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Title: Emotional Politics Makes For Strange Bedfellows
Summary: Despite being in captivity, Jack does his best to make new friends while aboard the Valiant. Unfortunately, Lucy Saxon has a strange idea of what constitutes 'friendship'.
Pairing: none (genfic)
Featured characters: Lucy Saxon, Jack Harkness
Rating: 15, for violence and language.
Spoilers: Sound of Drums/Last Time Lord, but only if you squint and have been living under a rock, DW-wise.
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the BBC, not me. This is all homage.
Additional warning: Unbeta'd. Spellchecked, yes, but not beta'd as this is another one of those 'Desperately written to get it out of my head' fics. Another in this month's (apparent) theme of being generally nasty to Jack Harkness.

( Behind the cut, 3000 words or so )

I'm posting this at the request of another LJer, Kathy Routliffe. Enjoy.

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I'm a member of the LiveJournal site The Oncoming Recaps . I'm here with an invitation and a heartfelt request.

As you may or may not know, the website Television Without Pity , also known as TWoP, has recently decided to cease recapping the BBC show Doctor Who, which is aired by the SciFi Channel in the U.S. and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Canada. The announcement, made mere days before the show's third season was due to be broadcast and recapped in the United States, has disappointed a large portion of the TWoP and Doctor Who communities, particularly those who cherished the funny, erudite and often-moving recaps by Austin-based writer Jacob Clifton.

Why are we visiting you folks here with the news? Should you care? We think so.

We are fans and friends of Television Without Pity. We support the site's mission; to provide intelligent insight and discussion on a wide range of television programs. We continue to hope that its corporate buyout by BRAVO last March provides site operators the chance to expand show coverage. But we don't think the decision to cancel Doctor Who recaps fits with that mission, so we are asking both TWoP and BRAVO officials to bring the recaps back.

That's why we've launched our campaign - one that's polite, positive and passionate - to tell our friends at TWoP and BRAVO that we all can win by doing that. Specifically, we want to convince them that letting Doctor Who recaps resume is a far better way to enhance TWoP's and BRAVO's reputations than to end them. We hope to make them understand that we who watch the show and want the recaps back are part of a network of people who count when it comes to the artistic, demographic, and even economic health of television programming.

And that's where you come in.

We think that you are part of our network. The reasons are many. Any - or all - of them could fit you, in your community here: you may be fellow Doctor Who fans; you may love another science fiction show as much as we love Doctor Who (and it's a good bet that we've probably watched, and liked, your show); you may be a fan of good TV, good TV commentary, and Television Without Pity.

More importantly, we think you understand a) that what happens to one of us affects us all; b) that we all have a stake in maintaining quality television and lively television commentary and c) that it's possible to win. And we think you may want to join our ranks and help us win.

Please visit us at oncoming_recaps for more information on Doctor Who, Television Without Pity, the campaign, and how you can help. Our email is torcaps1@gmail.com

Thank you for your time!
The Oncoming Recap Team
"Second Chances. We're That Sort of Fan"

I really want to know what Lucy's story is. ( Not really spoilery, but just in case... )

Warning: sillyfic ahead. By silly I mean in no ways uplifting or insightful rather than silly and goofy. Well, it is silly, I suppose, technically.

And, amazingly enough, entirely slash-free. It's about Lucy and Saxon, a little bit of prequel foolishness. Unbeta'd, so read at your own risk.

( But he was so good to my father... )

Oh, thank you very fucking much RTD et al, for co-opting the old school theme in The Sound of Drums. I wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't succumbed to the temptation to watch The Keeper of Traken immediately afterwards - then it all became painfully apparent. Bloody hell!

Short version: The Sound of Drums was made of awesome.

( The long version - spoilers )

Edited to add: okay, the riff is from the theme tune, period, but it just seemed that much more obvious with the old-school tune.

Yep. Terrible.

Not even Raynor's hilarious fetishes could save this one...

And I want to take brillo to my eardrums to scrub away the memory of those godawful accents.

( minor spoilers within )

In other news, a friend has found blue-pinstriped brown fabric at JoAnn's. Bless her heart, she called me and iamradar if we wanted any. Sight unseen, I've bought two yards, although I still plan to do the mad silkscreening with the brown rayon I've got coming in the mail (bought on Friday, ironically enough). I think that, between the three of us, we got the bolt. Thank god it was on clearance. If the stuff turns out to be a good match, I'll post about it dw_cosplay

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some toe-curlingly scrummy plotbunnies I need to jot down...

I finally watched The Lazarus Effect, last night. ( minor spoilery ahead )

No, I haven't caught up with the Dalek story yet. I'm lagging, I know, but the ho-hum reviews don't have me jumping up and down with eagerness, either.

Alright, so I just watched Smith and Jones for the third time and, oh hell, I think I have to make a few admissions:

When Tennant does come hither looks with those big brown eyes of his, I'm completely taken out at the knees. Absolutely and utterly.

I'm not coherent when Martha does it for that matter, either.

In fact, Martha is shaping up to all sorts of lovely fabulousness that I would cheerfully cover with golden syrup and, oops, let's save that for an F-locked entry, shall we?

So yeah, the eps is growing on me...

Roll on Saturday!