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Helpful Advice
In watching Classic episodes of Doctor Who, I'm realizing that there's a lack of common sense out in the universe. I'd be willing to hire myself out in a consultant capacity. Some freebie helpful advice:
The Sontarans: Yeah, you've got *one* weak spot on your body. Might want to think about a cup or something.
The Daleks: Just poison planets' atmospheres and you're done. You wouldn't even need to land.
Omega: You can create *anything* and you created blobs? In a dreary sort of place? Remember, happiness is a state of mind. Try creating the margarita or a slip-and-slide.
The Master: Oh, honey. You really need a hobby that does not involve the Doctor. And to adopt the mantra of "keep it simple" for your plans of universe domination.
The Time Lords: Quit being dicks.
The Sontarans: Yeah, you've got *one* weak spot on your body. Might want to think about a cup or something.
The Daleks: Just poison planets' atmospheres and you're done. You wouldn't even need to land.
Omega: You can create *anything* and you created blobs? In a dreary sort of place? Remember, happiness is a state of mind. Try creating the margarita or a slip-and-slide.
The Master: Oh, honey. You really need a hobby that does not involve the Doctor. And to adopt the mantra of "keep it simple" for your plans of universe domination.
The Time Lords: Quit being dicks.
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Omega: You can create *anything* and you created blobs? In a dreary sort of place? Remember, happiness is a state of mind. Try creating the margarita or a slip-and-slide.
I know I kinda keep harping on this, but you so need to get your hands on The Infinity Doctors. (Of course, it just HAS to be one of the rarer ones. *sigh* Maybe the Beeb will put it up as an ebook one of these days. They've done another Lance Parkin one.)
It's a weird sort of AU, kind of a reinvention of the Doctor's history, just for the hell of it as far as I can tell. But it's an AU in which there is much less of a common sense shortage (although the Time Lords are still dicks). And in which Omega actually is the serious badass the Doctor keeps telling us he is.
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This isn't the one where supposedly each incarnation of the Doctor is actually a different person with a different history, is it? *EYES*
But it's an AU in which there is much less of a common sense shortage (although the Time Lords are still dicks).
I think the Time Lords being dicks would be a universal (and even alternate-universal) constant. :D
And in which Omega actually is the serious badass the Doctor keeps telling us he is.
That'd be interesting, because in The Three Doctors you're never quite sure *why* he wants to destroy everything other than he was crabby for being left in an AU.
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Nope. That's a thread throughout the Eight books. (And it's not really anything to do with the different incarnations. It's just that Eight's history keeps changing on him due to interference from Faction Paradox. Apparently that's been sorted somewhere between the Beeb pulling the plug on those books and the start of new series continuity, since it never actually got resolved on-page...)
This book is completely independent of any of that. I think maybe Lance Parkin had a small stroke after compiling the entire history of the Whoniverse (in two editions of that book, plus a series that goes over smaller chunks of the show at a time in greater detail).
Basically he took a bunch of his favorite bits and pieces of lore from over the years and started over from scratch.
That'd be interesting, because in The Three Doctors you're never quite sure *why* he wants to destroy everything other than he was crabby for being left in an AU.
On the surface, it's the same reason. But the way Parkin constructs it, it's a much more persuasive reason. Think Genie. "VAST COSMIC POWER. Itty-bitty living space."
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I'm still amused at this since it always seems like someone flailing at the half-human thing. :D
I think maybe Lance Parkin had a small stroke after compiling the entire history of the Whoniverse (in two editions of that book, plus a series that goes over smaller chunks of the show at a time in greater detail).
Dude.
"Ultimates version," which makes perfect sense if you're a comics person and none at all otherwise.
I'm in the latter category, I'm afraid.
Think Genie. "VAST COSMIC POWER. Itty-bitty living space."
But instead of throwing out one-liners he wants to vaporize the universe. Got it. :D
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I'm in the latter category, I'm afraid.
Was pretty sure that was the case. Same problem with the X-Men movieverse analogy. (Which is probably more accurate, as it involves cherry-picking raw material from 40 years of building a comics world as they went along to make movies that stand on their own, and this books is pretty much cherry-picking raw material from 30 years of building a TV series world as they went along to make a book that pretty much stands on its own.)
Not as accurate, but more accessible: Lugosi, Langella, and Oldman are all Dracula. They're related and share some raw materials, but they're not in the same universe. It's kinda like that.
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Heh. Times like this and I wanna say I'm sticking to TV canon and that's it! :D
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D'oh! Of course. Yeah, like the Dalek movie. Except, y'know, better. (I shouldn't say that, not having seen it but, well, Hammer Films people...)
Heh. Times like this and I wanna say I'm sticking to TV canon and that's it! :D
Probably wise. That's actually why I would recommend this book as opposed to others -- it's just an interesting little "what if this universe were invented whole-cloth today" instead of trying to fit anything into/attach it onto existing canon.
I've read a fair number of them at this point, and enjoyed them, but to me they're fic. Generally well-written, mostly-well-edited and nicely-packaged fic that a few people were fortunate enough to get paid for, but fic nonetheless. Like any fic, there are a few ideas that are in my head as "real" until canon does something to render them obsolete, but mostly it's all just a fun "what if."
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D'oh! Of course. Yeah, like the Dalek movie. Except, y'know, better. (I shouldn't say that, not having seen it but, well, Hammer Films people...)
Heh. Times like this and I wanna say I'm sticking to TV canon and that's it! :D
Probably wise. That's actually why I would recommend this book as opposed to others -- it's just an interesting little "what if this universe were invented whole-cloth today" instead of trying to fit anything into/attach it onto existing canon.
I've read a fair number of them at this point, and enjoyed them, but to me they're fic. Generally well-written, mostly-well-edited and nicely-packaged fic that a few people were fortunate enough to get paid for, but fic nonetheless. Like any fic, there are a few ideas that are in my head as "real" until canon does something to render them obsolete, but mostly it's all just a fun "what if."
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Well, it's more refusal to believe that his escape plan will result in said vaporization. But yeah, you get the idea.