Crossing the Canons

[charamei]

"She's my inspiration! My, my soul music, my all, my A-one, my, my habit, my main line! She's my - she's more than a - is that a painting? [...] It's not very good. She's changed! She's, she's, she's shifted shape, she's become distant! She has these violent episodes..." – (YouTube)

I am supposed to be watching: Gordon Stylus (played by David Tennant) complaining about his wife.

I am actually watching: the Tenth Doctor (inexplicably dressed in Six's ugliest shirt and Two's fur coat) telling Randall and Hopkirk that Rose has been bitten by a werewolf or other assorted zooanthrope/xenoanthrope.


The Scottish accent usually helps, but not so much when I'm going at icon-capping speed. And now I kind of want to write that fic, as an AU version of Drop Dead where Marty dies of aliens rather than a car crash. It raises some interesting questions about Wyvern's* true identity, though...

*Played by Tom Baker.

Comments

[dbskyler]

LOL! I actually saw that episode years before David Tennant came to Doctor Who, and it took me forever to figure out that Gordon Stylus was played by the same actor! He seems so completely different in it to me.

Tom Baker, on the other hand, seems about ready to don a scarf and step into a police box . . . :D

[charamei]

Yeah, I saw this when it first aired (Randall and Hopkirk introduced me to, like, the whole cast of Who five years before the reboot, I swear) and, as I said, it's never been a problem before; I can even dissociate Wyvern and Four with reasonable consistency, despite Tom Baker's attempts to sabotage me. I suspect what set me off this time was (a) the jerkiness of the video with Fraps taking a screenshot every second, coupled with (b) watching the actors very closely for good facial expressions.

Fortunately I snapped out of it when he started kissing a frozen-urine statue of his own head...