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selenakBefore I go to do my daily conferencing (not the fun kind today, but the necessary kind), we have another trailer, this one of the special about the birth of Doctor Who, so to speak:
An Adventure in Time and Space
In which Jenny from Call The Midwife is Verity Lambert, first DW producer ever, and David Bradley gets his William Hartnell on. It looks like they're the two main characters of the story, which makes me suspect Mark Gattiss, who wrote the script, is going for something of a A Star is Born structure, only without romance, i.e. male character's professional career peaks, then declines while female character's rises. As long as Gattiss doesn't do what The Artist did (and that's one of several reasons why I couldn't join in the Artist squee a few years back), i.e.make the female character feel guilty about her success and has everyone throw a pity party for the male character, I'm good with that. And going by the trailer, he doesn't.
Also: Verity Lambert pitching the Doctor as "C.S. Lewis meets H.G. Wells meets Father Christmas" evoked a double reaction from me: on the one hand, given that's not how he comes across in An Unearthly Child where the heroes are Barbara and Ian, I can't imagine this pitch having happened, otoh, I have to admit I don't care because the description cracks me up, and I now shall ascribe all the Doctor's interpersonal relationship troubles to the fact he was modelled after C. S. Lewis and H.G. Wells.
(Yes, yes, in all likelihood Film!Verity is referring to Lewis and Wells as writers, with the TARDIS doubling as wardrobe that leads into Narnia, but that's not as much fun as wondering whether, if the Doctor is C.S. Lewis, that makes either Warnie Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkien the Master.) (Joy Gresham is clearly Romana.)
An Adventure in Time and Space
In which Jenny from Call The Midwife is Verity Lambert, first DW producer ever, and David Bradley gets his William Hartnell on. It looks like they're the two main characters of the story, which makes me suspect Mark Gattiss, who wrote the script, is going for something of a A Star is Born structure, only without romance, i.e. male character's professional career peaks, then declines while female character's rises. As long as Gattiss doesn't do what The Artist did (and that's one of several reasons why I couldn't join in the Artist squee a few years back), i.e.make the female character feel guilty about her success and has everyone throw a pity party for the male character, I'm good with that. And going by the trailer, he doesn't.
Also: Verity Lambert pitching the Doctor as "C.S. Lewis meets H.G. Wells meets Father Christmas" evoked a double reaction from me: on the one hand, given that's not how he comes across in An Unearthly Child where the heroes are Barbara and Ian, I can't imagine this pitch having happened, otoh, I have to admit I don't care because the description cracks me up, and I now shall ascribe all the Doctor's interpersonal relationship troubles to the fact he was modelled after C. S. Lewis and H.G. Wells.
(Yes, yes, in all likelihood Film!Verity is referring to Lewis and Wells as writers, with the TARDIS doubling as wardrobe that leads into Narnia, but that's not as much fun as wondering whether, if the Doctor is C.S. Lewis, that makes either Warnie Lewis or J.R.R. Tolkien the Master.) (Joy Gresham is clearly Romana.)
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