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- From: HISC9016351D@LUST.LATROBE.EDU.AU (MAMMONE,Robert)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho
- Subject: Re: Movie (source of script)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.114107.12505@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 11:41:07 GMT
- Article-I.D.: lugb.1992Nov16.114107.12505
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- In-Reply-To: ph9991_manfr@rivers.acc.uwrf.edu's message of 10 Nov 92 11:38:17 -0600
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- >
- > My cousin found and bought a pirate copy of the script for this proposed
- > movie and I read some of it. I had to stop about a third of the way in
- > because I couldn't stand it anymore.
- >
- > The opening scene before the credits takes place in Victorian England
- > out on the streets. We see Jack the Ripper approach a prostitute and
- > begin to kill/dismember her, when the prostitute turns around and pulls
- > off a wig to reveal the Doctor. The Doctor then pulls off a mask off
- > of the Ripper to reveal an alien. He then gets rid of the alien
- > (I forget how, but the alien is either gone from the planet or killed),
- > turns and runs down a street being chased by policemen, gets into the
- > TARDIS at the end of the street and takes off.
- >
- > Then the credits roll.
- >
- > When we come back to the action, we're inside the TARDIS and the Doctor
- > is getting a message from his "companion" over the scanner screen.
- > She is on Gallifrey telling him to report back (!) as there is some
- > trouble he needs to deal with and he does.
- >
- > The villains in the piece seem to think that by possessing a TARDIS'
- > Time Rotor, they will then have the key to time travel, and they set
- > about a "Key to Time" type search for missing segments of the Rotor
- > and the key to the ship the Rotor is housed in. And so we wind up
- > planet-hopping and era-hopping a LOT. Every other scene seems to shift
- > to a new locale.
- >
- > The Doctor also seems to pick up new companions in the story quite early
- > on and voices no objections whatsoever to these companions carrying
- > heavy arms and machine guns with them, not even when they use them in a
- > bullet spree in a 20th century museum. They're aiming for the villains
- > and instead take out thirty civilians and he doesn't say a word!!!!
- >
- > At one point, the villainess has the Doctor alone in his cell, and she
- > starts stepping to his side saying, "Think of what we could have had
- > together Doctor."
- >
- > This was the point where I threw the script down in disgust.
- >
- > On top of that, as if it weren't bad enough, the dialog was the most
- > cliched and stilted thing I had ever seen, Gallifrey was being treated
- > like Time Police Central, with the Doctor and other "Time Lords" coming
- > in and out like it was a New York precinct, all on missions somewhere.
- > Hardy a non-interference directive is it?
- >
- >
- >
- > If this is truly the script for the Doctor Who Movie, and it did look
- > authentic, then I for one will not be cueing up to see it.
- >
- >The synopsis of this script was printed in the British publication, DWB
- sometime early this year. I remember it took up a double page spread and
- was more detailed than the above.
-
- > Steven.K.Manfred
- >
-