All my love to long ago - and days to come!

[Image: Two Doc's, one Bear. *Swoon*. Courtesy of Team Tennant and their brilliant site, which covers all of our Whovian interests. Love. And all rights served, blah blah blah. Article including some hotlinks to BBC shots, many thank you's and stuff and don't bother minding my business.]

Not a lot of men can carry off a decorative vegetable.

**On things that may positively kill you - and of pure entertainment, that is. In other words, be not surprised if finding notice in daily paper, saying fangirls died of sweetness overload this weekend. Lying on the carpet, giggling, weeping and acting slightly bizarre. This will of course be a reference to the Children in Need-show, where David Tennant (again, but this time without Billie) did his work for charity, and had no other than Peter Davison come and join him for a good cause. Well, technically, I guess the BBC made that arrangement. For our common pleasure's sake. Peter Moffat had created a short standalone adventure, set sometime in-between the Season 3 Finale and the Christmas Special, featuring two Doctors - the Fifth and the Tenth - in a crossover episode called "Time Crash". Literally about a crash between two worlds - of which it didn't explain anything, except some timey wimey stuff that I can't recollect, but made me laugh heartily at the time. Ironically, I do think it all made sense. I just didn't get the whole sensible-ness - what's a "helmic regulator", anyway? - praobably due to my lack of understanding when it comes to the subject of physics. Which David's Doctor, again, has been a teacher of. 'Nuff said. The whole shebang was a dialogue-sequence, albeit including some TARDIS-effects and fancy lightning, with loads of confusion, confrontation, running about - it even got a bit intimate after a while. Extremely nostalgic, cosy and charming to have such a double-date, once again, and to have two of the youngest, brightest, cutest Doctors ever together on-screen, dicussing their business in such a very Doctor-like manner which only they possibly could; a Doctor discussing with himself in the character of another Doctor, arguing about Daleks and The Master and former companions, nothing beats that. So adorable, so...touching. I was just captivated. Not only good Doctors, but good actors too; with such energy and presence and charisma in front of the camera, viewers are bound to be amazed. Quite simply. (Serious want of more adjectives, superlatives and fitting comments now, but I just can't seem to behold any further. Pity.) I, personally, didn't like the former CiN/DW-collaboration very much, this whole post-regeneration scene with Rose being angry and Ten being wild, which was also one of the reasons I didn't appreciate the thought of having Tennant as the "new Doctor" at the time. This one - on the other hand - this latter, more thoroughly prepated one was far better. But very unexpected. Nothing's better than the Beed managing to take us by surprise, though, as opposed to the usual leaks, pre-time releases and unnecessary public announcements. Let slip, even before the concerned parties themselves are aware of it. In contrast, this was serious, well-handled matters in the hands of capable, well-trained people. Steven Moffat, along with fine director Graeme Harper, surely knows what he's doing. Especially when given difficult and potentially critic tasks, such as dealing with Doctor-lite and Doctor-plus episodes. Fortunately, he tends to succeed. This was a great event for anyone who enjoys the classic as well as the "revamped" version of the series, and obviously: a happy time for anyone who's more than a bit in love with the cricket player and/or the nerd chic. Every fan(girl)'s dream, no wonder. The story's said to have made a certain fanboy (Tennant) very happy too, him being a huge admirer of old style Doctor Who and loving the 5th Doctor's era. The dialogue in the short episode also reflected this, letting Ten state how Five was "his Doctor" - and pointed out many shared abilities and liknesses between the two members of the rather dynamic duo. Tennant grinning like a madman, and Davison lifting his hat in honour of his successor. Friendly stuff and sighs. It carried on with a couple of superb dialogue exchanges (some exceptionally fantastic excerpts added throughout, in green) and typical, almost cliché debates on similarly typical Who-topics. Like - how did I know? Because I've been you, and I remember being you, and you'll know, cos you'll be me, and I remember that I remember to know! There's no place like the Whoniverse! The conclusion must be, how the only thing better than Doctor Who is Two Times Doctor Who, in one evening, with spanking new music by Murray Gold and a kind-hearted purpose to back it up. Giving new meaning to the term "two of a kind", and all. Fab opening, ending, costumes, continuity, story arc, behaviour and dealing with memorablia. Ergo: fab mentionings of old days (Nyssa and Tegan), old foes (Master with a wife, but no rubbish beard; hahaha!), and credibility (where he got that "voice thing" from; we'd always wondered). And consequently: fab prospects for a glittering future! ("I'm you with a new face!") Thank goodness, there's no-one out there who can fly the TARDIS like this man - cos we don't want for there to be one, either. I'll use Five's own words to finally round this whole kinda-review-or-musing off: it truly was "pretty sort of marvellous"!

- What do you mean, a fan? I'm not just a fan, I'm you!
- Okay, you're my biggest fan.

**Moreover, Mr. Ten has recently had the privilege of being named Scotland's most eligible man in a poll carried out by newspaper Scotland On Sunday. A matter already stated, and determined as indisputably true by most fangirls; and about which girls in general tend to agree. Yet it's always a pleasure to see familiar faces top ratings, barometers and funny polls. The paper lists him at an impressive No.1, in a list of 100, declaring: "The 6ft 1in (important, why?) star is gorgeous, yet modest - describing himself as 'the least sexy man on the planet' (which is something of an understatement, David) - and refreshingly down to earth for one so famous (indeed!)." The world loves Tøffe-Tennant, and according to the man himself - as distinctly shown onstage, during the NTA ceremony - he happens to love us to. Not all circles have to be evil, as long as they're satisfactorily completed by having Rose return for the third chapter of 2009's three independent episodes. Fingers crossed, toes lifted, let's hope. Apparently, the newly released soundtrack from Series 3 and 4 bears some suggestion - through the lyrics of Murray Gold's new Christmas carol, "The Stowaway" - that this might just come to be the case. Unless the "lost girl" whom the male protagonist (The Doctor, obviously) is searching for, is someone completely different; like Martha or Joan or whoever; but still - we believe in the power of Murray the Merry, as do we believe in the power of Love, fangirling, communities, shipping and the flexible frameworks of Time and Space, and we will never stop believing that Rose eventually will come back, reunite with The Doc, and they'll live happily ever after and have lots of time travelling babies. (Ok, I really didn't need that last line, but I couldn't resist.) That's the vision. That's the happy possibility. Realistic, who knows, but still: Whatever were the joy of being imaginative a soul, if there were little whereabout one could imagine?

Ooo, there it goes, the frowny face! I remember that one! ;)