I Could Be Shaking My Head Right Now.

[rionaleonhart]

I have been rewatching second-season episodes of House! And I've never really read much House fanfiction, but there are a couple of fics that I think I would pounce on and devour like a starving wolf (that, er, eats fanfiction) if anyone were to write them:


- In 'Skin Deep', when the patient has anterograde amnesia, I firmly believe that the scene should have gone like this:

Alex: Huh. I got the cute doctor.
Chase: (smiles and moves away)
Alex: Are you mad at me, daddy? I let you down. (et cetera, et cetera...)
Chase: (comes back into view)
Alex: Huh. I got the cute doctor.
Chase: (frowns)
Alex: Are you mad at me, daddy? I let you down.
Alex's Dad: What's going on?
Chase: We're caught in a time loop!

(reipan suggests 'We must be near a white hole!', which also works and has the added bonus of being a Red Dwarf reference.)

Seriously*, every show ostensibly set in the 'real world' would be improved by having at least one episode in which something completely science-fictiony happens with no explanation. But the writers missed a perfect opportunity here, so we must resort to fanfiction.


- In 'Clueless', at the end, when the woman is being escorted from the hospital, Cameron and Cuddy walk up together and watch. As the doors swing closed, they give each other such a buddy-cop look.

CAMERON AND CUDDY AS BUDDY COPS.

YOU CANNOT TELL ME THAT WOULDN'T BE AMAZING. I WOULD READ THAT FIC. I WOULD READ IT A MILLION TIMES.


* I am not actually being that serious. But it would be a lot of fun.

Please don't mention anything about House episodes following the second episode of season five in the comments!

Comments

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Agreed with you on your first prompt. The nearest we get to SF in House is 3x02 "Cane and Able", but even that (no spoilers) has a prosaic, if mind-bending, ending.

[rionaleonhart]

Was that the one with the aliens? You see, had it turned out that there actually had been aliens, that would... well, it would have been completely ridiculous. But also great.

I really want to see how the Princeton-Plainsboro crew would handle a time loop. Or, rather, how a particular character would handle it, because time loops are more fun when only one character is actually aware of it. Chase would probably be the most entertaining.

Also, hello! I don't believe we've met.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Oops, here via friendsfriends.

Yes, that would be wacky and brilliant. Or, if one of the staff turned out to be an alien, and one of the B-plots was someone trying to find this out and someone else trying to stonewall the investigation...

[rionaleonhart]

I bet Wilson's the alien. There's something not entirely human about those eyebrows. House originally suggests it as a joke and is delighted when he turns out to be right.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

...you know?

That could work. Other than the obvious artefacts of his life (the McGill sweater and the certificates in his office, for instance), some of which could be planted, we really don't know that much about Wilson's backstory.

[rionaleonhart]

Maybe Wilson is the Doctor.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

LOL

may I friend?

[rionaleonhart]

You're very welcome to friend! My journal is open to everyone, particularly if they're willing to speculate on the possibility of James Wilson being an alien.

[vzg.livejournal.com]

It might also explain number thirty-nine (http://mundo-fine.livejournal.com/37704.html).

[vzg.livejournal.com]

By which I clearly mean number forty.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

We're caught in a time loop!

I once had a completely horrifying nightmare where I couldn't tell if I had brain damage and memories weren't registering, or I'd come unstuck in time and wasn't living events in order anymore. I kept trying to convince myself of the time loop possibility, because it seemed more fixable (weird, I know), but part of me kept going "Great, now you're brain damaged and delusional." Hugely relieved when I woke up and both time and my memories were in working order.

But I think something like that, where there was some unspecified accident in the past, and it wasn't clear if it was time gone wrong or the main character's brain right up until the end would be a cool story.

(Also, this is why I'm not trying for another amnesia fic for TGS for the time being. When I tried to come up with one that had no other crack elements, I gave myself nightmares.)

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

My memories are a blur. Seriously, I have two clear memories that took place before I was ten years old. Everything else is vague and unclear. Sometimes I wonder if I might have been a pocket-watched Time Lord (or Lady) and something went wrong, so the memories weren't implanted properly.

It would explain the ability to understand the concepts of time travel to a scary degree, the odd immune system, and the way my nature contradicts itself.

Also, there are two pocketwatches on my dad's dresser that don't work and that we've never paid any attention to. I don't even remember where we got them.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

Um, there was going to be a relevant point to that, but I lost it.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

That's weird. I've got consistent memories back since I was four. Before that, it's just bits.

I suspect you were pocketwatched. Be careful about opening them, though. Wouldn't want you to be the Master.

My dreams don't tend to be in linear time as often as I want, but aside from that, I have fairly normal relations to time. I'm trying to get myself in the habit of remembering that whenever I start to yo-yo randomly through time, I'm asleep, but it doesn't seem to be working.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

...

I can't actually get them to open.

But the thing is, there are two of them. Who does the other one belong to?

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Is anyone else in your family a Time Lord? Possibly? Or have you been pocketwatched twice? Because you could open one and get one set of memories and personality traits, and open the other and be someone entirely different.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

Two sets of memories?

...

I guess. That could be what went wrong.

I know it's not my mum. She's too gung ho on the idea of being an alien. I suppose it could be my dad, but I doubt it. There's also the chance that it's my brother, but I hope not.

Or one of them could be an actual pocket watch.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

An actual pocket watch? That's crazy talk.

See, in my family it's simple. My mother's a Martian, and my dad's a Neanderthal throwback. My brothers end up averaging out as human, and I'm....no comment. And we've only got one pocket watch, which I opened years ago.

It could be two sets. I suspect it is.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

Well, I still can't get them open.

I kind of don't want to. I mean, the idea of being a Time Lord is awesome, but the chances of my personality doing a complete 18o are too high, and I like who I am.

Of course, it would also explain why I've got two characters more firmly established in my head than any of the others. I mean, most of my characters move into my head at some point or other, but at least they cooperate when I give them a command. But these two do what they want and sod it all if I try to make them do otherwise.

But why two sets of memories?

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Someone's trying to hide you from another Time Lord. The other Time Lord would see through a simple Chameleon Arch, but if there's two sets, they'll have the wrong set to distract them from whoever you really are.

Probably best not to open the watch. It'll bring everything down on your head. Save it for if the world seems to be in danger of ending.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

That seems like the best move. It'll be good for a pinch or something.

(And I am so writing fic about this, it's too good to pass up.)

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

TWITCH CITY DOES THIS.

There's one episode where the world has been taken over by cats. BY CATS MAN. And, I mean, in the end you find out it's (probably) just a dream, BUT STILL. AMAAAAAAAAAZING.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Okay, that could be the best thing ever. A planet run by cats could be simultaneously hilarious and terrifying.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

INORITE??? It was hilarious. At the trial, even though the jury was rigged, they went in for long deliberations, because cats like to toy with their prey. IT WAS AMAZING.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

every show ostensibly set in the 'real world' would be improved by having at least one episode in which something completely science-fictiony happens with no explanation

That would be awesome.

I'm trying to think of what shows I watch that take place in the 'real world' and all I can think of are rp stuff like Top Gear and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.

...

A Science fictiony episode of Kitchen Nightmares would be the coolest thing ever.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Top Gear did the Race for the Universe, which was full of aliens. It taught us a very important lesson about Daleks and cars.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

Yes, but Top Gear is already Very Nearly Almost science fiction anyway.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

True. They've got a Stig, which makes science fiction sort of redundant.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

I can't wait till I'm famous so I can be the Star in the Reasonably Priced Car and tell Jeremy in a vague sort of way that no one watches for the cars and that James has more fangirls than him and that they're more of a scifi than a motoring show.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I've got this fantasy in my head of meeting the Top Gear boys. It basically consists of drinking with them, and telling them all about the fanfic, while they laugh, tease each other, and pretend to be horrified (in the whole "Wait, people have me shagging Jeremy? Voluntarily? And in circumstances where I haven't completely lost my mind?" way). I mean I'd never do it, but in my head it's great.

I want you to be the Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car so you can try to bond with Richard over car-naming, and he can be all "I don't name cars! Except Oliver. Because he is the love of my life."

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

And of course, Jeremy will say something about how I gush over the Stig. And I'll be wearing my 'Moar Stig' t-shirt (which I'm totally going to make) in the car part, and Jeremy will point it out in the interview.

I like the idea of explaining the idea of Topgearslash to them, and at some point in the conersation one of them mentions a fic that I haven't told them about, proving that they already know about it.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

I approve of ANYTHING that mixes House with Red Dwarf. Especially if it's Lister bringing in Holly, because well, Holly's ill and House is the best doctor ever!