Just the start of it all

A picspam made entirely of pictures you have seen hundreds of times before.

( Nyssa/Tegan )

( Bonus: Nyssa/Turlough from that Terminus photo shoot )

(all nabbed from shillpages and THT, obviously)

Here is some character meta about Martha, written for kepp0xy in the Fall Fandom Free for All. kepp0xy's request was for "Character Study - Doctor Who: Martha. I've tried & tried to understand her through s3 & s4, but have failed. I'd really like some good insights: preferably with equal thought given to her good and bad attributes." So that's what I'm aiming at here, though I'll admit that I've got more than half an eye on Martha fandom, given that these days even many of Martha's fans seem to swallow the twin memes that Martha's characterisation was inconsistent, and that all the stuff we liked about her was fanon.

I'm firmly convinced that the Martha we got on the telly does have a consistent character that evolves in a credible fashion as a result of her experiences with the Doctor, that a clear line can be drawn between the enthusiastic medical student we meet in Smith and Jones and the person who can play nuclear brinksmanship with Davros in Journey's End; the rest of this post constitutes an attempt to explain that. I'm not saying anyone has to agree with me, just detailing why I think what I think. (It's a tiny little bit picspammy: there are about eight smallish images beneath the cut, but nothing that should break people's connections too badly.)

( She'll be a doctor too when she passes her exams )

I maked a picspam of the bestest TARDIS team ever vs the super-villain team-up of Evil From The Dawn of Time and Ace's Angst. Because I have loads of boring stuff to do and am procrastinating, yo.

( almost 20MB of images below the cut; you have been warned, dialuppers )

In conclusion: Seven and Ace are better than you.

For various reasons Evolution of the Daleks in Manhattan made me want to rewatch Remembrance. For more difficult to discern reasons, I decided this was a good excuse to teach myself screencapping, so here is picspam.

Mainly this is an excuse to squee (in an entirely non-shippy way, thank you very much) over Seven and Ace and their awesomeness in particular, and the fantabulousness of the Cartmel era in general, so do not expect reasoned critique. I'm also going to keep a tally of points where this story is better or worse than the latest two-parter, so beware of spoilers.

( Not remotely dialup friendly )