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.

1/2

[somanycrystals]

2/2

[somanycrystals]

Of course! Those lowly mammals won't know what ate them! And I. Doctor Dinosaur, will remain on top!

[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]

Right... Um, you go on doing that natural order thing of yours. I'll just... stay over here, away from you.

[whosdaughter]

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

[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.

[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.

[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]

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?]

[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]

[Pfft, course she does, her Dad's awesome in any shape or form]

Where? Well I'm not one hundred percent sure, the locals keep trying to explain but I can't quite pronounce it and they're getting a bit fed up so I've stopped trying. The when's been pretty linear though, since a certain someone left with their time machine. [Pointed look, yes you Sir]

It's been fun, I um, well, borrowed one of the escape pods and went travelling. And oi, I'm not even a little dead thank you very much.

[timewarrior]

Wait, you... survived? You lived after all? Oh, happy day! What a good day this is! Or that was. Or that will be, in some cases. But oh, Jenny, I'm so happy to hear it!

[Watch out, Jen, your dad's coming to envelop you in a big ol' dad hug.]

That means we might meet again some day, and I really hope we do. Though I have to wonder - [And hug over, well, hug half over he's still holding her but he's leaning back so he can get a better look at her face.] - why do you still look like that? You didn't regenerate, so you came back another way... How? Not that I'm against the whole "power of love" idea, parents and their children really do have a very peculiar and special bond, but it's not like it works like that all the time let alone most of it.

[ofdrumsthesound]

So, what's your latest struggle been?

[remembermeandrun]

Brilliant episode, really.

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

[timewarrior]

[The perfect excuse to snap out of this sad talk! Thanks, Master guy, the Doctor's going to let you go now so he can use his hands when he talks because he does that now.]

Americans! Well, not really, but there were a lot of Americans around. Kahlers and Americans, significantly less Kahlers there were only two but anyway. I got to be a Marshall, and I saved the town by finding a nonviolent solution to a very personal and very deep feud between the two Kahlers, one of whom found refuge in a tiny American western town and I got to wear a Stetson and ride a horse named Susan. All good fun.

[whosdaughter]

Yup, [slightly muffled due to being a bit squashed but she hugs him back] not really sure how.

[She grins up at him] I just woke up. Apparently there was this shiny light stuff and tah dah. Me again. Why would I look different? I like the way I look, I don't want to look different. How come you look different?

[ofdrumsthesound]

*He rolls his eyes.* Let me guess, Stetsons are cool now.

Ah Thete, it's good to see you.

[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]

Stetsons are very cool now. You know I couldn't let you be the only one going about as a Sheriff.

And it's good to see you too, Koschei.