Comments | editrx: Hmmm: Was This the Mysterious 3rd DW Project?

editrx

Hmmm: Was This the Mysterious 3rd DW Project?

Jul 29, 2009 04:18

I find it interesting that no one on my FL has seemed to notice that in that terrific IGN interview with David Tennant, Russell T Davies, and Julie Gardner, this little throwaway:

IGN: David, have you processed that you're not going to go back and get in the suit again ever, or at least for a long while ( Read more... )

david tennant, doctor who

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house_draven July 29 2009, 10:06:24 UTC

Are you going to do a sexy-off this Fri? I have no pics of my own, but I drool over those which others present.

editrx July 29 2009, 20:17:03 UTC

Oh, the sexy-offs have their own comm home now! dt_sexy_off Come and drool every Friday with us! :)

house_draven July 30 2009, 00:50:05 UTC

Oh, I will. Thanks!

nonelvis July 29 2009, 13:18:26 UTC

I noticed! But mostly I've been discussing that stuff over at ohnowhodidnt, which covered it here.

I'm thinking it was a CiN piece as well. I wish they'd just told us instead of letting us wonder, because not knowing is kind of annoying.

editrx July 29 2009, 20:18:53 UTC

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was a CiN piece and BBC (or, ahem, maybe the thought that it shouldn't detract from the "new team"? I dunno...) put the kabosh on it. Damn them. We'll probably never know; it's clear they're not supposed to talk about it.

roxyk630 July 29 2009, 14:04:26 UTC

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! cute interview! Thanks!

editrx July 29 2009, 20:19:27 UTC

Yeah, I think it's the best one, and the most revealing. All the crying ... awwww. ::pets::

principia July 29 2009, 15:22:24 UTC

I'd mused elsewhere that that little tidbit might've been the swansong for The Third Project, whatever that was going to be. A little extra thing probably was something for CiN, and somebody got pissy over either time, credits, or money.

I suspect that the next time people are given some opportunity to put questions to the Who folks it may be exactly 'So what was the third project?'

editrx July 29 2009, 20:20:27 UTC

I sure hope someone asks, but I think from the way it was said, they're not supposed to say what happened, not rock that boat. I think we'll probably never know for certain unless someone slips up.

principia July 29 2009, 20:37:40 UTC

There is, of course, the possibility that the person who threw the wrench into the works isn't any of the actors or the until-Series-5-starts TPTB. If the sets needed are no longer extant, for one thing, that could be the death knell right there. Or if someone claims they can't give them the studio time. Etc. (Not to mention the OHNOESTHEREMIGHTBESOMETHINGNEWWITHOUTMATTSMITH factor.)

I have to wonder if they'd have time to do an ANIMATED version of the same thing, in which case the TARDIS interior can still look like Ten's TARDIS, et al. I suppose not. *le sigh*

editrx July 29 2009, 20:42:40 UTC

I dunno if it's just the sets, simply from the "we can't say what this really is" language they both used; more like what happens when something goes wonky in the BBC hierarchy or a person threw in a wrench or whatever, and this crew is so careful not to ever say anything bad about the entire DW works or BBC. They're very diligent, all of them, about being gracious, which I wish I saw more of in the US media. Sigh. (Which is why I made that decision, so long ago now, to leave the business because I would have to become like Them in order to succeed, and I didn't want to, frankly, become someone I hated.)

As to animation -- alas, it takes a lot of time. And it's already July.

I think I need caffeine. Not sure any of that made sense.

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