Procrastinationing!
Jan. 30th, 2012 05:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kasihyaThis has nothing to do with anything, but as I was drifting off to sleep last night I remembered that I’d been secretly hoping that Arthur Durvill would play a dead character in Sherlock … just for lulz. But then I thought, oh, what if Sherlock was hired to investigate the mysterious and inconclusive death of one Rory Pond. And they get to talk to his uncooperative widow, who insists that he isn’t dead, he can’t be dead because he’s died six times already and he always comes back in the end. So they assume that they’re dealing with an abusive husband who disappears to punish his wife. John probably has to take Amy aside to get her end of the story because Sherlock is just going to attack her for not admitting that his conclusions are correct. So she tells him: he got shot by the Silurians who existed before humanity, and then got resurrected in the year 2015; then he turned into a plastic Roman soldier, etc, etc. And last time was the time he got tuberculosis, right? But he hasn’t died in two years or so, and hang on, what did you say your name was?
And since the whole point of this idea is ‘Let’s screw with Sherlock using science and aliens’, River should show up and some point and go, oh mummy dearest, you should probably come see this. To which Sherlock thinks, you’re not her daughter, you’re old enough to be her sister. Even though River is at least … wow, okay, so she was about six when she died in New New York, then presumably she turns into Melody and grows up with her parents, which puts her at 23 or so when she dies in Let’s Kill Hitler, and she’s probably lived for another 100 or so years at least before she dies in Forest of the Dead. I’m assuming since the Doctor visibly aged about 4 years while actually living 200, even though she looks to be in her fifties when she dies, she’s quite a bit older than that. So … River lives to be about 150 years old? Not too bad, I guess. But how old is she now, it’s a year after the Byzantium but that could mean anything in River-time.
So say that she’s about 35 now, she still looks like she ought to be Amy’s older sister, not her daughter. And there’s another mystery right there. I had some sort of idea involving a time loop; in another branch of reality, the Doctor went on an adventure with Amy and Rory, but that adventure ended in some sort of terrible calamity revolving around Amy, and in order to prevent it, Rory had to go back in time and vanish, to prevent his past self from going through the same cycle, thereby averting the calamity. But he’s got to do it before the Doctor shows up for that first trip, so he goes back and leaves before Amy knows that the Doctor is coming. Which is how he managed to vanish off the face of the earth. I don’t know, I haven’t thought this through very well, I’m just enjoying the idea of Amy being confused because Sherlock Holmes is alive in present-day London, trying to figure out why her husband is dead this time, and Sherlock and John being confused because trying to fit the sort of logic that the Doctor runs on into the Science of Deduction just does not work.
And in the end, Rory and the Doctor manage to muck it up even worse than before, so that suddenly River disappears from reality, probably while she’s impressing John with how clever she is, and then the TARDIS shows up out of nowhere and Rory and the Doctor stagger out of it, flailing. Oh man, Amy would be pissed at being left out of that one, especially since it affects her and now apparently her daughter is gone. The Doctor would try to explain to her, and I have a feeling that Rory and John would get along really well, joining forces to keep up with their insane significant others.
EDIT: Oh god also, I have seen this thing on Tumblr where Eleven picks up Molly? Which would be really interesting. And do you know how much I would love for them to go on some world-saving adventures, and of course since Mycroft is the British government, he'll know about this imminent alien invasion, and then it gets averted, and he gets his little brother involved, and so just as Sherlock arrives on the scene to figure out what the hell went down, he sees Molly getting in the TARDIS with the Doctor and just ... vanishing. Off to have more adventures and get to work studying aliens, because I feel like that's what she would do, is want him to take her to alien universities full of transdimensional Eldritch Abominations and study their physiognomy. Except, of course, that as soon as they showed up, there would obviously be Dark Forces in motion at the university, and they have to figure out what's going on and save people.
And you know, I wasn't all that taken with the idea at first, but the more I think about it, the more I think that Mary would be a really awesome companion. I might even want her to go travelling with Ten, because I think that she'd be good for him and his self-centered angst. Especially after Donna Noble, oh my. Oh. MY. I'm flailing now with joy how am I ever supposed to function when my mind is so blown away by possibilities?
So yes, I need to read five pages more of Lazarillo de Tormes and I actively do not want to do this, how can you tell?
And since the whole point of this idea is ‘Let’s screw with Sherlock using science and aliens’, River should show up and some point and go, oh mummy dearest, you should probably come see this. To which Sherlock thinks, you’re not her daughter, you’re old enough to be her sister. Even though River is at least … wow, okay, so she was about six when she died in New New York, then presumably she turns into Melody and grows up with her parents, which puts her at 23 or so when she dies in Let’s Kill Hitler, and she’s probably lived for another 100 or so years at least before she dies in Forest of the Dead. I’m assuming since the Doctor visibly aged about 4 years while actually living 200, even though she looks to be in her fifties when she dies, she’s quite a bit older than that. So … River lives to be about 150 years old? Not too bad, I guess. But how old is she now, it’s a year after the Byzantium but that could mean anything in River-time.
So say that she’s about 35 now, she still looks like she ought to be Amy’s older sister, not her daughter. And there’s another mystery right there. I had some sort of idea involving a time loop; in another branch of reality, the Doctor went on an adventure with Amy and Rory, but that adventure ended in some sort of terrible calamity revolving around Amy, and in order to prevent it, Rory had to go back in time and vanish, to prevent his past self from going through the same cycle, thereby averting the calamity. But he’s got to do it before the Doctor shows up for that first trip, so he goes back and leaves before Amy knows that the Doctor is coming. Which is how he managed to vanish off the face of the earth. I don’t know, I haven’t thought this through very well, I’m just enjoying the idea of Amy being confused because Sherlock Holmes is alive in present-day London, trying to figure out why her husband is dead this time, and Sherlock and John being confused because trying to fit the sort of logic that the Doctor runs on into the Science of Deduction just does not work.
And in the end, Rory and the Doctor manage to muck it up even worse than before, so that suddenly River disappears from reality, probably while she’s impressing John with how clever she is, and then the TARDIS shows up out of nowhere and Rory and the Doctor stagger out of it, flailing. Oh man, Amy would be pissed at being left out of that one, especially since it affects her and now apparently her daughter is gone. The Doctor would try to explain to her, and I have a feeling that Rory and John would get along really well, joining forces to keep up with their insane significant others.
EDIT: Oh god also, I have seen this thing on Tumblr where Eleven picks up Molly? Which would be really interesting. And do you know how much I would love for them to go on some world-saving adventures, and of course since Mycroft is the British government, he'll know about this imminent alien invasion, and then it gets averted, and he gets his little brother involved, and so just as Sherlock arrives on the scene to figure out what the hell went down, he sees Molly getting in the TARDIS with the Doctor and just ... vanishing. Off to have more adventures and get to work studying aliens, because I feel like that's what she would do, is want him to take her to alien universities full of transdimensional Eldritch Abominations and study their physiognomy. Except, of course, that as soon as they showed up, there would obviously be Dark Forces in motion at the university, and they have to figure out what's going on and save people.
And you know, I wasn't all that taken with the idea at first, but the more I think about it, the more I think that Mary would be a really awesome companion. I might even want her to go travelling with Ten, because I think that she'd be good for him and his self-centered angst. Especially after Donna Noble, oh my. Oh. MY. I'm flailing now with joy how am I ever supposed to function when my mind is so blown away by possibilities?
So yes, I need to read five pages more of Lazarillo de Tormes and I actively do not want to do this, how can you tell?
