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[Having lost one companion in Absolution, the Eighth Doctor was about to lose Charley Pollard, too. After an incredible journey of adventures, The Girl Who Never Was arrived. However, before deciding on the final story, Alan Barnes- who had introduced Charley in Storm Warning – had several plots in mine. He said: “There must have been five or six very different outlines for this one, as it changed an awful lot. Gary Russel had asked me to come up with a ‘writing out Charley’ story, which I was very happy to do.”
The original version featured the third Pollard sister, Peg, who had become a Secret Operations Executive spy but had gone missing in occupied France, so Charley took her place. It would have been set largely at the Grand Guignol Theatre in Paris and been purely historical. But Alan was never happy with it. A later version relocated the story to Singapore in 1942, and featured a character called Alex Grayle- related to Sebastian Grayle, from Seasons of Fear.
Alan said; “There’d been some talk of doing a Charley spin-off series, hence the Alex Grayle character- I thought we could do a wartime Avengers with Charley as a sort of Emma Peel, so they were going to go off together at the end.”
That ended up having a Philadelphia Experiment feel to it, in which the main villain of the story was a parallel universe Eighth Doctor whose own Charley had died- and he’d come to Singapore looking for a replacement. But then The Age of Steel came along, which had a very similar ending- companion Mickey going off to fight Cybermen in a parallel universe- so Cardiff didn’t really want Big Finish doing ‘parallel universe’ stories for a time.]
-The Big Finish Companion Volume II page 19
#Charley Pollard#Big Finish#Doctor Who#The Girl Who Never Was#Eighth Doctor#THERES ALOT GOING ON HERE?????#I need agonized parallel eight in my LIFE PLEASE#txt from zee
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the girl who never was (audio: 2007)
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The Girl Who Never Was
I didn’t follow the multiple timelines exactly and the character crossovers between them but on the whole (may have been the dialogue) I did enjoy this a fair bit. Cybermen are relatively minor villains, they are there slightly but it’s more about the situation and the other characters. Charley leaves the Doctor after all this time which is a shame but I know we’re back with her and Colin shortly! Her leaving was more of a tiff than anything but I guess there was a tad of emotional weight. The Doctor seems a bit out sorts not hanging out with his friend (or should-be lover) and won’t see much from Paul here on out even more unfortunately.
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#The Girl Who Never Was#3 stars#paul mcgann#8th doctor#dr who#1 episode#doctor who#big finish#eighth doctor#2007#Youtube
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Man in a Suitcase: The Girl Who Never Was (1.9, ITC, 1967)
"Well, my fee's usually three hundred a week, plus expenses, but... you I'll charge double."
#man in a suitcase#the girl who never was#1967#robert tronson#donald jonson#richard bradford#bernard lee#priscilla morgan#harold goodwin#annette carell#david garfield#basil dignam#derek smee#raymond smith#jack bligh#vicki woolf#charles laurence#roy vincente#opens with one of the best pre credits sequences itc ever pulled off: a title card tells us it's noon‚ then that we're in San Vincenzo‚ and#only then‚ as the disconcerting image of ww2 soldiers emerging from smoke makes itself clear‚ do we get the year; 1944. what follows is an#impressively staged and presumably fairly costly battle scene‚ all the more bewildering for going straight into the opening titles without#any explanation of how this will involve McGill. it's a tale of wartime intrigue and buried secrets‚ hinging on a looted art treasure worth#a small fortune. Annette Carell is superbly sly as the wicked dealer employing McGill (but just as happy to cut him out of any profits) and#Goodwin a sympathetic traumatised old soldier. it's been a pleasant surprise so far to reference Pixley's bible and in fact find that#contrary to popular opinion‚ many guest stars had a high opinion of Bradford; unfortunately i knew going into this one that it wasn't the#case. Bernard Lee is perhaps the best known of the bust ups Bradford had behind the scenes; Lee was an alcoholic by this point and by#director Tronson's account arrived drunk and belligerent on set. a confrontation occurred‚ the details of which are lost to time (or have#been politely forgotten) but suffice to say that there was no love lost between Bradford and Lee‚ and despite only sharing one scene their#working relationship was so sour that it spiralled both men against each other (Lee's perceived unprofessionalism making Bradford angrier#which made Lee drink more which made Bradford angrier which made Lee drink more...). sadly it does show a little in stilted performances
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What Are the TARDIS' HADS in Doctor Who?
What Are the TARDIS' HADS in #DoctorWho?
Last mentioned in the Wild Blue Yonder when the TARDIS needs to recover from having coffee spilt into its systems, the Doctor talks about the HADS — a defence mechanism that engages when the TARDIS is under attack and moves itself and or its occupants to somewhere safe. But what exactly are the HADS and when did the Doctor first mention them? The HADS, which stands primarily for the Hostile…
#Big Finish#Cold War#Daleks#David Tennant#Dead of Winter#Eleventh Doctor#Fourteenth Doctor#Liberation of the Daleks#Matt Smith#Patrick Troughton#Peter Capaldi#Renaissance of the Daleks#Second Doctor#TARDIS#The Angel of Scutari#The Bodysnatchers#The Crimson Hand#The Girl Who Never Was#The Krotons#The Magician&039;s Apprentice#The Mutant Phase#The Parting of the Ways#The Suns of Caresh#The Witch&039;s Familiar#Time and the Rani#Twelfth Doctor#White Darkness#Wild Blue Yonder
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this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.
good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.
sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.
so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.
one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.
#warm up#writeblr#actually this is because again i don't go here#i don't read/write fanfic but i have nothing but respect for my troops#but i also have never played minecraft. im sorry. please ask me any question about pokemon tho i love that shit#anyway#out of some banal and thoughtless curiosity i watched the minecraft movie trailer#and again i know nothing about minecraft. i am aware im in an endangered population#but im watching this going: this is so fucking.... BAD#there is NO LOVE in it!#like if someone who has NO history in minecraft watches that and is like - ohhh this is soulless#WHO IS THE AUDIENCE????#ppl who love minecraft are gonna hate it!!!#at some point it's the ''mean girls musical movie'' problem --#some people will always hate the premise of what you're doing and some people will love it#make it for the ppl who love it#and usually that somewhat convinces the haters to like. chill enough to TRY it . bc it IS good#but when you try to make it for the haters..... nobody likes it. it doesn't have passion. energy. footwork#which is a small way of saying a big thing: if you love something. fucking make it and assume someone will love it too.#i love u . be brave . be bold. be in boston and come to my reading#where i wrote a really weird fucked up little book.#love u love u love u etc
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Crocodile finds a strange stray cat an 11-year old Nico Robin (AU where they met 13 years earlier. Robin's been on the run from the World Government for 3 years. Crocodile's 27 and has not set up base in Alabasta yet)
It seems like I have become possessed. By some sort of demon.
Bonus:
#My art#One Piece#Nico Robin#Sir Crocodile#Y'all the OP brainrot is BAD#According to an SBS Crocodile would absolutely spoil his child rotten if he had one. *We all know how Robin's childhood went*#Scary mofo who does not know how to parent a child but boy does he have the spirit + Child who has never had proper parent in her life#They'd make. An absolute disaster of a duo. This AU concept is so fucking funny to me okay#But also sad because I would fucking die for baby Robin she deserves the fucking world#This poor girl has never been spoiled in her entire life AND NOW PAPADILE IS HERE TO SPOIL HER#You know it's funny. I know 11 yo Robin should LOOK older than 8 year old Robin. But Crocodile is a fucking giant so she's still baby sized#Also I just had too much fun drawing Robin looking as pathetic as humanly possible lmao#She's a like a wet kitten in the rain 😭
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Typical role dustribution
#tim drake#bart allen#cassandra sandsmark#cassie sandsmark#young justice#young justice 1998#red robin#robin iii#dc impulse#wonder girl#roppie tries to draw#I like the idea that tim couldve just gone as himself#he just never chooses to lol#masc cassie my beloved#rip to kon who i couldnt fit in here#this could be an alltim fic setup tbh :///#pls ignore any wonkiness i wanted to get this out before i get swamped with office work again#for some reason this didnt post earlier so heres to hoping 😔😔😔
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main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:
michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club
*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***
that's it that's the movie
outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative
actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.
aka Michael Myers Is A Republican
but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too
also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain
side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty
i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978
(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)
oh no he's hot
#HALLOWEEN#halloween the movie#michael myers#do you think he's a mike? mikey? to his friends? if slashers had friends?#i'll be honest i was expecting this movie to be way more of a bitch to its female characters#i mean yeah they died but so did some dudes#there's just a lack of cattiness compared to the way most later movies portrayed teenage girls idk#yeah the Final Girl is a Virgin and a Bookworm. but there's no bullying or any strong sense that's she's morally superior to everyone else#mostly she AND the other girls feel a bit sorry for her lack of a social life. one even tries to set her up with a date to the school dance#solidarity! trying to get your nerd friend laid!#overall it's just teenagers being teenagers and then a slasher comes in and ruins everything with his Lack Of Chill#like yeah dude sometimes teenagers have sex. get over it#also something to be said about how while the girl who survives is the one who isn't sexually active and dresses conservatively...#ultimately those things aren't ENOUGH to prevent her from being targeted#you could say that the other girls 'provoked' the villain (the same way women irl are so often accused of provoking their attackers)#but ultimately that doesn't keep the Final Girl safe. it just delays the inevitable.#because violent men never need excuses. no matter how eager society is to provide them.#ultimately she is at the mercy of the same violent whims because it was never her behavior that invited the violence.#gendered violence doesn't need an invitation.#also she doesn't save herself the doctor saves her#it's not her actions or choices that put her in danger OR save her from it--once again it is the whim of a man#no this wasn't intended to be a feminist movie it's just fun how you could argue it that way
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her hair so CRISPY
(commission!)
#bg3#bg3 fanart#shadowheart#baldur's gate 3#love how i threw her in a lake one fanart ago and now she's sufferin the consequences#as someone who has dyed their black hair to platinum blonde.#YOU SHOULD NEVER LIFT YOUR HAIR THAT MUCH IN ONE NIGHT I AM BEGGING YOU#she can do it bc hot girl shit#but doing this irl???? will snap your hair in half#anyway#the commissioner said shadowheart and i went feral. blacked out. let selune take me
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Vanny's type in FNAF is so obvious...
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#mike schmidt#tape girl#fnaf vanny#fnaf tonya#fnaf vanessa#glitchtrap#fnaf movie#fnaf help wanted#security breach#fnaf fanart#THIS COMIC IS UNSERIOUS#BUT also yay taps girl again!!! 🩵#A saw a couple folks make the joke Mike and tape girl had similar vibes#and that Vanny has a ‘type’ of sorts#WHICH TBH I think is sorta sweet?#like Vanessa likes people who are far calmer than her#seeing how hectic her own mind gets#having calm vibes around her woukd soothe her.. it’s cute#glitchtrap gotta MIND his own business 😤#tbh Vanessa and Glitchtrap’s dynamic will never not be funny#she hates that dude and for good reason 🩵🩵🩵
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OK so I saw Titanic in the theater earlier this month and it had ignited so many Charley thoughts in me. That movie would mess her up so bad, she would be a bawling mess by the end.
There's also gets progressively more and more painful and resonant with her as time goes on or depending when she watches it. Pre-neverland, after the Divergent arc or after The Girl Who Never Was.
I can see her coming across the two tape VHS set in the TARDIS library (the Doctor is a VHS guy and Becky Lee taught Charley about VHS players) and being curious about it since she does define herself by being born on the day it sank.
It's a romance, adventure, and tragedy all in one. She would eat that up! Plus we have
+ "If you jump I jump" Charley following eight into exile
+ The upperclass girl feeling trapped and running away with an "unsuitable" man
+ This gifset
+ "...he saved me in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now only in my memory" <- Charley about Eight post-Girl Who Never Was and Blue Forgotten Planet. Also specifically in the end of The Viyran Solution.
#Charley Pollard#Big Finish#Doctor Who#Charleight#The Viyran Solution#Charlotte Pollard#The Girl Who Never Was#Titanic#Zee listens to big finish
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what's funny to me about Death Note is how casually the authors will drop the most insane lore you've ever heard and then just move on as if it never happened. like here's a girl whose parents were killed in front of her and who also would have been murdered by a crazed fan if he hadn't mysteriously dropped dead before her eyes. yes we WILL proceed to call her stupid and annoying for the rest of the series and never address how this affected her. btw did we ever mention that L is an orphan who has been working as a detective since he was 10? and that the orphanage where he grew up is now dedicated to raising child prodigies on the principle that their entire existence is worthless if they can't live up to L's standard? no? well he's dead now so here are his successors. yeah one of them joined the mafia at 17 and commits violent crimes because he believes it's the only way to prove that he's worth anything. yeah the other one had to take on the only case L couldn't solve entirely from scratch at age 13 with no prior detective experience. no the implications of this won't be addressed. also one of the new anti-Kira investigators has a vendetta against Kira because someone close to her was killed by him. will that ever be explored in canon, you ask? well you're not going to believe this-
#also the epilogue???? with that girl who looks SO much like misa#like it's never actually addressed what happens to her so obviously that's the assumption#but no! it's just some other girl#jhsjghsjdgsg like on one hand the ambiguity is fantastic for fanfic & meta potential but also it does drive me a little nuts#death note#ramblings
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if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing
#imagine you're a boy who's going to die. you're in love with the girl you've been watching from afar. you know your fate.#you just want to help her‚ but then there's the announcement and she's here in front of you‚ kissing you‚ risking her life for you and you#think‚ i could live and i could love. you think she loves you when she hands you the berries‚ when she puts them in her mouth.#then you both survive and you go back home and nothing is real anymore. you have nothing. no family. no friends. no love. just an empty#house. a drunk for a neighbor. the love of your life walking into somebody else's arms. you think‚ i survived the games. i could survive#this. and you also think‚ i should've bit down on those berries‚ should've felt the juice burst before i died.#and then the third quarter quell announcement rings in your ears and you think‚ she will live and i will die as i should have in the first#place. the girl you love kisses you on the beach and somewhere you heart stirs and your mind revolts and you savor every touch she has ever#given to you‚ in front of the cameras and off. because you are a tribute and you are always being watched and snow's presence looms and#you think‚ i know she cares. but you get taken. you get drugged. you get tortured‚ your mind altered. the girl is a mutt‚ a murderer. she's#everything you despise‚ your mind stirs. your heart revolts. you gain more awareness but cannot distinguish reality from fiction and you#have never known katniss' love. the war ends. you heal. you come home. you plant primrose for her. years down the line‚ you grow in love#more than you thought possible. but some days‚ you cannot tell fiction from reality so you ask the love of your life‚ you love me.#real or not real? and she says‚ real‚ and kisses you.#and you sigh and kiss her back and revel in this. a home. a life. a love.#lit#the hunger games#everlark#otp: real or not real?#katniss everdeen#peeta mellark#text#tais toi lys#thgpost
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i'm one hundred percent certain that after percy and annabeth made out underwater. and he wanted to make their relationship official. the question was not "will you be my girlfriend?" but "can i be your boyfriend?" i don't care what the canon says. percy gave annabeth the space to take the lead in the relationship. because after a lifetime of being abandoned by everyone she dared to care for. and then watching her on the brink of a panic attack at the thought of losing him the last four years. he wanted to honor a new beginning between them by follow her lead and moving at her pace.
#i will not accept another answer#(i'm easily persuaded)#i don't care what the canon says#(unless it was exactly this in which case that was good story writing)#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo text post#pjo#pjo headcanon#percy jackson#annabeth chase#percabeth#percabeth headcanon#percabeth fluff#percabeth cute#percabeth romantic#percabeth rant#but in all seriousness#he for sure did this#not bc annabeth is a controlling partner like percabeth-opposers claim she is#but bc she is a girl who experiences love the same way the moon feeds off the suns reflection#never knowing truth warmth#only it's echo#and percy intends to make her feel like she's his entire world#like she's the reason the sun shines so brightly#so fuck off
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