A Sunday Doctor Who Poll

[seren_ccd]

I'm doing some plotting and writing today (does it count if the writing is in a notebook and not on a computer?) and I've run into a question.

I'm writing the next bit in the Eleven/Amy series and it's going all wibbly-wobbly, timey-whimey on me. And my question is this:

How much influence do you think the TARDIS has over where they end up? My mind is drawing a bit of a blank, but I'm sure she's deposited the Doctor in places where he needed to do something, even if he doesn't know he needed to do something.

So, because I like polls:

[Poll #1674581]

Matt and Karen look adorable and thank you for helping!!!

Comments

[stick-poker.livejournal.com]

I forget where I saw this now but I think it was RTD who once complained about how writers who hadn't written for Who before always seemed to start it with a distress signal or the TARDIS mysteriously landing in somewhere it wasn't supposed to be or what have you, and he always wondered why they couldn't just be going somewhere anyway. That kind of stuck in my head; there's no reason why not to have the TARDIS do that, I don't think, but perhaps it should be used sparingly, especially if it's a get-out-of-jail-free card for the plot. Or if you're going to do it, do it good and hard; she'll have to become more of a character in her own right, or will be seen in that way more as a result.

[seren-ccd.livejournal.com]

I think the TARDIS is very much aware of all that's going on, in time and in the Doctor. She's got an 'agenda' that's very much wrapped up in him, so yes, it must be deliberate.