[ SECRET POST #2221 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2221 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Comments

[tenlittlebullets]

Oh, the TV movie is more than worth it for McGann.

Ahaha yes the half-human thing. At some point the Doctor needs to distract someone and goes, basically, "Can I tell you a secret? I'm half-human. On my mother's side." I think the Powers That Be had some grand plan laid out where the Doctor goes looking for his father, but thankfully that never saw the light of day and we're left with a one-liner that everyone tries to handwave away.

My personal explanation? He was trying to cause a distraction by repeating a joke first told to him by an itinerant preacher he met in Galilee, but in his post-regenerative fuzziness he didn't realize it was only funny the first time. :p

I don't recall the audio plays ever touching the events of the movie, except maybe via wink-wink nudge-nudge references.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Ah, that sounds better! that it ended up being a one-liner that can be handwaved away easily - and I like your explanation!

Okay so the audio plays use the character (voiced by the same actor) but kind of run in a different direction than the movie did?

[tenlittlebullets]

Yup. Eight's still voiced by McGann, but with a completely independent storyline that almost has a NuWho feel at times. A lot of the people who wrote for Big Finish went on to do scripts for the new series--Paul Cornell, Rob Shearman, Mark Gatiss, Gareth Roberts. And personally I love the audio play format; hearing narration read out in books on tape doesn't really do it for me, but this is like listening to an episode on headphones with no picture. (Which they occasionally use to do things that could never have been properly filmed.)

If you want to get into the Eight audios, I'd recommend listening to the first one, "Storm Warning," and then skipping directly to the second season starting with "Invaders from Mars." The rest of the first season's a bit shaky, but the second season has one of my favorite Doctor Who story arcs ever--the Doctor breaks time by rescuing someone who was meant to die, paradoxes up the wazoo, Time Lords being terrifying bastards, and the finale is a completely bonkers multi-Doctor multi-companion extravaganza with a very special take on the TARDIS in human form.

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AYRT

Very cool, I will have to check them out sometime. Thank you!

[kittenmommy]

There's this, too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/webcasts/shada/

[intrigueing]

He was trying to cause a distraction by repeating a joke first told to him by an itinerant preacher he met in Galilee


...I am literally in love with you.

[queelez]

...by an itinerant preacher he met in Galilee, but in his post-regenerative fuzziness he didn't realize it was only funny the first time.

A++ headcanon.

One of my personal favorite nods to the movie comes from a Seventh Doctor story--don't remember which one--when he yells that he will "not be killed by elevator music!"

[tenlittlebullets]

Heeeee!

Which reminds me that apparently Mark Gatiss had to cut a line from Idiot's Lantern where Ten grouses about what happened the last time he had to climb a radio tower.

[intrigueing]

That was cut? WHY??????????

[tenlittlebullets]

For time, I think. Tragic.

[kittenmommy]

My personal explanation? He was trying to cause a distraction by repeating a joke first told to him by an itinerant preacher he met in Galilee, but in his post-regenerative fuzziness he didn't realize it was only funny the first time. :p

Best. Headcanon. EVER.