Challenging ALL OF YOU!
Yes I Am!
I am now challenging all of you guys out there in the same kind of challenge that I gave my English Class some weeks ago. So read through rules carefully and get going :D
The Doctor Who Challenge
The British TV-series Doctor Who aren't shown in Sweden, which I feel is really bad. I have personally been obsessed with this show since this summer and thanks to a friend I have been able to watch it on the Computer.
When we were working with William Shakespeare in my English Class, I told my wonderful teacher Helena about an episode of Doctor Who where Shakespeare was featured. She thought it was a brilliant idea that I showed it to the class and it actually ended up with me holding the lesson.
Except for watching the episode, I gave my classmates a challenge - a writing challenge. And this is what I want you to try as well.
This challenge is fairly simple. Just like I said to my classmates - you do not have to watch any other episode of Doctor Who except for maybe The Shakespeare Code. If you do not have time, you can read the full story of that episode on Wikipedia. But you absolutely need to know some things about the Doctor, if you do not already. So here's some information about him.
The series of Doctor Who focuses on a man called the Doctor, a Time Lord from the world of Gallifrey. The Doctor has two hearts, making him unable to die. Instead he regenerates everytime he gets mortally wounded. Every Time Lord can regenerate 13 times, giving them so to say 14 different lives. During the regeneration process, the outer side of the Time Lord changes along with some of his personality, but all his memories of his past regenerations are still there.
The Doctor's current shape is the Tenth, making his full name the Tenth Doctor. By using his ship the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space) he travels through time and solves different problems. The TARDIS is said to blend in with its surroundings, but somehow it's stuck in the shape of an old, blue Police-box. Though, no one seems to notice it wether he's in Pompeii or in the future.
The Doctor almost always has a Companion, a friend, with him. In the first two seasons, that Companion was Rose Tyler. In the end of the second season she was trapped in a parallell world and now, in the third season (where The Shakespeare Code is featured), his Companion is Martha Jones.
Now, here are the three subjects you can write about for this challenge. Write at least one page in a Word-document and send it to the e-mail written on the bottom of this page.
1, In the end of the episode The Shakespeare Code, you meet Queen Elizabeth I. She seems to have already met the Doctor, though he has not met her (meaning it's in the past for her and in the future for him). What could have offended her so that she wanted to kill the Doctor now when she saw him again?
Note! It has to be set before 1599. If you want the Doctor to have a Companion - you choose.
2, You have somehow got stuck in 1969 and the only way for you to get back in your own time is to trust a man called the Doctor. But suddenly the Doctor gets seriously sick and all he says in his fever-dreams is "Blink and you're dead". What do you think he means with that? How do you, at the same time, avoid a Time Paradox when you meet your parents?
3, What if you were given the powers of a Time Lord? Where would you go? Who would you meet? Who would you take on as your Companion? What would happen when you saw all of your friends (and your family) die, while you had to live through all of your 14 lives?
Write all you can think about on this subject!
I want to have entries for this challenge in before Christmas! That leaves you about 7 weeks to write, so that's plenty of time!
Write comments for questions, please
E-mail for entries: sandra_torngren@hotmail.com
Write "Doctor Who Challenge" as subject!!