Fic Commentary: Held in Trust Chapter 28
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( Held in Trust Ch. 28, with commentary, for kalleah )
( Held in Trust Ch. 28, with commentary, for kalleah )
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I think your logic about alt!Gallifey makes sense, both that it would be an extreme environment and that it would have been as if the Time Lords had never been.
Shipping Elpis and Crede? Maybe. I want them to be together and rely on one another. Mad shagging? Maybe. I could buy it. I do love them.
In order to be true to himself, he has to do the same things he would have done before, including the ridiculous self-sacrifice, and belief that he himself is always the right man for the job.
I think this is perfect as well. He's a ponce, isn't he? Delegation is outside his scope.
Your point about Elpis as a Sue is well taken. That's always going to be in the back of any writer's mind, but what you said is perfect. Doctor Who is about ordinary people stepping up and doing extraordinary things. Period. It's about whether that ordinary person has real depth and characterization (rather than the fact that they may do awesome things) that makes them a solid character to me.
The point here is not how he'd go about doing ( ... )
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Indeed. But you'll still get people trying to say that Rose or Gwen are Mary Sues, even though both of them are characterised out the wazoo. I don't get it.
I didn't realize that he'd disconnected the life support in the pod, but it made no matter: it stresses "This Shit Is Hard" aspect.
I think in the next chapter I do eventually spell it out, as the Doctor has to admit to Rose that he really was not planning on returning. But I wasn't sure whether that tidbit would be important to the actual scene of it happening.
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It wasn't, but the later discussion is good.
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