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So maybe I should get them out of my head, and into discussion -- here goes:
We've all seen that question: "If the Doctor gave you the chance to travel with him, would you go?"
So, here's the question/scenerio that's been going 'round in my head, from the Other Side of the Companion Equation:
Once upon a time, the Doctor did come by, and ask you to travel with him. And you said "Yes." It's now a couple of years later. You've come to realize that the Doctor really is alien, and only seems human from a distance. You've traveled all over the universe, but you've not been back to Earth -- or met another human, past or future (Face it, it's a big Space-Time Continuum out there, and even if humans do eventually colonize other planets, the chances of bumping into one make finding a needle in a haystack seem easy).
You're asleep in your quarters, when the Doctor wakes you, and tells you that he finaly got the TARDIS back to Earth, at roughly the same time you left. He says you can go home if you want, but you only have an hour before the TARDIS leaves the Vortex. Now's your chance. But it's likely to be your last chance -- you could well die of old age before he can steer the TARDIS back this way again...
Do you decide to go back home? And if you do, what would you say in a goodbye letter to the Doctor?
[Edit: Okay, now that a few others have responded, I'll answer my own question. Yes, I would decide to go home -- in a flash. I'm too much of an Earthling to wander through the Vast Reaches forever; I'd need to smell the scent of fresh cut grass again, to wake up to the sound of a mockingbird's songg, and taste the earthiness of my food. And yes, I'd need the company of other human beings.
Unfortunately, my goodbye letter will likely have to include notes of appology as well as affection: appologies for the times I got upset when the "real" Doctor didn't live up to the "fictional" Doctor I thought he should have been, and for all the times I got whiny when feeling stressed. I'd also offer my deepest thanks for the things he had taught me, and promise to do my best using what I had learned once I got back home. ... I'd also close the note with my email addy. ;-)]
So maybe I should get them out of my head, and into discussion -- here goes:
We've all seen that question: "If the Doctor gave you the chance to travel with him, would you go?"
So, here's the question/scenerio that's been going 'round in my head, from the Other Side of the Companion Equation:
Once upon a time, the Doctor did come by, and ask you to travel with him. And you said "Yes." It's now a couple of years later. You've come to realize that the Doctor really is alien, and only seems human from a distance. You've traveled all over the universe, but you've not been back to Earth -- or met another human, past or future (Face it, it's a big Space-Time Continuum out there, and even if humans do eventually colonize other planets, the chances of bumping into one make finding a needle in a haystack seem easy).
You're asleep in your quarters, when the Doctor wakes you, and tells you that he finaly got the TARDIS back to Earth, at roughly the same time you left. He says you can go home if you want, but you only have an hour before the TARDIS leaves the Vortex. Now's your chance. But it's likely to be your last chance -- you could well die of old age before he can steer the TARDIS back this way again...
Do you decide to go back home? And if you do, what would you say in a goodbye letter to the Doctor?
[Edit: Okay, now that a few others have responded, I'll answer my own question. Yes, I would decide to go home -- in a flash. I'm too much of an Earthling to wander through the Vast Reaches forever; I'd need to smell the scent of fresh cut grass again, to wake up to the sound of a mockingbird's songg, and taste the earthiness of my food. And yes, I'd need the company of other human beings.
Unfortunately, my goodbye letter will likely have to include notes of appology as well as affection: appologies for the times I got upset when the "real" Doctor didn't live up to the "fictional" Doctor I thought he should have been, and for all the times I got whiny when feeling stressed. I'd also offer my deepest thanks for the things he had taught me, and promise to do my best using what I had learned once I got back home. ... I'd also close the note with my email addy. ;-)]
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Date: 2005-05-17 08:40 am (UTC)Nah, I think I'd rather keep on truckin' -- I'm told my ultimate destiny lies far from home anyway...;-{)}
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Date: 2005-05-17 11:51 am (UTC)Ooooh! Hard question!
I suppose it depends on whether I've had a good run. How often did I have my mind probed or my molecules scrambled? Have I seen a lot of senseless death and destruction (I suppose that goes without saying -- this *is* Doctor Who...)? And what *else* have I seen? Have we done lots of good? To use one of my fave phrases from Lawrence Miles, what's the goodwill-to-heartbreak ratio?
If it's high enough, I'd keep on traveling. Otherwise, I'd thank the Doctor for all the good times, try not to think too much about the bad ones, and return to my little life (if I could manage that without going insane).
And I'd
orderask him nicely to stop by again sometime if he possibly could.no subject
Date: 2005-05-18 12:17 am (UTC)I would tell him that all things run their course. And that it's time to move on for me, for him. And that I'd always keep the friendship and the adventures in my heart.
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Date: 2005-05-18 01:07 am (UTC)My goodbye letter would be a friendly, thanks-for-everything, look-me-up-anytime sort of thing.
Anyway, I'd like to think I'd have made my way to Gallifrey ans nicked my own TARDIS from the scrapyards by then, so it's a moot point really. :-D