So that's one 'yes, but I still hate her', one 'I can't even be bothered to show up, let alone have an opinion' (but thank you, Agent Desdendelle, for passing that along), one 'do not go to the Reader for counsel, for she will ask lots of questions and never give an actual answer', and three 'we're too busy playing Circular Gallifreyan Scrabble in the corner'.

The Fisherman: It's actually a really interesting game.

I just bet. With voting an unqualified failure, I'm just going to make a decision and you can all live with it: yes. Yes, Aviator, you can join the Continuity Council of Gallifrey-in-Exile, as the poor soul responsible for watching fandom warp our homeworld further and further out of shape. You can come to meetings and watch Yellow and Grey hash out the Time War for the nine-millionth time. You can wear the daftest collar this side of Elizabethan England, in the sound knowledge that the rest of the Council feel just as ridiculous.

So there we go. Let's have a resounding triple-word-score on 'meh, who cares?' for our new Moonstone Browser, or Sentry, or Sentinel, or whatever you want to call yourself. Yay.

I need a drink.

(M)

((Circular Gallifreyan Scrabble sounds pretty awesome, actually. I'm going to end up making it before this day is out... ~hS))

While a fanfiction trends monitor does seem to fit well with the extant Council positions--are you sure you want to do this? It's an extra responsibility, it's driven just about all of us to drink--to the point that we've installed a mini-bar--and we aren't all, shall we say, people people. Moreover, this is a good deal closer to politics than it is to piloting, and, to my knowledge, your main interest has always been in the latter. So, although I commend your initiative and respect your qualifications, I have to ask (a) if you're absolutely sure about adding this commitment, and (b) what your motivations are, as this is certainly not the only way you can make a different--assignment to the Doctor Who division of the DMS would likely accomplish it as well.

Also, a warning: this job is full of paperwork. Full of it. You may wish to take that into account.

-R

I sure hope you know what you're doing, Arin. Personally, I would advise against joining because, well, they don't do much. Surely there are better ways to spend your time, eh?

-E

The Jade Warden... no, he's looking out for the Laws of Time. The Onyx Monitor? No, she's looking for fictional Time Lords specifically. The Citrine... no, that's only for canon plotholes.

Apparently we don't. ... nor do we have a procedure for admitting new members. I suppose I could argue that it's under my remit as a security issue, but... I'd rather just put it to the vote. Let the Continuity Council offer their opinions. (Notary, please give your view, not a deliberately-contrary opinion in line with your role)

~Morgan, Tige--

-- wait, blast, colours. We've already got a full rainbow, haven't we? I propose that any new member take on either white or octarine as their colour. The only stone known to come in octarine is the, uh, octarine. White could be quartz, or perhaps moonstone?

If the new member were to take on the Aviator's suggested role, a designation such as Moonstone Reader (though that could get tangled up with the Reader) or Quartz Browser might be appropriate.

~Morgan, Tigereye Castellan, Continuity Council

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Look at these trailers. They promised us Gallifrey. They promised us Time Lords.

Instead we got Clara.

Now, I actually kind-of sort-of liked Clara. I loved her when she was introduced, but as time went on, she became kind of 'meh' for me, just an okay character who was starting to overstay her welcome, so to speak. I raged over her in "Dark Water" and "Death in Heaven", but for the majority of Series 9 she was actually starting to get some halfway decent character development, so she started to grow on me once more. When "Face the Raven" came along, I was genuinely sad and actually cried to see her go, because it felt like the perfect send-off for her, storywise. She'd been becoming more and more like the Doctor as time goes on, and it finally caught up to her. Her death was brutal, and it was heartbreaking, and it was sad.

So of course Moffat had to make the grand finale about his Creator's Pet. *siiigh* And not only that, but he had to recycle Donna's send-off because... why? The Doctor still remembers Clara (in a way), Clara remembers him, and time still hasn't torn itself apart because they remember each other. Why couldn't they have simply said farewell to each other?

And, well, Clara's being horribly irresponsible gallivanting around the universe like she is. Accidents can happen; what if something happens to her before she can return to Gallifrey and be put back to the time of her death? You can kiss the universe good-bye. (Ignore the fact that we see she does, in face, die in FtR, this is merely a hypothetical pointing this out. Plus, as the Doctor likes to say, time can be rewritten.)

The first fifteen minutes or so I adored the first time 'round, and then kind of broke a little bit when I realized the Doctor's actions were all done for Clara. He didn't banish Rassilon and the High Council because of their war crimes; he banished them because they would get in his way of getting Clara back. Ugh. Just... ugh.

Rassilon: Tries to destroy time. Gets banished.
The General: Tries to keep the Doctor from destroying time. Gets shot in the face.

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I disagree with your disagreement, because, well, I don't loathe Clara. I think she had a rough first half-season, with the Impossible Girl arc being badly handled, but after that she turned into a character I think did something new, with her job and such. (I am curious to know why you dislike her so much; I don't think you actually said.)

And then... you say 'she snapped' in Face the Raven, but she's been snapping all season: it's been all about how she's becoming more like the Doctor, but without the Doctor's experience of... being the Doctor. (Come to think of it, her first reaction after Danny Pink died was to a) steal the TARDIS and b) claim to be the Doctor. Woman has issues.) It was always going to lead to Something Bad - the Raven just happened to be the lucky one.

The Doctor didn't have his latest meltdown because he lost Clara - he had it because he lost anyone. He does that. Adric's name was the last thing Five ever said. Five, Nine, and Ten all died because they sacrificed their own lives to save someone else's.

Nor did he break 'every rule he had'. He shot someone, yes, and that did feel shoved in just for the regeneration (seriously, Doc, just hit him again) - but come to think of it, the other three people he's pointed guns at were the Master and Rassilon (The End of Time) and Missy (Death in Heaven); he clearly has less problems with shooting Time Lords than other people. Beyond that... he meddled in time to rescue someone. He broke into somewhere and stole a TARDIS. He tried to wipe someone's memory against their will. And, ultimately, he showed that he was willing to sacrifice his own memory - as in, 'a man is the sum of his memories, a Time Lord even more so' - for his companion.

The Doctor did what he has always done: he broke the rules to save a friend, and was willing to pay the price.

hS

PS: In fairness, the two things I think shouldn't have been in there:

-The Doctor shoots the General. Still not sure why this happened, other than they wanted to change the actor.
-The Doctor claims that taking Clara away from Gallifrey will restart her metabolism. What was wrong with 'you're basically in stasis, so we'll have time to sort you out'? (Also, the Quantum Shade was built up last time as being able to catch her anywhere in time and space, so... how would that help?)

hS