At least these are good problems to have?

[tenlittlebullets]

Move into apartment went surprisingly well--minimum fuckery from U-Haul (besides sending me to the wrong address to pick up my truck, wtf?), only one or two hardware SNAFUs when getting the furniture set up, managed to get almost everything put away before I went to bed last night. The biggest problem is that I have more books than shelf space and more bookshelves than room space. Whoooops.

You guys. You guys. Wedding of River Song might just be the most satisfying finale in all of New Who so far--no out-of-left-field utter crack, no "WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU EVEN DO THAT" Tinkerbell Jesus moments, nothing that gives me the urge to bang the showrunner's head repeatedly on his own keyboard because at least that would produce a better ending. I should not want to write fix-it fic where the version that was in my head is what actually happened. Please, talk me out of writing fix-it fic. It would not even be fix-it fic, more like "I liked my plot better than yours" fic. And that's just obnoxious.

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[evewithanapple.livejournal.com]

Knowing your writing, and knowing Steven Moffat's . . . it is absolutely necessary. PLEASE DO IT.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

But I don't even have a problem with Moffat's writing for this finale! (Well... okay, the whole thing is based on a gaping plot hole that relies on causality going bonkers, but I'm not sure that's even fixable.) I shouldn't be this desperate to fix something that isn't broken.

[ariastar.livejournal.com]

Yay for moving with a minimum of mishaps!

...I'm sorry, I'm not actually going to talk you out of not-really-fix-it fic. (Also I would argue that both Parting of the Ways and Big Bang were technically better, but this one was pretty great, considering.) But I am all for fic with the plot you had instead! There's nothing wrong with attempting to write it, and it's not very obnoxious to go "So I had this other idea! HERE IT IS." That's basically what all fic is anyway.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

The s1 finale was pretty great, minus the weird reality TV thing, but Pandorica Opens/Big Bang is one of those things that makes less sense the more I think about it. The place it eventually went was fantastic, but it got there via a succession of plot twists held together by handwaving, rubber bands, chewing gum, and Moffat relying on us being too mindfucked to think very hard about the wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey. Whereas in this one you only have one thing swept under the rug, namely why the fuck did Kovarian come up with such an elaborate plot to kill the Doctor, and if you ignore that or assume fucked-up causality is a natural consequence of time-travelling warfare, the rest of it is absolutely solid.

*flaily hands* I would just feel bad writing a fix-it for something I don't think is broken!

[srevans.livejournal.com]

I like that your idea of "less sense" involves "but when I wonder about reasons for things, there are more plot holes!" instead of my absolute fucking RAGE at this season having no coherent themes or messages and the finale necessarily making me angrier about that since it axiomatically can't tie anything up. :D I am willing to handwave anything Moffat wants me to for Big Bang since it knew what the story it was telling meant.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

See, s5 made almost zero thematic impression on me, whereas s6 is a story I've been desperate to see told ever since... uh... the first few episodes of s4? The story where the Doctor gets way too big for his britches and finally gets taken down a peg or sixty and accepts that this is pretty much necessary. Everything Moffat's been feeding us since Silence in the Library--time can be rewritten, the Doctor as a mythical demigod who can win battles just by namedropping himself--he's been building up so he can go "actually, this is a terrible idea and just because you can doesn't mean you should" and kill off the side of the Doctor who's capable of that. And as much as it frustrates me that Moffat is not great about showing his work, for s6 I am willing to do the necessary handwaving, because it works as meta commentary: rewrite time too much and causality breaks down and everything gets disjointed.

[mmejavert.livejournal.com]

There's nothing wrong with writing your own version of the finale.

IN CONCLUSION YOU SHOULD WRITE IT.

[10littlebullets.livejournal.com]

B-b-but it would have to have plot and shit! I would have to figure out how to write plot!

[mmejavert.livejournal.com]

B-b-but IT WOULD BE SO WORTH IT.