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1. When did you start watching?
10 October 2015, about 6 or 7 pm local time.
1a. Why?
People had been telling me for years I'd like it, but I'd never given it a try. It was my first year of college and I felt like I could maybe try some new things, so I went along to the weekly watch party hosted by a cool older girl called, and this is completely true, Clara. Peter Capaldi explained the bootstrap paradox while gazing directly into my soul and I've never really recovered.
2. What was your first episode?
...As that indicates,
Before the Flood. I didn't even care that it was in the middle of a two-parter.
3. Which episodes have you seen?
Many, but not all of them. Almost all of the modern series and maybe about half of the classic series? I keep rewatching the bits I know I like, is the thing.
3a. Favorite?
City of Death, maybe?
4. Are your friends/family interested in the show?
Most of my friends are polite but not terribly interested, or watched Tennant and Smith and haven't thought about it in years. B. watches it, though, and we go to conventions and all. I'm more actively fannish but he does really like it.
5. Which Doctor is your favorite?
*points at icon*
Or Seven. But actually Six.
6. Which Doctor is your least favorite?
There's not one I don't have a soft spot for.
Just going by the numbers, however, I seem to have
written 10 the least. But there are stories in which I love him (just not by me).
7. Which TV companion is your favorite?
Romana! (I dithered for ages over this question because I forgot she was a companion. She's her own thing. XD)
8. Which TV companion is your least favorite?
IDK, probably Kamelion or something. XD There are a number of characters I don't really feel like I get, probably because I don't have enough familiarity with their eras, but I don't hate them, at all.
9. Do you listen to the Big Finish audios?
Yes!
9a. If so, which is your favorite?
I refuse to pick a single one. It's
Caerdroia though.
9b. Also: which Big Finish companion is your favorite?
Charley or Evelyn. (Very ~basic~ answers!) I think Evelyn would be more fun in real life but Charley's story makes me go more crazy.
10. Have you listened to any non-Big Finish audios?
Like scifirenegade, I have listened to
The Time Travellers! It's surprisingly good, really. I also own that one where Stephanie Cole narrates as Bessie (?) but I haven't listened to it yet.
10a. If so, which is your favorite?
Punchline was great and messed me up.
11. Have you read any of the novels or short stories?
Yes, most of them in a frenzied binge during lockdown, with the result that I often cannot remember what had which thing in it.
11a. Have you written any of the novels or short stories?
...not official ones, no?
11b. Which is your favorite?
The Left-Handed Hummingbird is the one I got Sophie Aldred to sign.
12. Have you read any of the comics?
Yes, a few!
12a. You guessed it – which is your favorite?
They kind of all blur together, I don't remember them very well. I'd like to get my hands on more of the old DWM comics. I've mostly only read the Titan ones. Oh wait no, I do have an answer to this question, it's the Eighth Doctor and Josie Day comics.
13. Do you watch any of the spin-offs (e.g. Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures)?
Not regularly.
13a. Which is your favorite?
I've liked the bits of SJA that I've seen.
14. Is there any particular episode/book/audio/comic you desperately want to watch/listen to/read?
Lots I'd like to get to eventually. Some of the ones I'd like to watch are missing though, of course, so I probably won't.
Fandom
1. Do you write fanfic for Doctor Who?
Do I ever!
1a. If so, post a snippet of a work-in-progress (or several)!
From everywhere and nowhere, she heard a voice: her rescuer’s. It had the slightly unnatural rhythm of recorded speech, but the recording was astonishingly clear, allowing her to hear every note of the lilting voice.
“Charley—I may call you Charley?” he said. “I’m sorry I couldn’t welcome you to the TARDIS personally—oh, this is the TARDIS, by the way—but I’m sure you’ll find your way around. The kitchen is down the third hallway, second left, first right. You’ll want a cup of tea perhaps. Second hallway, bedrooms, pick whichever you like, and oh! if you want to shower, get rid of the smoke, there should be clean clothes when you look for them. Not that you aren’t lovely as you are, I mean. I’m the Doctor by the way. I’ll talk to you later, I wish I could explain….”
The message ended in a fuzz of static and a beep.
2. Do you create Doctor Who icons?
Occasionally.
2a. Let’s see a sample!
*points at icon*
3. Recommend a fanfic/icon/fanvid/fancomic/fancreation!
Still banging the drum of the incredible
Doctor Who: Darker Side by QuokkaMocha.
4. Have you been to any Doctor Who conventions?
Yes! LI Who! Twice!
5. Have you ever dressed up as a Doctor Who character?
Yes! Seven! Twice!
6. Do you own any Doctor Who merchandise?
Oh yes. Official merch versions of Seven's sweater vest and paisley scarf for aforementioned costume; action figures of Sarah and both Romanas (they came as a set, I really mostly wanted Lalla); a mug with the Seal of Rassilon on it; lots of pins; besides homemade stuff.
7. Are you a fan of Russell T Davies?
Not a rabid fan, but he's definitely made some stories I like.
7a. Steven Moffat?
Ditto.
7b. Paul Cornell?
Ditto. How old is this meme?
8. What say you to Season 6b?
Sometimes it's true and sometimes it isn't.
9. The UNIT dating controversy?
It's a time travel show, what do you expect?
10. The Blinovitch Limitation effect?
Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. For reasons.
11. Multi-Doctor episodes?
Bring 'em on! I'm glad we don't have them any more often than we do, because we'd get used to them; but they're lovely and joyful even when the story is a bit ehh, and I'm very glad we have them. (Rewatched
The Three Doctors the other day. What an absolute delight. Also I realized that if Sgt. Benton is a companion he is a Second Doctor companion.)
12. What’s your favorite Doctor Who technobabble?
"Confusing the polarity" is the only reference I regularly make in real life to people who won't get it. Like when you're both turning on a light with two different switches.
13. Have you watched other TV shows exclusively because of the presence of Doctor Who actors?
Yes, some!
Hotel! is an incredibly bonkers comedy including Paul McGann and Peter Capaldi (among others). It's not good! At the convention last week Paul McGann was taking questions about his non-DW work, and I asked him afterwards about
Hotel!, specifically what was it, in fact, supposed to be? He said "It was meant to be funny! It wasn't, but it was
meant to be." I do love to watch it but, like, not for the reasons its writers hoped.
Also
Lost at Christmas, a terrible, terrible rom-com in which Frazer Hines and Sylvester McCoy are side characters. They're very good in it. Their bits are the good bits. I made my mother watch it with me and we were so bemused by the behavior of the leads. It made no sense.
Somehow
Lost at Christmas also came up at the con, but Frazer brought it up during the panel, I think. It wasn't me that introduced the topic.
14. Have you met any of the actors?
Yes, at the aforementioned con! But I haven't really properly met everyone who's been at the con--I always feel awkward trying to make small talk with people when they're doing autograph lines and I'm not paying for an autograph. And I only really run to one autograph a year. So properly met and talked to, Sophie Aldred and Paul McGann. I think Frazer Hines counts as well because he just wanders the halls and talks to people. Been in the audience for a panel, also Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton, Peter Davison, Wendy Padbury, Katy Manning, and Sacha Dhawan. I have no idea how they got him at our little con, but he seems like an old hand already, and I suspect that in thirty years he'll still be doing it and they'll still be trying to get him to do the Rasputin dance. (He wouldn't.)
14a. Traveled to any filming locations?
Not on purpose, but I've been to Cardiff, and you can't avoid them. That was actually part of what got me back into the show after somewhat losing interest during the long break between 12 and 13.
15. What do you think of The Curse of Fatal Death?
Never actually watched it.
16. Do you have any fannish opinions that you think are fairly unpopular?
I don't have a good sense of what opinions are popular! I will say that I seem to be a lot more willing to say of any given episode "it was mediocre, but still fun" than many DW fans do. I don't need an episode to be TRANSCENDENTLY WONDERFUL or else I HATE it. Some episodes are TRANSCENDENTLY WONDERFUL, but it's not something I demand of the show. They're often just... reasonably fun episodes of television, you know? My standards are low.
17. What’s your favorite pairing?
Doctor/Romana <3
18. What pairing(s) won’t you touch with a really long pole?
Never say never! XD Really, though, my default state is
not shipping, and I have to be specifically convinced
to ship. So I also don't spend much energy actively disliking any pairings; I just go on my merry gen-ish way, periodically dipping into the couple of pairings I do ship.
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