Doctor Who - Season Finale Interview with Russell T Davies -

Doctor Who - Season Finale Interview with Russell T Davies - July 4th 2008 BBC This Morning

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[kroozader]

Say what you will, but there would not be Dr. Who today without this man.

[melanieplath]

RTD is so great a writer, love his work; really fantstic that you loaded that up, thanks ever so much.

You really get to see not that much of him.

[227060]

@hcvang Really, i was thinking of someday doing some DW fanfics but within reason. u know u c all these fanfic that go WAY too far like, well pretty much any fic which ends up with the Dr in bed with any1. I wanted 2 do a trilogy of Cybermen stories, 1 of which might b a kinda prequel to the Next Doctor so ud c Jackson lake get atacked, then slowly become the Docotor, find Rosita and have an adventure all his own b4 he meets the Doctor. I also came up with a mad idea where Dr 11 meets Jenny

[hcvang]

@227060 sure, but gays and non-caucasian companions dont change the fundamentals of the concept, whereas changing the Doctor's species, race or gender would be a fundamental change. I mean, it could be done within the confines of a single story, if he reverts to his normal self in the end - sure!

in fact - I'm planning a fanzine full of fancomic strips, and may just do that in one of the stories.

[227060]

@hcvang Im not saying the Docotor shud regenerate in spin off media into a Sontaran or wateva, just A time Lord. plus thats why I said in spin off media bcos u can get away with more stuff in those bcos they aren't as exposed as say the TV series. Eg there were non-white and gay companions in DW spin off stories LONG b4 they showed up in the TV show from 2005 onwards

[hcvang]

@227060 Yeah, but those spaceships still adhere to a certain sense of realistic convention - and the Churchill version was still believably Churchill... he didnt start dancing around the room, wasnt a slender young gentleman with blonde hair and a girl on his arm, etc... If the Doctor, always been male from the get-go, always been a time lord, suddenly turned into a sontaran - poof! gone verisimilitude.

allz I'm saying is I dont think it's weird they havent tried it.

[227060]

@hcvang u r right...exept in Dr Who the rules get so messed up almost anything goes. thats its strength, thats its weakness. if the Doctor said Time Lords can regenerate into almost any form then I believe they can. Im not sayin I'd want 2 c it but like I said I was just surprised with 40+ yr of history, and mountains of spin off media it was never attempted in some form or another. Realism in DW has 2 b rolled with. u got spaceships wrecking Big Ben + idealised versions of Churchill 4 Fs sake

[hcvang]

@kroozader Hell yeah, everyone who loves fantasy and sci fi owe him a pat on the back. =)

[hcvang]

@227060 Isnt it obvious?

You establish a fictional world, establish rules within that world and if you twist them TOO much, verisimilitude is lost and believability is lost - our suspension of disbelief is ruined, and the show doesnt work.

If a male gallifreyan morphs into a Dalek, A Sontaran, a Martian or a Zog(!), he wont be a gallifreyan.

a male gallifreyan to a female gallifreyan is also pushing it, but it's atleast more defendable than an alien.

[227060]

@hcvang ok its the degree to which fiction is real, the degree of realism....wats ur point

[hcvang]

@227060 look up the word verisimilitude