"This one, or this one?" "...go away."

[rionaleonhart]

A HUSTLE ALMOST WENT HORRIBLY WRONG. I have wanted to see one of them go a bit awry ever since I started watching The Real Hustle, so I was really rather thrilled by this. Although I have to admit that I was genuinely worried that the mark might actually drag Alex off the motorbike and horribly injure him or something.

I do wish Paul and Jess had mocked him about it. The Real Hustle would be so much better if they actually showed the hustlers chatting to each other a little more. There's always the rather frustrating sense of 'these three have a lovely bantering mocking friendship but you are not allowed to see it ha'. Take a leaf out of Top Gear's book, Real Hustle producers! People like it when factual programmes take on a more personal tone! They also write more fanfiction, but that is obviously totally not what I am desperately hoping for at all.

Also, ahahaha, the telling-the-truth hustle! Brilliance. The people who'd been taken in seemed almost more amused than annoyed. "Well, I suppose I technically got exactly what was advertised..." And I loved the 'can be made in less than three hours' and the 'no-money-back guarantee'.

(newbie1990, WHO TOTALLY NEEDS TO UPDATE HER JOURNAL MORE OFTEN, came up with the frankly brilliant idea that Jess is a new incarnation of the Master, trying to take over the world through hotness. This would be amazing. Are you listening, Doctor Who writers? Have the Master played by Jessica-Jane Clement in his/her next appearance. Genius. Also, I've never found Tennant particularly attractive, but I have to admit that Tennant-as-the-Doctor/Jess-as-the-Master would be really rather hot. AND THEY COULD HAVE A CANON KISS OR SOMETHING AND IT WOULD SPAWN ALL SORTS OF INTERESTING (and by 'interesting' I mean 'lol watch the Internet explode') QUESTIONS ABOUT TIME LORD SEXUALITY.)

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

When I was typing it up, that was exactly what I thought. The original draft of this post included the line 'Is gender relevant to Time Lords?', but I stripped it out because it would still create interesting discussion; after all, most viewers will have automatically assigned human sexuality norms to Time Lords, and it would still raise and answer some questions even for those of us who have considered it, er, more than a normal person might.

[rubaiyyat.livejournal.com]

[Master] (To be boringly pedantic, it is one of those minor little traits that seem to be mostly random in the history of our biology, and you'll probably encounter variance from universe to universe, but did I mention boring? Science without application is all well and good, but I find I care less for theory these days.)

Keep in mind also that everything you've seen (and, in fact, everything you're seeing now, despite efforts to the contrary) has been presented through a human lens, which will tend to take for granted the similarities between species and brush off or sensationalise the differences.

And while there is a subset of Time Lords who base attraction on physical characteristics, for a large and growing number of Time Lords I'm sure you can see how this would be an unstable proposition at best. (You can compare it, if you'd like, to a human condition predicating attraction on age or some such other transitory state. Paederasty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty) provides one such suitable example.) (Unstable especially as regards the Doctor. Have you seen what he does to himself?) (Well, the Doctor is difficult to deal with in a number of regards.)

Gyuh. While I'm aware that the current Earth vogue is to go about claiming "sexuality" is such a broad, vague term, it's nonetheless too specific to apply with any real sense of accuracy to Time Lords. If you want any real answers, you'd do well to refine your questions a bit.