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29th Nov 2006, 12:50 AM #1Pip Madeley Guest
Darkness On The Edge of Town
Discussion about Paul Clement's Fifth Doctor story "Darkness On The Edge of Town" for the PS website will be held here from Friday 1st December.
Last edited by Paul Monk; 29th Nov 2006 at 9:47 AM.
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1st Dec 2006, 8:53 PM #2
well, it's now online, here: http://www.planetskaro.org.uk/creative/fanfic/
let us know what you think!
Ant x
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1st Dec 2006, 9:14 PM #3let us know what you think!
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1st Dec 2006, 10:13 PM #4
I've read up to the end of chapter one, but I didn't want to post anything until I'd finished it off. So far so good (although the pedant in me has spotted a couple of typos) and Davison's portrayal has been caught particularly well I think.
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1st Dec 2006, 10:20 PM #5(although the pedant in me has spotted a couple of typos)
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1st Dec 2006, 10:24 PM #6Pip Madeley Guest
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1st Dec 2006, 10:25 PM #7
And then after that, they can be rectified.
(There'll be thrashings in the Admin office tonight, I can tell...)
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1st Dec 2006, 10:28 PM #8As he reached the periphery of the, he looked back but the man who had once been Sebastian Marwood had gone,
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1st Dec 2006, 10:30 PM #9Pip Madeley Guest
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3rd Dec 2006, 8:57 AM #10
I did have a version where I corrected the typos but it got lost in the great computer crash (when Jody spilled wine on the laptop) and in the haste to get the story to Pip I forgot to go through and check again.
So my fault. Sorry.
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3rd Dec 2006, 10:27 AM #11
Read the Interlude section this morning after breakfast, which was very enjoyable - you can't beat a good cliffhanger! And again, the regulars all come over very well, even to such details as Turlough's habit of always looking behind him as he moves.
Edited to add:I also thought that this summed up Turlough in a nutshell: "Work wasn’t a particularly pleasant notion to Turlough and manual work even less so"Last edited by Andrew Curnow; 3rd Dec 2006 at 11:40 AM.
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3rd Dec 2006, 11:46 AM #12
When I wrote the first part of what is now the interlude section, I asked Treena to read through it as I was concerned that maybe I had gone a step too far. She felt that perhaps maybe I had and I had another good read through of it, and decided that keeping it in served a purpose in showing what the Old Ones were like and decided to keep it as it was. I'd love to know if anyone felt I had gone too far in that section.
you can't beat a good cliffhanger!
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4th Dec 2006, 8:24 PM #13
I'm really enjoying Chapter One. I can hear the regulars saying all their lines!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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4th Dec 2006, 8:35 PM #14I can hear the regulars saying all their lines!
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4th Dec 2006, 10:55 PM #15
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
I would say the regulars are all very well-handled. Turlough especially comes across as very faithful to his on-screen self, but at the same time with a bit more depth.
Having finished the story now, I have to first say that I really enjoyed it. The various interludes back to the Great Old Ones broke the story up nicely, and I didn't twig how exactly that strand would tie up with the main action until very near the end - also, by having followed the 'backstory' to Lloigar in the interludes it neatly avoided having a huge 'infodump' speech from the Doctor.
If I had to make some criticism, I would have to say I did think the climax was just a bit rushed - Lord Marwood flings himself and Sebastian back into the vortex, and it's all over so quickly. But that is very much a minor criticism, it was just what struck me as I was reading it.
And the epilogue was very unexpected, a neat 'da-da-da' twist ending. All in all, a really enjoyable read, and hopefully the first of many on the new PS site!!
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