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.

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[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...