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selenakAs was to be expected, the recent Doctor Who episode has already inspired fanfic. Two lovely episode tags, celebrating that most Whovian of 'ships the episode deals with:
Wonderfully and fearfully made
The conjugal bed
And a meta love declaration for that same ship: Bigger on the inside.
Neil Gaiman blogged about writing the episode: Adventures in the Screen Trade.
His blog entry also includes a number of thank yous, and because some of the fannish reception played his script out against the Moff's, just as back in the Rusty days, when the Moff was the star guest author, Moffat's scripts were played out against RTD's, and because this pitching writer against writer annoys me to no end, I'm just that much more a fan of Neil G. for not playing that game and instead including these two thank yous in his blog entry:
(M)ost of all to the Oodfather, Steven Moffatt, who encouraged me in my madness, rescued me when I told him I’d written too many drafts and couldn’t do it again, gave the script several of its best lines, and who even rapidly rewrote a couple of scenes at the last minute when locations vanished due to budget.
So much, btw, and I say this with a mea culpa of my own, for my and other's suspicion the Moff does not edit the scripts. The iDalek episode, Curse of the Black Spot and the Sherlock ep The Blind Banker still suck, though. And here is Gaiman's other thank you that warmed my heart:
And thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you, to Russell T. Davies, who brought Doctor Who back from the void and put it back together and sent it back into the future with its mission in place: to entertain, amaze and induce wonder in its audience while sending a certain number of them to watch from the relative safety of behind the sofa.
Thus basking in writerly love for the franchise and each other, I'm heading back to real life business and work.
Wonderfully and fearfully made
The conjugal bed
And a meta love declaration for that same ship: Bigger on the inside.
Neil Gaiman blogged about writing the episode: Adventures in the Screen Trade.
His blog entry also includes a number of thank yous, and because some of the fannish reception played his script out against the Moff's, just as back in the Rusty days, when the Moff was the star guest author, Moffat's scripts were played out against RTD's, and because this pitching writer against writer annoys me to no end, I'm just that much more a fan of Neil G. for not playing that game and instead including these two thank yous in his blog entry:
(M)ost of all to the Oodfather, Steven Moffatt, who encouraged me in my madness, rescued me when I told him I’d written too many drafts and couldn’t do it again, gave the script several of its best lines, and who even rapidly rewrote a couple of scenes at the last minute when locations vanished due to budget.
So much, btw, and I say this with a mea culpa of my own, for my and other's suspicion the Moff does not edit the scripts. The iDalek episode, Curse of the Black Spot and the Sherlock ep The Blind Banker still suck, though. And here is Gaiman's other thank you that warmed my heart:
And thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you, to Russell T. Davies, who brought Doctor Who back from the void and put it back together and sent it back into the future with its mission in place: to entertain, amaze and induce wonder in its audience while sending a certain number of them to watch from the relative safety of behind the sofa.
Thus basking in writerly love for the franchise and each other, I'm heading back to real life business and work.
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