User:Najawin/Sandbox 1

Did not cover SJA, TW, or Class. --- If comments are treated as text in TARDIS Eruditorum ---

Notable examples include.


 * Lindy Orthia asking for essays for the anthology Doctor Who and Race in the article for The Talons of Weng-Chiang. (Relevant website)


 * Rob Shearman commenting on the relationship between Jubilee and Dalek, as well as why he's stopped writing quite so much for Big Finish or Doctor Who. Talking about how his delays in writing The Chimes of Midnight impacted Invaders from Mars, and explaining what writing that season of McGann audios was like. Talking more generally about Chimes and how it was written, as well as some comments about the emotional resonance at the climax of Dalek. Most notably, he commented here about the scrapped Absence of the Daleks script.


 * John Freeman comments on some specific Seventh Doctor comics in Doctor Who Magazine.


 * Lance Parkin commenting on what it was like working for the novel line around the time that the revival show was starting back up.


 * James Wylder under his arcbeatle handle commenting on the state of the BBC Books range.

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Aside from commenting on production issues, these people would also at times comment with their views on particular episodes, such as:

Parkin talking about on The End of Time.

Wylder doing so throughout the site, so much so that it's difficult to list just a single one.

Kate Orman commenting on the differences between writing for Doctor Who and other types of sci fi.

Completely separate stuff for me to just be aware of:

 Cousins Octavia and Ursula arrive in Peking through an abandoned train station - the chi lines of the world disrupting normal transit in and out of this time - and travel to the British Legation, where they meet with (insert British people whose names come up in the summary later here - Morrison, Mr/Ms Grieves, Munroe) and have dinner. Grieves tells a story about his recent expedition.

On a prior expedition, they had found reference to the location of the White Pyramid of China, a great structure with mythic import, and reference to Kuan Yin. Grieves then mounted a new expedition, finding a massive, undisturbed pyramid. The hired local workers began an expedition, though Grieves felt they were superstitious, with their rituals and prayers and such, as well as apparently seeing Kuan Yin in the stone, which Grieves did not. Entering the tomb found two desiccated corpses, treasures, terra-cotta warriors, and in the burial chamber itself a jade coffin, with a body preserved inside of it, and a casket made out of jade resting inside. The expedition then returned to Peking, through horrible weather, bandits, workmen leaving, and the Boxers attacking and stealing most of what they had recovered from the pyramid.

Upon recounting this story, Grieves then brings his dinner companions into another room to see the mummy and jade casket in another room. The dinner party then asks Octavia to have a mystical peak into the jade casket, since they've been unable to open it. At their bequest she conducts a seance, using her witchblood and living shadow to examine the casket, noticing that it had been tampered with by someone else with witchblood. the next day, Octavia returns to the Legation, to find that Grieves has been shot.

Soon after, sedan chairs carrying two officials and their translator arrived, requesting to speak to Grieves, and conducting an investigation when it became clear that he was dead, insisting that it was suicide, before demanding the return of the artifacts and storming off. Octavia, worried that other Wartime powers were involved in the situation, sent out a call to Prester John requesting the backup of the Red Burial, of which twenty soldiers came.

(chp 5 done)



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