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Post by lostspook on Sept 7, 2009 18:13:11 GMT
Magnus just had a lovely idea on the Six Doctor thread of swapping Doctors and stories. (As in Colin would have been good in Horror of Fang Rock, where he'd have stood out a mile...) And I remember DWM doing a similar feature once, which wasn't half as fun as it ought to have been. (Who knows this could even lead to strange AU fic?) Which Doctors would you swap into which other Doctors stories and why? I would start, but I have to go out, or I will be late (she says, spying the time). I just thought it was a fun idea for a thread...
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Post by jjpor on Sept 7, 2009 19:06:45 GMT
Hmmm....lemmesee now...
Okay, given that they were faced by rather similar problems (zany-yet-murderous tinpot dictatorships), which they solved in slightly different ways, what about putting Seven into Vengeance on Varos and Six into Happiness Patrol? And just for fun, team Seven with Peri and Six with Ace while they're at it...
Yes, you're right; Six is almost certainly going to end up knocking somebody "accidentally" into the fondant surprise...
Meanwhile, Seven weans the Varosians off their diet of video nasties by means of an all-singing, all-dancing, all-spoon-playing telethon...
Er...
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Post by lostspook on Sept 7, 2009 20:21:46 GMT
I seem to remember the one I was most struck with at the time was: Give Eight Spearhead From Space. That seemed like an interesting idea. (I'm not sure about who should get the TV Movie, I see a potential multi-swap along the line here!)
Just out of interest, Five can have the Celestial Toymaker (retaining TARDIS team) and One, Dodo and Steven can have Time-Flight. As a comedy, which it practically is, anyway...
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Post by lostspook on Sept 7, 2009 20:22:48 GMT
Meanwhile, Seven weans the Varosians off their diet of video nasties by means of an all-singing, all-dancing, all-spoon-playing telethon... Er... That suddenly lend a whole knew meaning to that ending. "What do we do now?" ;D
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Post by johne on Sept 7, 2009 20:39:24 GMT
Seven in Journey's End. Because his reply to Davros's "You turn people into weapons" would be along the lines of "Correct. Want to make something of it?" One in Rose, mainly for his version of the "forget me, Rose Tyler" speech. Lots of irritation, I think, and he'd call Rose "child" all the time. Ten in The Mark of the Rani; the Rani's going to be so, so infuriated with the skinny idiot who won't shut up, ever. Nine in Power of the Daleks... Oh. That was Dalek. Well, Nine in The Wheel in Space, then. He'd have Commander Bennett sectioned by the middle of episode 3. (I have drabbled Four in The Sound of Drums. The Master never stood a chance.)
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Post by librarylover on Sept 7, 2009 20:59:24 GMT
(I have drabbled Four in The Sound of Drums. The Master never stood a chance.) Excellent drabble!
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Post by Abbyromana on Sept 7, 2009 21:05:16 GMT
The concept of this thread is awesome. Many great fic can come from this. In fact, the idea inspired a fic with Three that CP and I wrote.
Personally, I'd can think of many stories I could see other Doctors in, too many to list here.
For one, I'd like to see Ten/Martha/Jack in the arching stories that Four/Sarah Jane/Harry were in. The stories would have gone quite differently, considering Jack would probably flirt with the colonists, Davros would find Jack interesting since he can't be killed by his Daleks, and Martha would have bee more proactive than Sarah Jane in reasoning with them.
In Time Crash, I'd have liked to see One instead of Five. Having the two current extremes of the Doctor, would be a far larger clash in personalities and POVs. I could see One giving Ten a much harder time, but perhaps still finding reasons to be impressed.
I could go on, but I think I'll hold off for the moment.
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Post by Abbyromana on Sept 7, 2009 21:06:59 GMT
(I have drabbled Four in The Sound of Drums. The Master never stood a chance.) That is a good drabble.
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Post by ulalume42 on Sept 8, 2009 3:12:12 GMT
Soylent Green is people, Doctor!!! D:
Err, right then...I'd put Six in the Runaway Bride. Partly because the Doctor/ Donna confrontations would be priceless, but because the last time we saw him on the show, his situation was similar to Ten's right before Runaway Bride, ex. losing a companion, having to defeat ultimate evil.
Also, Four in the Shakespearean Code- for the lulz, if nothing else.
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Post by clocketpatch on Sept 8, 2009 4:37:02 GMT
Yes AbbyRomana! The Three insert into Rose story! *taps at open word document* I'm working on the ending, I swear
as for others...
Hmmm... I'm sure I've read a story on the Teaspoon where Two is subbed into the Shakespeare Code, and is slightly more frantic about Martha getting picked up for being skantily clad and not white than Ten was.
Ten's utter blaséness in that episode always bothers me. I mean yes, I know how the Doctor is supposed to be all beyond everything and doesn't notice differences and all that, but there's a difference between lack of prejudice and totally ignoring the obvious. That, and he's been coming to Earth and studying humans long enough that he might have figured out a few key points, such as; humans are sometimes not very nice.
Well... he figured that out in Midnight at least.
Sorry, rant over.
Back to subject: subbing eps. I too would love to see Seven in Journey's End. I thought of him when Davros was making his speech and Ten was being all *wibble* I thought that if this were Seven he would give you the EPIC slap down with spoons and then tell Caan that he's completely barmy.
Donna still would've probably ended up wiped though, because Seven did stuff like that all the time... (I mean, he hypnotized Mel out of the TARDIS... though, I can't entirely blame him for that...)
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Post by magnusgreel on Sept 8, 2009 6:08:16 GMT
Lostspook--- You've been coming up with interesting ideas based on things I've said lately. If it matters, take credit. What I meant was that Six needed his own equivalent to Fang Rock, a more adult, grim story where his personality and look really start to matter and make a difference, perhaps provoking the other characters, or at least creating a strange atmosphere. Tom had the personality to do all that, but visually he fit right in, which I liked, his ability to walk into the early 20th century and feel right at home, but I also love it when he provokes with his appearance (in other stories).
It would be fun to insert Nine into One stories, just generally. Nine screaming his head off all through "The Daleks"!! Just imagine how many people's heads he could bite off. Then Nine with UNIT, snapping at the Brigadier, always being thrown out by the UNIT guards who don't know him because he looks like he "doesn't belong there".... Nine screaming again... Then insert One into Ten stories, pining away for Rose, with Martha making eyes at One all the time...
I started writing something once where all the Doctors eventually realize they have to go back to the events of Unearthly Child/Remembrance and straighten out everything the other Doctors did wrong, leading to 47 Doctors there at the same time.
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Post by johne on Sept 8, 2009 7:05:53 GMT
I too would love to see Seven in Journey's End. I thought of him when Davros was making his speech and Ten was being all *wibble* I thought that if this were Seven he would give you the EPIC slap down with spoons and then tell Caan that he's completely barmy. Donna still would've probably ended up wiped though, because Seven did stuff like that all the time... (I mean, he hypnotized Mel out of the TARDIS... though, I can't entirely blame him for that...) But Other Seven (assuming he still got created) would be more likely to shoot first and ask questions later, or set some cunning plan in motion before leaving the TARDIS, so Donna might avoid getting zapped by Davros and there'd be no need to brainwipe her.
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Post by lostspook on Sept 8, 2009 18:21:26 GMT
I love some of these ideas - johne's (and I'd forgotten that drabble till I went to have a look - heh! I see I was planning scary Nameless fic myself at the time...) One and Ten in Time Crash is tempting, I have to admit. Hmm, hmm... (Sorry, I starting sounding like One there.) And Six and Donna in Runaway Bride. Actually, the only thing that might that even funnier is if you substituted Tegan for Donna as well. :lol: But then again, Donna... Well, Magnus, it was you who made the Colin in Fang Rock comment, so I had to give credit, even although I should obviously assure these good people that you can't be held responsible for my twisted reaction to the above. (And, um, does Nine rant that much? Obviously, I need to rewatch the 2005 series!)
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Post by lostspook on Sept 8, 2009 18:23:01 GMT
I started writing something once where all the Doctors eventually realize they have to go back to the events of Unearthly Child/Remembrance and straighten out everything the other Doctors did wrong, leading to 47 Doctors there at the same time. Priceless! Does any of it exist anywhere we can see it? 47 Doctors!! (Is this including more than one of each of his incarnations?) I mean, ONE is bad enough, Two, Three Five - but 47? :lol:
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Post by lostspook on Sept 8, 2009 18:26:23 GMT
I'm now visualising ian and Barbara falling over Doctors and companions as they explore the junkyard...
Six (because he would be found, in that coat): Oh, don't worry. Ignore us. You carry on looking for S- that pupil of yours. Tried that innocent looking blue box over there?
Barbara: But what are you doing here?
Peri (firmly): Arguing.
Six: Your pupil, madam, went that way. And if you should see a fellow in a scarf, just ignore him too. If he'll let you.
Ian: Is this some sort of joke?
Barbara: Let's call the police.
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Post by magnusgreel on Sept 8, 2009 18:42:32 GMT
(And, um, does Nine rant that much? Obviously, I need to rewatch the 2005 series!) He's always about to... I was thinking of "Dalek", though.
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Post by johne on Sept 8, 2009 19:33:18 GMT
I see I was planning scary Nameless fic myself at the time...) I'm not sure I'd call Snow White and the Seven Doctors 'scary', as such.
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Post by lostspook on Sept 8, 2009 20:19:59 GMT
I see I was planning scary Nameless fic myself at the time...) I'm not sure I'd call Snow White and the Seven Doctors 'scary', as such. Thank you, but what I was actually perpetrating was Master Test - the story it was actually ch3 of. You may have wiped it from your memory, but there was bad poetry and dreadful outfits and Mel getting tied to the railway track. :lol: And, of course, the Simm Master learning the joys of Storytime for the first time, which did almost make up for the rest, I have to admit.
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Post by johne on Sept 8, 2009 20:48:34 GMT
Thank you, but what I was actually perpetrating was Master Test - the story it was actually ch3 of. You may have wiped it from your memory, but there was bad poetry and dreadful outfits and Mel getting tied to the railway track. :lol: And Sutekh!
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Post by johne on Sept 8, 2009 20:56:05 GMT
Getting back to the idea of swapping Doctors, I was reminded of Terrance Dicks on the subject of writing for the Doctor -- that he writes for 'The Doctor', not any particular incarnation. The first time I saw him say this, he went on to say that when he rewrote The Ultimate Adventure to replace the Third Doctor with the Sixth, all he had to do was remove a couple of catchphrases and insert a few puns. I'm sure he'd be happy to do the same with Horror of Fang Rock, if the need arose.
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