Doctor Who fic: The Boy Who Waited (4/49)

Title: The Boy Who Waited (4/49)
Rating: PG
Characters: Rory, with appearances from Barbara
Timeline: set between "The Pandorica Opens" and "The Big Bang"
Summary: London, 1996. Barbara Wright prepares the Pandorica for exhibit at the National Museum. As the work unfolds, she recounts the lengthy history of the stone box and its loyal protector, the Lone Centurion.
Disclaimer: Doctor Who belongs to the BBC. Everything else is me taking liberties with history.
A/N: A huge thank you to my beta punch_kicker15. This story would still be sitting on my hard drive if it weren't for you.

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( What if the barbarians wanted to destroy the Pandorica? The Roman soldiers had smashed the petrified remains of the alien alliance at Stonehenge out of fear. Rory shuddered, his mind conjuring an image of the stone box smashed to pieces, Amy's lifeless body amongst the rubble. )

CCEE 2013: Day Two or NATHAN FILLION!!!

I think my day can be summed up in one picture:


And he said he loved my costume!! Actually, he said it twice. I was first in line to get his autograph (whoo!) and he commented on my costume then, too.

Sigh. He's so handsome. And polite. Can't wait for his panel tomorrow. :-)

"Don't get into a spaceship with a mad man. Didn't anyone ever teach you that?"

I apologize now if this post is incoherent. I am super pooped from the comic book expo. Probably why the episode didn't make much sense to me.

Going off the bits that did make sense to me... Inside of the TARDIS! More than just corridors for once! I wonder if the script had references to many, many rooms but they were cut for time? I would have loved it if Clara kept opening doors and she kept finding weird things. The observatory is new. Pool we've heard about before; looks gigantic. And finally the library! Naturally, it's huge, too. But I don't get why the Doctor would just leave a book about the Time War, with his real name in it no less, just lying about. It's labelled so helpfully, too, so there's no way Rose or Martha or Donna could have missed it. That seemed a little odd to me. Not that Clara finding out the Doctor's name mattered much, since they just reset the whole damn episode. I hate it when shows do that. Whoo, the characters go on a big, huge, meaningful adventure and then they forget all about the character development they went through. So the Doctor finally rants at Clara about her other selves, but since neither of them will remember the conversation, it's all pointless. Oh sure, there might be echoes, but we can't guarantee that.


Now, can someone else explain the rest of the plot to me? So the TARDIS gets salvaged. Check. Got that. And it only happens because the Doctor lowered the shields. Fine. But there was something about a fuel leak? And a fracture in time? And the weird time zombies, who sound like the vampires off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, are actually Clara and the salvage team brothers? And how did the Doctor end up outside of the TARDIS when it got salvaged? And how did the Doctor make the big friendly button? And if the interior of the TARDIS was toxic, how come Clara was able to walk around all fine and dandy? I think I need to watch this episode again when I've had more sleep and with subtitles.


Random: So there's a sort of junk room where the TARDIS keeps random stuff from past Companions? That was my interpretation of the room. Or maybe it was just a random junk room. I wish they had put in more recognizable props from the past. I know it's hard to track down stuff, but a few things more would have been nice. But I guess the Doctor picked up his cot from Demons Run? Or maybe Amy and Rory took it home with them and the Doctor picked it up from their place? And the room that looked like an electric tree (forgive me I can't remember what they called it; so tired). I guess that's how the TARDIS can rebuilt herself after the Doctor keeps jettisoning rooms? I was kind of hoping the time zombies were, I dunno, aliens the Doctor kept or something. And I guess the TARDIS doesn't hate Clara that much. She led Clara to a safe echo of the console room. Ooh, past console rooms. That would have been fun to see.

Next week: Vastra, Jenny, and Strax are back! And it's Emma Peel, I mean Diana Rigg! She's kind of like a distant cousin to the show since Sydney Newman created The Avengers, too.