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Post by shutupbanks on Mar 12, 2017 2:20:56 GMT
If he does come to Australia what would the stories be called?
Road Warriors Of The Deep The Adventures Of Katryca, Queen Of The Free He Died With A Sonic Screwdriver In His Hand Dalek-Proof Fence Mummy On The Last Train To Freo Tomorrow, When The War Games Began Cybermat Dundee
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Mar 12, 2017 3:10:12 GMT
If he does come to Australia what would the stories be called? Road Warriors Of The Deep The Adventures Of Katryca, Queen Of The Free He Died With A Sonic Screwdriver In His Hand Dalek-Proof Fence Mummy On The Last Train To Freo Tomorrow, When The War Games Began Cybermat Dundee Revenge of the Cybermanus Island Refugees the Pyramids of Gympie Nightmare of Edenvale
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 10:53:44 GMT
We could also have the Doctor visit Nimbin, the hippy capital in New South Wales. The Doctor spending most of the adventure high would be different.
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Post by kimalysong on Mar 12, 2017 11:09:24 GMT
Why would the Doctor go to Canada it's just a wasteland? Note I don't actually think this just teasing another mod on here.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 0:01:27 GMT
Writers are more likely to include a real life place in a story if they are familiar with that place, I expect you would have more Australia centric stories if BF had more Australian writers. Australian writer here, I think the very last place I'd talk about is Australia if I were writing for Big Finish. The people hold interest, but the events are more or less the same colonial stuff you'd find in any other country and there's only two-hundred or so years of it. Still... For those who are interested, there's Ned Kelly and his bushranger antics, Banjo Patterson who wrote Waltzing Matilda, Charles Kingsford Smith who made the first trans-pacific flight from the States to Australia, the Burke and Wills expedition that failed, Bennelong who assimilated into European culture acting as a go-between the Eora people and British settlers in New South Wales, Windradyne who lead the Bathurst frontier war... There are great swathes of Aboriginal history would have been fascinating to delve into, but a lot of the oral histories have since been lost or destroyed.
I'm not sure about exploring our history with the 'fixed points in time' laws of the Doctor Who universe, though.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 2:10:53 GMT
Australian writer here, I think the very last place I'd talk about is Australia if I were writing for Big Finish. The people hold interest, but the events are more or less the same colonial stuff you'd find in any other country and there's only two-hundred or so years of it. Still... For those who are interested, there's Ned Kelly and his bushranger antics, Banjo Patterson who wrote Waltzing Matilda, Charles Kingsford Smith who made the first trans-pacific flight from the States to Australia, the Burke and Wills expedition that failed, Bennelong who assimilated into European culture acting as a go-between the Eora people and British settlers in New South Wales, Windradyne who lead the Bathurst frontier war... There are great swathes of Aboriginal history would have been fascinating to delve into, but a lot of the oral histories have since been lost or destroyed.
I'm not sure about exploring our history with the 'fixed points in time' laws of the Doctor Who universe, though.
I can understand that. It feels wrong to say that a lot of these events must happen and I think that's down to how recent all of that still is from our perspective. It doesn't blur together quite like European or Asiatic history due to their respective lengths. Of course... It did happen, didn't it? And there is no way to change it. It's why pre-revival Doctor Who had the fourth dimension as a largely inflexible force that would deliberately work against the actions of our main characters to ensure that the history we as the audience expect remains intact, similar to the concept of Time as a malevolent entity in Sapphire and Steel. It's easier with other continental histories to see the good that has come out of these tragedies, but with us... It's harder to see that causal link as one leads to the other, changing and evolving perhaps for the better. Post-colonial Australia doesn't have a history replete with figures like Socrates, Oda Nobunaga, Nelson Mandela, Charles Darwin, Jules Verne, Hiawatha, William Shakespeare and others; to really justify such a stance. It's too short and the future too uncertain from where we stand now.
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Post by Ela on Mar 20, 2017 4:31:15 GMT
Why would the Doctor go to Canada it's just a wasteland? Note I don't actually think this just teasing another mod on here. I'll say one thing about Canada: It's long. (When my daughter flew to Japan from New York, she thought they'd never get finished flying over Canada. It just went on forever. )
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 5:05:00 GMT
Why would the Doctor go to Canada it's just a wasteland? Note I don't actually think this just teasing another mod on here. I'll say one thing about Canada: It's long. (When my daughter flew to Japan from New York, she thought they'd never get finished flying over Canada. It just went on forever. ) Friends of mine recently came back from a visit and the photographs they have of British Columbia are gorgeous. Embraced by the snow with peaks that seem to stretch up to an unseen zenith, the fullest blue sky I've ever seen. They've got one of their photographs blown up on a canvas in their main hallway as a panorama. Marvellous place for a holiday.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 7:07:38 GMT
How about the fifth Doctor visits that match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground where, because of the rain rules, a cricket team had to win 19 runs off one ball?
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