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annavereI'm five posts away from a hundred posts, so any excuse is a good one.
I went through all five pages of Miracles fanfic on AO3 and read everything that looked remotely on my wavelength, and had a lovely time with it. To my surprise there was an abundance of cobwebby casefic and only limited forays into shipping (usually I find it's the other way around), and I was happy to find that Evie featured with respectable frequency. I wonder if this is due to how painfully short the show was, making writers hungry for more gen team fic to fill out the missing episodes? Sadly, nothing's been posted in years.
Poppi won the award for preferred secondary character, which makes sense. Georgia Wilson got second place, which I guess also tracks, given her history with Paul. Not even one appearance of Jason Herlock, though, so I'm definitely putting a pin in that idea for some (far flung) day.
Miracles appears to have been popular with the Supernatural crowd, resulting in a large number of crossovers, a couple of which weren't tagged as such (which I found confusingly counterproductive - isn't the point of fanfiction to actively court people in said fandoms, rather than hope some random passerby knows who Castiel is?). Anyway, I'm fairly used to running across Winchesters in my tiny fandoms, and can sometimes manage the lack of context if the focus is more on my show than the juggernaut, but this was definitely not the case here.
Weird idea, probably, but in all seriousness, why has no one ever made a list of best early exits from insanely long (and/or famously mismanaged) TV shows? You would think there would be a market for that. Or maybe it's just me. Probably just me.
Speaking of insanely long television, I have gained the chance to return to Doctor Who after a long break - I was watching it on Netflix several years ago and had just reached season four when it was yanked by the BBC. I got a sudden windfall of loaned DVDs, and so now I finally get to find out why Donna is such a beloved Companion. I find her completely likable and entertaining so far, but what I mostly knew about her was how refreshing she was claimed to be after Rose and Martha. Honestly, though, she's just as mad about the Doctor as Rose and Martha ever were, she just doesn't want to shag him, so I'm not seeing a huge difference. Her insisting she will never leave his side is pretty much identical to Rose, and that's disappointing because she started out more hard-nosed and yet now seems completely starstruck despite Pompeii and the Oodsphere and assorted unpleasantness.
I'm about a third of the way into the season right now, and had forgotten just how fascinating I always found the general Doctor/Companion dynamic. That kept me watching even when the episodes were completely dire, and it's still the case today. The whole concept of the Doctor being a shellshocked veteran who is so repulsed by what he's done and thus takes his anger out on every soldier he meets - his entire dynamic with Jenny was a candy dish of grief and trauma and self-loathing and a whole lot of therapy. Now that would have been an amazing season arc - huge waste of potential there. Factor in the immortality and the potential God complex and the essentially alien outlook and how he tends to trash the lives of his Companions because they lack his durability and yet can't stop picking them up because he enjoys seeing the universe through their eyes (because that is totally a factor, along with needing them to hold him in check), and yikes. This is fun.
The overall writing seems stronger than I remembered it, with none of the blinding embarrassments I remember in the first two seasons. The pacing is mostly on overdrive but there are nice character moments in every episode and appreciated details like Donna and Martha instantly getting along rather than feeling threatened by each other.
Though for a show about traveling in space and time, there is a distinct lack of space or time travel. I perked up when the Doctor mentioned at the end of the Jenny situation that it was a paradox. More of those, please! If a show with time travel isn't hurting my brain, it's not doing it right.
I went through all five pages of Miracles fanfic on AO3 and read everything that looked remotely on my wavelength, and had a lovely time with it. To my surprise there was an abundance of cobwebby casefic and only limited forays into shipping (usually I find it's the other way around), and I was happy to find that Evie featured with respectable frequency. I wonder if this is due to how painfully short the show was, making writers hungry for more gen team fic to fill out the missing episodes? Sadly, nothing's been posted in years.
Poppi won the award for preferred secondary character, which makes sense. Georgia Wilson got second place, which I guess also tracks, given her history with Paul. Not even one appearance of Jason Herlock, though, so I'm definitely putting a pin in that idea for some (far flung) day.
Miracles appears to have been popular with the Supernatural crowd, resulting in a large number of crossovers, a couple of which weren't tagged as such (which I found confusingly counterproductive - isn't the point of fanfiction to actively court people in said fandoms, rather than hope some random passerby knows who Castiel is?). Anyway, I'm fairly used to running across Winchesters in my tiny fandoms, and can sometimes manage the lack of context if the focus is more on my show than the juggernaut, but this was definitely not the case here.
Weird idea, probably, but in all seriousness, why has no one ever made a list of best early exits from insanely long (and/or famously mismanaged) TV shows? You would think there would be a market for that. Or maybe it's just me. Probably just me.
Speaking of insanely long television, I have gained the chance to return to Doctor Who after a long break - I was watching it on Netflix several years ago and had just reached season four when it was yanked by the BBC. I got a sudden windfall of loaned DVDs, and so now I finally get to find out why Donna is such a beloved Companion. I find her completely likable and entertaining so far, but what I mostly knew about her was how refreshing she was claimed to be after Rose and Martha. Honestly, though, she's just as mad about the Doctor as Rose and Martha ever were, she just doesn't want to shag him, so I'm not seeing a huge difference. Her insisting she will never leave his side is pretty much identical to Rose, and that's disappointing because she started out more hard-nosed and yet now seems completely starstruck despite Pompeii and the Oodsphere and assorted unpleasantness.
I'm about a third of the way into the season right now, and had forgotten just how fascinating I always found the general Doctor/Companion dynamic. That kept me watching even when the episodes were completely dire, and it's still the case today. The whole concept of the Doctor being a shellshocked veteran who is so repulsed by what he's done and thus takes his anger out on every soldier he meets - his entire dynamic with Jenny was a candy dish of grief and trauma and self-loathing and a whole lot of therapy. Now that would have been an amazing season arc - huge waste of potential there. Factor in the immortality and the potential God complex and the essentially alien outlook and how he tends to trash the lives of his Companions because they lack his durability and yet can't stop picking them up because he enjoys seeing the universe through their eyes (because that is totally a factor, along with needing them to hold him in check), and yikes. This is fun.
The overall writing seems stronger than I remembered it, with none of the blinding embarrassments I remember in the first two seasons. The pacing is mostly on overdrive but there are nice character moments in every episode and appreciated details like Donna and Martha instantly getting along rather than feeling threatened by each other.
Though for a show about traveling in space and time, there is a distinct lack of space or time travel. I perked up when the Doctor mentioned at the end of the Jenny situation that it was a paradox. More of those, please! If a show with time travel isn't hurting my brain, it's not doing it right.
