Shada, a Doctor Who episode originally written as a script by Douglas Adams (hitch hikers guide to the galaxy fame), but which never finished filming due to an actors strike... just released as a novel.
> Shada, a Doctor Who episode originally written as a script by Douglas Adams (hitch > hikers guide to the galaxy fame), but which never finished filming due to an actors > strike... just released as a novel. > > I finished it yesterday. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_yPKUWyXfg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
> Shada, a Doctor Who episode originally written as a script by Douglas Adams (hitch > hikers guide to the galaxy fame), but which never finished filming due to an actors > strike... just released as a novel. > > I finished it yesterday. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_yPKUWyXfg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I don't think I could ever do something like that. The people reading the script seemed so averse to a second take they might as well have been professionals (/jab). "Invitable extension," indeed. But then, the channel isn't "DrWhoActors," is it? No, the channel is based on the excellent animation abilities they clearly possess.
Not that the writing was much better. Maybe it works as a novel, but I try to stay away from reading things based on television or movie characters.
Damn, why can't I have something positive to say about it? I mean, I watched the whole thing, so it can't have been that bad.
I read it first, then watched the YouTube... And the novel is exponentially better... I've never been able to get into the dr who tv show because the terrible acting and horrible execution makes it intolerable.... But the books are grade a jumbo eggs. It was the name Douglas Adams that made me buy the book... I loved hhgttg. Shada reads very much like it...
Quote: Chris peddled furiously through the streets of Cambridge back toward St Cedd's... His head was so full of theories about the book that he nearly collidided with another cyclist. He rang his bell angerly at the bloke who was pedalling furiously in the other direction. In fact, thought Chris, it was very hard to ring a bicycle bell angerly. However hard you tinged it, it sounded bright and cheery.
> > Maybe it works as a novel, > > It works great as a novel! > > I read it first, then watched the YouTube... And the novel is exponentially better... > I've never been able to get into the dr who tv show because the terrible acting and > horrible execution makes it intolerable.... But the books are grade a jumbo eggs. It > was the name Douglas Adams that made me buy the book... I loved hhgttg. Shada reads > very much like it... > > Chris peddled furiously through the streets of Cambridge back toward St Cedd's... His > head was so full of theories about the book that he nearly collidided with another > cyclist. He rang his bell angerly at the bloke who was pedalling furiously in the > other direction. In fact, thought Chris, it was very hard to ring a bicycle bell > angerly. However hard you tinged it, it sounded bright and cheery. > > So don't panic!
Have you read "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"? I think I recall Adams mentioning at some point that this Dr. Who arc was the original inspiration for the story. It really did work out quite well for a novel!
> Have you read "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"? I think I recall Adams > mentioning at some point that this Dr. Who arc was the original inspiration for the > story. It really did work out quite well for a novel!
I did read that, but can't say I recall anything of it.
> > Have you read "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"? I think I recall Adams > > mentioning at some point that this Dr. Who arc was the original inspiration for the > > story. It really did work out quite well for a novel! > > I did read that, but can't say I recall anything of it.
Elderly professor with unknown long-term tenure at the fictional St. Cedd's college in Cambridge, with a time machine in his rooms. Those are the chief similarities based on the small amount I watched of the Dr. Who arc Gat had linked.
Lots of stuff about '80s Macintosh software, ancient ghosts, electric monks, and Dodos in the rest of the book.
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