Haha - yeah, looks like Mr Miles has actually deleted his latest blog post in the time elapsed since I posted this. As is his way. ;D
I think you'd like it, maybe. Certainly, the threat of it proved to be much more worrying than the actual story. I don't think there's anything particularly upsetting canon-wise or character wise. And I'm quite glad Romana turned out not to be in it, for the reasons we've discussed before.
Funny thing, Larry Miles's main gripe is that he thought of the idea of a humanoid TARDIS first (in his EDA novels) and that Gaiman's done it wrong, because Gaiman's a talentless hack or something. Not really one of his better thought out posts, which might be why he's taken it down. I do kind of agree that the love between the Doctor and the TARDIS isn't in any sense sexual love (I hope!) so having to have her in human form to "confirm" it (when as I say, it's pretty blinking obvious by now to anybody who's been paying attention at all over the past 47 odd years) shouldn't be necessary. However, if you wanted to write a quite gloriously indulgent and fanwanky story *about* the Doctor and the TARDIS and their love, which this pretty much is, then it's one way to go about it.
Well, that's certainly a strong argument, and I think it says a lot about the political and social wrongheadedness of NuWho and 21st century popular culture in general. Seven and Ace would not have stood for it. Let's face it - Nine or Ten would not have reacted any different to Churchill (RTD wouldn't have even thought of writing it any other way), although maybe Eccleston, not being backward in coming forward, would refuse to act it. Maybe.
But no, the latter extreme I was talking about are the people who seem to have some deep and abiding dislike for Gaiman for no other reason that he's quite popular and people like him, and therefore anyone who liked this story has just been taken in by Gaiman - the charlatan! Which, believe it or not, I've seen more than one person trying to say. And not always as amusingly as Mr Miles before he took his post down ;D
And why do people dislike Amanda Palmer? Is it just fanboys/girls unable to parse the idea of "their hero" loving another human being more than them?
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Date: 2011-05-16 09:54 pm (UTC)I think you'd like it, maybe. Certainly, the threat of it proved to be much more worrying than the actual story. I don't think there's anything particularly upsetting canon-wise or character wise. And I'm quite glad Romana turned out not to be in it, for the reasons we've discussed before.
Funny thing, Larry Miles's main gripe is that he thought of the idea of a humanoid TARDIS first (in his EDA novels) and that Gaiman's done it wrong, because Gaiman's a talentless hack or something. Not really one of his better thought out posts, which might be why he's taken it down. I do kind of agree that the love between the Doctor and the TARDIS isn't in any sense sexual love (I hope!) so having to have her in human form to "confirm" it (when as I say, it's pretty blinking obvious by now to anybody who's been paying attention at all over the past 47 odd years) shouldn't be necessary. However, if you wanted to write a quite gloriously indulgent and fanwanky story *about* the Doctor and the TARDIS and their love, which this pretty much is, then it's one way to go about it.
Well, that's certainly a strong argument, and I think it says a lot about the political and social wrongheadedness of NuWho and 21st century popular culture in general. Seven and Ace would not have stood for it. Let's face it - Nine or Ten would not have reacted any different to Churchill (RTD wouldn't have even thought of writing it any other way), although maybe Eccleston, not being backward in coming forward, would refuse to act it. Maybe.
But no, the latter extreme I was talking about are the people who seem to have some deep and abiding dislike for Gaiman for no other reason that he's quite popular and people like him, and therefore anyone who liked this story has just been taken in by Gaiman - the charlatan! Which, believe it or not, I've seen more than one person trying to say. And not always as amusingly as Mr Miles before he took his post down ;D
And why do people dislike Amanda Palmer? Is it just fanboys/girls unable to parse the idea of "their hero" loving another human being more than them?