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Doctor Who Season 4 by Aria (PG-13)
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kate_swynford , and I'll be driving the Doctor Who van for what's left of March. I only recently ventured on Old Who territory, so my recs will be mostly New Who and the Third Doctor. I should also warn you that I have a soft spot for the Master. I'll try to be balanced in my recs, but, not surprisingly my first rec is a Doctor and Master story.
Fandom: DOCTOR WHO
Pairing: Doctor/Master
Length: novel-length
Author on LJ:ariastar
Author website:ariafic
Why this must be read: It's a brilliant adventure that has all the perfect Doctor Who ingredients: a mystery, lots of running, humour, angst, weird (and original) aliens, visits to the past and to the future and an all star cast, including the Jones family, Jack and, of course, the Doctor and the Master. The premise is very simple: Lucy never shot the Master, and the Doctor got to keep him as he had intended. The AU season even has the structure of a real season: thirteen chapters/episodes, most of them stand-alone adventures, all of them leading to the complicated finale. But although all the loose ends tie together neatly at the end, it's more about the characters than the plot. And it's one of the best stories about the Doctor and the Master - with their shared history, friendship and hatred, past grudges and regrets, bitterness , pride, hope and the ghost of their lost planet looming over both of them.
"Did you think keeping me was going to be easy, Doctor?" he asks softly. "Safe? Nice? Did you think having me with you would mend your poor, lonely, damaged hearts? It won't. Keeping me will be misery. It will be difficult, and trying, and it will always, Doctor, be difficult and trying."
Season Four
kate_swynford , and I'll be driving the Doctor Who van for what's left of March. I only recently ventured on Old Who territory, so my recs will be mostly New Who and the Third Doctor. I should also warn you that I have a soft spot for the Master. I'll try to be balanced in my recs, but, not surprisingly my first rec is a Doctor and Master story. Fandom: DOCTOR WHO
Pairing: Doctor/Master
Length: novel-length
Author on LJ:
ariastar Author website:
ariafic Why this must be read: It's a brilliant adventure that has all the perfect Doctor Who ingredients: a mystery, lots of running, humour, angst, weird (and original) aliens, visits to the past and to the future and an all star cast, including the Jones family, Jack and, of course, the Doctor and the Master. The premise is very simple: Lucy never shot the Master, and the Doctor got to keep him as he had intended. The AU season even has the structure of a real season: thirteen chapters/episodes, most of them stand-alone adventures, all of them leading to the complicated finale. But although all the loose ends tie together neatly at the end, it's more about the characters than the plot. And it's one of the best stories about the Doctor and the Master - with their shared history, friendship and hatred, past grudges and regrets, bitterness , pride, hope and the ghost of their lost planet looming over both of them.
"Did you think keeping me was going to be easy, Doctor?" he asks softly. "Safe? Nice? Did you think having me with you would mend your poor, lonely, damaged hearts? It won't. Keeping me will be misery. It will be difficult, and trying, and it will always, Doctor, be difficult and trying."
Season Four