SEVEN I LOVE YOU

prof_pangaea: someone should write seven/river song fic
prof_pangaea: a lot.
lizbee: That sounds fair to me.
lizbee: What brought this revelation about?
prof_pangaea: um... remembering that river song exists
lizbee: *giggles*
lizbee: Fair enough.
prof_pangaea: i think it was more complicated
prof_pangaea: oh wait!
prof_pangaea: someone was mentioning a fic where the doctor meets river song and was traveling with an ace-like companion
prof_pangaea: and i was like, "let's cut out the middleman here"
prof_pangaea: i think i've discovered a sad fact about myself, which is that every prompt looks brilliant if it involves seven.
lizbee: Hmm. "The Doctor goes swing dancing." "Seven goes swing dancing."
lizbee: YOU'RE RIGHT!
prof_pangaea: it is just like when einstein discovered relativity.
lizbee: Yes, just like that.


ETA: from thefannishwaldo's liveblog of stephen moffat and julie gardner's panel at the san diego comicon:

Is River Song recognizing the DOCTOR or DT's incarnation[?]
SM: she has met the DT Doctor before, but that's not the only one she's met.

this is obviously support for my view. yes.

speaking of stephen moffat

here is the best bit of an interview with stephen moffat from io9:

We've been debating on our site endlessly: Is Doctor Who a kids' program?

Yes. Debate over. It's good to fix those things quickly.

...

Have you seen Wall-E?

I haven't seen Wall-E. It looks fantastic.

I was really blown away by it. It's a kid's movie, but it deals with some incredibly weighty issues.

The misconception about children's fiction is that it's lightweight or fluffy. It's about really big and important things. It's adults who like light and fluffy. Everything is big and important to a child, [so] their stories are about big and important events.


hell yeah.