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[tree_and_leaf]

Found an interesting take on Doctor Who in Neil Gaiman's blog.

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2007/05/nature-of-infection.html

Well worth a look - and very, very old skool indeed.

Comments

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thanks for putting that up.

[tree_and_leaf]

You're welcome!

[sacred-sarcasm.livejournal.com]

That's very interesting - thanks for putting it up.

I've had a similar experience, I think, through heavy ready of the Narnia stories whilst very young. I've never quite been able to squash the faint hope, when I open a door in a strange house, or open a wardrobe, that I'll find myself Somewhere Else.

[tree_and_leaf]

Me too...

[themolesmother.livejournal.com]

I would love to see Gaiman scripting Doctor Who. Let's hope RTD takes the hint.

I've never quite been able to squash the faint hope, when I open a door in a strange house, or open a wardrobe, that I'll find myself Somewhere Else.

Oh, me too. When I was young I longed to live in Narnia.

MM

[tree_and_leaf]

I would too, although I would think his vision is too idiosyncratic (which is exactly why I'd love to see it) for RTD's fairly tight control over New Who.

I would never have connected the Yetis in the Underground episode with Neverwhere, but I can see it now it's been pointed out...

[aervir.livejournal.com]

As someone who once spent about an hour between a hoover, some brooms and a laundry rack in our built-in closet, in the ultimately vain hope of suddenly feeling the wall give way and discovering a lamppost in a forest (+), I do see what Neil Gaiman's childhood attraction to DW was.

(+ = I was seven or eight, I think. Just sayin', in defence of my sanity.)