JJK Characters Rate Their Petnames Given By Their S/O
(And Their Favorite Petnames to Give to Their S/O)
❥ Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen
❥ Content: Headcanons
❥ Date: May. 25. 21
❥ Word Count: 758
❥ Content Warning: Suggestive themes, Humor, Fluff, grammatical errors
❥ Characters Featured/Mentioned: Itadori Yuuji, Kugisaki Nobara, Fushiguro Megumi, Nanami Kento, Gojo Satoru
❥ Notes: Wow I have a lot of time on my hands. Should I make petname hcs pt 2 for the 2nd years?
- Daynada ❧
Itadori Yuuji
❥ Ita (6/10 - it’s cute nothing too unique)
❥ Yuuyuu (8/10 - he finds it adoring, a bit embarrassed only because you easily fluster him)
❥ Togepi (bc he looks like one) (7/10 doesn’t understand why you call him that but likes Pokémon)
❥ Baby-boy (9/10 yes he is your baby boy baby him pls)
❥ Romeo (10/10 honestly tho he likes whatever you wanna call him)
❥ Tiger (9/10 he likes it! Makes him feel like he’s baddd even tho he’s still bby)
Calls You:
❥ Mrs/Mr. Itadori (Itadori (y/n))
❥ Baby
❥ Mon Chou (which means my cabbage, apparently French people say this to each other and you have no idea why he’s calling you a cabbage - edit: there are two meanings of Mon chou: 1. term of endearment/adoration and 2. meaning “my cabbage” 🥬 !)
❥ My Lovah
❥ Dove
❥ Peach blossom
❥ My everything (cuuuteeeee)
Kugisaki Nobara
❥ Your highness/your majesty (100/10 because it’s facts)
❥ Baby-girl (8/10 depending on how you say it tooo oooh she’ll be all blushy tryna play it off)
❥ Princess (7/10 it’s not the first ones but she can make do - even though you might be saying it cos she’s a spoiled brat <3)
❥ My Flower (1000/10 she's just like aww babe 🥺)
❥ Carrot Top (-2/10)
❥ Vixen (10/10 she’s like “damn straight”)
❥ International Superstar Model Kugisaki Nobara (She will marry you/10)
Calls You:
❥ Lover Girl/Lover Boy
❥ Babe
❥ Babester
❥ Toots ;)
❥ The Baddest™
❥ My Property
❥ Baby boo
Fushiguro Megumi
❥ Umi (9/10 Umi means the ocean in Japanese, you explain his eyes are deep and blue as the ocean cutecutecute)
❥ Sweet Baby Boy (10/10 emphasis on “sweet” cos this boy blushin’)
❥ Gumi-drop/Gumi-bear/Gumi-ball (6/10 won’t admit he kinda likes it only cos you say it so sweetly and doesn’t want you to say it in front of his friends)
❥ My Sweet Prince (7/10 doesn’t think he’s prince-like but it’s flattering to think you adore him as such)
❥ Angel Face (8/10 a bit embarrassing only because he melts when you say it)
❥ Zookeeper/puppeteer (😐/10 haha you got the whole squad laughing)
Calls You:
❥ Puppy (I think we can all agree 🥺)
❥ Kitten (Suggestively oooh)
❥ My Moonlight
❥ Bunny
❥ Better/Other Half (😭)
❥ My Pretty girl/Pretty Boy
❥ Angel
Bonus:
Nanami Kento
❥ Ken (first 7/10 but now 6.5/10 bc he probably hates being called after Barbie’s boyfriend lMAOOO)
❥ Nana (8/10 lowkey because when you say it makes him feel soft awh)
❥ Darling (9/10)
❥ Kenny (6/10)
❥ Boss Man (4/10 he doesn’t know where that came from - “Dub so big I had to roll down the window to see it boss man” “Sure thing boss man” - Nanami:???)
❥ Dreamboat (8/10)
❥ Light of my Life (🫀/10)
❥ Soul mate (🫀🫀🫀/10)
Calls You:
❥ Beloved
❥ Beautiful/Handsome
❥ Princess/prince (on rare occasions 😳)
❥ All Mine
❥ Honey
❥ Dearest
❥ Sweetheart
Gojo Satoru:
❥ Stud-muffin/stud (9/10 yeah he knows)
❥ Toru (9.5/10 just feels more wholesome, yeah he likes 🙂)
❥ Sugar Daddy (10/10 honestly you stopped calling him that you know it’ll intensify his ego)
❥ Zaddy (9/10 this is the closest thing to ‘Zaddy’ with a ‘d’ instead of a ‘z’ as he really wants you to say it but you’re just like “r u h0rn¥ all the time or somethin’?" 😀 Like is this even a petname?)
❥ Papi (9.5/10 again. He really likes it. But you probably said it only a couple of times. He is desperate please. “getting kinda closer tho” “no, just no.”)
❥ Stinky (7/10 Gojo likes it as he knows you’re saying it when he annoys you)
❥ One-Third of the Three Blind Mice (0/10 he's had enough he's going to snap you’ve said it for the billionth time)
Calls you
❥ Lamb
❥ Big booty Judy/Jude (Judy/Jude won’t even be your real name but he’ll call you that because he seems to really like your ass)
❥ Babycakes
❥ Gorgeous/Hottie
❥ My boo/boo thang
❥ Pooster (wtf I just know he says this to you)
❥ Doll/doll face
❥ Smalls
❥ Snookums
❥ Sugar
❥ Queen/king
❥ This guy will literally call you anything and thinks it’s endearing. Please love him lmao.
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So I wrote this a little over two years ago. They are my first thoughts in watching CATS (2019)
This was written basically as soon as I got home from the theatre in 2019. I truly hope you enjoy these, as they have been gathering dust in my drafts. Now, without further ado:
These are just some of my thoughts I had while watching and my initial reaction to the film I have just watched.
Okay, first of all, me and my pals thought we were in the wrong cinema for a couple minutes because there were faaaaar too many people in the cinema
Overture:
As we all know, the music slaps and me and my pals were straight vibing as the camera panned down.
And then the cats appeared. I legit was thinking, “wow they actually made them look like that, huh?”
I immediately identified Munk, Cass, Dem and Syllabub
SPIDER MUNK! SPIDER MUNK! DOES WHATEVER A SPIDER MUNK DOES!
fr tho why did he climb down that wall like that that’s not how cats work
Why are they surrounding her like that?? ARE THEY SUMMONING A DEMON WTF?? I’M SO DIZZY
[Victoria appears] Oh look it’s a babey
I took a forty, smashed in on the ground and yelled SCATTER
Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats
Laurie Davidson is babey
This isn’t too bad. I like the way that this number is being handled so far
AAaaaaaaaand now it’s funky town WTF
The music just went rachachacha on us
Munk really be out here straight vibing throughout the whole song
I do like how he’s kind of leading the whole numberits fun to watch
As always, there’s my babey Syllabub
We need to talk about the feet. Or maybe we shouldn’t. Yeah let’s not.
What is with the clapping in the music? Who is clapping? The cats aren’t. The audience certainly isnt. ( @whatsajinglebellcat said “It’s the clap of their ass cheeks as they’re dancing”)
The choreography is mediocre at best, I really dislike Andy’s choreography, why are they like that?????
Francesca Hayward is babey
How is Syllabub able to hang from that position wtf, surely that hurts
Robbie Fairchild as Munk is both daddy and babey (i’m said it I’m not sorry)
The jellicles seem to be having fun at least which is nice
Macavity Dialogue Bit
That Moriarty reference flashing into a wanted poster for Macavity is beautiful thank you so much to whoever pitched that and implemented that
Ooooo Macavity already sounds interesting
Once again, Laurie Davidson as Misto is babey
Demeter and Cassandra, why are you such bitches? Dear lord
The Naming of Cats // Invitation to the Jellicle Ball
Ngl I actually really like this bit
Deadass seems like a cult initiation but we’ve long ago established that the Jellicle tribe is a cult anyway
Munkustrap ur doing so good sweetie
Victoria darling u are one in the babey club
As always, there is Syllabub straight vibing
Mr Strap, Munk that is a child, why are you dancing with her like that?!
Francesca is a stunning wonderful dancer but she should’ve been dancing by herself more
Mr Mistofelees you are such babey ur so cute darling, he’s doing so good
Munk why did you have to sing your bit and then restate it while talking we’re not stupid!
oh wait.
a lot of people still don’t get the plot
carry on, and maybe say it again
The Old Gumbie Cat (Coming from someone who has played Jennyanydots)
no
no no
no no no
no no nope not happening no
no way
don’t like that at all
why is she doing that
why does she sound like that
Munk ur doing so good but why
Why is she spreading eagle like that
why do the mice look like that
why do the roaches look like that
WHY DID SHE UNZIP HERSELF DEAR GOD MY EYES
NO FUNNY FAT CAT BOING BOING
The Rum Tum Tugger
ooooo... this... is alright
actually
hold up
wait
why is this actually good
awww Jenny and Munk are so cute i’m glad they did munk and jenny’s friendship
Damn Tugger is fun
Okay, why is he reacting to Vic that way
Who cares this slaps
Jason Derulo was a good Rum Tum Tugger choice there I said it
Oh my god i actually love his voice
Syllabub = babey
dear god Jenny that comment about Tugger and being neutered isn’t very in character but I cackled
Jenny sweetie pls don’t try and breakdance
Okay the milk is fucking weird
this is weird
okay nvmind it’s good again
Tugger really be feeling himself in those riffs. and so he should
Grizabella The Glamour Cat
This is well handled
I really like how Griz sang her bit to the curious Victoria
I love that not everyone realised Griz was there right away
Of course, that is
oooo Cass and Dem are feisty
Deadass Cass seems like Grizabella’s child??!!!
Oh my god they look like the Jets or the Sharks are they about to start clicking????!!!!
Gang gang
Once again - syllabub, i see you and i love you
Dialogue Interlude
Griz went of with Maccy Boi huh?
Macavity you fuckin’ bitch
I barely remember what happened but that transition into Bustopher Jones really doesn’t fit
I think Bustopher and Jenny had a fight? Umm? Why?
Bustopher Jones
I had a real trouble keeping an eye on whats going on in this number
Why are all his ‘clubs’ just dumpsters? Like no. That’s-
That’s not really
No
JESUS CHRIST JENNY REALLY JUST WENT POOF HUH
THANOS SNAPPED THAT QUEEN
HOLY SHIT
I LITERALLY JUMPED OUT OF MY CHAIR
After that I was just watching my friend who played Bustopher to see his reaction to everything
Also why is he singing this entire number by himself
Maitre’D (or however the fuck that name is spelled) is married to Bustopher and no one can change my mind
Why is “the cat in spats” so funny, Macavity? Huh? I did like that Mac poked fun at his fashion sense rather than his weight tho
Also why did Bustopher fucking flyyyy??????
Aaaaaaaaand down the slide Veruca Salt style
Growltiger Interlude
Could’ve raised a lot of red flags with this number, but just establishing the character where all the kidnapped characters ended up, I liked
Also what did Growltiger actually do to Bustopher
And that gag about the rhyming of “aims” and “thames” ran a little too long ngl
But I liked the mauled ear on Growltiger - nice nod and detail
Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer
These two really said “Be gay, do crimes”
I love them
I fucking love them
And this rendition
10/10 I love this whole number
They’re a little more evil than playful but I literally don’t care because they’re awesome
The jewels on Victoria? Stan
Mungojerrie is such a cute dumb bitch and I love him so much
Their accents are so cute
The house is stunning
Victoria? Babey.
Mungojerrie? Babey.
Rumpleteazer? Babey.
This number was so much fun and is probably my favourite
And their fur designs are so cute too!
I love this song. I love the version. I love everything about it.
Mistofelees X Victoria Interlude
Once again, the twins are babey
You know who else is babey? My clumsy and adorable boy Misto
Clumsy sweetie
Wow they’re going for Mistoria huh?
Why didn’t they play up Mungo and Teazer knowing Vic before the ball? Why is there just a nod to it in when Munk asks about the jewel Vic wears
Old Deuteronomy
I adore Robbie Fairchild
Why does Old Doot appear like a new rival in a video game?
The rendering was so bad in that moment
But Munk is so sweet when Doot appears
They are mother and son, and no one can change my mind
Judi Dench really can’t sing huh...
It’s so raspy and yick
Also her coat is so odd and I hate it
Deadass she looks like an albino
Song of the Jellicles
I genuinely couldn’t tell if I liked or disliked the fact that everyone sang everything
“Meow meow meow meow” Gus dear god why
Again, we’re back into the whole cult thing
Jellicle Ball
The whole cinema lost their minds laughing through this whole choreography and I hated it
But Syllabub got some dance moves
Tugger saying “With your permission” ummm??? He is Doot’s other more feral son
The choreography was good at some points but for the most part it was eh
The music is bangin’ tho
And then they all died lmao
Memory
WHY DOES GRIZ HAVE SO MUCH SNOT
that is all
PART 2 COMING SOON
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this week on gallifreybase: my attention’s been turned to a brilliant post summarizing all the unmade episodes in new doctor who
some of which i knew about, some i didn’t
i love this kind of behind the scenes stuff to death
so here is the post under the cut for everyone to enjoy
Series 1
-The Paul Abbott episode
Originally in RTD's Series 1 Pitch document, Episode 11 was just called "The New Team" and just said "The Doctor, Rose and Jax. A small scale adventure, character stuff" presumably to be written by RTD himself. Then it was retitled "Pompeii" after RTD saw a documentary on the event and thought similar SFX could be used a Who episode.
Then Russell managed to tempt his friend, successful showrunner Paul Abbott to write an episode. So the pitch document for Ep11 was re-titled "Paul Abbott Episode"
There's no evidence that Abbott used the Pompeii idea. Instead, according to Russell, Abbott's story pitch was that Jax would discover that the Doctor had been secretly manipulating Rose's life, in order to make her the perfect companion and there would be conflict over whether to tell her. RTD was hesitant over the idea, because it ruined his own plans for the Doctor & Rose, but he allowed Abbott to continue to develop it. However after a few weeks it became clear Abbott wouldn't have the time to do the episode, Russell replaced with his own script "Boom Town"
Series 2
-The 1920s by Stephen Fry
In RTD's Series 2 story outline, Episode 11 was called "The 1920s" and was to be written by Stephen Fry, partly based on research for his film "Bright Young Things" The episode was also based on the story of "Gawain and the Green Knight" giving the story new alien origins. It included a scenes of the TARDIS landing on a strange planet. It was reportedly set in 3 different time periods (incluiding the 1920s)
The story apparently involved the Gawain character falling in love with Rose in the wrong narratative order for viewers, and for Rose herself.
However, late in 2006, it was decided that the story was too expensive for this point in production and it was pushed back to Series 3 & replaced with "Fear Her". It has also been said there were issues with violence.
Unfortunately by 2007, Fry didn't have time to rewrite the script further or alter it for the new companion and so he wrote a letter to RTD and it was abandoned altogether.
Some have said (off the record) that the script's tone was was very different from RTD episodes, closer to the Classic Series (e.g. It began with the Doctor & Rose playing chess in the TARDIS by candlelight)
in 2011 Fry has said he would like to re-use the idea, taking out the Dr Who elements and turning into a novel, when he has the time, but since then nothing has happened.
Series 3
-Ood story by Chris Chibnall
After his first successful year show-running Torchwood, Chibnall was invited to write for Dr Who, Series 3 Episode 7.
He told Starburst Magazine
"Russell said, “Come and write this episode"... It was one with the Ood, and it had Zack and Ida from The Impossible Planet, and it was like going to see what had happened to them afterwards. There were tiny elements of it in Planet of the Ood but it wasn't the same story. And so we did a lot of planning on that; and it was an alien planet. And then I finished all my writing duties on Torchwood and we had the meeting and it was like, "Actually we can't afford to do that. We need an episode set in corridors, with no monsters, because we couldn't afford monsters. That's probably why there are no real aliens"
Series 4
-The Suicide Exhibition by Mark Gatiss
This was planned for Penny's (later Donna's) Episode 3 (which was later swapped with "Planet of the Ood")
RTD's Series 4 breakdown describes this as
"World War 2. Monsters on the loose in the Natural History Museum as a Nazi strike force invades...Plus an Indiana Jones-type chamber hidden beneath with sliding stone doors"
Gatiss said the story was based on how, during the war, museums would put out less well-known exhibits, so that if they were bombed they wouldn't lose any great treasures-Suicide Exhibitions.
He also said the monsters were based on the preserved bog-men found in the museums, like "The Lindow man"
"After the first draft, Russell said, "Let's make it the Nazis and do the full Indiana Jones on it." The whole museum was a puzzle box of sliding doors and traps and stuff."
Gatiss worked on the script for a year, and a script was ready to film, but when the production team discovered it'd be possible to shoot an episode overseas, the story was abandoned in favour of "Fires of Pompeii"
-Century House by Tom MacRae
An companion-lite episode. The Doctor goes live on reality TV show "Most Haunted" to track down a ghost known as The Red Widow. Donna & her family watch him at home on TV.
It was set in a big old, abandoned, spooky house on a cliff top, with OB vans and tricks with cables rings around the house. Certain rooms would flashback to the 1950s/60s. There was a big fire sequence towards the end.
If I remember correctly, MacRae compared moments in the episode to Sapphire and Steel. This was an idea RTD originally gave to MacRae to develop for Series 3 (so Martha and her family) Unfortunately they found there wasn't a place for it there, so it was held back for Series 4, episode 8.
Unfortunately, despite MacRae working on it for over a year, RTD and the team were concerned that the setting was too similar to "The Unicorn and the Wasp" and that the concept they had given him wasn't strong enough. Shortly before pre-production, RTD challenged himself to try to come up with something better in a few days, and ended up quickly writing "Midnight". In a later interview, MacRae was quite sanguine about this, saying that if his episode had to be replaced, he was glad it was with one of the best.
The Specials
-Space Opera/Alien Hotel by Gareth Roberts and Russell T Davies
One of RTD's earliest ideas for the 2009 Easter special would be have to the TARDIS arrive in the middle of an interstellar war, complete with aliens, spaceships, and dogfights in space. He gave this idea to Gareth Roberts who wrote an outline. RTD has issues with the result, including later scenes set in an outer space hotel where guests were having alien eggs secretly implanted (a gruesome reference to easter eggs) So the story was abandoned in favour of what became "Planet of the Dead"
-A Midwinter's Tale by Phil Ford and Russell T Davies
A grandmother (possibly to be played by Helen Mirren or Judi Dench) is trapped in a posh hotel with her unruly family at Christmas. Wishing that they'd all just disappear, she storms out, only to find the corridors deserted, her family has disappeared, and as she searches further, so has all of humanity.
Finally, she comes upon the TARDIS and the Doctor. Investigating, they discover eight-legged centaur-like creatures abroad in London. It transpires that aliens from another dimension, the Shi'ar, have frozen time on Earth in order to hold a festival celebrating the marriage of their queen. The life of the grandmother's family becomes endangered, culminating in a race through secret tunnels beneath Buckingham Palace.
This was a story idea by RTD given to Phil Ford, planned for when there would've been only 3 specials: Easter 2009, Christmas 2009 and the Doctor regenerating at Easter 2010, leaving a few weeks before Series 5. "Midwinter" would be the Christmas special. Eventually it was decided there wasn't enough incident for an hour. "Waters of Mars" was developed instead, which was then moved to November with a new two-part Christmas regeneration.
Series 5
-Death to the Doctor by Gareth Roberts
This was originally planned for Series 5: Episode 7, the "Amy's Choice" slot.
According to Gareth Roberts on Twitter,it was set on a Holiday planet like Las Vegas in middle of huge star war. The planet totally peaceful, with the law rigorously enforced. , There were police robots called Fleetfoots. If anyone committed any crime they had to fight a duel with a giant cyclops, and then the Doctor got arrested on a minor offence... Amy and Rory would have to find a way to get him off world without whole planet going up in war. The story also involved a disgraced Sontaran character called Commander Skorn.
This story got as far as CGI being designed for the cyclops.
Unfortunately as Series 5 went on, there was a budget crunch and it was realised they couldn't afford their original plans. So Hungry Earth/Cold Blood was rewritten to be cheaper, Neil Gaiman's Episode 11 was moved to Series 6, and Roberts' episode was abandoned altogether. Instead Roberts and Simon Nye were hired to write new, cheaper stories for episodes 7 and 11. However, even though the episode was lost, Moffat reinvented Commander Skorn as Commander Strax for A Good Man Goes to War, delighting Roberts.
-Fear Itself by Paul Cornell
(from Paul Cornell's Newsletter https://paulcornell.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=198e8a011b70a7fa79dd704d6&id=de506d08cb)
This was to be a companion-lite episode. It was a loose adaptation of Cornell's Christmas story "The Hopes and Fears of All the Years"
The story involved the Doctor visiting a boy (Tom) every year on his on his birthday, because the Doctor knows he will, on one birthday, save the boy's life. It charted the life story of the boy, then the man, through the Doctor's regular visits on the same day.
The story went through at least six drafts with the threat the Doctor was protecting Tom from changing during this process. By the Sixth draft it an alien computer that turned surrounding people into monsters for a few minutes each year. Tom had a green glowing lump on his neck & the computer's directive was to obtain it/destroy it.
The story got as far as Cornell being brought in to to talk about casting, with some big names being discussed for grown-up Tom.
Eventually it was decided the story was too expensive for Series 5 (Two scenes of birthday visits through the decades would've depicted the two World Wars) and the episode was pushed back to Series 6. However when Series 6 started, Cornell was told they weren't going ahead with his episode after all.
Series 7
-Craig of the Gods by Gareth Roberts
This was intended for episode 5 of the original Series 7b when Beryl the Victorian nanny was to be the companion.
Craig was playing a computer game with real people trapped inside. The Tardis landed in game, Doctor and Beryl looked up through the clouds to see god and it was Craig. The story was seemingly abandoned when Beryl was replaced with Clara as the companion
Roberts later observed that similar ideas were used in Series 10's Extremis.
-Craig's Wedding by Gareth Roberts
This would've featured the return of Craig, Sophie and their son.
In one interview, Roberts said
"I had this idea where Craig and Sophie were going to get married and were on this beautiful island somewhere near Greece and it was all going fine, then you turned around and saw the Doctor water-skiing away from a Sea Devil. Then you’d have Craig trying to keep him out of the wedding.”
However someone who had read the Series 7 outline says that Sea Devils weren't there, instead a different monster was featured.
Roberts later described the episode as "Nuts In May on Alzarius" Nuts in May was a Mike Leigh comedy about a slightly dull married couple (Craig and Sophie?) who try to go camping, but keep having their peace interrupted, often by the husband's jealousy.
It may have been cancelled due to James Cordern's rising stardom in America. From what we can gather, it seems to have been replaced with "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS"
Series 8
-Strax on Trial by James Henry
Detailed here http://jamesandthebluecat.blogspot.com/2018/01/always-spell-check-your-email-headers.html
Briefly, James Henry (writer of Green Wing, Campus and Smack the Pony) was asked to pitch stories for Series 8. Eventually Moffat asked him to develop one his own ideas, where Strax is kidnapped by his fellow Sontarans, taken back to his home planet, and put on trial for helping humans and the Doctor. An outline was written (read the blogpost) and it appears it was in competition with "Mummy on the Orient Express" and "In the Forest of the Night" for the final two slots. For various reasons, those two episodes were chosen instead.
Series 9
-Vampire story by Paul Cornell
Paul Cornell was asked to come in and submit ideas for Capaldi's first series. One story idea was for the Doctor & Clara to encounter a community of peaceful vampires in London and for the Doctor to get bitten and become one. The story was a sort of inverse 'Human Nature', going with the idea that this was to be a Doctor who couldn't quite be trusted. This story idea was accepted and could've been made for Capaldi's second season (per Cornell's reddit AMA) but it was never developed further than a one page outline.
Series 10
-Jamie Mathieson's New Monster
In 2015, when Moffat was first talking to writers for Series 10 episodes, he told the Radio Times
"[Mathieson] has just been in and pitched a brilliant idea, a brilliant new monster. I just read his first pass at a storyline for that and I’ve no idea where we’ll end up going with that story. But that’s him. Being Jamie, he came in with 20 ideas and this one is just a belter"
Early next year, Mathieson told a convention he had received an email from Moffat beginning "I can't stop thinking about your monster"
However, in a 2017 DWM, Moffat reported that although they had tried to make Mathieson's monster story, they'd never managed to get the script to work, Moffat thought that it would still make an amazing horror film. Instead he asked Mathieson to develop another different story based around astronauts.
-Sleep No More 2 by Mark Gatiss
When planning his story for Series 10, Gatiss originally planned to do a semi-sequel to "Sleep No More" He told the Radio Times
"I had this idea [that] I'd like to do the double in a kind of Yeti way, to have two stories about the same monster.”
"Although it was still in space, 'Sleep No More' was originally going to be on a trading floor; it was a stocks and shares thing, with these executives who were trying to stay awake in order to be more productive...I thought there was something in that, and actually maybe I could do a modern day one, set in the City, where they’d invented the same process but actually thousands of years earlier, and it had the same effect.”
So the story would have been more of a prequel, set in Modern day London, The Genesis of the Sandmen.
Gatiss said he abandoned the episode when he realised that this could be his last Who episode, so he asked instead to write the story he'd always wanted to do: Ice Warriors on Mars.
-Pride & Prejudice & Daleks by Paul Cornell
Paul Cornell was again asked to submit ideas for a later Capaldi series.
One idea he developed, involving Daleks in the Land of Fiction was paid for because it was similar to an idea another writer was working on and they wanted to be able to use his ideas (this is standard practice with writers) However the latter story was never made.
List of writers that were commissioned, but we still know nothing about their stories
Series 3: Matthew Graham (possibly the man who can drain color that he unsuccessfully pitched for Series 2)
Series 5: Rob Shearman, Jack Thorne, Amanda Coe
Series 7: Tom MacRae, John Fay, Jack Lothian, the mystery original writer of Series 7b Episode 2
Series 10: Russell T Davies (Moffat said at Cambridge that they had a story all worked out, but then he became too busy)
At some point during the Steven Moffat era, Charlie Brooker & Jed Mercurio were asked by the showrunner if they wanted to write Doctor Who stories. However Brooker was too busy & Mercurio wasn't interested
in 2018 acclaimed writer Sally Abbott said that she worked on a Doctor Who story for several months, but wouldn't say more except it was "a few years ago"
Paul Cornell has also said that around 2011/2012 he worked with Caro Skinner on another TV Doctor Who spinoff, which he's going to discuss on his newsletter at a later date. So if you want to read about that in full, I encourage you to subscribe https://paulcornell.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=198e8a011b70a7fa79dd704d6&id=de506d08cb)
to those of you who are on gb, here’s a direct link to the post:
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