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Six more hours of work tomorrow, and then two free weeks, hallelujah. Reading, skiing, relaxing. I've missed skiing.
I just might manage another day without actually murdering someone. Just. If I suddenly disappear from the internets you know what happened.
.:.:.:.
The Writer's Tale continues to be fascinating. Part of my brain hasn't quite given up worrying about fourth walls &c., but I actually love reading about the process of the stories evolving, which ideas made it, which got discarded, and how it all compares to my own impression of the finished product. I know fandom is all about the death of the author, but if someone's work really interests and engages me, I tend to also become interested in their thoughts &c., beyond the work itself. Fond memories of reading 10 volumes of TM's diaries and wishing he hadn't burned the earlier ones.
Written before they even knew how many specials there'd be, much less what the plot(s) would be. (Enterprise cross-over? Empty hotel, empty Earth with spidery aliens, Helen Mirren and the Doctor?) I don't think they physically aged DT in EoT after all (Or did they? I thought it was just in the acting...), but this is so there, the hat, the pink garland, how DT played it, the defensive edge... IMO at least sometimes you can tell what was at the heart of an episode from the beginning, before there even was an episode, and what was written around that.
( You can go around philosophising with 'Everything has its time' and 'Everything must die', and all that shtick... )
TBC, probably.
I just might manage another day without actually murdering someone. Just. If I suddenly disappear from the internets you know what happened.
The Writer's Tale continues to be fascinating. Part of my brain hasn't quite given up worrying about fourth walls &c., but I actually love reading about the process of the stories evolving, which ideas made it, which got discarded, and how it all compares to my own impression of the finished product. I know fandom is all about the death of the author, but if someone's work really interests and engages me, I tend to also become interested in their thoughts &c., beyond the work itself. Fond memories of reading 10 volumes of TM's diaries and wishing he hadn't burned the earlier ones.
One other idea: what if David has aged between his penultimate and final episode? It could pay off beautifully if the Ood summon the Doctor at the end of the Christmas episode, and then he steps out of the TARDIS in the 2010 episode... looking older! A little bit of grey. A little bit tired. Like he did anything to avoid this summons. He went everywhere, did everything, to avoid discovering his destiny from the Ood. He ran away. Travelled to the furthest stars. Got married. Broke his heart. Did unspeakable things. All to avoid this. He will do anything to avoid dying. [...] But the Ood have waited, with infinite patience. He couldn't out it off any longer.
Written before they even knew how many specials there'd be, much less what the plot(s) would be. (Enterprise cross-over? Empty hotel, empty Earth with spidery aliens, Helen Mirren and the Doctor?) I don't think they physically aged DT in EoT after all (Or did they? I thought it was just in the acting...), but this is so there, the hat, the pink garland, how DT played it, the defensive edge... IMO at least sometimes you can tell what was at the heart of an episode from the beginning, before there even was an episode, and what was written around that.
( You can go around philosophising with 'Everything has its time' and 'Everything must die', and all that shtick... )
TBC, probably.