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| Verity Lambert |
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| John Wiles |
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| Innes Lloyd |
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| Peter Bryant |
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| Derrick Sherwin |
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| Barry Letts |
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12 | 1.72% |
| Phillip Hinchcliffe |
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62 | 8.91% |
| Graham Williams |
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3 | 0.43% |
| John Nathan-Turner |
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| Philip Segal |
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| Russel T Davies |
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106 | 15.23% |
| Steven Moffat |
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114 | 16.38% |
| Son Goku |
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324 | 46.55% |
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One Swell Foop posted:FWIW I recommend downloading the audios as audiobooks, for iPods and iPhones at least. iTunes and iDevices will actually remember your last position for audiobooks, so you can switch over to listen to some music, then switch back to the audiobook and it will pick up where you left off. I use the Akimbo Audio Player app to achieve this.
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Zombie Samurai posted:In case anyone was wondering about the Doctor Who adventure game, Steam thread denizen Captain Swing is streaming it over here. Like, right at this very moment. Also AngstyFerrets and myself have been planning a Let's Play of it for about four months and will be making a thread for it on Wednesday probably. We've got the first two episodes (Daleks and Cybermen) recorded but not edited together quite yet. Sneak peek unlisted edition of the first episode is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m45Vag0Yo0, and if anyone wants to offer feedback on my lame presentation of Doctor Who trivia that would be acceptable and nice? I've only revived my interest in Who over the last couple of years so I could be wrong on some of them.
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Mar 24, 2014 22:01
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Chairman Mao posted:I can see Tom Baker getting through about two pages of The Stones of Venice and just casually dumping the entire stack of scripts into the trash. Rochallor posted:That's the only one of those that immediately pops for me as a Tom Baker script. Obviously it works perfectly as is, but I could see Four sliding into that story easily. Colin works so well in The Holy Terror it must have been heavily rewritten for him, and The Stones of Venice is so bland any doctor could work with it. Oh dear, I didn't realise everyone hated Stones so much. I actually found it quite enjoyable. Of the original 4-set of McGann adventures goes I would actually say it was my favourite. I found the atmosphere compelling both in its combination of bleakness and silliness.
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Apr 3, 2014 23:04
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Forktoss posted:I honestly might rank it as my favourite of the first four too, but that probably speaks more of the general quality of that run of audios than anything else. It at least attempts to be interesting while Storm Warning is a bit lackulustre, The Sword of Orion is painfully by-the-numbers and Min̤͔̘͚̩͘ͅu̼̯̜̟̳e̘͡t̫͝ͅͅ ̛i͉̺̰n̼̝͖̗̜̘͎ ̲Ḩ͖̬̘̰͞͡e̷̘̪̱̰̱̪͙̞͜l̙͚̣͘l̛̖̲͎͓͇͈̼̀ͅl̷̲͇̞̙̤̫͙͞͞a̯̲͠a̶̛̼̜̳̪̩a̴̟͍͚̕͜a̗̼͖̻͔̳͢ą̛̺͉͎̤̠̻̬͝ͅr҉̶̧̰̟͖̖̲r̥̳̙̩̝̜͈͇r͏͇͚̲͉̬̝͓͇r̡̮͓͡g̜̪̗͙̣ǵ̰͍̤͖̩̰̲ͅg̵͖͉̼̹h҉̡̥̫̫͚h̶̦̥͉͚̮͔͍͙ḫ̵̸̛ͅh̶͍͞h̬͉͈ Bicyclops posted:I don't think Stones of Venice is terrible, it's just vaguely dull, runs a little too long, and is probably too early to separate Charlie from Eight, as they hadn't yet learned to write much more than Doctor worship for her yet. It's not like, say, The Rapture which makes you want that time in your life back even if you were listening to it while doing your bills, but it's not as fun as some of the other goofy historicals, like the musketeers one. Yeah, the first set of 8th audios aren't that mind-blowing. I guess they were just in such a hurry to get stuff for him to actually do? I wasn't too taken with Invaders from Mars, possibly due to the American accents. But the combination of Chimes of Midnight and Seasons of Fear are just ludicrously good. If the oft recommended Natural History of Fear and Other Lives, which I have on my shelf due to that recent sale, are close to that quality I will be a very happy man indeed. Hope it's okay to cross-post about the Doctor Who: The Adventure Games LP thread I started in here http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3621750 It's not a very fun game to play, but I think it has some merit, so I think an LP is a decent format to experience the game. I've always been really torn with it because on one hand it's an abysmal game, but it's clear the people making it really do know and get the show.
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Apr 4, 2014 17:27
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The_Doctor posted:The problem with Doctor Who is that any video game based off it needs to be absolutely massive in scope and options. I would totally buy a Mass Effect-style Time Lord game, but I suppose the real question is would anyone else?
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Apr 4, 2014 18:13
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Heft posted:Also, Big Finish has ten stories on sale this weekend that all include some well known guest star. I've gotten most of my Big Finish recommendations from lurking this thread and that's worked out okay so far. Any of these considered to be particularly good or bad? http://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/released/special-offers I'm probably going to pick up Forty-Five, but is Medicinal Purposes with David Tennant any good?
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Apr 13, 2014 14:12
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Ah, all right then. I'll either pass it over or just buy it for David Tennant anyway. Does he have a big role in it? Any of the other superstars must-haves? Also is this Big Finish for a Fiver thing new or just something I never noticed? It's easy to miss things with the way their website is designed.
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Apr 13, 2014 15:21
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I would greatly recommend Colditz as a first 7th audio. It's just so good. I think I heard people saying The Rapture was bad, but I actually thought it was kind of okay.
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Apr 22, 2014 23:08
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CobiWann posted:So Big Finish is having another sale this weekend... Fantastic! I'm not going to be able to get all of these. Are these best worked through from start to finish? If so, I'll just get the first one or two.
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Apr 25, 2014 19:56
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CobiWann posted:Or Sky News. "Drugs and music are bad, kids! Listen to your elders!" Yeah, I always feel like the continuity of the Seven and Ace adventures is really off, whereas Eight and Charley it really feels like a continuation of events. Between going from Colditz to stuff like the Rapture and throwing Virgin adaptations in it's really kind of confusing.
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Apr 30, 2014 17:16
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It sort of looks like a parody of Broadchurch. I'm not American, but I thought his accent was actually pretty good.
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May 14, 2014 00:59
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Did anyone post this? Makes Moffat seem not awful. From Tumblr.Moffatt posted:"I think it’s important that there is a feminist critique of television, because things that go unquestioned go unchanged and what goes unchanged becomes institutionalized and what becomes institutionalized becomes your fault. So it should be questioned. I do think some of the criticism personally aimed at me is a bit over the top and unfair, but who said the prosecution has to be fair? And it’s a case that needs to be prosecuted." Also I watched Ghost Light for the first time. It was super weird. I liked the concept behind Light, though.
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May 17, 2014 20:26
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Chokes McGee posted:"You're wrong, but people should try to figure that out for themselves! Interviews aside I always feel kind of bad for him because the way he writes bad female characters always seems like he's trying to write good female characters at least. Not that I'm trying to be on the Moffat defence force here. I got a good mark for my dissertation-level uni work (it means it's not an essay but more of a research folder), where I briefly discuss that Moffat writes women terribly and that it's a really old issue.
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May 19, 2014 16:39
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Humble gives it to you as HD PDF, SD PDF, MOBI, and EPUB. I've just done as they've recommended and slapped the SD PDFs (except the rare cases where the HD PDF is less than 100mb) into my Google Books area so I can just pull them from the cloud onto my tablet when I feel like it. You can zoom and stuff that way and it seems nice enough, though not quite as good as Comixology. Great value!
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May 21, 2014 01:47
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Just noticed that the Monster Collection DVDs are discounted in the BBC online shop. How do those DVD releases stack up against the other releases of those epiosdes? Are special features intact?
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Jul 5, 2014 15:24
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DoctorWhat posted:We have a pretty good idea. It would have been basically a reboot, starring a half-human Doctor fighting his half-brother, the Master, while also searching for their father, Ulysses. Meanwhile he'd thwart the Genesis of the Daleks, explore a City of Death, and do battle with the piratical "cybs". In the Movie commentary McGann and McCoy also discuss that in the series they wanted to bring old Doctors back and do like half a series with McGann and the other be old adventures with past Doctors. That would have been pretty cool. I still wish they would do something like that even in animated form, like that one First Doctor thing I think?
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Jul 11, 2014 22:40
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What's the score with Dalek Empire, on Big Finish sale today?
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Jul 30, 2014 11:49
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CobiWann posted:I just started watching The Visitation based upon the picture I posted earlier. I do like the chemistry the four have, but man it just seems a bit overcrowded on screen with all of them having to be involved. I also saw this recently (due to the Netflix shake up of episodes). I definitely agree, and the main saving grace with The Visitation is that the Doctor seems to feel the same way.
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Aug 1, 2014 01:28
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How's "I, Davros?". Would it be somehow be cheaper for me to "subscribe" to the series? Just listened to the first part of "Davros" and really enjoyed it.
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Aug 3, 2014 13:21
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I enjoyed Planet of the Ood a lot as a sort of throwback to that early 80s future sort of story like The Caves of Androzani or Revelation of the Daleks. A sort of not-quite right, morally dark grey humanity megacorporation sort of thing. Jerusalem, consider slapping your reviews up on a website or something -- really enjoyable. Put 'em in ebooks, even.
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Aug 10, 2014 00:49
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I'm a Doctor Who fan now. Doctor Who fans are cool. -- Just wrapped up my series 4 rewatch and I gotta say I really don't like the finale. Too many guest characters; awkward Rose in the final three; and worst of all a yucky exit for Donna. It was painful, even though I love series 4.
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Aug 13, 2014 00:59
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Well, I appreciate it's just an opinion but I think forcibly removing her while characterisation is just narratively cruel, and considering the way the whole of that two parter's is pretty much a series of nonsense things happening because they do they could have written her out any way they like with her character intact. But maybe my averseness to it is why it's good, as a friend pointed out. But yeah Davros is very much the best thing about the finale, especially his whole speech about the Doctor's companions being soldiers. It doesn't help Journey's End is a bloated full hour. I too think the specials may have been a mistake despite looking them. The power of the Stolen Earth cliffhanger is completely deflated in Journey's end, but just imagine if somehow, just somehow, there was a real surprise regeneration ready to take on Davros. In my mind it's the last memorable of the RTD's finales, which steadily declined year by year, which is a shame as I'll give you this one has some of the nicest ideas.
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Aug 13, 2014 01:59
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The Action Man posted:I actually like the The Unicorn and the Wasp, but in my defense, I've never seen it sober. I feel like series 4 has an awful lot more moments of not taking itself seriously than any of the other's, which I kind of love. What might be a problem with this episode (which I quite enjoy) is that it doesn't reel it back in for an effective spikes of seriousness. But this episode features the return of Christopher Benjamin and is therefore one of the best episodes ever aired.
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Aug 15, 2014 19:47
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Jerusalem posted:the tragedy is enhanced by a comedic turn when he turns out to be real but his stutter prevents him calling out to her before being teleported away, costing her a shot at a love that was very real even if the world they lived in was not. There's nothing comedic about that turn! It's nothing short of heartbreaking! I too quite that particular two parter, it's one of those ones where while the antagonist doesn't really make sense, it doesn't really get in the way because it's so watchable. I liked the fake-out ending with the Doctor sort of saving River, but I found the bit where he just jumps down a massive elevator shaft kind of lame, in the same way (but much less than) the bit in Voyage of the Damned when he is carried to the heavens by golden angels. I guess the shaft had some sort of gravity thing which is why he wasn't flattened and forced to regenerate at the bottom. I'm not a big fan of River's character at all, but I do like her a lot in this one. I think partially I'm not a fan of her later appearances because seeing their relationship more takes away some of the implied magic. Ultimately I feel like it doesn't live up to what we see here.
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Aug 16, 2014 16:11
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Potsticker posted:The longest standing companion of the Doctor is us, the viewers. I put forward that the longest serving companion is Handles. As in in-show time.
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Aug 17, 2014 10:57
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Does anyone here ever write fan fiction, or is that considered too lame by the goon hive-mind? I don't know if anyone here has seen this upcoming fan anthology but my fourth Doctor short story is one of the finalists for its slot. http://thetemporallogbook.wordpress.com/ I've never written fan fiction before this, so it's quite validating. Now I have a couple more ideas. Where would be the best place to post this stuff online? Just the old Fan Fiction Net? I found writing it an interesting experience. Also, I'm getting together a little writing-based fan project with some friends. If anyone is interested in that sort of thing I might post about it here?
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Aug 17, 2014 12:42
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Yvonmukluk posted:I think you'll find it's the TARDIS. Thanks for the link, I knew there had to somewhere specialist out there somewhere. I'll keep zipped on the interesting details of the fourth Doctor story for now, but I'll definitely slap it up and let you know when it inevitably gets rejected. vegetables posted:Awesome! I was going to enter this with an Eighth Doctor story, but didn't get it finished in time. I have a feeling almost everyone who entered did so with an Eighth Doctor story, which sapped my motivation a bit. I could easily get it finished and send it off to whatever you have in mind. Actually, 8th and 3rd had the joint-least amount of entries. They posted some very interesting statistics about all of their submissions a while back: http://thetemporallogbook.wordpress.com/2014/07/12/fyi/ The Temporal Logbook Blog posted:Of all of the submissions we received, the majority of the submissions came from male writers with a breakdown as follows:
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Aug 17, 2014 17:25
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vegetables posted:Ah, damnit. The sixth doctor having the most is an unexpected turn of events, although I guess he's probably one of the easiest to get an interesting story out of. I will finish my story and post it here, I think, and tell myself that more people will read it this way. However, it's not really a true experiment, as they skewed the results slightly posting this on June 7th: The Temporal Logbook Blog posted:As you’ve no doubt read in a previous post that we’re short on stories for both the Fourth (Tom Baker) and Ninth (Christopher Eccelston) Doctors. An interesting comment was made by a forum user on the Outpost Gallifrey forum regarding this that we here at TLL thought you might like to know about. Although I still think the sixth might have had the most as if people submit a story with a Doctor they think will have the least amount of submissions, then they might think that gives them a greater chance of being accepted. Which is sort of true but also not true at all.
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Aug 17, 2014 19:52
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 Doctor Who by Justin Richards This novel by Justin Richards marks the first entry in the BBC's New Series Adventures range, designed to tie-in with the 2005 revival series. These novels were (and are) released in batches of three novels, usually with them being one set in the past, one in the future, and one in present day. I'm not sure if that's entirely true, I haven't checked, but it seems about right from where I'm standing. The first set are The Clockwise Man by Justin Richards, The Monsters Inside by Stephen Cole, and Winner Takes All by Jacqueline Rayner. Despite being released at the same time, this is generally considered to be the order they go on because it just is. All three of these writers are old hat at Doctor Who prose, and I'd say all of them are pretty good at it. As this series went along with the TV series, the contents of the novels would mirror what is going on in the TV show, from companion changes to relationships. The Monsters Inside was also referenced in Boom Town, making it clear from the offset that RTD wanted these novels to be a firm and accepted part of his Doctor Who extended universe, possibly because of his huge amount of love for the Target novels as a companion to the series growing up (which he talks about in his lovely introduction to the reprint of Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion). The New Series Adventures novels are quite short, and their first and most common printings are in these quite nice little hardbacks. The Doctor and Rose arrive in 1924 London, where they come across a man being attacked by a mysterious, ticking figure. As they escort the man to his place of work they are watched by the attacker and another figure, who quietly move the TARDIS. The attacked man is Dickson, the butler of Sir George Harding and Lady Anna, the latter of which's son is actually the rightful Tsar of Russia. Invited into the circle the Doctor and Rose meet a cast of conspirators, including Aske and Repple, who are embroiled in a strange conspiracy regarding a country that doesn't exist, and the Painted Lady, a woman who only wears emotion masks. Stranded, the Doctor and Rose take up rooms in the same club as Aske and Repple, while they try to figure out what's going on with the string of attacks similar to that on Dickson.  A still image... from... the... book...? There are some really cool ideas in this, which would be hard to believe didn't inform The Girl in the Fireplace, from the clockwork faces behind glass to the "what's that ticking?". Not much time is spared here, the New Series Adventures are not much longer than the Target Novelisations, forgoing some of the length of the Virgin New Adventures and Eighth Doctor Adventures lines. This is a range firmly aimed to be approachable to younger audiences yet again. No pandering to adult fans exclusively. The novel hurtles to its conclusion as soon as it gets going, making it an easy and pleasant read, even if it's not always top tier stuff. There are a few bits of odd phrasing and character moments that feel just a bit off, maybe in the latter case because this is both from the first set of releases of the New Series Adventures. Rose seems unusually dim in places, and the Doctor is a touch too scatter-brained, at one point getting words confused. Allegedly the writers of this first set of releases didn't have too much to go on when writing these. If that's true it would explain some things. The Doctor does feel almost like an assumed Doctor, how you would expect Ecclestone's performance to maybe behave, informed by some of the previous Doctors. Rose seems to have suffered the most, however. The release date of the first "batch" of NSA was 19 May 2005. I'm not sure how much of this rumour to believe, and if you know more please let me know.  Justin Richards Overall it's a pretty solid first showing for the NSA, but there are better ones later in the series, including from Justin Richards himself. While it's not bad, it's not the NSA I would point to for a first time reader to the series, which is a shame as that's exactly what it should have been. -- I might do more write-ups in the future. I like write ups... I guess?
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DoctorWhat posted:The additional problem with the New Adventures is that they "starred" the Seventh Doctor, whose "chessmaster" characterization led many writers to avoid getting in the Doctor's head-space or revealing his thought processes. It's like they've never heard of The Maltese Falcon, which is a masterpiece of not quite knowing what the protagonist's plan is. It is quite a detective-y thing as you say, maybe they found it hard to jive detective and sci-fi novel together, which is their own fault. I've never read any of the Virgin New Adventures though, despite loving both books and Doctor Who. If anyone can recommend me one which hasn't skyrocketed in price post-revival I might pick one up and let you guys know what I think.
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Aug 19, 2014 23:11
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DirtyRobot posted:Hey, have they done a "further adventures of the first doctor" series with David Bradley yet? Don't be stupid. How would the kids know which pack-lunch box to get?
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Aug 20, 2014 01:33
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DoctorWhat posted:No, but THIS is: What were you staring at on the floor at 36s?
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So I'm putting together a little fan project/challenge. I would be interested in knowing what people think or if they would be interested in taking part or hearing more. It's called Target Novelisations Regenerated, and here is a link to an empty WordPress that will eventually be filled. The idea is to write sort of Target-esque novelizations of modern Doctor Who stories, but the twist is that they feature different Doctors than they're "Supposed to". Someone who is taking part in the challenge (which is what it is, it's not a full blown project really) is, for instance, doing Midnight with Troughton; another is doing Voyage of the Damned with both Hartnell and T. Baker (actually that's me). Ideally it will be interesting to explore the differences, while at the same time writing around a pre-existing story, but with enough leeway to change things. Of course, Midnight will be called Doctor Who and the Midnight Creature. It's called Regenerated, but it's sort of like a remix, really. I'm surprised nobody has done this before, so let me know if they have. If anyone would like to take part or whatever, let me know.   
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DoctorWhat posted:I've been wanting to cast Six in The Empty Child for years. Count me in - I've been meaning to flex my writing muscles.. Oh God, finally I can have the greatest fan project in the world with the backing of the most in the now Doctor Who fan. That's actually a great pairing, I'm PM'ing you the detes. e: Oh great you don't have PMs. I'll tumbl you or whatever.
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Yeah it's just the fun of going for that sort of style. It's a very informal sort of thing so if you somehow knock out a solid 45k for a 45 minute story (how???) then cool I guess, and if you just want to do like 10k-20k then that would be fine too. Shorter even. Soft rule is 20k-45k. But like, whatever. PoshAlligator fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Aug 21, 2014 |
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