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selenakWell, we already know there'll be Missy stories, covering her Doctor-less time. Other obvious possibilities:
- Ashildr/Me's life between her first death and the 21st century, and then again between that and the end of the universe. I know there's a book covering some of the former, but I've also heard it's not very good, and at any rate Big Finish could do their own version. Since Ashildr turning into Me is actually not your usual kind of immortal story in that it's canon she forgets huge bits of her life, if enough time passes, hence the diaries, I would like someone to tackle both that kind of ongoing emotional isolation (until "The Woman who lived") and the reconnection, the constant reinvention. Of course, Maisie Williams could be expensive to get, but Game of Thrones is ending, and by all accounts she enjoyed her stint on Doctor Who.
- Ashildr/Me & Clara post Season 9. The few stories I've read went the "space girlfriends!" route too easily for my taste. There are considerable issues between them which should be worked through first, plus Ashildr/Me at that point should be incredibly alien, as literally the oldest creature in the universe, while I don't think that death experience completely cured Clara of her adrenaline junkie tendencies.
- The Doctor, Nardole and Missy in those 70 years in Bristol; leaving aside my wish for a Being Human crossover (come on, Toby Whitehouse, you know you wanna!), this is a fascinating time span to cover. The Doctor remaining voluntarily in one place and time for anyone for long is a big thing - Eleven did it to save a planet, Twelve did it for River for 25 years, and for Missy for 70, and that's pretty much it as far as we know. It's what after centuries and centuries of Doctor/Master status quo finally begins to alter their relationship again, it also alters Nardole from the timid creature we meet in Husbands of River Song to the snarky guy who knows the Doctor inside out he is when Bill meets him, and it makes the Twelfth Doctor into the kind mentor figure he is with Bill (with one notorious exception of a really bad episode). There are possibilities for both academia comedy (the Doctor vs other professors) and serious drama (he must have felt claustrophobic as much as Missy did in her vault at times, and surely she tried to kill him a few times early on? It's their texting, after all?). Not to mention: did he successfully avoid running into himself, or did he meet other regenerations? Other companions (whether or not they knew who he was)? How did Jack Harkness in the time between the end of s1 and Utopia in s3 when he was on the look out for a version of the Doctor that came after Nine not run across him? Etc.
- Bill and the Doctor only getting one season was regrettable, they worked really well together, so some additional adventures would be neat
- Bill & Pilot!Heather: now, here we have actual space girlfriends, but how does that feel to Bill early on? She has gone through extreme body horror, and her girlfriend might be Heather, but she's also an Alien of a very different physical nature. Not to mention: what if either of them falls out of love? It's one thing to be together because of mutual emotion, and another of having to live with the certainty that you owe your life to that other person and might literally be unable to exist without her. Not that I think that's necessarily the case with Bill, but it would make sense for her to wonder about it.
- minor point: I liked the General (whom we meet in the last two eps of s9), so if Big Finish wants to use a Time Lord who is neither a megalomaniac nor Romana...
The other days
- Ashildr/Me's life between her first death and the 21st century, and then again between that and the end of the universe. I know there's a book covering some of the former, but I've also heard it's not very good, and at any rate Big Finish could do their own version. Since Ashildr turning into Me is actually not your usual kind of immortal story in that it's canon she forgets huge bits of her life, if enough time passes, hence the diaries, I would like someone to tackle both that kind of ongoing emotional isolation (until "The Woman who lived") and the reconnection, the constant reinvention. Of course, Maisie Williams could be expensive to get, but Game of Thrones is ending, and by all accounts she enjoyed her stint on Doctor Who.
- Ashildr/Me & Clara post Season 9. The few stories I've read went the "space girlfriends!" route too easily for my taste. There are considerable issues between them which should be worked through first, plus Ashildr/Me at that point should be incredibly alien, as literally the oldest creature in the universe, while I don't think that death experience completely cured Clara of her adrenaline junkie tendencies.
- The Doctor, Nardole and Missy in those 70 years in Bristol; leaving aside my wish for a Being Human crossover (come on, Toby Whitehouse, you know you wanna!), this is a fascinating time span to cover. The Doctor remaining voluntarily in one place and time for anyone for long is a big thing - Eleven did it to save a planet, Twelve did it for River for 25 years, and for Missy for 70, and that's pretty much it as far as we know. It's what after centuries and centuries of Doctor/Master status quo finally begins to alter their relationship again, it also alters Nardole from the timid creature we meet in Husbands of River Song to the snarky guy who knows the Doctor inside out he is when Bill meets him, and it makes the Twelfth Doctor into the kind mentor figure he is with Bill (with one notorious exception of a really bad episode). There are possibilities for both academia comedy (the Doctor vs other professors) and serious drama (he must have felt claustrophobic as much as Missy did in her vault at times, and surely she tried to kill him a few times early on? It's their texting, after all?). Not to mention: did he successfully avoid running into himself, or did he meet other regenerations? Other companions (whether or not they knew who he was)? How did Jack Harkness in the time between the end of s1 and Utopia in s3 when he was on the look out for a version of the Doctor that came after Nine not run across him? Etc.
- Bill and the Doctor only getting one season was regrettable, they worked really well together, so some additional adventures would be neat
- Bill & Pilot!Heather: now, here we have actual space girlfriends, but how does that feel to Bill early on? She has gone through extreme body horror, and her girlfriend might be Heather, but she's also an Alien of a very different physical nature. Not to mention: what if either of them falls out of love? It's one thing to be together because of mutual emotion, and another of having to live with the certainty that you owe your life to that other person and might literally be unable to exist without her. Not that I think that's necessarily the case with Bill, but it would make sense for her to wonder about it.
- minor point: I liked the General (whom we meet in the last two eps of s9), so if Big Finish wants to use a Time Lord who is neither a megalomaniac nor Romana...
The other days
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Date: 2019-01-21 06:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-22 04:35 pm (UTC)I have a feeling if we get a 12 audio with Peter Capaldi back, it would be with Bill’s Pearl Mackie first. I’ve read that Jenna Colemen said she didn’t like the experience of recording with BF for a 50th Anniversary audio or at least was self-critical about the Matt Smith impression she had to do for it, but I can’t find the source for it. Hope it’s not a big issue. The adventures with Ashildr/Me do sound interesting and they could make any appearance in the timeline, including in the newly announced Paternoster Gang series (And, erm, interesting moments where Ashilder/Me could run into herself). There’s also the Jane Austen thread that BF already picked up in one boxset.
Bill and Pilot!Heather could be interesting, with them able to go back to Earth and maybe even meet the Doctor’s future incarnations.