Lungbarrow question

I've often thought something similar myself, BUT, and it seems like quite a big BUT, we'd first have to establish if BF would even go for the idea at all, and if Marc Platt would be OK with it and then in turn the BBC, then we'd have to get some preliminary contract negotiations with BF so as to establish the kind of money we'd need to raise whilst at the same time not revealing too much to public that might be deemed commercially sensitive.

I wouldn't at this stage say any of this would be impossible to achieve, BUT I'm not under any illusion that it would be as simple as setting up a crowd funding page and letting the pledges roll in.

Well if others would be up for it as well, I would lend my support in whatever way I could.

Probably not. Not least because the possibility of adapting it came up when the range was still going and Platt didn't like the idea.

Perceptions!! Lots of us don't want it. I stated elsewhere I'd pay them NOT to make it, which would be an easier option for them since it's paying them to maintain the status quo!

Oh, well obviously I'm not going to pay them to not make something, because that's mad, I'm just going to not buy it, but if you're automatically going to take offense from that and postulate that I don't want you to hear it, that's on you. I don't like it, and I'll keep saying that I don't like it, but a jokey comment is sometimes just that. 

Personally this is a book I'd rather not see adapted. I didn't like the book that much and have never understood why some do like it.

That said, I wouldn't try to stop others from buying it should it ever be adapted.

I enjoy it and Big Finish published a very similar story to it called Paper Cuts a couple years ago during the Sixth Doctor and Charley run. There've been some very vocal protests against it (poor Mervyn Peake, there are some who just don't seem to like him), but then we still have things like Bang-Bang-A-Boom and The Dark Husband in the audio retinue and I'm not seeing any vain bonfires about those coming into existence. For those of us who appreciate it, who enjoyed it and think Marc Platt did a sterling job trying to bring an additional bit of atmosphere to Gallifrey, I'd be very happy to contribute to a crowdfunding campaign to see it adapted. Those who don't are vehemently against it can just keep shouting that it's noncanon (despite The Beginning easily being an alternate account if one wished), I mean it worked so well for the book that people still discovered it over a decade later on the official BBC website... :3

However, I would question whether or not it should be an audio drama, an audiobook with a full cast or a streamlined hybrid like Farewell, Great Macedon. Platt has a very lyrical and prose-heavy authorial voice from what I've read. Me personally, I think I'd rather like the hybrid or the audiobook. Then again, there are dramas that have been able to do fantastic worldbuilding without grounding their entire plots to a halt to do it. Hmm...

"Unequivocally," from the Doctor's mouth too, yet there's still procellous opinions standing against it. Gary Russell did some amazing work on keeping Love and War's texture, I wonder if he'd be willing to direct if Platt ever were to change his mind?

I'd rather it be left alone, to be honest. I'm not a fan of The New Adventures era and think that The Doctor's origins should be left mysterious, it's more fun that way  

Indifferent also - I don't have any particular devotion to the idea, although though if someone adapted it I'd probably want to hear it and see how much of it I'm able to adopt as personal canon.