sex and death

[prof_pangaea]

so apparently i will be reccing at three_settings this week. check it out if you're curious as to what kind of fic makes me think, "oh that was quite sexy. oh, and also well-written. and i won't mind admitting to that in public. too much." or avoid that, if you're afraid to find out (or already knoooow and wish you didn't D:).

meanwhile, there's a thread on the anonmeme about whether gallifrey and the time lords should be brought back. and so i've been scrolling past this comment all day (which is part of thread where everyone's like, yeah get rid of it for good! stop bringing it up!) and every time i see it it HURTS MY SOUL:

Yeah, but thing is? New canon hasn't really made a case for its absence. I mean, it's present by its constant absence, more so even than Rose was.

other than the fact that that statement doesn't make logical sense (make a case, what?), it's strange to this commenter that the continued absence of the doctor's home planet is "present" within the show? what, is he going to forget he blew it up and wiped every being on it, including his own family, his own children, off the face of the universe? and it's even stranger that this is made more of an issue in the show than rose being gone?

i just. this statement does not compute. of course gallifrey's absence is mentioned more than rose's! GUYS HE DESTROYED HIS ENTIRE SOCIETY, HE COMMITED GENOCIDE AGAINST HIS OWN PEOPLE. HE KILLED HIS OWN CHILDREN. this is more important than a not!girlfriend, even if she was dead, and not alive and healthy with her entire family and an inherited job and inherited wealth. gah!!

Comments

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

i don't want gallifrey back, at least not as it was, because it would make the past four (almost five) years of the show irrelevent. it would be a retcon that would make the ends of LofTL and JE look nuanced and beautiful in comparison.

i also prefer rebel doctor, but i'm hoping that as he heals from the war that he'll start to get back to that, and stop trying to take the place of the time lords in the universe. i think he feels very guilty about their absence (makes sense), so he's felt obligated to take over their role, and it's a role he's very unsuited to fill. which is how we get more genocide and throwing people into the event horizons of black holmes and such.

he thought that space bureaucrats in funny hats was a fantastic idea.

i lked the time lords more when they were SCARY AS FUCK, like in "the war games". i like to think of them as a mixture of extremely scary and also amusingly incompetent, arrogant and silly. which is... a bit like ten, actually. hmmm.

[reasonabsurd.livejournal.com]

They're definitely complex characters. There's that balance of being powerful on a mythic scale and outright ridiculous (which is, again, a bit like Ten). It also seems unfair to me that the Daleks should keep coming back and that the Time Lords should be gone for good. I guess I'm not entirely decided whether I'd prefer the current power vacuum, yet more complex storyline, that exists without them, or the more complete universe, and the oversimplification and tediousness that comes with absolute power if we still had them. It also annoys me because some of my favorite characters were Time Lords, though.