Gotta get more Two in our lives... and that glaring hole in the BBC recordings make room for all sorts of retconning! Well, anyway, The Two Doctors hints at an alternate life-line for Two and Jamie... I would love to see a comic series on that premise...
Terrance Dicks adopted the fan theory of series 6b. Pertwee often claims to have worked as an ambassodor or been instrumental in some capacity for the time lords - but 1 & 2 had run off. so the time lords using him as an agent for their own ends occours before his exile to after. two BBC novels worth tracking down on this by Uncle Terrance are "Players" and "World Game" though WG is the more essential tome of the two
it's pages and pages of retconning of course, but Uncle Terrance can certainly spin a good yarn :)
interestingly, though he can't do anything about it now, he has also acknowledged that the run of TV Comic strips that were published between the war games and Spearhead from would also fit into the 6b theory. in those 2 is indeed exiled to earth but is hiding out in a swanky hotel and helping people defeat aliens and foil bank jobs, becoming so renowned as to be asked to appear on game shows. in the end the time lords seem to have caught on to him and decide to Enforce the second half of his sentance and change his apperance for him, dragging him into the tardis as they did so.
the following weekend Jon Pertwee fell out of the TARDIS and that wednesday he appears in the comic strip...
Spork in the roadtheta_sigmaMay 20 2006, 04:02:27 UTC
Thanks for the pointers.
I have read "Players" and didn't think much of it (I appreciate Dick's professionalism as a writer but find his ideas and perspective completely uninspired and often quite predictable) -- I will have to see about "World Game", on your suggestion.
Gotta get more Two in our lives... and that glaring hole in the BBC recordings make room for all sorts of retconning! Well, anyway, The Two Doctors hints at an alternate life-line for Two and Jamie... I would love to see a comic series on that premise...
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two BBC novels worth tracking down on this by Uncle Terrance are "Players" and "World Game" though WG is the more essential tome of the two
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interestingly, though he can't do anything about it now, he has also acknowledged that the run of TV Comic strips that were published between the war games and Spearhead from would also fit into the 6b theory.
in those 2 is indeed exiled to earth but is hiding out in a swanky hotel and helping people defeat aliens and foil bank jobs, becoming so renowned as to be asked to appear on game shows.
in the end the time lords seem to have caught on to him and decide to Enforce the second half of his sentance and change his apperance for him, dragging him into the tardis as they did so.
the following weekend Jon Pertwee fell out of the TARDIS and that wednesday he appears in the comic strip...
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I have read "Players" and didn't think much of it (I appreciate Dick's professionalism as a writer but find his ideas and perspective completely uninspired and often quite predictable) -- I will have to see about "World Game", on your suggestion.
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