Magic and Monsters of Doctor Who

First, there's a fun multifandom ficathon going on write now.

You should all head over to check out the fascinating prompts and maybe fill some or leave some of your own.

While over there, I accidentally a Bad Wolf Rose ficlet.  (Predictable, I know. I am a one-and-a-half trick pony regarding fanfic.)  It's rather darker than my usual take on the Bad Wolf theme, and also unbeta-ed and written in second person, so enter at your own risk. But hey, I wrote something!

Second, I watched the Doctor Who S9 opener, "The Magician's Apprentice" and actually liked it a good deal.  The opener was marvelously creepy.  While it had a lot going on, it lacked the "throw everything in the pot whether it goes together or not" quality of some of Moffat's episodes.

Peter Capaldi and Michelle Gomez are just so good in their roles.  I can't decide if the failure to explain HOW the Master survived is wonderful or maddening, but I'm mostly on the side of wonderful.  An explanation would just have been meaningless fantasy-technobabble anyway.  I loved the little glimpse of Four in "Genesis of the Daleks."  The "axe" fight and early introduction of the word "dude" amused me.  Of course a lot will depend on the resolution this week.  Moffat's frequent failure to allow lasting consequences could really mess up the themes of accountability and long-term grudges that the first episode set up.