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In the wake of Torchwood fan reactions to events in Children of Earth, and just on general principle, I am delighted to support this thesis: Doctor Who has no canon.

It's a lovely essay, with no spoilers and lots of quotes from Doctor Who bigshot writers, and I just kept nodding like a bobble-head the whole time. It's a valuable piece of reading if you're a fan of some other geek franchise or like thinking about what makes stories Real, even if you're not Whovian.

This note in the comments actually made my eyes well up:

"The Doctor remembers every Doctor Who story ever told. Every episode, target book, comic strip and every game of companions and TARDISes that you played as a kid. The universe he lives in has no record of it, because of paradoxes and divergent dimensions and the Time War have reset things... but the Doctor remembers and sometimes when he is sad it's because you've stopped being 8 years old and he can't run around the school playground with you anymore."

Yes. Just like that. I'm still playing. Are you?

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[garillama.livejournal.com]

Well, in that case, the last episode and a half of COE is not in my canon. Too damn sad. I'll just imagine the REAL ending where the Doctor showed up just in the nick of time to Set Things Right and Deal Out Just Rewards, Both Good And Bad.

And for the record, I spend 95% of my time at work telling stories to myself. It's hard not too when the guy up in Accounts with the intriguing ear cuff reminds me so much of Ianto, which reminds me of Jack's office fetish, which somehow ends up with me crawling through the ducts trying to steal some artifact from a Doctor Who Is Actually An Alien Or Something, and also trying to keep it from Torchwood because I am in actuality an agent of the Talamasca (ala Anne Rice). It tends to get horribly silly and self-centered, which is just the thing to get me through a day of cleaning toilets and taking out trashes :P

There are of course the more mundane "What conversation will I have with my coworker if this hypothetical situation comes up?" stories, too. Stories is stories, though, and my brain is full of them...

[garillama.livejournal.com]

(note: Doctor Who Is Actually An Alien Or Something isn't of course the Doctor, more along the vein of something green and slimy what is wearing a physician suit.)