[ SECRET POST #2195 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2195 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Comments

[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/T7862.jpg

[brooms]

"i hate excitement"

i was excited once.

it was horrible.

[(Anonymous)]

lmao this

[greenvelvetcake]

[(Anonymous)]

OT, but wow, your icon is really annoying and because it's on the first comment, it's giving me a headache every time I scroll past.

What is it with this sudden spate of icons that are gifs on a super-short jerky loop that exploded all over lj/dw last spring? They are so damn irritating and ugly and have no positive traits I can think of.

[(Anonymous)]

...You do realize that 'excitement' can have more meanings than 'I'm excited!'/emotional, right?

[golden_d.livejournal.com]

Anon, are you me? <3

[(Anonymous)]

You're much more selfless than I am, OP. I don't think I'd be willing to sacrifice my life to temporarily cheer up someone I've never met before.

[(Anonymous)]

Willing martyr syndrom.

You might want to keep that in check.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, complete inability to comprehend the concept of getting personal enjoyment out of someone else's happiness.

Possible sociopathy, narcissism.

You might want to keep that in check.

[velvet_mace]

Yeah, I think the Doctor could do better than a companion who is only journeying with him out of pity. And, honestly, the way the Doctor's been moping about the last 6 years, I think that pity company is the last thing he needs. More like an Ace level kick in the pants.

[(Anonymous)]

*re-reads secret*

I don't see where "pity" is mentioned in this secret.

It's rather strange how some people just can't understand the idea that some people can actually enjoy making another person happy. Like, they get as much enjoyment out of making someone happy as another person would get out of seeing the universe. It is possible. Perhaps you've never experienced it, and don't know how satisfying it can be?

[sparklywalls]

Huh. All my years watching Doctor Who and I never really considered being a companion from this angle. Mostly cos the show rarely shows us The Doctor alone for extended periods so we don't tend to see how much that affects him. Like, in the Ten episodes all the lonely god stuff felt a bit silly occasionally considering he was rarely physically alone. Then again, you can feel alone without actually being alone (even without the last of your kind stuff!) Also even the most reluctant companions end up loving it so I guess we've never (in TV continuity) had someone doing what you describe.

[(Anonymous)]

....Martha Jones says hello.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, I thought I was the only one who felt like this! (I know, I know, there always is someone who shares your opinion somewhere in the Internet but...)

[intrigueing]

lol, I kinda sympathize about the traveling revulsion. I would make a terrible companion - when things were getting hairy in several episodes, I've caught myself wondering what the Doctor would think if I just kinda hung around in the TARDIS and waited for him to come back after saving the world to tell me all about it. Listening to the stories he could tell me are a much bigger draw for me than the traveling.

On another note, while I'm snickering at the bizarrely specific "martyr" commenters above who are claiming to have somehow magically deduced your precise attitudes, beliefs, and state of mind, they do kinda have one valid point: the Doctor has said that he has difficulties with seeing the beauty of the universe after 900 years and it's his companions' wonder and amazement that helps him see it again. So if you're all "eh, whatever" about the stuff you do, it'd probably just bum him out.

Unless you mean it in the same way the Doctor does, that even though you dislike traveling and stuff, the fact that he enjoys it will make you enjoy it?

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP

I agree - I'd also probably way more interested in the stories he could tell, or seeing if he'd be willing to go on a visit to different time periods more than anything else [and not to save the world - just to go check those time periods.]

That said, I'm personally facepalming at the people who seem to think excitement = only an emotional concept and ignoring that you can use it to describe events as well.

[lunabee34]

Ahahahahaahahahahaaa. This secret reminds me of my fantasies of being somehow transported to one of my favorite fictional worlds (let's say Star Trek) and realizing I'd pretty much not be qualied for anything but like janitorial work and leading a Victorian literature book club. LOL

And I'd be ship bound because who wants her molecules dissembled and possibly reassembled all out of order in the transporter? I'd be passing on all the thrilling heroics of the 'verse, that's for sure.

[(Anonymous)]

Then why did you use a picture of Eleven because that dude is far from kind.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL. Every Doctor has moments of being both spectacularly kind and massively dickish, depending on the situation. Even Six has his moments of niceness. And Eleven...probably averages out to somewhere in the middle of the spread, although he was probably the 2nd or 3rd kindest of them all back in season 5. (Five's always been the kindest, I think. But I haven't read the books or heard the audios so I'm not sure if Eight beats him out -- anyone familiar with the EU willing to give me more on him?)

[(Anonymous)]

Eleven's one of the kindest incarnations of the Doctor in terms of the number and size of his acts of kindness. I mean, if you tallied up all the little unnecessary sweet moments and things he's done for people and measured the effects of those moments...

'Course, he's a jerk, occasionally a massive jerk, a lot too post-season 5, but that doesn't make the kindness part of him disappear. It just makes him less of a uniformly nice guy. Which kinda describes pretty much every version of the Doctor, come to think of it.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a nice sentiment, OP, but I'm pretty sure most of the enjoyment for him is from seeing his companions' awe and excitement at the stuff he shows them, so you unfortunately probably wouldn't help him much. Maybe if you directed him to a person who does enjoy that kind of thing, you'd be helping him more.

i'm having Tegan and Turlough flashbacks

[(Anonymous)]

Turlough you wonderfully ginger prat

"I HATE SPACE TRAVEL"

"I HATE DANGER"

"HUMANS ARE GROCE"

"DAMMIT DOCTOR TAKE ME HOME NOW THIS SPACE SHIPS IS USELESS"

[(Anonymous)]

Am I the only one who finds OP's description of him/herself very boring? Doesn't like excitement, traveling, seeing new things... might as well just have no life at all

[(Anonymous)]

People have different thresholds for boredom. What some people might find the bare minimum to make life interesting, other people might find intolerably overstimulating.