January Meme: If JMS ran Doctor Who....
Before the BBC announced RTD2, he repeatedly expressed interest on twitter. Now, my dream British tv show for JMS to do would actually have been Blake's 7 (as in, a reboot - come on, the Excalibur already looks like the Liberator, and Anna Grant says hello to Anna Sheridan, so clearly he likes the original), but undoubtedly it would also be fascinating to watch his take on DW. So, here are my guesses on what it would have been like, based not just on B5 and Crusade but also on his Spider-Man comics, Sense 8 and his most recently published novel::
- at the very least two thirds of a season would take place in space or on non-Earth planets; he might even do a season without any Earth episode (historical or present) whatsover, in direct reverse to the New Who trend so far
- at least one of the Companions (and there would be several) is an Alien (not a human being from the future, an alien who needs daily make-up to look like it)
- the Old Who aliens for JMS to unearth are the Draconians; we'll get multi episode plot of scheming families and/or revolution
- at some point, someone quotes parental advice saying "Never start a fight, but always be the one to finish it"
- Time Lord telepathy gets explored as a major plot element
- one of the Companions has the initials JS
- at least one canon transgender character (possibly the Companion of the present day?)
- either the Doctor mentoring someone or someone mentoring the Doctor (trickier because of the age factor, but not impossible) is an ongoing emotional arc
- monologues which, depending on the casting, are either incredibly moving scenes or get mocked above and beyond (think G'Kar vs Byron)
- one of the big or little bads is a sinister cooperation with research on human experimentation
- one of the characters has traumatic childhood abuse
- there's unforunately one episode where other characters tell the Doctor and their Companion(s) how great they are and/or viliy their critics
- both the Doctor and the Companion(s) have highly significant dreams which we see on screen; despite Amy's Choice already existing, there will be at least one other episode taking place in the mind ouf our hero(s)
- JMS is horrified when the Anti-Vaxxers latch on the plot about the evil cooperation doing secret experiments and gets into so many fiery battles on twitter about it that he has to take a break from social media
- when at least one veteran Star Trek actor guest stars, the annoying B5 vs ST battles get another round and are now B5 vs ST vs DW
- sometihing utterly unpredictable which I can't remotely guess at happens, because the man is very, very creative and has managed to surprise me in all his endeavours I'm familiar with so far
The other days This entry was originally posted at https://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1479390.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.
- at the very least two thirds of a season would take place in space or on non-Earth planets; he might even do a season without any Earth episode (historical or present) whatsover, in direct reverse to the New Who trend so far
- at least one of the Companions (and there would be several) is an Alien (not a human being from the future, an alien who needs daily make-up to look like it)
- the Old Who aliens for JMS to unearth are the Draconians; we'll get multi episode plot of scheming families and/or revolution
- at some point, someone quotes parental advice saying "Never start a fight, but always be the one to finish it"
- Time Lord telepathy gets explored as a major plot element
- one of the Companions has the initials JS
- at least one canon transgender character (possibly the Companion of the present day?)
- either the Doctor mentoring someone or someone mentoring the Doctor (trickier because of the age factor, but not impossible) is an ongoing emotional arc
- monologues which, depending on the casting, are either incredibly moving scenes or get mocked above and beyond (think G'Kar vs Byron)
- one of the big or little bads is a sinister cooperation with research on human experimentation
- one of the characters has traumatic childhood abuse
- there's unforunately one episode where other characters tell the Doctor and their Companion(s) how great they are and/or viliy their critics
- both the Doctor and the Companion(s) have highly significant dreams which we see on screen; despite Amy's Choice already existing, there will be at least one other episode taking place in the mind ouf our hero(s)
- JMS is horrified when the Anti-Vaxxers latch on the plot about the evil cooperation doing secret experiments and gets into so many fiery battles on twitter about it that he has to take a break from social media
- when at least one veteran Star Trek actor guest stars, the annoying B5 vs ST battles get another round and are now B5 vs ST vs DW
- sometihing utterly unpredictable which I can't remotely guess at happens, because the man is very, very creative and has managed to surprise me in all his endeavours I'm familiar with so far
The other days This entry was originally posted at https://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1479390.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.