Sophie π³οΈββ§οΈ πReading The Ancestor Cell at the moment and it's striking to me how much RTD2 has been "inspired" by it. Wish World especially, it's actually really obvious.
Classic Doctor Who:
*cheesy synth music*
"Cybermen are allergic to gold! Quick throw the gold dust!"
Modern Doctor Who:
*overbearing violin music*
"I've disabled the Cyberman's emotional inhibitor with my sonic screwdriver and now it's crying. The Cyberman is crying."
Wilderness-era Doctor Who novels:
As he watched the Doctor use the fictionist device to turn the Cyberman into a comic book titled 'The Amazing Cyber-Man!', Fitz was thinking about Sam's breasts again.
I.M.Foreman (the same I.M.Foreman from 'Interference', The 8th Doctor novel) wrote those 'Doctor Who' books Conrad was reading in 'Wish World' that look like Harry Potter novels.
Here's her forward for one of those books. (Includes a vague reference to J.K.Rowling's transphobia)
I have released the first chapter of my Doctor Who fan fic 'Absence Of The Daleks'. Featuring a future, female incarnation of the Doctor, her Cat-Girl companion 'Serena' and an original Time Lord character 'Kirama'.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/62976181/chapters/161276344
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Currently in the middle of reading the first Interference book and I can't believe no-one's done any analogue horror stuff with The Remote (that I know of).
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Apparently Lawrence Miles predicted part of the plot twist for 'The Legend of Ruby Sunday'.... in 2002 π
(CW: contains spoilers)
source: https://twitter.com/The_Beasthouse/status/1802045652316090723#m
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Realised another strange connection to expanded media in Series 14 this morning:
The parallels between the Doctor and Ruby are made pretty explicit in The Church on Ruby Road, both are foundlings, similar imagery with the Church and the Gateway the 'Timeless Child' was found under ect, ect. But here's one related to expanded media: Ruby was born at Christmas/Yuletide, the Doctor was born(/loomed?) (according to the audio version of Cold Fusion) on 'Otherstide' which is quite possibly the Gallifreyan equivilent.
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Expanded media references in Series 14 (so far):
Space Babies:
* Baby farms and what the Doctor says about them strongly resembles lore behind Gallifrey and 'Looms'
* 'The Conquistador': a Faction Paradox character from 'The Book of the Enemy'
The Devil's Cord:
* Nothing specifically as far as I'm aware. Though it should be noted that the fourth-wall breaking throughout that episode does follow on from lesser-known/ignored instances of such things in Doctor Who.
* 'The Music of the Spheres" is a reference to Doctor Who at the Proms if that counts?
Boom:
* "I am a complex space-time event"
73 yards:
* Llanfer Ceiriog
Dot and Bubble:
* Parallels between Finetime and Gallifrey, "The Homeworld"
* The Remote?
Rogue:
* Shalka Doctor
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If you're one of these Doctor Who fans who are obsessive about continuity and need everything to fit neatly together (first of all, even if you only stick to the TV show and nothing else, you're fighting a losing battle): If you only ever read one Doctor Who novel I strongly suggest 'Unnatural History', the plot literally makes fun of this.
It changed the way I look at Doctor Who and fiction in general to be honest.
Don't be Griffin.
The novels, audios and other expanded media are just as valid a part of Doctor Who as the TV show.
Every Doctor Who story 'happened'.
The Doctor is 'The Other', 'The Timeless Child', Loomed, Half-human, a human from the 49th century and any number of other possibilities.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.