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avevale_intelligencer) wrote2009-01-20 01:31 am
avevale_intelligencer) wrote2009-01-20 01:31 am
nuWho plotbunny
For obvious reasons I won't be writing it, so I thought I'd throw it out for anyone who might be interested.
High-concept, of course:
Suppose seemingly-random humans started regenerating?
The first one might be a bloke who gets run over in a crowded street. Someone calls the paramedics, but by the time they arrive it's a completely different bloke lying there, completely unhurt, much to the confusion and distress of his wife. The second could be (going with my idea about regeneration being different for girls) a girl who's rather plain and fat and is hiding in the loo after being jeered at by her peers and wishing like mad she was somebody else, and suddenly she finds that she is somebody else...
The reason could be that when the Master's body was burned, all the stored regeneration energy in his body discharged up into the sky and happened to intersect with the flight path of a plane. It wouldn't turn the passengers into actual Time Lords, but there'd probably be enough there for one regeneration each, given that he had a whole new cycle given to him. I don't know what would happen then, or how the Doctor would deal with it, if indeed he could, but there's lots of scope for him to say "I'm so sorry" and for humans to be plucky and heroic and angry at him, and that's all a nuWho story really needs.
Anyway, there it is, if anyone wants it.
High-concept, of course:
Suppose seemingly-random humans started regenerating?
The first one might be a bloke who gets run over in a crowded street. Someone calls the paramedics, but by the time they arrive it's a completely different bloke lying there, completely unhurt, much to the confusion and distress of his wife. The second could be (going with my idea about regeneration being different for girls) a girl who's rather plain and fat and is hiding in the loo after being jeered at by her peers and wishing like mad she was somebody else, and suddenly she finds that she is somebody else...
The reason could be that when the Master's body was burned, all the stored regeneration energy in his body discharged up into the sky and happened to intersect with the flight path of a plane. It wouldn't turn the passengers into actual Time Lords, but there'd probably be enough there for one regeneration each, given that he had a whole new cycle given to him. I don't know what would happen then, or how the Doctor would deal with it, if indeed he could, but there's lots of scope for him to say "I'm so sorry" and for humans to be plucky and heroic and angry at him, and that's all a nuWho story really needs.
Anyway, there it is, if anyone wants it.
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Big, brown eyes, full of emotion: "I'm so sorry." Subtext: I may be sorry, but you're stuffed; I still get to show how noble I am and go on to further adventures, but you, mate - you're stuffed. Sorry.
Which doesn't stop me from liking nuWho... I love Star Trek, but I still laugh at it.
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