Yeah, and that infrastructure is required in the invitation to tender, right? On the plus side, that could mean he might focus on the writing and have an existing entity do all the business stuff. I dunno.
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That was explained during Moffat's run, though. Specifically Matt Smiths last episode.
I can't help but wonder if J. Michael Straczynski has thrown his hat in the ring
AFAIK he did, to the extent that he as an individual can: he posted on social media that he was interested. [Edit: here's a source]
If he is (or has since become) associated with a UK production company eligible for the tender, I haven't heard about it. But then, we wouldn't know unless somebody at that company or at the BBC let it slip.
Do comics do ghost writers?
I mean, there is the Marvel Method where Stan Lee would brainstorm with artists, let them go off and do the brunt of the work, and take a writing credit for filling in dialogue.
More to the point, I guess nobody has as much head canon about Dr Crusher as McFadden. She's spent decades creating back story for character motivation where it may not have existed on the scripted page. As I understand it that's pretty much par for the course.
I'm pretty sure IDW have "support writers" in staff to make those ideas conform to industrial narrative standards and formatting...
Pinning this for when the BBC picks their choice to lead the next Who production, so we can kvetch over which of the also-rans would have been better, akshually 😂
If nobody choose to do anything with that plot again, or they do and it still doesn't stick — I hope this will become the standard response.
At a first glance, it looks fun enough! But I'm 40+ years out of the target group, so if the actual show turns out not to be for me... mission accomplished, I guess 🙂
The character Toast-IE did remind me of this old gem:
That is pretty accurate, yes 😂 A big part of it I think is fans watching new episodes as they air, and going mad with waiting a week for the next one. The hyperfocus on picking over details of the week's story and speculating on what will happen next creates a weird and often (mostly) overly harsh criticism. Especially when discussed online...
And that's when previously hated runs are suddenly viewed through rosier glasses. Seems it's only now that the fandom can embrace Whittaker's Doctor (i.e., not spit bile on others for expressing moderate appreciation). Because apparently Chibnall did still ruin the show, but RTD really, really ruined it?
Also, don't forget the subset of fans who only really liked Tennant's run and the Rose romance arc, and will continue to comment like those three seasons are all that really count out of a >60yrs show 🙂
Can't really disagree with him about the substantial leaks, nor about the online outrage professionals. It's an exhausting environment to navigate as viewers, especially because it largely feeds off our passion for shows like Who and Trek.
However, I'll be interested in following the reactions of other parties involved in the production of the show for the past couple of years, once they've digested Davies' version. If the messy season arcs and anticlimactic finales are any sign, there must have been more happening on the production than just unfounded optimism about Disney extending their streaming deal.
"Far future"? This was supposed to be for Discovery, which is initially set around 130 years from now. How much visible evolution do you imagine would take place in such a short timespan?
Cultbox has the best header image to go with the headline:
(a still from "The robot revolution", 2025)
They also theorise that what Britton was "sent" and watched was a pretty terrible "gen AI" fan project that was published to Youtube earlier this month, and then taken down fairly quickly after.
Bryan Fuller posted this on Instagram as a birthday greeting to Laurence Fishburne, back on July 30.
So apparently Fuller had intended to carry over the Hannibal cast into Discovery in various parts — and this was how he'd imagined Fishburne in Klingon prosthetics. It also suggests that the much maligned Disco Klingon designs were decided upon after Fuller left as (preliminary) show runner.
ETA: Here is a rundown of the casting plans he had in mind, originally revealed on the D-con chamber podcast. I would have watched Gillian Anderson as a starship captain.
Big caveat up front, I have no illusion that this was ever planned out, or that it's ever going to be made. I just connected some dots from Eccleston's season to our current mess. I do think that if the BBC had Pete McTighe make a 15 minute special along these lines and put it on Youtube, the fans could rest easier and the next production team might start on a blank slate.
To summarise, the last couple of seasons had a convoluted arc concerning a companion's parent issues. She was saved as a baby through time travel intervention, but not without a lot of temporal disturbance in the process. In fact, babies have been a throughline in both Ncuti Gatwa's seasons, a pattern that culminates in the Doctor rupturing the Time Vortex in order to save one child's existence. For just a probable moment there, that child is his own. Succeeding in his mission, the Doctor is then replaced by somebody looking suspiciously like Rose Tyler.
- Church.
- Baby.
- Rose.
- Temporal paradox.
- On what could be considered the Doctor's Father's Day.
Bring on the Time Reapers to sterilise the wound in time! That's why the Doctor regenerated into this face, à la 12 looking like Caecilius from "The fires of Pompeii". She needs to channel Rose as a catalyst to heal the reset 15 did to save Poppy. Besides, where Pete sacrificed himself to sort the timestream out, this time around the Reapers are attacking the Doctor and their police box. And the Doctor's current face has a very special relation to the TARDIS' living heart.
To be fair, the rest of the story doesn't really matter, this is only meant to resolve the Billie Piper twist of "The reality war". It doesn't fix fan quibbles over the Timeless Child or the Doctor being half human on their mother's side for a hot minute in 1996. Pretty much everything other than that latest regeneration cliffhanger can be ignored or picked up upon by future writers. So end this minisode on a regeneration without showing what happens next, or just leave it open ended.
Now, would I love for Susan to pop up for no other reason than to ease her "grandfather" into the credits crawl, and a future season where neither actress are seen again? Maybe an exchange to echo the Seventh's exit monologue to Ace at the end of "Survival"? Absolutely, but this could well be a one hander between Piper, some 2005 archive footage, and the janky old low-poly CGI monsters from back then.
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True. And can she transform all of that to an arresting comics story? We don't know.