Who Watches The Watchmen? - Introduction (By The Genie)
SYNOPSIS:
The Doctor and Autumn find themselves in 1985, around a dead body in a seemingly impossible crime scene. But when you're a time traveller, there's a very easy way to find out who did it. Heading back to a celebration of the supposedly progressive, Autumn Rivers meets the doomed Professor Ricker, while the Doctor has an encounter with something far worse - the Hunters of Andromeda... |
PREVIEW:
Autumn stepped into the centre of the conflict zone – the fallen chair and smashed glass – and breathed deep, like she was calming herself, trying to reach some far-off Zen, and the enter the mind of the culprit. Seconds passed before she spoke. “There’s blood on the glass. Ricker’s, I’m willing to bet. The wound on his neck didn’t come from it, we already established it was something he was being threatened with. This glass broke and took the blood with it. It was hit with enough force to break it. Ricker struck out, perhaps, or reached. A flail. As the chair fell…” “He was pushed? Whilst in the chair?” “No. No, this flail was way more desperate than just falling back. He was grabbed out of this chair. Thrown.” |
So I said to James Blanchard, the writer of Who Watches The Watchmen?, "1980s!" That was it. It was more ambiguous in hindsight than it seemed at the time, but it's something I've wanted to see for ages. I wrote a 1980s story for the original Eighth Doctor Chronicles, in my vision of the 80s: fun, gaudy, cute. James... created something else. Eerie, morally-corrupted, dismal.
But it's brilliant. I thought I'd have to change it, but it just shows how a writer works as a lens. He's turned something I considered whimsical into a place of horror and crime, and he does it so well, especially as it's Autumn's first trip into the past and he nails her better than I ever did across the whole series. Yep. He'll be coming back.
The Planet Makers will be up on Saturday 28th March at 9:00
But it's brilliant. I thought I'd have to change it, but it just shows how a writer works as a lens. He's turned something I considered whimsical into a place of horror and crime, and he does it so well, especially as it's Autumn's first trip into the past and he nails her better than I ever did across the whole series. Yep. He'll be coming back.
The Planet Makers will be up on Saturday 28th March at 9:00