Re: Is Russell T Davies Killing Dr Who?

Binky bleated:

In article <vu2nc0$3oevq$1@dont-email.me>,
solar penguin  <solar.penguin@gmail.com> wrote:

Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

The Doctor wrote:
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Get someone with fresh ideas,  Maybe AGA and SP to be
co-showrunners!

 
I reckon the "RADW Sensibles" triumvirate of SP, Mike and Horny
would do a better job...
 

 
Sensible? Me? No, I’m only sensible compared to Yads and Aggy.
In any other group I’d be the weird one!
 

 
I still say you and AGA can be DW showrunners retconning the Timeless
Child out forever!
 

But I wouldn’t to retcon out the Timeless Child forever.

Don’t get me wrong, I think it was a very disappointing storyline
but if I stopped to retcon out every disappointing storyline DW
has ever had, I wouldn’t have time to do anything else!

No, leave them alone and just move on to something better instead.
The die is cast. The moving finger writes and having writ, moves on.
Other pretentious literary quotations. You get the idea.

OTOH if I absolutely had to retcon away the Timeless child, I would
do it in a way that had serious consequences that moved the
story forward.

Something like this:

“Previously on Doctor Who.”

Clips from “Survivors of the Flux”.  Awsok showing the Doctor the
fob watch. Swarm vaporising her.

Cut to:

Interior. The Master’s TARDIS.

A transmat beam or possibly a time scoop or something like
that deposits Awsok on the console room floor. The Master is
there, of course, along with the so-called Fugitive Doctor. They’re
clearly all in this together. Whatever “this” is.

AWSOK: “Thank you. For a moment there, I thought you were
really going to let your alien friends kill me.

MASTER (giggles): “Oh, it was tempting. After all, you do know too much.”

Awsok and the Fugitive roll their eyes at his cliché.

FUGITIVE: “But then I persuaded him that just makes you another
person he can monologue to.”

AWSOK: “He’s in a talkative mood again?”

FUGITIVE: “Yeah. While you were gone, he’s been on and on
about how clever he is, coming up with the plan, tricking the
Doctor into thinking I’m her, making her believe all that Timeless
Child nonsense, yadda-yadda-yaddah.”

MASTER: “I am still here you know, ladies. Don’t forget, when
I saved you from the destruction of Gallifrey, it was on condition
that you work for me. And that means we do things my way.”

FUGITIVE: “Monologues and all.”

MASTER: “Of course.” (to Awsok) “Talking of work, did you show the Doctor
the watch?”

AWSOK: “Yes.”

MASTER (giggles): “Perfect. Now she’ll take it, and it’s only
a matter of time before curiosity gets the better of her. Then
when she looks inside, SNAP, the trap is sprung!”

AWSOK: “I always said you’d get dizzy if you tried to walk in a
straight line, but even by your standards, this plan is crazy.”

MASTER: “I’m just playing the long game. And it’s bound to
work. What else is she going to do? Drop the watch into the
TARDIS console where she can’t reach it?”

Cut to clip from “The Vanquishers.” The Doctor dropping the
watch into the TARDIS console where she can’t reach it.

Extend this with a new sequence showing the watch lid being
knocked slightly ajar as it lands in the console circuitry. Wisps of
energy slowly seep out from the crack. Not the usual chameleon arch
biodata energy. There’s something different about this. Something
wrong. Not finding the Doctor, the energy starts to infect the
TARDIS instead.



Well, there you go. That’s a rough first draft anyway. It needs
a lot of rewriting, preferably by someone who actually cares about
this. But the potential is there.

(And yes, that “straight line” comment was intended suggest Awsok
was really the Rani. Who better to play an amoral Time Lord
scientist than another amoral Time Lord scientist?)

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solar penguin