Comments | donutsweeper: Feeling very stupid here....

donutsweeper

Feeling very stupid here....

Jun 16, 2008 17:02

So I was perusing the big bang website (and have I mentioned how awesome it is yet?) and saw a section of fandom labeled "New Adventures (Virgin)" and another labeled "Chalet School" and I had no idea what either are. Wiki explained that Chalet School was apparently a series of books , I assume there is no other Doctor Who connection to them? And ( Read more... )

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aeron_lanart June 16 2008, 23:29:50 UTC

The New Adventures basically took the 'Cartmel Master Plan' that obviously never made Doctor Who (as it was scrapped) and worked it into a series of books that now are of a dubious canonical nature (the whole idea of Time Lords being 'loomed' I think comes from the New Adventures novels. You can download the last one, Lungbarrow, off the BBC website. I haven't finished reading it yet as I keep getting distracted by fanfic). Certain of the characters that you might meet in a NA fic would have a back story of which you might not be aware, such as Benny, or have gone off in a direction that doesn't quite sit right with subsequent Big Finish stuff (such as Ace the dalek hunter ( ... )

donutsweeper June 17 2008, 01:53:49 UTC

ooh, thanks. Okay, I think I'll read up a bit more on the series before taking a stab at the bigbang stories about them. I'll probably wait to read the stories till I've more time then.

It's a bit weird that there were two of those chalet school ones though

adafrog June 17 2008, 01:06:17 UTC

I was wondering that, too.

donutsweeper June 17 2008, 01:57:46 UTC

From what aeron_lanart says it looks like we won't get too confused by it all, but I'm glad yo see I wasn't the only one who had no idea what they were about!

phoenix64 June 17 2008, 02:38:50 UTC

Actually, somewhere around LJ there is a community that is Made Of Crack that has all of Doctor Who past and present as students and teachers in a boarding school. I couldn't tell you for sure if it's specifically a crossover with Chalet School, but I wouldn't be surprised.

Hmm, do I want to try and hunt this puppy down? I saw it aaaaages ago.

donutsweeper June 17 2008, 02:40:16 UTC

well, you do have 20 something bigbangs easily findable at the moment.... but all the present AND past companions? What a handful those lot would be!