Comments on: Response to the Doctor Who Responses (Pop-Drama 2.5)

By: Gavin Burrows

Gavin Burrows — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:09:49 +0000

Okay, you talked me into it…

http://www.lucidfrenzy.blogspot.com

By: pillock

pillock — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:41:08 +0000

Just had to say, or it’d look like I was filching!

By: pillock

pillock — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:40:24 +0000

Awp! That's my Doctor Who thing!

By: kalyarn

kalyarn — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:31:49 +0000

I’m late in coming to all this, so my apologies, Andrew, but one thing I’d love for you to address, in bringing the Doctor (who?) back to his original incarnation is the character of Susan. I feel like there is a correlation between having an amnesiac-type character and another, similar one (not just a human companion), who is not suffering as such. Do you think the original writers created this character for viewers to be able connect with the Doctor (proxy-by-proxy/companions-Susan-Doctor Who), and if so, do you see room in your reimagining for her?

By: pillock

pillock — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:12:15 +0000

Or, paddling one’s own canoe can be nice, too…oh look, here Andrew is about to publish something…

By: Kieran

Kieran — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:37:55 +0000

Audio plays would provide the same freedom to not show things in prose, it comes down to whatever Andrew is most comfortable with, but there’s a well-worn path of adaption between the two mediums. And as to serialization well, magazines still print short stories don’t they? If they’re well recieved (and they should be!) they can be adapted to pseudo audio plays in the vein of The Death of Bunny Munro.

By: pillock

pillock — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:07:04 +0000

Logically extrapolative!

By: pillock

pillock — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:06:39 +0000

Who would the Doctor be, if he couldn’t be the Doctor? That question’s already front-and-centre in your original proposal, it takes so little work to make it slyly tongue-in-groove…or should that be tongue-in-cheek?

What would the Tardis be, if it couldn’t be the Tardis? What would it have to be?

It’s just like writing science fiction, only this time the science fiction would be based on science fiction. The Cybermen, the Daleks…forget how they were made, and think of what they mean.

I keep saying it, but: fun!

By: Zom

Zom — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:41:49 +0000

I completely agree with Pillock re the rip off aspect. Grant Morrison has made a living ripping off other people’s ideas and much richer we are for it.

By: pillock

pillock — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:04:39 +0000

Sorry, that seemed like an abrupt swerve off-topic…

Upsetting stuff about DL! I really want it to be fantastic, of course.

Maybe it’s just early days?

Hmm, sounds like it’d benefit from having local pull-outs, maybe that’s where the collision could really come from…

And Andrew, didn’t I say something like they’d come looking for you? Imagine, one day you get a call from Alan Moore…

Well, it’s fun to imagine it!

Er, that reminds me…sort of owe three essays in total to the people in this thread…

Right, back to work!