Ditto with staying in E-Space forever... I'm sure there is some good Romana fic that doesn't go with one or other of these options...but it all tends to be AU stuff, really.
lizbee and violetisblue have been collaborating on a Ten-Romana project that they've just posted. I haven't had time to read it yet, but it looks awfully good. I'd love to an AU where Romana doesn't go to E-Space and stays with Five. Or one she and Nine both survived the War and how the new series might have looked that way (how would the who Rose-dynamic play out, for instance).
I think maybe a better third way would be one in which Romana ends up going around the universe like another Doctor and being just as awesome as he is. They still meet up from time to time to shag compare notes, but he respects the fact that she's moved on and doesn't need to play companion to the likes of him any more. They tell each other they'll retire one day, settle down together in 1890s Paris or something and drink absinthe on the Left Bank, but they both know it'll never happen; they're neither of them the retiring type... It's up to Romana VIII by now, and she's as awesome as Romanas I-VII were before her...maybe one day she'll take some keen young Time Lord as a companion of her own and shag him inspire him in turn to take up the same lifestyle of freelance trouble-solving and awesomeness... ;D
Damn, that would be good. I actually sometimes like to imagine they did just that inbetween Doctors 5-8. There's plenty of room to play with inbetwen some serials. Now I have a fanon where the Doctor becomes interested in River Song because that comparing notes thing was something he used to do with Romana. I don't mean that he won't like River for herself. Just that that was an initial reason. Still find the River-thing irritating, though.
Hmmm...I was being optimistic there about Moffat - if you think about it, he's actually one of the main purveyors of Magic!Jesus!Superhero!Doctor, who women want and men want to be like, etc etc etc..
I'm not sure I can think of a New Who writer who doesn't fall into that habit.
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Date: 2009-12-30 10:59 pm (UTC)I think maybe a better third way would be one in which Romana ends up going around the universe like another Doctor and being just as awesome as he is. They still meet up from time to time to
shagcompare notes, but he respects the fact that she's moved on and doesn't need to play companion to the likes of him any more. They tell each other they'll retire one day, settle down together in 1890s Paris or something and drink absinthe on the Left Bank, but they both know it'll never happen; they're neither of them the retiring type... It's up to Romana VIII by now, and she's as awesome as Romanas I-VII were before her...maybe one day she'll take some keen young Time Lord as a companion of her own andshaghim inspire him in turn to take up the same lifestyle of freelance trouble-solving and awesomeness... ;DDamn, that would be good. I actually sometimes like to imagine they did just that inbetween Doctors 5-8. There's plenty of room to play with inbetwen some serials. Now I have a fanon where the Doctor becomes interested in River Song because that comparing notes thing was something he used to do with Romana. I don't mean that he won't like River for herself. Just that that was an initial reason.
Still find the River-thing irritating, though.Hmmm...I was being optimistic there about Moffat - if you think about it, he's actually one of the main purveyors of Magic!Jesus!Superhero!Doctor, who women want and men want to be like, etc etc etc..
I'm not sure I can think of a New Who writer who doesn't fall into that habit.