A Village Called Nothing - Introduction (By The Genie)
SYNOPSIS:
All the strands are drawing together; all paths converging, though no one realises it yet, as a group of villagers dare to question the inexplicable world around them and, far across the universe, the Doctor and Autumn are being targeted by a mysterious blackmailer. |
PREVIEW:
Out of the window she could see the village square. Everyone was slowly coming to life. It was a small village. Everyone knew everyone. There were only the houses that bordered a tree in the centre of the square, and three or four more on the outskirts. Then of course, there was the dig site. Valerie could see it from their other kitchen window. The men were beginning to work. The huge wheel and mounds of dirt. She had always thought of it as a real blot on the landscape, a pointless excursion that wasn’t going to go anywhere. It had all started after that girl disappeared. People felt the need to find out about things. |
It was lucky that I nabbed Ed when I did. About a year ago, barely anyone had read anything he'd written. Now, he's contributed two episodes of Trenzalore (It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, Stop the Cavalry) and a whole series of his own project - Torchwood: Resurrected.
This is the kind of story Ed does best; character-driven and contemplative, with an awful lot of tea-drinking (seriously - the characters in his universe really like their tea). I've given it a re-write the include some TARDIS stuff, but you can thank him for the ingenuity of the village. It's been the most arbitrary and baffling story arc I've ever attempted, but when I gave it to Ed and told him to build some tension before the finale, he delivered a creepy, eerie bit of writing written unnervingly in the knowledge of what's to come - and more. He took a sinister story arc and made it wonderfully, cruelly human before I'm allowed to obliterate it next week.
Ed is so British, in such a Southern way. I am too, but that's come over time. I think Ed was born that way. I think his first drink was tea, and he possibly came out of the womb complaining about the weather. He's really English in that twee, terribly well-mannered way, and I think, looking back, he was made to write a story about an English village. I could have given him an episode about gang crime in the Great Depression, but actually... yeah, I think this was definitely the right move.
A Village Called Nothing will be up on Saturday 18th April at 8:00
This is the kind of story Ed does best; character-driven and contemplative, with an awful lot of tea-drinking (seriously - the characters in his universe really like their tea). I've given it a re-write the include some TARDIS stuff, but you can thank him for the ingenuity of the village. It's been the most arbitrary and baffling story arc I've ever attempted, but when I gave it to Ed and told him to build some tension before the finale, he delivered a creepy, eerie bit of writing written unnervingly in the knowledge of what's to come - and more. He took a sinister story arc and made it wonderfully, cruelly human before I'm allowed to obliterate it next week.
Ed is so British, in such a Southern way. I am too, but that's come over time. I think Ed was born that way. I think his first drink was tea, and he possibly came out of the womb complaining about the weather. He's really English in that twee, terribly well-mannered way, and I think, looking back, he was made to write a story about an English village. I could have given him an episode about gang crime in the Great Depression, but actually... yeah, I think this was definitely the right move.
A Village Called Nothing will be up on Saturday 18th April at 8:00