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Post by grinch on Mar 8, 2021 21:50:27 GMT
A story set during a school production where the Doctor finds himself roped in as a supporting character. Then things go wrong. Very wrong.
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Post by x2magneto on Mar 8, 2021 22:02:16 GMT
The Master (Eric Roberts) is elected President of the United States.
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Post by timegirl on Mar 8, 2021 22:02:39 GMT
A story set during a school production where the Doctor finds himself roped in a supporting character. Then things go wrong. Very wrong. Love this! Which Doctor? What show are they doing? Is it a musical?
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Post by grinch on Mar 8, 2021 22:09:23 GMT
A story set during a school production where the Doctor finds himself roped in a supporting character. Then things go wrong. Very wrong. Love this! Which Doctor? What show are they doing? Is it a musical? Off the top of my head I’m imagining it to be some historical drama. Perhaps Elizabethan originally. With the First Doctor even playing a member of the Royal Court or the Second Doctor as a Fool. No idea what the threat of the story would be but maybe the performance of said play is channeling him and somehow allowing the now deceased playwright to return back to life. Signs of which would include the lights flickering as the energy is drained from the environment. To stop the barriers between life and death from being broken, the Doctor would encourage the children to diverge from the original script of the play and improvise which would disrupt the ceremony and enable them to banish the playwright back to whence he came. Naturally, the play would turn out to be a roaring success. So perhaps a bit more supernatural than science fiction based but I guess you could always justify it somehow.
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Post by grinch on Mar 8, 2021 22:30:15 GMT
The Master (Eric Roberts) is elected President of the United States. Interesting. If you were writing it, how would you differentiate such a story from the Saxon Master’s tenure as Prime Minister?
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Mar 8, 2021 22:32:57 GMT
The Doctor has to help themselves solve a mystery but mustn't let themselves know.
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Post by x2magneto on Mar 8, 2021 22:55:14 GMT
The Master (Eric Roberts) is elected President of the United States. Interesting. If you were writing it, how would you differentiate such a story from the Saxon Master’s tenure as Prime Minister? In my mind it is better to take the easy routes with these kinds of stories, and the easiest way would to be to take advantage of the juxtaposition. Saxon was an unreliable crazy person that once the jig was up went on the rampage. Big Finish seems to be developing the Roberts Master into someone that has an at ease charm. The best way to go about it is that he never breaks character, and in the end his legacy as president divides the country. Might not even end with his removal. He might serve the full term (or two). Would be a great meditation on the duplicity of the office itself if handled the right way. In fact, you could set it in the future. He's number 50 or 51. He takes the US into a bold new future or did he? The talking heads argue it out. You'd need a really good writer.
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Post by grinch on Mar 8, 2021 23:49:58 GMT
Interesting. If you were writing it, how would you differentiate such a story from the Saxon Master’s tenure as Prime Minister? In my mind it is better to take the easy routes with these kinds of stories, and the easiest way would to be to take advantage of the juxtaposition. Saxon was an unreliable crazy person that once the jig was up went on the rampage. Big Finish seems to be developing the Roberts Master into someone that has an at ease charm. The best way to go about it is that he never breaks character, and in the end his legacy as president divides the country. Might not even end with his removal. He might serve the full term (or two). Would be a great meditation on the duplicity of the office itself if handled the right way. In fact, you could set it in the future. He's number 50 or 51. He takes the US into a bold new future or did he? The talking heads argue it out. You'd need a really good writer. I really like that idea. Could imagine a story ending with the Doctor and the Master exchanging barbs with one another in the Oval Office before the Doctor leaves with the Master still in the role of President. Knowing that to remove him would cause more damage than good. Not to mention as Time Lords, they have a greater understanding of the time lines. Imagine all the alien incursions and invasions that the Master will prevent when in office, the lives that will be saved it’s an ethical quandary which I’m sure the two old friends would debate on for ages. Of course, the Master would naturally have a plan using the benefits and almost unlimited access the President has but as you said it would certainly leave a legacy. Could even see the Master using his host body of ‘Bruce’ as a part of his presidential campaign. A mere ambulance driver turned presidential hopeful. The American Dream made manifest.
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Post by timegirl on Mar 8, 2021 23:52:30 GMT
In my mind it is better to take the easy routes with these kinds of stories, and the easiest way would to be to take advantage of the juxtaposition. Saxon was an unreliable crazy person that once the jig was up went on the rampage. Big Finish seems to be developing the Roberts Master into someone that has an at ease charm. The best way to go about it is that he never breaks character, and in the end his legacy as president divides the country. Might not even end with his removal. He might serve the full term (or two). Would be a great meditation on the duplicity of the office itself if handled the right way. In fact, you could set it in the future. He's number 50 or 51. He takes the US into a bold new future or did he? The talking heads argue it out. You'd need a really good writer. I really like that idea. Could imagine a story ending with the Doctor and the Master exchanging barbs with one another in the Oval Office before the Doctor leaves with the Master still in the role of President. Knowing that to remove him would cause more damage than good. Not to mention as Time Lords, they have a greater understanding of the time lines. Imagine all the alien incursions and invasions that the Master will prevent when in office, the lives that will be saved it’s an ethical quandary which I’m sure the two old friends would debate on for ages. Of course, the Master would naturally have a plan using the benefits and almost unlimited access the President has but as you said it would certainly leave a legacy. Could even see the Master using his host body of ‘Bruce’ as a part of his presidential campaign. A mere ambulance driver turned presidential hopeful. The American Dream made manifest. Okay this has to be a BF boxset it’s too good!
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Mar 9, 2021 0:54:53 GMT
In my mind it is better to take the easy routes with these kinds of stories, and the easiest way would to be to take advantage of the juxtaposition. Saxon was an unreliable crazy person that once the jig was up went on the rampage. Big Finish seems to be developing the Roberts Master into someone that has an at ease charm. The best way to go about it is that he never breaks character, and in the end his legacy as president divides the country. Might not even end with his removal. He might serve the full term (or two). Would be a great meditation on the duplicity of the office itself if handled the right way. In fact, you could set it in the future. He's number 50 or 51. He takes the US into a bold new future or did he? The talking heads argue it out. You'd need a really good writer. I really like that idea. Could imagine a story ending with the Doctor and the Master exchanging barbs with one another in the Oval Office before the Doctor leaves with the Master still in the role of President. Knowing that to remove him would cause more damage than good. Not to mention as Time Lords, they have a greater understanding of the time lines. Imagine all the alien incursions and invasions that the Master will prevent when in office, the lives that will be saved it’s an ethical quandary which I’m sure the two old friends would debate on for ages. Of course, the Master would naturally have a plan using the benefits and almost unlimited access the President has but as you said it would certainly leave a legacy. Could even see the Master using his host body of ‘Bruce’ as a part of his presidential campaign. A mere ambulance driver turned presidential hopeful. The American Dream made manifest. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!!
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Post by timegirl on Mar 9, 2021 1:36:22 GMT
The Doctor gets tricked into thinking they are frolicking in a beautiful paradise with everyone they care about happy and safe with them but in actuality they are locked in a death trap.
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Post by x2magneto on Mar 9, 2021 3:22:42 GMT
In my mind it is better to take the easy routes with these kinds of stories, and the easiest way would to be to take advantage of the juxtaposition. Saxon was an unreliable crazy person that once the jig was up went on the rampage. Big Finish seems to be developing the Roberts Master into someone that has an at ease charm. The best way to go about it is that he never breaks character, and in the end his legacy as president divides the country. Might not even end with his removal. He might serve the full term (or two). Would be a great meditation on the duplicity of the office itself if handled the right way. In fact, you could set it in the future. He's number 50 or 51. He takes the US into a bold new future or did he? The talking heads argue it out. You'd need a really good writer. I really like that idea. Could imagine a story ending with the Doctor and the Master exchanging barbs with one another in the Oval Office before the Doctor leaves with the Master still in the role of President. Knowing that to remove him would cause more damage than good. Not to mention as Time Lords, they have a greater understanding of the time lines. Imagine all the alien incursions and invasions that the Master will prevent when in office, the lives that will be saved it’s an ethical quandary which I’m sure the two old friends would debate on for ages. Of course, the Master would naturally have a plan using the benefits and almost unlimited access the President has but as you said it would certainly leave a legacy. Could even see the Master using his host body of ‘Bruce’ as a part of his presidential campaign. A mere ambulance driver turned presidential hopeful. The American Dream made manifest. This one feels like you could reach out and touch it. Master Volume 2's cover could literally just be a Presidential Seal. Could be a very unsettling entry, especially with the current state of the country. I mean...the stage has kind of been set for that one man to finally come along. Kind of makes one's blood curdle.
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Post by timegirl on Mar 9, 2021 3:52:38 GMT
It would to carefully handled so that it was respectful, but what if the next incarnation of the Doctor gets badly injured in their first episode in some way that can’t be fixed with regenerative energy and has to have several limbs (arms,legs, etc)emergency replaced with cybernetic ones the rest of their incarnation. This could create an interesting dynamic and it would create an unusual dilemma for them having to have no choice but to be partially cyberized using cyberman technology. Of course the Doctor would still be the Doctor having to come to terms with the fact that parts of them are cyber.
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Post by theillusiveman on Mar 9, 2021 5:33:36 GMT
The Master (Eric Roberts) is elected President of the United States. Now that I would love to hear Especially since Roberts master would be less grating as a president then John Simm was as Harold Saxon
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Post by timegirl on Mar 9, 2021 14:18:46 GMT
Because of odd circumstances 12 poses as the Master and Missy as the Doctor.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Mar 9, 2021 17:22:25 GMT
It would to carefully handled so that it was respectful, but what if the next incarnation of the Doctor gets badly injured in their first episode in some way that can’t be fixed with regenerative energy and has to have several limbs (arms,legs, etc)emergency replaced with cybernetic ones the rest of their incarnation. This could create an interesting dynamic and it would create an unusual dilemma for them having to have no choice but to be partially cyberized using cyberman technology. Of course the Doctor would still be the Doctor having to come to terms with the fact that parts of them are cyber. I've actually been setting something up just like that for a character in my Divergent Wordsmith stories
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Post by timegirl on Mar 9, 2021 17:34:06 GMT
It would to carefully handled so that it was respectful, but what if the next incarnation of the Doctor gets badly injured in their first episode in some way that can’t be fixed with regenerative energy and has to have several limbs (arms,legs, etc)emergency replaced with cybernetic ones the rest of their incarnation. This could create an interesting dynamic and it would create an unusual dilemma for them having to have no choice but to be partially cyberized using cyberman technology. Of course the Doctor would still be the Doctor having to come to terms with the fact that parts of them are cyber. I've actually been setting something up just like that for a character in my Divergent Wordsmith stories Ooo I’d love to read that when it’s done 😊
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Post by grinch on Mar 9, 2021 18:59:56 GMT
Kate Stewart, Osgood, Josh Carter and many other notable UNIT personnel are kidnapped by an alien force and put on trial in a Galactic Court on charges of illegally capturing and imprisoning sentient alien life within their Black Archives.
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Post by fitzoliverj on Mar 9, 2021 19:10:04 GMT
I think a 'sword-and-planet' genre story would work very well in DW. (That would lean much more heavily into the SF than, say, "The Robots of Whereveitwasinsteadofzenda".)
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Post by timegirl on Mar 9, 2021 20:20:34 GMT
Missy pretends to be someone’s fairy godmother/ guardian angel in order to corrupt them.
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