Ooh ooh did you see the telly last night? They put on a bit of fan fiction! It was called Power Of The Doctor and it was like Doctor Who but (and this is why the BBC is so great) they'd let a normal person write it. You know, not a proper trained writer or any of that nonsense.So it had all the stuff off of Doctor Who, I mean bits like you'd seen in actual episodes before (like the Tardis having "Bad Wolf" or "hahaha" written all over it and being turned into a Paradox machine or summat) and old companions coming back (like in School Reunion) and there being two boxes that the Doctor gets trapped in one of by The Master (like when Bernard Cribbins done him in that time) and it being called Something "Of The Doctor" like Steven Moffat did three too many times. But instead of everything have a "point" like when that Russell Davies done it, or being "clever" like when it was Moffat, this time the things just happened, one after the other, without any sort of "satisfying reason" getting in the way.
The best thing was it had all old people in it. See that's the problem with your mainstream elite Doctor Who, written by professionals and all, they'd never include a handful of actors who used to be in the programme 40 years ago without bothering to explain who any of them were, or give them any interesting dialogue. But that's the joy of Fan Fiction. You can just put the old people in, and all the viewers who were kids 40 years ago will get on Facebook the next day and rave about how good it was.
Like I'm doing. I mean, obviously every line of dialogue was hopelessly on the nose; every cameo appearance makes that 50th anniversary DVD extra about the 5-and-a-half Doctors look like Shakespeare; and Fridge Logic had you going "sorry, he cloned a broken half-Cyberman including his smashed up suit? Huh?" and "where's that Rogue Dalek come from?" and "they've hidden guns and parachutes and someone's old costume under the floorboards of that one room in UNIT in expectation of this very moment?" every 2 or 3 minutes.
But as Cargo Cult fan fiction amateur first-draft attempts at doing something that was like Doctor Who but 'a bit off', this was the best one he's done since all those Christmas episodes with Daleks which were so good they didn't even show them at Christmas.
I'd love to find out what someone under the age of 50 thought of it. But sadly I'm on Facebook, so I may never know.
If you loved Dimensions In Time, you'll love Power Of The Doctor!
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