Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann picking lint from each other's jackets before going on "Letterman"
Did they really? Oh, my dear. Stuff like that makes me wibble at the adorableness, but I don't know if that counts as responding-to-slash so much as being dorkily eager to go "Awwwww!" at any sweetly affectionate PDA or sign of crushiness. I mean, Lord knows I go all gooey inside just seeing teenage queer couples walking down Haight Street hand-in-hand the way they couldn't have twenty years earlier and still can't almost anywhere else. But I'm fairly sure "misty-eyed with quasi-maternal love" is not the reaction most slashers are really looking for.
I love Rose fiercely. Which is why I wouldn't want to put her alone in a room with Faith. Now 10th Doctor/Rose/Faith. That would be fun.
I got hooked by the 10th Doctor when I managed to catch The Girl in the Fireplace episode on TV and I happened to click over at just the right moment.
This feels like an episode of Doctor Who
I thought. When Rose called him Doctor I may have swooned. So when I went back and rented Series 1 I was a bit confused by Christopher Eccleston but I did fall for him right before he "died". I can definitely see not liking this David Tennant chap if I hadn't already seen that one episode.
Tennant kinda grew on me with time, but Eccleston pings my personal hot meter a lot harder. I love his accent, and while he's not conventionally handsome in the least he's just so interesting to look at.
I love Tennant. He's all ardent and smart and big eyes.
Eccleston pretty much
is
my personal hot meter, but Tennant feels more Doctor-y to me. And Rose never did much for me at all as a character. So I was in it for the Eccleston, and then for Ten, and then finally for Ten and Martha.
Tennant reminds me a lot of Tom Baker, especially the "I am not human" stare. Eccleston has the better outfit and yes his accent is scrummy. I wish we'd gotten more than one season of his Doctor.
I was so truly-madly-deeply for Rose that I was determined not to like Martha but she won me over in the first episode with
her delight at being on the moon overpowering her fear of Being On The Moon!
I love Tennant's fierceness, wrapped up in that geeky wide-eyed exterior. He is most similar to Tom Baker's Doctor in that sense. His viciousness (as seen in what he does to the Family of Blood and even Harriet Jones) really pinged me as an interesting side to the Doctor I don't remember seeing too often in the past. Combine that with the sadness he also has (which Eccleston did so well, but it was a trait that defined #9 IMO, as opposed to just another aspect of #10), and I'd have to put Tennat as possibly my favorite Doctor ever. (Also, the fact that Tennant himself is a lifelong huge Doctor Who geek--I'm all over him!)
Well, yeah, it wasn't sexual for me either, but sort of...coupley, don't you think? Because they've known each other for fifty billion years and Keith always knows that Dan's gonna have a shmutz because he thinks it's not very sportsy to, say, take some tape to the old blazer beforehand. Yes, more sweet than animal passion, for real. But easier to decipher for me than some look that Slasher!Friend goes on about that I missed. In many ways, I think there are folks who take "scoring at home," a bit literally, but I don't think it hurts anyone.
But I come from a family where guys never ever touch...maybe at funerals. And these are guys at the epicenter of Guy, right?(although my man Keith has taken some hits of the "lefty, pinko, commie, chicken, faggot" stripe lately, of course.
(I don't know what I expected them to do--punch in the arm like they're twelve. I'm still biased about the World of Sports, I suspect.)
I prefer Eccleston because he seems more tragic, more "I am the last of my kind, wandering the universe alone". The connection with Captain Jack and Rose had more zing for me, because he seemed to need friends more.
