a town called mercy

[timewarrior]

Good episode?

Yes. Good episode. I'm glad the fictional life I lead is subsequently entertaining and emotionally rewarding enough that you plan to continue watching and enjoying it. I'm also glad that it turned out the way it did, as are you.

Violence doesn't end violence, and my morality is my prison... I got some good lines, and some nice themes. Also I got called son, did you hear that? That lovely lady called me son, ha! Twelve hundred years and this is a first in quite a while.

Anyway, let's look forward to the next episode! Amy and Rory keep wanting to take breaks, so of course I've got to come to them and then the danger follows because my entire life is surrounded by coincidence and that's all well and good so long as we're able to put a stop to it. I'm excited! All we've got to do is wait.

Comments

[somanycrystals]

Why did you not just simply eat the head off of the cyborg?

[timewarrior]

Because that sort of combination of flesh and metal is disgusting, and because it's not part of a well-balanced diet.

[somanycrystals]

Well, of course it isn't. It's still necessary. I wouldn't have gotten anywhere if I didn't eat the heads off of those non-reptilian dinosaurs.

[timewarrior]

No! Eating heads is never necessary. You could eat the other parts first and only the other parts and you'd be just fine.

[ofdrumsthesound]

It is your prison. But I suppose if you were like me the universe would've been destroyed ages ago. So that's alright then.

[timewarrior]

I can't escape it no matter how much I try, but then again I suppose that is the point of a prison. And I do try - I've tried many times, but each of those times I end up with disgust and an unyielding sense of wrongness. Sometimes I think it would be so much easier to just let the world have at itself, but no it's too late for that much too late I'm the Doctor and I've already sworn to give my life to making the universe better over and over and over and over and over and over again. If the universe has no Doctor then it will eat itself up, destroy itself in my absence.

I'm a slave to my own sense of right and wrong, Master. You can probably see that more than I, as I'm sure you always have.

[ofdrumsthesound]

As I am a slave to my madness, yes.

You have the comfort of having made things better, at least. I trail destroyed people and worlds behind me, but the drums won't ever let me stop.

*He chuckles ruefully.* Look at us. Two broken boys . . . do you think a hug might make things better for a little while? I'd like a bit of comfort.

[timewarrior]

Of course, old friend.

[The Doctor even gives a bit of a smile before moving bit by bit to embrace the other Time Lord. It's a bit awkward at first, as though he isn't quite sure the Master won't heinously reveal a dagger behind his back and stab him with it, but eventually he relaxes and just holds the other man close. He even moves to hold him closer, as though the Master might fade from existence in his very arms.]

[whosdaughter]

Did the preacher man accept Susan's life choices in the end?

[timewarrior]

[Whoa hello Jenny! Give him a moment to stare before answering your question.]

I imagine he thought me loony, so no, that's most likely a no. It's a sad world out there for poor Susan, in the wild wild west of old America where tolerance and mercy are not the most plentiful. Although she's found herself in a good town if I ever saw one, so maybe one day he'll come to accept Susan for who she really is.

[whosdaughter]

[Hi Dad, sorry, she may have forgotten to mention the not dead thing, you're a hard man to get hold of]

I hope so, she seemed like a lovely horse. And it's a very nice name.

[timewarrior]

Quite.

So... Jenny. [Sorry Jen but this version of your Dad is a bit more awkward than his previous regeneration. You still love him though, don't you?] How are you? Where are you? When are you? Well, to be fair there really isn't much to choose from in the when... How's life? In general. Or death, haha. Sorry, that's not something I should joke about. [But how else can he cope with heartache besides laughing about it?]

[remembermeandrun]

Brilliant episode, really.

Though, shockingly lacking in the presence of a total screaming genius. What a shame.

[timewarrior]

Oi, I was there throughout it!

[A pause.]

But you meant yourself, didn't you? Right. I've got to admit that is a shame. I am curious as to when we'll be seeing you again. I suppose I'll just have to pop right back and get you out of the exploding asylum later on and then we'll have lots of adventures going to places. Wibbly wobbly timey wimey and my bleeding broken heart after Amy and Rory leave. Or maybe I'll meet you somewhere else on your timeline, that wouldn't be too surprising even though you didn't recognize me back then.

[remembermeandrun]

You're not the only one, dear. I'd very much like to see how I'm bought back in, even if it is under a different name. Last name's similar, though, so I imagine there's something of a connection.

Can't say adventures sound bad at all, after being cooped for for however long. You could always go back to the Alaska crash. Wouldn't remember you, but it's still something.

[timewarrior]

I suppose only time will tell. For now, at least we have this.

[whiskywolf]

My mun wants to make Isaac a journal. I'm trying to convince him otherwise.

[timewarrior]

No, don't do that! Why would you do that? Do it, mundane! Do it! Let him live on! Just don't treat him too badly and we'll be a-okay!

[whiskywolf]

The icon and username issue is the only thing that's stopping him, otherwise he would have had a journal set up already.

[slewthetyrant]

Everybody's travels have got to come to an end sometime, Doctor.

...your companions', that is, not yours.

[timewarrior]

Believe me, Martha, no one knows that more than I.

[slewthetyrant]

So what's wrong with wanting to take a break, then?

[embodimentofmercy]

...Doctor?

[Guess who?]

That you?

[timewarrior]

[!]

Isaac! Lovely to see you again. I'm so glad you made it out. How do you like the new username? What about the mundane? I hope he's been treating you well, at least so far.

[embodimentofmercy]

You wanna explain what's going on here?

['cause there's a pause right here.]

My mun says he blames you for all this. I don't quite get it.