The turning of Doctor Who into a Rwandan Scotsman is what it took for me to remember I had ever had a blog. 12 years! I was young.
I was thinking what I expected of a quintessential English story to be like; would it be anything like Russel T. Davis' doctors? I watched some of the Eccleston best moments to remember how it was. I got hooked on Who in the Tenant phase. I still loved it with Matt Smith. Hell I even lasted for the first year I think of Capaldi's. I really liked his companion, the girl with a wide face.
Then I started to notice things. For instance, Eccleston's blonde companion was already dating an African person. The Inclusion was already there in 2005. The Message.
I've always had some gripe with Doctor Who. Like the stories didn't match the opening. The opening was so mysterious and epic, and the stories were all... meh. Well, maybe not all. So I set to look for the best written stories of Doctor Who. I assumed they'd be the ones written by Douglas Adams and Neil Gaiman. Well, let's drop Gaiman for a while... being a man of the Tribe writing close to the present year, he'd almost certainly have something of the Message to bring forth.
But what did I really expect from Doctor Who? Could I, a non Brit, imagine it more British than it has ever been? What would an all-English Doctor Who play like? Something like a Monty Python sketch? I might find it in the Douglas Adams episodes. I'm going to watch Season 16 Episode 5, The Pirate Planet or something, and see. It was with the Fourth Doctor, by Tom Baker, a man of the Tribe himself.
Oh well.. Maybe 1978 was already too late.
Warhammer 40K. Warhammer 40K is what I expect of an English adventure. Doctor Who in Helsreach. What could the Sonic Screwdriver and the Flying Telephone booth do against a full Ork invasion? And how would it play, if The Doctor himself had regenerated into an Ork? That is something to think about.
I was thinking what I expected of a quintessential English story to be like; would it be anything like Russel T. Davis' doctors? I watched some of the Eccleston best moments to remember how it was. I got hooked on Who in the Tenant phase. I still loved it with Matt Smith. Hell I even lasted for the first year I think of Capaldi's. I really liked his companion, the girl with a wide face.
Then I started to notice things. For instance, Eccleston's blonde companion was already dating an African person. The Inclusion was already there in 2005. The Message.
I've always had some gripe with Doctor Who. Like the stories didn't match the opening. The opening was so mysterious and epic, and the stories were all... meh. Well, maybe not all. So I set to look for the best written stories of Doctor Who. I assumed they'd be the ones written by Douglas Adams and Neil Gaiman. Well, let's drop Gaiman for a while... being a man of the Tribe writing close to the present year, he'd almost certainly have something of the Message to bring forth.
But what did I really expect from Doctor Who? Could I, a non Brit, imagine it more British than it has ever been? What would an all-English Doctor Who play like? Something like a Monty Python sketch? I might find it in the Douglas Adams episodes. I'm going to watch Season 16 Episode 5, The Pirate Planet or something, and see. It was with the Fourth Doctor, by Tom Baker, a man of the Tribe himself.
Oh well.. Maybe 1978 was already too late.
Warhammer 40K. Warhammer 40K is what I expect of an English adventure. Doctor Who in Helsreach. What could the Sonic Screwdriver and the Flying Telephone booth do against a full Ork invasion? And how would it play, if The Doctor himself had regenerated into an Ork? That is something to think about.
