Dreams of Pioneers and Pirate Ships and Bob Dylan

Jun 01

Moffat on Arthur and Karen’s final scenes

And so, watching this time, I knew it was definitely the final shot. In a few moments’ time. Douglas would call ‘cut’, and Matt, Karen and Arthur would step back out of the box for a laugh and a cry, I’d make some highly inappropriate jokes in place of a speech, and a few hours later, we’d all be at a party, and I’d be dancing very badly. But that’s just real life. What about the story?

What about the Ponds? Amy and Rory wouldn’t be coming back out of the box. Where do the characters go when the story is over?

I don’t know, of course - but wherever they go, I watched them leave. Douglas called ‘action’, our three heroes made their very last dash for the TARDIS and then Amelia Pond and Rory Williams stepped into the blue box and out of this world.

And I never saw them again.

~Steven Moffat, DWM 448

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TARDIS plushie, you are now mine. Also, Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover comic, you are now mine.

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I just really want a Doctor Who version of The Nutcracker this Christmas, with an alien Rat King. Is that too much to ask?

The beginning of my newest fanfiction…

The bells rang out over London, and the streets were crowded with hundreds upon thousands of loyal British citizens, waving Union Jack flags and cheering. The royal parade was snaking its way through the city. Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II sat in her royal horse-drawn carriage, waving regally to passerby. Prince Charles, Prince Harry, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge followed Her Majesty’s carriage in a limousine of their own. A royal band marched ahead of them, “God Save The Queen” trumpeting from their instruments.

Suddenly, the Queen’s horses whinnied in fright as a gust of wind and a peculiar vworping sound pervaded the air. A blue police box materialized out of thin air onto the road before them, the vworping sound intensifying in volume. A tall, gangly man wearing a tweed longcoat, waistcoat, and a navy blue bow tie stepped out of the box, brandished a metallic, wand-shaped device, and scanned the area.

“No, no, no… this isn’t the planet of the Diamond Beaches – SORRY, RIVER! – this definitely isn’t Tremalond Ninety, either…” the man muttered to himself. He looked up from his scanning device and his face broke into a nervous grin.

“Oh, hello, Your Majesty…”

“Hello, Doctor…” said the Queen, standing up from her carriage seat and piercing the Doctor’s gaze with a look that could simultaneously melt and shatter an ice sculpture.

“Am I interrupting anything?” asked the Doctor, nervously straightening his bow tie.

“Why, yes, you are,” said Prince William, who with his wife Kate had already had their royal wedding interrupted by the Doctor.

“It’s Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee,” added Prince Harry, “and my grandmother isn’t very keen on having her 60^th anniversary on the throne pushed aside by some mad man in a box!”

“Diamond Jubilee… no wonder my TARDIS sent me here instead of the planet of Diamond Beaches…”

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Doctor Who Christmas Special 2012/New Companion Headcanon

It will be a Doctor Who take on “The Nutcracker”
New companion Clara (Jenna Louise Coleman) is a lesbian alien humanoid studying art at university in London
The Doctor arrives on Christmas Eve, chasing an alien Rat King who has stolen something valuable/ancient/deadly/from another galaxy
Clara goes to see a production of The Nutcracker on the West End, which is quickly crashed by an unwanted alien visitor (the Rat King) – she runs out of the theatre and bumps into the Doctor, who immediately detects that she’s not from Earth – he introduces himself, takes her by the hand, and tells her to run…

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