You know how the next Who Special is going to be called Planet of the Dead?

[fictional]

Well... what if it's Gallifrey?

Discuss.

Comments

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

Would love to see it. Seeing how it's RTD still it's also not generally improbable that he would be touching the Gallifrey storyline. Add Simm as the Master and it would likely make me happy.

But- in a one hour special... I don't know. I find it unlikely, but if we ever see something about Gallifrey or the Time War we would now, so-

Hmm. I'd say he wouldn't call it Planet of the Dead if it was about Gallifrey, I don't think he'd use ... 'the Dead'. Just, a hunch, I suppose.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

You're probably right in that an hour wouldn't be enough!

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

Argh see the thing is, I would totally trust RTD to squeeze it into an hour and fuck it up that way. I wonder if he'll be trying to tie up the storylines he brought up and leave Moffat with a cleaner slate, so to speak.Also, I'd always taken Gallifrey as a planet to be destroyed rather than just everything on it being destroyed (but I don't have my Who quotes ready for that, so I could be wrong).

Which would leave going back in time to when it still existed. In which case '..of the Dead' would make less sense. Or well, maybe it would make sense.

Argh, but it would be grand. I'd love to have a Time War special, really, but no idea how they'd do that with the current Doctor incarnation.

[such_heights]

That? Would be amazing. I want moar Gallifrey SO BAD.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I know. I want to see the TIME WAR. I want them to get Eight back and watch him regen into Nine. Maybe flashbacks??? And Gallifrey!! They have the effects to do it now, don't they? And, and as rm was just saying to me, it'd really wrap up the Ten storyline in a fascinating way...

God. It would be so awesome.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Also if the Christmas special is the beginning of Ten acknowledging his utterly failed/fucked interpersonal relationships, doesn't that _have_ to lead him back to Gallifrey? He had a life there once too.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I need to stop coming up with fantasy scripts for reals. I just wrote an RPF, wherein I made up a whole multiple!Doctors episode of the future, and now I really want to see it. This is just setting me up for disappointment. lol.

[natalief.livejournal.com]

I must admit that reading the things you and rm write does that to me, as well. I can *see* them and so I *know* that I have seen them on TV and that it is all canon!! (My damned MonSter eaten branes - multiple sclerosis.)

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I think that would be awesome and, indeed, is what I'm hoping it'll be, although I've not ruled out it being Skaro...

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Skaro too! More Daleks, definitely a possibility. Is it thrown out of time too, I wonder...

[rm.livejournal.com]

Okay, so if it's Skaro, how much -- and this would be _very_ RTD -- do I want the last special (the regeneration special) to happen on Gallifrey. Life where there was none and all that. It fits into RTD's weird "I'm obsessed with making this show totally secular and yet stuffed full of creepy biblical references" thing, and would be extra special awesome weird if we have Jack back for it as rumoured.

[cruentum.livejournal.com]

That said, me con-Gallifrey: I'm not sure RTD shoudl destroy the mystical idea of Gallifrey's destruction by either making it less or more real (eg. showing it as tsill living or showing it as desolate). As a plot point it works greatt in its foggy ways.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

That's really true. there's always the fear that if one nails 'em down, it's not as cool. But I think him remembering things might not be bad. I'm okay with the Doctor being an unreliable narrator.

[cageyklio.livejournal.com]

Braaaaaaaaaaaaains.

If the Time Lords are dead, they can be undead!

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

ZOMBIE TIME LORDS FOR THE WIN, omg.

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

*falls over laughing*

Oh gods, that's a fic that SOMEONE has to write!!

[magnetgirl.livejournal.com]

Argh, but it would be grand. I'd love to have a Time War special, really, but no idea how they'd do that with the current Doctor incarnation.

I know. I want to see the TIME WAR. I want them to get Eight back and watch him regen into Nine. Maybe flashbacks??? And Gallifrey!! They have the effects to do it now, don't they?

So, um, you gonna help me write that Time War fic with the Master that's been bouncing around in my head for months?

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah ;-)

Not a chance

[(Anonymous)]

I think it would take away all the mystery...

Gary
http://GarySaid.com/

Re: Not a chance

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

It probably would. But Gallifrey never used to be so mysterious in Classic!Who. We went there all the time. And I think having more Time Lords in the mix might be kind of neat. It's a little crazy how above everyone the Doctor is all the time these days. On the other hand, you're right that it would totally remove the emphatic awesomeness of the Time War. So I'm torn.

[electro-club.livejournal.com]

Why am I so certain that there will be a flashback of eight? Did I read this somewhere or what? I think I've read it. But maybe it was just someone making it up.

Or maybe I've read it the same place I read they will be shooting in Tunisia. Is there any particularity about Tunisia that would make it look like Gallifrey?

... Am I just making all this up? My God, I can't remember!

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I never heard anything about flashback of Eight. Just youtube vids and fic and stuff. I did hear about Tunisia, and all that reminds me of is Star Wars. I really want the Doctor to make a Tatooine reference! *laughs*

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

Not relatedly - having just found out that the BBC made specials out of the first two Sally Lockhart books (which I love), I acquired them and watched them. THEY ARE AWESOME. Matt Stone is excellent, although his role as Handy Cockney Sidekick does not give him a lot of room to display it. If you haven't seen them already, do! You would definitely enjoy them.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

I love the Sally Lockharts too. I remember when I first read them and was totally overwhelmed with their... uh *adult* themes. And then I was all like, but of course it's Philip Pullman, the one who likes to rip your heart out and call it a kid's book. Kind of like Doctor Who, now that I think about it...

I will totally check them out; I've been meaning to do that for a while anyway, and now I have extra incentive!

[natalief.livejournal.com]

I do wonder if it could just be another zombie planet. Zombies seem to be the THING right now on TV in the UK.