Edgar Van Scyoc Presents: Doctor Who; Chapter 7

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Comments

[scifigirl.livejournal.com]

OMG Your writing is AMAZING! I always love reading your fic. I finally read this I'd had the tab open for a while but I didn't start reading it until the other day and OMG fantastic!

Your fic is always a treat!

[laurab1.livejournal.com]

This is so very, very wonderful :)

[roguewords.livejournal.com]

OMG. YOU JUST KILLED MY AFTERNOON, OH WAIT IT'S TEN PM NOW!!!!!

Adore it, completely, totally. ALL of it.

[elven-wolf.livejournal.com]

Best proposal. EVER.

I love E&E to bits! Great chapter. Love it.

[not-hathor.livejournal.com]

Two words.

Totally BRILLIANT!

[such_heights]

Aieeee. Oh my God.

So, I was sort of sceptical about this - not that it wouldn't be any good, but that it would be all flashy and clever and I wouldn't really get into it. May I never doubt you again. This pretty much managed to say everything about the joys of engaging with fictions, the possibilities of sci-fi, fandom and how invested we are in the creators of our shows, all of those things and that's not even to mention how regularly you made my brain dribble out of my left ear. Sam's Three Things. Ellis and Edgar finding RPS. THE DOCTOR AND ACE WHAT I had to stop reading, clutch my hair and screech comically.

And then, as a finishing touch you practically made me cry at the end, with the team round Ian's hospital bed and then omg proposal and happily ever after.

I don't know how you manage to write things streets ahead of so many other ridiculously talented people in this fandom, but you do, and this is. Wow.

[the_rainbow_jen]

Ok, so.

I'm late in the game to Dr. Who and Torchwood, but when I whined on my flist for good fanfic, you came recommended.

And Holy Crap on a Stick, I see why.

Now, speaking just in terms of the Edgar Van Scyoc stuff (is that an anagram for anything? I keep thinking it must be), you basically broke down DW and TW, mixed it in a bowl, added a dash of OC's, and brought it to dinner as the most awesome main course.

I seriously kept wanting to click on the alterna-links that don't exist.

But even better than that, is the way you did it all without sacrificing one iota of characterization from the series, if slightly inverted. THAT takes genius.'


Have they hired you to write for the show/novelizations yet? Cause they totally should.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it :) It was a lot of fun to write -- as you say, breaking them down and mixing them up in a bowl :D

Van Scyoc is not an anagram, alas -- it's the surname of a guy I know, and I thought it was catchy. I suppose you could claim it was an anagram of "cyan socs"....

[julisana.livejournal.com]

I found your LJ because amberfocus recommended you as an awesome writer in hers.

...I just have no words for how utterly brilliant this whole story (and the torchwood one) are. Seriously.

I almost want to watch this series instead of the real one...is that so wrong?

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it! :)

[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

Yay, this is awesome and very cool and funny.
Hugh Laurie, OMG!
It's really interesting looking at the mythos of the shows with Torchwood first.

Second City Marathon

[myklavelle.livejournal.com]

Wow, just stumbled upon this gold mine of fanfiction and it's been three days of straight reading. My brain hurts. This is, in one word, amazing. I mean, it was au (and a GOOD and IMANGINABLE and NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE! au!), it was a crossover, and it had FICTIONAL RPS. You have made my day/life. Plus, screencaps! Shiny!

I'm gonna stop gushing now.

.,;:Meex:;,.

Re: Second City Marathon

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm so glad you've been enjoying it. I had a LOT of fun with this one, especially since it meant I could toss out all kinds of local knowledge about Chicago :)

[theplushfrog]

I have DIED OF JOY.

AHHHH!<--This is me, dying of joy.


I have no words to describe how bloody flucking awesome this is. Only you, Sam, would re-write entire shows, plus make up an entire.. well... an entire world to go with it.

Did I mention that you're screwing up the labels for my quoting/rec community, because I haven't a clue how to tag any of these quotes. Fictional RPS? Fanfiction of a fanwork of a fictional show? You have destroyed my carefully created tagging system.

And by the way, you are God. Just to let you know.

Closing remarks:
HOUSE?!OMGWTFBBQ?!!!1!!one!1 *flails*
And also, you need a dash of Donna. :D

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Call it meta and have done *grins* Glad you enjoyed it!

Donna would probably end up in S2 of Doctor Who America, but she wouldn't replace Rose and Ross -- their fanbase is WAY too popular :D

[kayleigh-jane.livejournal.com]

Somehow, for some unknown reason, I've never read this before. Sam, it is beyond awesome. Coupled with season zero it really makes you a crazy genius. You really need to print all of this and send it to RTD asking for a job. I can't believe they would say no to this.

What I really loved was the defenition of 'wank' that Ellis gives. And of course Edgar's reaction to it. The casting was awesome in every aspect.

Now off to read season zero and The Theory of Two Centres. This is going to be a Sam!fic day...

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

LOL! If I thought someone at the production company would read it, I totally would send it on :D

The Definition Of Wank may be the origin for it in fandom -- Marowitz wrote it in something like 1965, I think. :)

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

Have I told you recently that I love this series?

I mean, really. Only you :)

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

It makes me happy, this series, in a way I can't quite describe. Glad it does for others too!

[lilychick.livejournal.com]

So I have no idea what specifically made me decide that yes, TODAY would be the day that I decided to finally read this. (I believe I had a reason, but now I've forgotten it -- probably that I just came back from vacation in Chicago. :-D) The important thing is: I've just stayed up the entire night through, having started at SCT and worked all the way here. I could not stop reading. And it was WONDERFUL. I just love it *completely*, and I needed to let you know.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

LOL! Glad you enjoyed it! I had a lot of fun writing it and doing the graphics and everything. How did you like Chicago?

*melts*

[queenfanfiction.livejournal.com]

Oh how I wish this script were real and filmed...

And that Edgar/Ellis were REAL PEOPLE SLASH...

And that gay marriage was legal in Illinois already (especially that!!)!!

My family and I ate at OySy Sushi last month, I LOL'ed when you made that where E&E were outed. (My dad even had the tempura there, ahaha.) And Hugh Laurie as the real Doctor? Barrowman and Tennant switching roles, but Lloyd still got to be with Barrowman? YOU RULE THE EFFING WORLD, SAM.

And I gladly support the take-over. :D

Re: *melts*

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D I love OySy with an unhealthy passion. Did you eat at the one on Grand or the one south of the loop?

[redpearl-cao.livejournal.com]

I think this is one of my fav story in this fandom, this fic and its prequel is certainly what pulled me into this fandom - god knows I have certainly not been looking for a new fandom! I reread this 2 fics several times already and kept wanting to see this show... I think it's actually better written than the actual show... although I do prefer the actual Jack.

p.s I have friended you, hope you don't mind.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it :) I'd love to write for this show....:D

[starletfallen.livejournal.com]

DEAR GOD, MAN, YOU CAN'T BE HUMAN.

SERIOUSLY.

NO HUMAN HAS THIS MUCH UNADULTERATED AWESOME WITHIN THEM.

I'm shipping E/E like burning, sort of like I ship Amanda/Neil (Palmer and Gaiman, if that's unclear), and I'm not an RPS person. I mean, I was shipping them from the very first season of Torchwood shipping them. Glad to see they actually got together. :D YAY!

And David as Jack is just sort of INSPIRED, really, I got the voice a lot better as time went on, and Hayden Pattiwhatsit (I fail at spelling her last name) would be PERFECT as this Rose, and I love how you use Burn as Owen despite the continent shift, and just... *FLAILS*

AN ENTIRE SEASON FOR A CINEMATIC PUN!

Why aren't these real TV shows in THIS universe? T_T

Also, reading through this has made an otherwise crappy day a LOT better.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

LOL! I try to infuse as much awesome as possible. Good to know I'm succeeding!

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

I just read this verse in one sitting. I love it. You know, I never really had a problem with RTD before but now I think I hate him a little for not being either Edgar Van Scyoc or Ellis Graveworthy.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

LOL! Glad you enjoyed :)

[daethnight.livejournal.com]

I don't usually comment and I'm totally a lurker, but I just read this all in one go and it is amazing. Usually when an author does something like this with a fandom it devolves into such utter chaos and self-fulfillment, but this didn't and that just makes it all the better. YOu are brilliant and I wish I actually knew you so I could give you cookies in thanks for the sheer pleasure that this was to read.

Also, Hugh Laurie as the Doctor was fabulous.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed this :)

[nancybrown.livejournal.com]

I don't tend to leave long comments on stories, yours or anyone else's, because on the not-spectacular-but-showing-promise ones, I don't want to get into crit, and on the oh-my-God-I-would-give-up-an-ovary-to-have-written-this ones, there's not much more I can do but flail wildly. Hence, a lot of flailing.

This is beyond flailing. I mean, sure, you invented a mythos, but more than that, you reinvented the Whoniverse and the surrounding meta not only so that it all made coherent sense, but that it made more sense than the original. I'm glad I read it, and I'm going to tie my best friend to a chair and make her read it because of the sheer density of Chicago love in it. But I'm also sitting here crying, in love with these characters and this world and this take on the canon, so sad that this isn't what happened, this isn't what played out.

(I'm having a similar reaction with Eleven and the advent of The Moff. I'm so glad to have this, but part of me feels like Molly Grue yelling at the unicorn, "Where have you been?")

I mean, all of it. The ephemera. The fanfic. The screengrabs. The characters who are the characters we love and are also completely themselves as played by the awesome casting choices. And Edgar and Ellis tying it all together and tying themselves together, and it's all just so perfect. I squeed. I LOLed. ("What have I told you about time travel?" "Do as I say and not as I do?") I cried when Ian went into the Rift, and again when Edgar proposed, and it was all just so damn good.

Anyway. Long ramble is long. Shutting up now.

[sam-storyteller.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you for the long comment! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I think folks who know and love Chicago do get a bit extra out of it, really; at least, that's what I was going for. I did love writing it, I had such a good time doing the graphics and making up a story for Edgar and Ellis and everyone. I love the idea of John Barrowman playing the Doctor, and I don't even know why...

Anyway. I'm pretty enthused about the new Who season too, I'm liking where it's going, and I hope they keep it up. :)