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Every now and again I receive a WATCH YOUR MAIL advisory from the lovely Kate (aka sledpress), when she happens upon something that she feels I must have. As always, I had no idea what to expect, but this time…. WOW. She really surprised me. I wanted to see this series so much that I signed up for an Amazon free one month trial thingy and then watched it twice during that time.
I was actually thinking the other day that I’d love to see it again and wondered how long I’d have to wait before Amazon made me another free offer… but now I have this. And it’s delightful, full of interviews, behind the scenes photos, set designs and costume boards. Plus lots about dear Terry. You may recall that I got rid of more than 3/4 of my books when I downsized before moving house two years ago. Well, I kept every Pratchet book. Couldn’t bear to part with them. And so this is a lovely addition. Thanks again Kate, for this little bit of Christmas in August.
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I’m so glad it was welcome! Not everyone is that keen on the “making of” type book or vid, but as soon as I was well into the opening section where there was a lot of material from Neil Gaiman about how he and Terry worked together and how he came to do the script and run the show as a posthumous devoir, I wanted you to have it. Having seen the series first and read the book second, I became yea curious about how Gaiman reworked the material thirty years on and why he made the changes he made — which is largely interesting because the original writer got a second crack. Usually when there are alterations in the leap from print to film there’s a fairly good reason, but you aren’t seeing how the author would have wanted it.
And when I got to the part about David Tennant dyeing his hair red for five months during shooting I could only think of the tenth Doctor exclaiming “STILL NOT GINGER!!!”
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I have never seen Doctor Who! Would I have to start from the beginning?
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Well not the beginning beginning, back in 1966, since I only jumped in when it rebooted with Christopher Eccleston. You know the conceit — when people of the Doctor’s alien race face death, their bodies can regenerate (so a new actor can take the role), they have about a dozen regenerations (now they’ve had to tinker that because the Doctor’s so popular). Eccleston couldn’t deal with the raving fans and David Tennant became the tenth and still I think most loved modern Doctor. As soon as he regenerates — it’s always new body, new inflection of personality, but always a manic and wing-everything energy — Tennant checks his hair, acts vexed and says he wanted to be ginger this time. They carried it on with the next Doctor, Matt Smith, who now I think it was the one who actually said STILL NOT GINGER!
It’s silly goofy stuff. I still think Eccleston’s and Tennant’s seasons were the best. After that one of he writers became the showrunner and veered in a much too soppy herp-worshipy direction. I’ll send you a couple clips.
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