Well, the great thing is that one can have multiple fanons. Maybe whatever River whispered into his ear was something a human would know, and the next best thing to his real name. And it can be ignored easily if you just focus on something else, obvy--this is why fanfiction is so liberating:). I don't have to give a shit about TPTB pushing unappealing ships at me when I'm writing my own story, thank goodness.
And huh, you hate Four? I heard of someone else the other week who hated Four and I can't get my head around it. Huh. I'm a big fan, sadly, and came into Who thanks to him, so... shame. I've always thought he's a popular Doctor because he had so many different styles and stories all throughout his era, but to each their own. And you seriously have to see Two, because he is absolutely brilliant:) Story-wise, intelligent scriptwriting-wise, acting-wise, just everything in that era is wonderful. If pressed, I'd call him my all-time favourite, but it's difficult to choose a favourite Doctor because there are so many to love for so many reasons. And because so much of Two was burninated. *sob*
And I'm glad you even care about the oldschool canon, anyway. A hell of a lot of n00bs don't, and that tends to put me off reading fics if they're clearly written by someone who doesn't know their stuff, even though the information they'd require would just be a few Wikipedia clicks away. At least watching the old series and reading about it is fun, but yeah... book canon is a different thing entirely. That's one of the few domains where I've just wanted to throw books across the room and demand my money back, that's how crap some of them are. It's definitely worth just picking and mixing when it comes to apocrypha!
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And huh, you hate Four? I heard of someone else the other week who hated Four and I can't get my head around it. Huh. I'm a big fan, sadly, and came into Who thanks to him, so... shame. I've always thought he's a popular Doctor because he had so many different styles and stories all throughout his era, but to each their own. And you seriously have to see Two, because he is absolutely brilliant:) Story-wise, intelligent scriptwriting-wise, acting-wise, just everything in that era is wonderful. If pressed, I'd call him my all-time favourite, but it's difficult to choose a favourite Doctor because there are so many to love for so many reasons. And because so much of Two was burninated. *sob*
And I'm glad you even care about the oldschool canon, anyway. A hell of a lot of n00bs don't, and that tends to put me off reading fics if they're clearly written by someone who doesn't know their stuff, even though the information they'd require would just be a few Wikipedia clicks away. At least watching the old series and reading about it is fun, but yeah... book canon is a different thing entirely. That's one of the few domains where I've just wanted to throw books across the room and demand my money back, that's how crap some of them are. It's definitely worth just picking and mixing when it comes to apocrypha!