Oh what a thing to have done

[purplefringe]

LOOK IT'S A VID AND IT'S NOT ABOUT THAT DWEEB ANGEL AND HIS DISASTER SNAKE BOYFRIEND!! (don't worry, another of those is coming /o\)

So, in case you were unaware, Children in Need have recorded an album this year, featuring many awesome actors singing favourite songs. Such as David Tennant singing 'Sunshine on Leith' by The Proclaimers :D (I love him. Have I mentioned that recently? I *love* him)

Anyway, the BBC released Jodie's contribution a few weeks early. I listened to it, then listened to it again, then listened to it about seventy thousand more times, then texted such_heights to say 'shall I vid the thing' and she said 'vid the thing' and so I vidded the thing because I do what she tells me. <3 And then I made her and the wonderful usuallyhats watch it and give me feedback and encouragement, for which I am, as ever, profoundly grateful.

It would be fair to say I had...mixed feelings about this season of Doctor Who. And I had mixed feelings ABOUT having mixed feelings, because god forbid I should just not overthink things for once. I don't want to get into any of those feelings now, and I possibly don't *ever* want to get into them here on this journal. But whatever my feelings about the writing and the episodes and the season as a whole, Jodie as the Doctor was COMPLETELY WONDERFUL. And re-watching this season to make this vid just confirmed that. I love her, I love her beautiful face, I love her total dorkiness, I love her enthusiasm for things, I love her kindness and I love everything about her that makes her the Doctor, just as I have loved every Doctor before her. I love Ryan and Yasmin and Graham. I love the new Tardis. Making this was a joy and a delight and I wish the song was about five minutes longer because there's so much more I wanted to include.

The vid is below - but MORE IMPORTANTLY, you can buy the song (and, indeed, the whole Got It Covered album) on the Children in Need website, and all the money goes to their very excellent cause <3

ALSO you can watch this ADORABLE CLIP of Jodie being surprised by Coldplay as she recorded the song. It made me cry /o\

Yellow
edited by purplefringe
fandom: Doctor Who (series 11)
music: Yellow by Coldplay covered by JODIE WHITTAKER for Children in Need
summary: look how they shine for you
content notes: quite a lot of flashing lights throughout (many explosions in this show)

Also on tumblr and the AO3

stream:

"Yellow | Doctor Who (Thirteen)" (Watch on YouTube)

Lyrics

Comments

[elisi]

YOU MADE A THIRTEENTH DOCTOR VID!!

If anyone can vaguely reconcile me to S11 it'll be you.

[purplefringe]

I mean, it's nothing groundbreaking. I just heard the song and LOVED it and her voice and her face are SO LOVELY I had to make a thing!

[elisi]

I mean, it's nothing groundbreaking. I just heard the song and LOVED it and her voice and her face are SO LOVELY I had to make a thing!
QUITE RIGHT TOO.

Plus, it made me go find the YELLOWEST Thirteen icon I could.

The vid is terribly lovely. And I didn't know Jodie could sing! It's just the most wonderful thing to have the Doctor sing to her companions.

Incidentally, this is my favourite Thirteen (/Good Omens crossover) headcanon.

[purplefringe]

Plus, it made me go find the YELLOWEST Thirteen icon I could
Weirdly, there's actually SO MUCH YELLOW in this season?? The Tardis interior is yellow, the sonic is yellow, there's a LOT of yellow light - I included a lot of it, but actually had to take some out because it was starting to look a bit silly!

It's just the most wonderful thing to have the Doctor sing to her companions.
RIGHT??? I am extremely tempted to make a Ten vid to DT's rendition of 'Sunshine on Leith', which is a song I've loved for years, but it's not quite the same because he is singing in *his* Scottish voice, not Ten's. Whilst Jodie's is the same.

Ahahaha that is an amazing crossover and I am into it.

[elisi]

Weirdly, there's actually SO MUCH YELLOW in this season?? The Tardis interior is yellow, the sonic is yellow, there's a LOT of yellow light - I included a lot of it, but actually had to take some out because it was starting to look a bit silly!
I meant to say how yellow is THE colour [for this season]. Of course you bring it out, but if I had to name a colour, yellow would probably be it.

RIGHT??? I am extremely tempted to make a Ten vid to DT's rendition of 'Sunshine on Leith', which is a song I've loved for years, but it's not quite the same because he is singing in *his* Scottish voice, not Ten's.
Hm. Really will have to check em all out. (Had no idea they had recorded songs, so thank you!)

Whilst Jodie's is the same.
Not half!

Ahahaha that is an amazing crossover and I am into it.
Just imagine her watching Sound of Music with Gabriel & co!

Doctor: "Oh! Oh! I love this bit! When she sits on the pine cone! The kids are a little too soft probably, but it's so sweet, don't you think?"
Gabriel (fixed smile): "Of course, Lord."
Doctor: "I've told you, stop it with this 'Lord' business. Never liked all that bowing and scraping. It's like the Castellan all over again."
Gabriel: "Who Lord?"
Doctor: "No one. Um. Let's just watch, shall we? There's some woman in America who's watched it like 700 times, so that's the record to beat! Plus, we'll have a sing-along next. And then we can dress up! I think you'd make a marvellous von Trapp. Unless we do a gender swap..."
Gabriel (sotto voce): "Please no."
Doctor: "What was that?"
Gabriel (eyes fixed on the screen): "Nothing Lord."
Doctor (grabs handful of popcorn): "If you'll go trying to bring about the end of the world, going against my ineffable plan, then you have to face the consequences." (beat) "Love that word, 'ineffable'. Sounds all fluffy, don't you think? Ineffable. Ineffable. In-effable. Hm, does that mean that 'effable' is a word? Well, I guess it is if I say it is!" (big grin)
Gabriel closes his eyes.
Doctor: "Ooooh!" (waves hands about) "If we do a gender swap, Beelzebub could be von Trapp, and you can be Maria!" (Looks around) "Sandalphon - you're the Mother Superior. Michael..."


OK, I need to go to bed. But this is the most fun ever. It might become a fic. Well, a very silly ficlet.

[purplefringe]

PLEASE WRITE THIS :D

[elisi]

While I was falling asleep, my brain was literally thinking of nothing else.

So yes, it'll happen. /o\

[purplefringe]

Yesssssss, the fannish ouroboros continues

[elisi]

OK, so since you have just re-watched S11 - any useful Doctor-y quotes/lines I could use for a title?

Currently all I can think of is Nine's 'Don't worship me - I'd make a very bad god. You wouldn't get a day off, for starters.'

I mean 'I'd Make A Very Bad God' is a decent title, but I'd rather use one of Thirteen's lines. :)

[purplefringe]

Hmmmm not much leaps to mind, but then I was watching the series and concentrating more on the visuals than anything else. There's that bit from The WItchfinders, where she's talking to King James - 'You want to know the secrets of existence?' That might work! (It continues 'Start with the mysteries of the heart', which is perhaps less relevant here)

[elisi]

Ooooh. Thank you. Yes, I can work with that. :)

[elisi]

Came back to get the Sound of Music scene to add to my draft, and thought I'd let you know that it currently stands at 18k.

Projected 8 chapters. Five (and 1/3) written so far. /o\

[purplefringe]

😂😂😂😂😂 OMG you are a HERO and a SCHOLAR and I am so delighted by this. This is TRUE ART. <3

(P.S happy new year and happy new Who day for tomorrow! Here’s hoping this season gives us what we want.)

(P.P.S. This seems a good place to say thank you again for being such a wonderful human, and for going above and beyond (with Promethia) in helping me with my GO vids and generally flailing about GO with me. <3)

[elisi]

OMG you are a HERO and a SCHOLAR and I am so delighted by this. This is TRUE ART. <3
*salutes* I am only doing my duty. (And it's now 10 chapters and... goodness, I can't even begin to explain all the places it goes. Although I can reveal that you will love Gabriel. Yes, truly.)

(P.S happy new year and happy new Who day for tomorrow! Here’s hoping this season gives us what we want.)
I am very zen. Mostly it's not allowed to upset my fic, but then the way I've written it, that's not really possible. Anyway, HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU TOO. <3 <3 <3

(P.P.S. This seems a good place to say thank you again for being such a wonderful human, and for going above and beyond (with Promethia) in helping me with my GO vids and generally flailing about GO with me. <3)
Right back atcha. It's a privilege to get to look 'behind the scenes'.

[happydork]

This gave me A LOT of feelings. She DID hold the line! The companions DO shine brighter because of and for her! Oh, it’s such a lovely vid, right in the heart feels.

[purplefringe]

<3333 SHE DID SHE IS A GOOD

[sir_guinglain]

We need more emotional intelligence this next series. As your vid shows, Jodie's Doctor has it, but the repercussions need to be felt through the other characters and often through the curiously unintense house style. You've shown how things might be.

[purplefringe]

<3 Thank you. I'm excited for the next season - I hope they build on the first season and it keeps getting better. Jodie and the others are so wonderful, they deserve the best writing there is.

[kaydeefalls]

This is so very lovely. I agree that this latest series had some serious writing issues, but the characters are all wonderful, and this is a delightful tribute to them.

[purplefringe]

Right?! The characters are wonderful and a delight and when it comes down it it, that is ALWAYS what I'm here for, more than anything else. I'm so glad you liked this!

[grimorie]

Thank you for this!

[purplefringe]

Thank you for watching!

[sarren]

Lovely :)

[purplefringe]

Thank you!

[kaffy_r]

Thank you for this. I love Jodie's Thirteen, and to hear her voice like this was wonderful.

[purplefringe]

Thank you! Her voice is SO LOVELY, which is extremely rude, tbh.

[kaffy_r]

*snrk*

Rude indeed.

[sea_thoughts]

What a gorgeous vid. I can give no higher compliment than that I'd want to watch DW based purely on what I see here. I sincerely hope that Jodie's second series reaches the beauty and emotionality of this.

[purplefringe]

Oh, thank you so much! <333

[juliet]

Oh this is lovely, thank you!

Watched it twice through with the kid (who is 7; Thirteen's is the first season he's watched and he loved it) and he wanted me to say "Really cool! I especially liked the little monster".

[purplefringe]

Awwwww thank you so much! Please tell him I'm delighted he enjoyed it! :D

[fancyflautist]

This is incredible <3

[purplefringe]

Thank you so much!

[tree_and_leaf]

This is just delightful!

[purplefringe]

Thank you so much!