I think they did the job of doing [Adric] like a real teenager a bit too well
This! Hah. I have several very dear younger brothers who have recently been teenagers, and...yes. Heh.
I did see Castrovalva! I really loved all the stuff with Tegan and Nyssa cooperating to schlep Five around in his Zero Cabinet. That was hilarious on one level, and pretty great to see them working together on the other hand. But of course there could always be more development. In the one I'm on now, Tegan thinks she's going back to Heathrow (does she ever make it back???) and gives Nyssa a huge hug, which was pretty sweet.
(I also love how Nyssa is this pretty fluffy gentle princess...but also bloody brilliant in a science way. None of this "you can only be pretty OR smart!" going on. That was nice for once.)
I ship Three with everyone, possibly because I'd climb the man like a tree myself, but I often feel like Doctor/companion het is a bit like reading other people's personal feelings about the Doctor, which seems a bit vicariously embarrassing. Or maybe it's just that I have to care about both the Doctor and the companion to want to ship them? (Like, Nine/Rose or Nine/Rose/Jack worked for me, but because I wasn't into Ten as much, Ten/Rose didn't really. This may be why I ship a lot of cross-era stuff like Eight/Sarah Jane or whatever.) (Male companions is a different thing but there are so few of them anyway.)
Also, with companions, even if I adore them I can never truly believe that they are the Doctor's one true eternal love...it just doesn't work that way. If the Doctor has one true forever love, it's the TARDIS or maaaybe the Master. Everyone else...is sharing him. That's just how it works when you love a Time Lord. So even though I believe he'll always remember and love them, I can never get into "River/Clara/Rose is his soulmate 4eva!" I think Classic Who ships are less likely to do this (maybe Sarah Jane gets a bit of it?).
But yes, Five is more approachable or something than some of the others. Seems younger and a little more human, maybe? In some ways like the new Doctors, in some ways not.
Master/companion has the fun little frisson that you just know the Doctor would go completely spare. :D (Unless it's someone like River, where he'd want to join in.) So you get the push and pull of that aspect, whether it's darkfic/noncon or just the Master coming on all polite and seductive and trying to lure the companion away that way or whatever.
But that's the joy of this fandom, really, there are so many options! :D
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This! Hah. I have several very dear younger brothers who have recently been teenagers, and...yes. Heh.
I did see Castrovalva! I really loved all the stuff with Tegan and Nyssa cooperating to schlep Five around in his Zero Cabinet. That was hilarious on one level, and pretty great to see them working together on the other hand. But of course there could always be more development. In the one I'm on now, Tegan thinks she's going back to Heathrow (does she ever make it back???) and gives Nyssa a huge hug, which was pretty sweet.
(I also love how Nyssa is this pretty fluffy gentle princess...but also bloody brilliant in a science way. None of this "you can only be pretty OR smart!" going on. That was nice for once.)
I ship Three with everyone, possibly because I'd climb the man like a tree myself, but I often feel like Doctor/companion het is a bit like reading other people's personal feelings about the Doctor, which seems a bit vicariously embarrassing. Or maybe it's just that I have to care about both the Doctor and the companion to want to ship them? (Like, Nine/Rose or Nine/Rose/Jack worked for me, but because I wasn't into Ten as much, Ten/Rose didn't really. This may be why I ship a lot of cross-era stuff like Eight/Sarah Jane or whatever.) (Male companions is a different thing but there are so few of them anyway.)
Also, with companions, even if I adore them I can never truly believe that they are the Doctor's one true eternal love...it just doesn't work that way. If the Doctor has one true forever love, it's the TARDIS or maaaybe the Master. Everyone else...is sharing him. That's just how it works when you love a Time Lord. So even though I believe he'll always remember and love them, I can never get into "River/Clara/Rose is his soulmate 4eva!" I think Classic Who ships are less likely to do this (maybe Sarah Jane gets a bit of it?).
But yes, Five is more approachable or something than some of the others. Seems younger and a little more human, maybe? In some ways like the new Doctors, in some ways not.
Master/companion has the fun little frisson that you just know the Doctor would go completely spare. :D (Unless it's someone like River, where he'd want to join in.) So you get the push and pull of that aspect, whether it's darkfic/noncon or just the Master coming on all polite and seductive and trying to lure the companion away that way or whatever.
But that's the joy of this fandom, really, there are so many options! :D