The Future of Doctor Who!
At least, if my dreams are prophetic. Which, judging by the lack of superheroes in Toronto, they most certainly are not. But, regardless, I had a dream last night that was pretty much just entirely a preview for some future season of Doctor Who. Cut for those who don't have any interest.
Anyway, I can't really describe it as a story... maybe if I wrote this right as I woke up I could have, but I put it off too long and now I can only remember a few isolated elements:
1) The Doctor: It started with Capaldi, and he made some sort of reference to preferring to travel with young women, not for attractiveness reasons but just because he thought they tended to be more excited and passionate about things (which, my dream-self immediately thought "okay, he's just saying this to be proven wrong by the writers later"... which was correct, but we'll get to that). The next time I saw him, he was watching an episode of very obscure very short lived 80s or early 90s SF drama "Nightmare Cafe" and was trying to get the TARDIS to land there because he was convinced that the cafe was actually another TARDIS. But after that, something I can't remember happened, and he had to regenerate into a new Doctor...
A teenage Doctor. Younger than Smith. Probably about 15 or so.
Anyway, interspersed with all of this we'd cut to and revealed...
2) The Companion! Didn't have a name, but they called her "The Inspector", because she was a police inspector, in her 30s-40s... and from the 60s or 70s... She got involved because she kept seeing a police call box in odd locations (she knew where they were supposed to be and took an interest when she found one that wasn't), and especially noticed that they popped up in circumstances where Weird Stuff was about to or just had go down. She'd been shut down by her superiors (who perhaps knew of the Doctor from UNIT but it was a secret) but investigated on her own and saw some previous incarnations of the Doctor (which were inserted into the episode through digital trickery... we'd see her watching a police box and spotting Hartnell or Troughton walk out of it, for example). She was convinced there was some kind of network of spies using phony police boxes as message drops.
Anyway, at one point she encounters Teen Doctor (who is also on a life and death mission but because of his age nobody will take him seriously), and he enlists her help and introduces her to the mysteries of the TARDIS and that he's all the other people she's followed (and occasionally interacted with) before, and then takes her on adventures because he needs somebody around who knows that he's really very bright and everyone should listen to him and to knock a few heads together if people won't.
Also at one point she is convinced that her face is starting to peel off and she's a lizard person underneath. I don't know if she actually was a Silurian hybrid or something or if it was a hallucination.
Anyway, that's about all I can remember.
In conclusion... my subconscious should totally write for Doctor Who! (Okay, maybe the "teen Doctor" thing was pretty lame, but I could see it working for a very short term regeneration to teach him humility or something, and, hey, my brain was in sleep mode when it came up with this stuff, be impressed that it did anything coherent at all!)
Anyway, I can't really describe it as a story... maybe if I wrote this right as I woke up I could have, but I put it off too long and now I can only remember a few isolated elements:
1) The Doctor: It started with Capaldi, and he made some sort of reference to preferring to travel with young women, not for attractiveness reasons but just because he thought they tended to be more excited and passionate about things (which, my dream-self immediately thought "okay, he's just saying this to be proven wrong by the writers later"... which was correct, but we'll get to that). The next time I saw him, he was watching an episode of very obscure very short lived 80s or early 90s SF drama "Nightmare Cafe" and was trying to get the TARDIS to land there because he was convinced that the cafe was actually another TARDIS. But after that, something I can't remember happened, and he had to regenerate into a new Doctor...
A teenage Doctor. Younger than Smith. Probably about 15 or so.
Anyway, interspersed with all of this we'd cut to and revealed...
2) The Companion! Didn't have a name, but they called her "The Inspector", because she was a police inspector, in her 30s-40s... and from the 60s or 70s... She got involved because she kept seeing a police call box in odd locations (she knew where they were supposed to be and took an interest when she found one that wasn't), and especially noticed that they popped up in circumstances where Weird Stuff was about to or just had go down. She'd been shut down by her superiors (who perhaps knew of the Doctor from UNIT but it was a secret) but investigated on her own and saw some previous incarnations of the Doctor (which were inserted into the episode through digital trickery... we'd see her watching a police box and spotting Hartnell or Troughton walk out of it, for example). She was convinced there was some kind of network of spies using phony police boxes as message drops.
Anyway, at one point she encounters Teen Doctor (who is also on a life and death mission but because of his age nobody will take him seriously), and he enlists her help and introduces her to the mysteries of the TARDIS and that he's all the other people she's followed (and occasionally interacted with) before, and then takes her on adventures because he needs somebody around who knows that he's really very bright and everyone should listen to him and to knock a few heads together if people won't.
Also at one point she is convinced that her face is starting to peel off and she's a lizard person underneath. I don't know if she actually was a Silurian hybrid or something or if it was a hallucination.
Anyway, that's about all I can remember.
In conclusion... my subconscious should totally write for Doctor Who! (Okay, maybe the "teen Doctor" thing was pretty lame, but I could see it working for a very short term regeneration to teach him humility or something, and, hey, my brain was in sleep mode when it came up with this stuff, be impressed that it did anything coherent at all!)