neil gaimens doctor who episode
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Willem said:
I'm not upset! 
Willem said:
Can't think why I didn't include Pratchett as an example by the way. In my opinion, his best books are between Reaper Man and Jingo, including both. Everything before was good practice and finetuning, most of what follows feels like a re-tread to me (with the exception of Going Postal). Many of you disagree, and you're all fools for it
I was a fan since '91, but got bored with it at about the turn of the millennium. I only became interested again because of the relaunch.
Some people considered Astrid from Voyage of the Damned to be potentially a or the TARDIS. But then again, they had a character in a classic story (The Enemy of the World) called Astrid Ferrier, so it doesn't mean much. I did hear, though, that the character Dastari from The Two Doctors (a geneticist who was also helping time travel experiments) was named from an anagram of 'a TARDIS'.
But then again, that story also had a race of aliens called Androgums. Figure out what THAT is an anagram of.
And speaking about writing Doctor Who, you wanna know what really pisses me off?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/bulletin_110427_01/Your_Chance_to_Write_for_Doctor_Who
They're wasting this opportunity on 9-11 year olds! :x
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/news/bulletin_110427_01/Your_Chance_to_Write_for_Doctor_Who
They're wasting this opportunity on 9-11 year olds! :x
This is nothing new for Dr Who. Over the years they have often run competitions for children; one such example being Peter Kay's 'Abzorbaloff' which was designed by a nine year old for a competition run by Blue Peter (a children's tv show). I think anything that encourages young kids to write can only be a good thing. 
Penfold said:
This is nothing new for Dr Who. Over the years they have often run competitions for children; one such example being Peter Kay's 'Abzorbaloff' which was designed by a nine year old for a competition run by Blue Peter (a children's tv show). I think anything that encourages young kids to write can only be a good thing.
Part of the last episode was designed by a kid. I won't say more as you haven't seen it yet Q.
Tonyblack said:
Penfold said:
This is nothing new for Dr Who. Over the years they have often run competitions for children; one such example being Peter Kay's 'Abzorbaloff' which was designed by a nine year old for a competition run by Blue Peter (a children's tv show). I think anything that encourages young kids to write can only be a good thing.
Part of the last episode was designed by a kid. I won't say more as you haven't seen it yet Q.
I like it, it lets kids feel special.
Tonyblack said:
Penfold said:
This is nothing new for Dr Who. Over the years they have often run competitions for children; one such example being Peter Kay's 'Abzorbaloff' which was designed by a nine year old for a competition run by Blue Peter (a children's tv show). I think anything that encourages young kids to write can only be a good thing.
Part of the last episode was designed by a kid. I won't say more as you haven't seen it yet Q.
The pleasure is not just in the knowing, but in the watching of it. It was a cobbled-together TARDIS console, BTW.
And yes, I do remember hearing about that original Blue Peter competition. In fact, there's a documentary on one of my DVDs (Horns of Nimon, I think) called Who Peter, where they actually interview the designer of the winner of that original contest from the sixties.
You know, if I was given a chance to design a Doctor Who monster (I'd have no chance of winning due to my complete lack of artistic talent), I'd try and look at something abstract. Something primal. Moffat knows how to do that. You have a creepy child in a gasmask, clockwork homicidal robots, statues that only move when you're not looking at them, homicidal shadows, and aliens that erase themselves from your memory when you look away.
And Russell T Davies managed to do it best (amongst his creations) with that Midnight creature. Oh, and in his one and only Doctor Who novel, he wrote about a multidimensional Gallifreyan weapon that propagated itself through a batch of cocaine.
Tonyblack said:
I don't know if you ever saw the TV adaptation of Neverwhere, Q. I thought there were some touches of that in this episode. Especially with the characters at the start - with a little added Igor.
Well, he is a fan.
But I can understand if he doesn't want to write another one straight away. If he wants to write a seriously good one, he should take his time.
I know that they probably chose The Doctor's Wife as a title as a reference to the fake story JNT put on his whiteboard back in the eighties (and for being very marketable to fans), but I wish they went with one of the other working titles. The House of Nothing was a brilliant title, pure Gaiman. Or Bigger on the Inside.
But I can understand if he doesn't want to write another one straight away. If he wants to write a seriously good one, he should take his time.
I know that they probably chose The Doctor's Wife as a title as a reference to the fake story JNT put on his whiteboard back in the eighties (and for being very marketable to fans), but I wish they went with one of the other working titles. The House of Nothing was a brilliant title, pure Gaiman. Or Bigger on the Inside.
