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Post by dalekbuster523finish on Mar 14, 2017 9:17:48 GMT
A vignette of what I'm dabbling with: Hours later, the door to the Doctor’s cell opened and Vastra stood in the doorway. “Feedin’ time already? I'll ‘ave the soup de jour. And seeing as grapes haven evolved yet, it’ll be ginger pop for drink.” The Doctor smiled in such a way his ears wiggled. Vastra regarded him levelly, and said “I don't think you're as stupid as you want us to believe.” “Well, it's been said before that no one is as stupid as I appear,” the Doctor relished trading barbs with his captors. It was a tried, trusted and true method of getting interesting results. Today was no different, it seemed that his apparently smug reply struck home and Vastra lost every vestige of self-control and she burst forward and grabbed the Doctor hissing “my people are facing death, and some alien,” she all but spat the word, “comes here and jokes and mocks. Either help or leave. No one here will stop you. No one here has the time to.” She pushed the Doctor away and turned her back on him, but not before the Doctor caught sight of the desperation in her eyes and the fear in her voice. He felt the weight of history on his shoulders, the looming pressure of a fixed point in time pressing on his soul. He knew he should leave. But he also knew what it was to face extinction. “No More,” he said softly. “What?” Vastra asked, turning to face the Doctor again. “I'm not gonna run away. It's not my nature. I'll help you however I can.” “I don't trust you,” Vastra said. “That's okay, friendships have been built on less. One of my best friends tried to kill me when we first met. Now,” as if a switch was thrown the Doctor went from flippant to deadly serious, “what's your problem?” That's literally the best fan fiction I've ever read. It's like it was written by Gareth Roberts.
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Post by acousticwolf on Mar 14, 2017 9:28:47 GMT
I don't think so, not for me anyway. Actually thinking about it, I'm not 100% sure but seeing him in "Rose", he seems so new. I think I could be persuaded, maybe ...
Cheers
Tony
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Mar 14, 2017 9:57:56 GMT
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Mar 14, 2017 12:22:05 GMT
Fantastic. I will get it at some point then
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Post by Ela on Mar 14, 2017 13:36:53 GMT
Yup! I think they were released physically without the Twelfth Doctor story at some point as well. Thanks. I actually never got through all the stories. I found them mostly mediocre in quality.
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Post by ulyssessarcher on Mar 14, 2017 16:52:04 GMT
If that dabbling gets published, I want a signed copy. Wish I could write like that. I'm currently struggling to get from A (Doctor takes charge) to B (which is cliffhanger material). well, she's Frankenstein, or a lepper. The whole population would be scared of her. I've always wanted to write a story involving Jack the ripper. But I always imagined only 3 would be able to deal with him, now with vastras attitude?
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Post by elkawho on Mar 14, 2017 17:17:59 GMT
Yup! I think they were released physically without the Twelfth Doctor story at some point as well. Yes, they were released for the 50th. I have that release, without the Twelfth Doctor story in it, since there wasn't a Twelfth Doctor yet.
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Mar 17, 2017 0:05:42 GMT
I'm currently struggling to get from A (Doctor takes charge) to B (which is cliffhanger material). well, she's Frankenstein, or a lepper. The whole population would be scared of her. I've always wanted to write a story involving Jack the ripper. But I always imagined only 3 would be able to deal with him, now with vastras attitude? I think Six could handle him
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2017 1:10:34 GMT
If that dabbling gets published, I want a signed copy. Wish I could write like that. I'm currently struggling to get from A (Doctor takes charge) to B (which is cliffhanger material). My advice is whenever you hit a wall where getting from one point in the story to another is switch across to your B-plot. Your supporting characters are your lifeline when you need someone to react to your protagonist or vice versa. If everyone has the same set of interests, throw in a force of nature. Mondas leaving Earth's orbit has got to have some truly nasty gravitational effects that could leave you with floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, all manner of unpleasant weather to speed the plot along.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Mar 17, 2017 12:51:32 GMT
I'm currently struggling to get from A (Doctor takes charge) to B (which is cliffhanger material). My advice is whenever you hit a wall where getting from one point in the story to another is switch across to your B-plot. Your supporting characters are your lifeline when you need someone to react to your protagonist or vice versa. If everyone has the same set of interests, throw in a force of nature. Mondas leaving Earth's orbit has got to have some truly nasty gravitational effects that could leave you with floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, all manner of unpleasant weather to speed the plot along. Which would hint at events in the Flashbacks of Bloodtide
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Post by barnabaslives on Mar 17, 2017 22:03:08 GMT
Mondas leaving Earth's orbit has got to have some truly nasty gravitational effects that could leave you with floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, all manner of unpleasant weather Unless you're Steven Moffat...
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Mar 17, 2017 22:52:02 GMT
Mondas leaving Earth's orbit has got to have some truly nasty gravitational effects that could leave you with floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, all manner of unpleasant weather Unless you're Steven Moffat... Or Russell T Davies...let's FLY the Earth home.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Mar 17, 2017 23:03:47 GMT
Unless you're Steven Moffat... Or Russell T Davies...let's FLY the Earth home. You mock, but using the TARDIS to tow the "rogue planet" (space chicken egg) into orbit IS one of the solutions Im juggling.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2017 0:40:04 GMT
Or Russell T Davies...let's FLY the Earth home. You mock, but using the TARDIS to tow the "rogue planet" (space chicken egg) into orbit IS one of the solutions Im juggling. Blood Heat did have the Doctor pull the trick he later does in Neverland by having him materialise around the Earth. Not good for the TARDIS by any stretch of the imagination, but it's an option.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Mar 18, 2017 3:07:54 GMT
You mock, but using the TARDIS to tow the "rogue planet" (space chicken egg) into orbit IS one of the solutions Im juggling. Blood Heat did have the Doctor pull the trick he later does in Neverland by having him materialise around the Earth. Not good for the TARDIS by any stretch of the imagination, but it's an option. WEELL.... not quite the solution Imgoing for, but it does answer "where did the Cardiff Rift come from" and "why the Doctor is so happy to get the Quantum Extrapolator".
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2017 5:02:36 GMT
Blood Heat did have the Doctor pull the trick he later does in Neverland by having him materialise around the Earth. Not good for the TARDIS by any stretch of the imagination, but it's an option. WEELL.... not quite the solution I'm going for, but it does answer "where did the Cardiff Rift come from" and "why the Doctor is so happy to get the Quantum Extrapolator". *cough* Well, it wasn't exactly our Earth as it turns out... Long story. Definitely worth reading. Curiously enough, in the Auton trilogy, the doppelganger of Winslett points out that there are ley lines of power striated across the Earth. Rose described the Rift as similar to a geological fault line, except this one was transdimensional. The fact that the Gelth were able to use Gwen as a bridgehead in a similar way to Charley may point to the disturbance being... well, scarring from damage to the Web of Time. Maybe someone was playing a particularly nasty game of tug-of-war?
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Mar 18, 2017 5:41:23 GMT
Well, 7 does materialise the Tardis around what seems to be an entire STAR SYSTEM so...
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Post by elgranto on Mar 26, 2017 2:08:02 GMT
While I'm all for having companions set before Rose, I like the idea of Rose being the first companion that 9 fully trusted and felt comfortable around. Anyone prior to her may have simply not worked out as 9 was still recovering emotionally from the war at the time.
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Mar 26, 2017 3:20:35 GMT
While I'm all for having companions set before Rose, I like the idea of Rose being the first companion that 9 fully trusted and felt comfortable around. Anyone prior to her may have simply not worked out as 9 was still recovering emotionally from the war at the time. This is what we're looking for really.
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Post by aztec on Mar 26, 2017 13:27:50 GMT
Hmm...whilst I like the tardis team(s) in Series 1 and wouldn't want to undermnine the wonderful character arc the 9th Doctor has...I've never thought that 'Rose' was immediately after his regeneration (the Doctor seems a little too perky and confident for someone who had just committed double genocide and destroyed his homeworld...), I think there's room for three or four companions (albeit not ones who traveled with him as long as Rose) during this period as he acclimatizes to his new personality, the absence of gallifrey and cleaning up the aftermath of the time war, it strikes me that the 9th Doctor as seen in 'Rose' whilst angry and haunted seems pretty sure of himself and 'fully formed'... so maybe we are looking at this the wrong way, perhaps the 9th Doctor as seen on TV was actually nearer the end of his life than the beginning, with Rose and Jack being his final companions who finally allowed him to heal after other travelling companions begun the process, perhaps he started out as a very different character the comment in 'Rose' about his ears being nothing more than a throwaway comment after a recent haircut, or signifying it had been a long time since he cared to look in the mirror.
It is also worth noting that the 9th Doctor's UNIT Badge shows him looking a couple of years younger,with longer hair and a different shirt: imgur.com/2lzaxwj(I think that was just a stock photo taken from one of Ecclestons other roles, and I'm not sure if we actually see the badge close up in S1) And whilst I do like Rose (in series 1 at least) and Jack very much, I really don't like the idea of a Doctor being tied down by just two travelling companions, even if 'Rose' is early days for the 9th Doctor there's nothing to say he didn't get separated from Jack and Rose at some point, or dropped her off home to visit her mum or something. Big Finish or Titan comics could always do a Vampire Science or Mary's Story and have the Doctor drop the companion off for what seems a couple of hours, but is actually several years of travelling from the Doctors perspective with new companions. tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Rose_(TV_story)eyespider.org.uk/drwho/notes.html#postwarThe War Doctor's last words are 'I hope the ears are less conspicuous this time' perhaps in retrospect the 9th Doctor's 'shame about the ears comment' can be viewed as nothing more than him voicing an ongoing grievance with his appearance, short hair can make big ears seem even bigger... Also worth noting RTD approached DWM to do the official 8th Doctor regeneration into 9th Doctor story, this was to be set prior to the Time War even starting, so it seems reasonable to assume RTD had envisioned the 9th Doctor as being around for a while.
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