(no subject)

[fan_eunice]

Lalala...waiting patiently for a torrent to show up. And by patiently, I mean refreshing every three seconds and calling all you British people nasty names in a jealous fit. Do not question my ability to turn into a two year old throwing a tantrum when I have to wait.

Help distract me f'list/dreamroll! Lets ponder a question I have based on The Eleventh Hour. Going behind the cut for those who still haven't seen it (WHY HAVEN'T YOU, OMG, *POINTS AND FLAILS*)



Right, so one of the things I love best about Eleven and the set up for this season is the way he's been positioned as the Defender of Children. I imagine a wee kid watching at home who is sad or angry or feeling lost and how that must feel to have the Doctor explicitly standing up for them and my heart grows three sizes.

It helps that Matt Smith is weirdly good at being old...no...ancient. Anyway, not my actual point and question...but it is this that...well...I love grown up Amy a lot, a LOT. But, omg I also can totally see the adventures of Eleven and Wee!Amy in spaaaaaaaaaace, and if he'd come back while she was still 7 years old and sitting hopefully on her suitcase I would have done \o/ \o/ a lot.

And then the part where I am a parent kicks in and I think, 'Oh god, tiny child on the TARDIS is NOT RESPONSIBLE' And then I argue with myself about how the Doctor was a parent, after all, and is perfectly capable of taking care of a child. And myself responds about have I seen the kind of trouble he gets into, and really.

So what do you all think? Children as companion? Not adolescents, but actual tiny ones?

Comments

[everysecondtuesday]

I say yes, want! But then I remember what happened to Adric. :(

Though I would like to point out that One kept his grandkid around. Then again, he also had her two kidnapped teachers to help out.

[fan_eunice]

Yeah, do not want a repeat of Adric's fate! On the side of NO!

The Susan argument is one on the side of YES! But then, she's older than what I'm thinking and still landed in a heap of danger often as well. But the impression is that she's been with him for a good long while so maybe she was very wee when they first took off?

[green]

*hides eyes to stay unspoilered*

I haven't watched yet because I'm writing! I can't get obsessed with a new thing while I'm doing other things, or I will drop the other things and be all 'OMG DW' all day and night while the projects and deadlines remain unfulfilled! But I will watch when I can. Yes. Your squee is infectious.

[fan_eunice]

Yaaaay! Writing is good, and Eleven and Amy will be waiting for you to provide much squee when you're ready :D

[fannishnonsense]

I think the Doctor who totally bring a small child along with him. I mean, when you're 1,000 years old 7 and 15 probably look about the same to you. But I definitely don't think it would work on the show, just because all the adults in the audience would be terribly uncomfortable with it (including myself). The kids would probably love it though.

[fan_eunice]

*nodnod*

It would probably be like when I read the early Harry Potter books and, as much fun as they are to read, in the back of my head my Mom voice is going "Somebody is going to get their eye put out here!"

This fades greatly as they get older. Heh.

[fannishnonsense]

Hee. Yeah, somehow 11 year olds risking their lives is more upsetting than 17 year olds doing it...

[violetisblue]

Though I adore Eleven and tiny!Amelia, the TARDIS IMO isn't any place for a really small child. Perhaps she deliberately "went off course" for a while to let Amy grow up.

ETA: On the other hand--remembering that in the short story that became "Blink," the original Sally Sparrow was about eleven years old--a contemporary Earth one-shot like that one with a tiny!Amelia or other such might be lots of fun.

[fan_eunice]

Ooooh, I like that idea...of the Tardis sighing heavily to herself, mumbling "Why do I always have to be the grownup here and think of these things" and gently steering the Tardis to a later time.

I do think the set up was brilliant for the actual kids in the audience. Meeting Amy when she's their age allows them to have a strong identification that makes grown up Amy more like "When I grow up I shall run off and have ADVENTURES IN SPACE"

I'm actually really impressed with the way Moffat balances the family audience.

[violetisblue]

I really did like the last episode's whole theme of "Even if you're not sure of what you did or didn't do in a situation, if you're the leader you should take responsibility for ending it." It seemed like A Good Message For The Young Folk.

[gelasius]

Perhaps she deliberately "went off course" for a while to let Amy grow up.

This is now my head canon, fyi. I'm a sucker for sentient!TARDIS explanations for things. :D

[violetisblue]

There are people who don't think the TARDIS is fully sentient? I pity them, I can't imagine what they're smoking.

[gelasius]

Whatever it is, I don't want it. :P