction won, and Satine became Duchess, Bo-Katan chose exile until her sister was put in danger by Maul’s influence. we talk about Satine’s death influencing Obi-Wan a lot, but it was also a wake up call for Bo-Katan. if she wants Mandalore to be okay, she’s going to have to do it herself.

(this is one reason why Boba Fett calling her “princess” annoys me. she’s not a princess! she’s not a rightful born heir, either. yeah, she’s from a ruling house, but Mandalore has PLENTY of those, and Bo-Katan had to CHOOSE it, and when she finally did, it was for entirely non-personal reasons. the other reason, of course, is that gendered insults are lazy and PARTICULARLY RIDICULOUS IN THIS SITUATION GIVEN HOW MOST STAR WARS FANS FEEL ABOUT PRINCESS LEIA.)

so...basically, as with most of the Mandalorian, i don’t LOVE it, but i am glad to have a TV show (mostly) doing TV show things, so i am willing to...wait them out? i mean, i can watching this show without leaving my house and at the time of my choosing, so it’s pretty low effort on my end. i am not sure how i’d feel if i had to go somewhere or tune in at a certain time.

Well, yes, my family is insane- dysfunctional on the highest order.  But yes, the prevailing theory of my cousin (well, my mum’s second cousin, so once removed for me)’s disappearance is that he was eaten by cannibals while on a photo assignment (for a museum I then worked for myself, 40 years later).  The problem with that theory is that the one’s claiming the tribe ate him was a rival tribe in a land dispute with them, and a Christian missionary couple who had ulterior motives.  So no one’s really sure.  Makes for a fun story.  His dad was famous in his own right, but for complicated reasons, and I tend not to make the association, because of it. His brother’s funeral is where I sat in pews behind Martha and Mike (among others). But now that the brother’s dead, that branch of the family has stopped talking to us completely (we being the poor cousins and all that), so....?

Seriously, my family is WEIRD.  And that’s not even getting into the genetics that causes a hereditary disorder that causes hearing loss, white forelocks and different color eyes runs in my family, but for some reason skips generations when it’s been documented as a dominant gene in every other instance.

WEIRD doesn’t cover it.