I.N.J. Culbard's Doctor Who Pitch

[wyrmis]

I know we have another thread from a bit back about Doctor Who and Lovecraft crossovers, but I saw this linked this morning [though it is actually from 5-6 years ago] and thought it was fun to share:

http://strangeplanetstories.blogspot.com/2006/07/doctor-who-animated-series.html

The biggest change he had in mind was the Doctor and the Master blending into one person. Though this was shot down before it even began, it would be interesting [as a stand-alone miniseries, considering the storyline changes] to see a Lovecraft fan doing a Who story involving the Sea Devils.

His other pitch, the one about the investigator who talks to other kids imaginary friends still sounds like a lot of fun.

[yumegari]

Eh, speaking as a long-time fan I'd have to say I find the idea of merging the two characters to be implausible, nonsensical, and ripped from the archives of really really bad RP (Great, someone got me started on Dr Who--I've been known to fill page after page after page with rantings.  halp).  I personally think folks need to step away from the Master until they can get the stain of slashy subtext out of their head.

That being said, I would love to see a Lovecraftian spin put on the Sea Devils.  Someone already did that with Fenric (Hastur), The Great Intelligence (Yog-Sothoth), The Animus (Lloigor) and the Nestene Consciousness (Spawn of Shub-Niggurath), albeit in the semi-apocryphal New Adventures novels.  They also played with the typical [character] vs Cthulhu idea in a story that sounds as though it were plucked off of a fanfic site, involving, as it did, Sherlock Holmes as well as the Doctor.

Not that I'm above fanfic.  *looks at hard drive, and its half-dozen examples thereof.*