h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This epic, if that is the word storyline was the first to utilise my unique posting count. Say that each post was two minutes long then there would be twelve or thirteen making each part last about twenty-four-six minutes long thus I created an even greater way to form this new opening to Doctor Who.

This section, episode four is very similar to The Daleks in content within the city. I was using it as a homage to the story with the Doctor- though up until this episode he had been referred to as the Stranger, another reminder of the Daleks homage.

With Laida exterminated the stranger and Kaeya are taken away to a detention cell, here I decided was the time for the Doctor to regain some of his memories, the spoken word of Skaro and other places, locations had caused flashbacks in him. He acknowledges that he is the very same man from their history, that the Daleks were the last part of the puzzle.

Though as history mirrors history the camera eye, the 'eye-stalk lens' is destroyed and the Doctor is broought for questioning, though his manner is more playful than the previous Doctors. Before these creatures he knows what he is dealing with, bluffing them to discover their power source and deliberately panics them with lies.

The Daleks are left suitably rattled and an inquiry is made as to how their race died and what can be done to prevent it from happening again.

Antodus left alone on the mountain returns home, I wanted to create a close-knit community so gossip would be innerlaid as he returns to the village to summon Taege. Here we are given a true taste of Thal anger and desperation not seen since Alydon's day that Antodus wants to rescue his sister and reluctantly Taege helps him.

With Kaeya falling into a cliched moment of feigning sickness, the Doctor's escape is similar to Planet of the Daleks, using his sonic screwdriver- this I left to chance that the Eighth Doctor might still possess one. He uses this on the Daleks but instead of attacking the mental stability he attacks the static source, interrupting it with controlled blasts.

As the city plunges into alert the Doctor and Kaeya flee to the surface with a Dalek in pursuit however this time the creature remains alive as it reaches the edges of the passagway unable to go further. Antodus and Taege are paralysed with fear and as the Doctor leads them back to the village the Dalek returns to report its finds.

After the last two cliff-hangers I wanted a stronger more chilling shock to the readers and that would not come from the Daleks but the Doctor as he warns all the Thals of the facts. That the Daleks will stop at nothing to gain control over the planet!

By this time I wanted the ultimate irony that cause and effect comes into play for the Doctor's actions towards the Daleks ultimately prove necessary for continuity.
The Daleks have identified their weakness as immobility beyond the city and set about work to correct the fault, while throughout all of this I kept to the very early Daleks, they communicate via communication consoles, they talk to each other a lot more.

The Doctor by this time is suspicious of what is happening and I wanted to add another side to the Thal lifestyle, the elders: Tarnos respectfully and later accompanied by two others is opposed against the action, his sceptisicm is great but no match for Taege and Antodus' experience. Here I wanted to add further balance to history yet I knew it might look a bit uncertain the ending.

The Doctor attempts to locate a weapon's bunker which was beneath Temmousus' statue in the square, an ammunition depot used by the Thal in the Kaled war- Genesis. Here I wanted to create the Doctor, who compassion for life is so ironically challenged as he finds himself facing the possibility of arming a peaceful race or watching them die.

Though against all odds the scientific section create a process to increase mobility to all units, they re-enter the automation section and not only gain the slats but also a new colour system. I saw a few images on a Dalek 3D site and thought that the reminiscent colour of the cinema Daleks would be in order. Blue and grey while the Dalek scientist was Red and the Dalek Leader exchanges its name and casing for Black and Supremecy!

They then waste no time in leaving the city and reverting to old times and as the Doctor tries to convince the Thals once more of the creatures' intentions they attack the village and the Doctor is unable to escape...

EPISODE SIX

Here marks the turning point for the serial, where I attempted to try and piece together a joining link that would in no time bridge the gaps between continuity.

The Doctor struggles back, tripping in a typical cliched moment something that marked this as a staple to the old era as a blue and silver Dalek advances on him and he is saved when the the Dalek is distracted.

A bullet from one of the rifles damages the 'lights' on one side of its dome, to this I gave it a name- a transceiver, since Daleks have theoretically been known to possess no vocal chords and talk by transmitting their thoughts into speech, I thought that it was a nice homage.

Taking shelter in a nearby house the Thals defend their 'sanctuary' in a manner much like Dalek Invasion though Kaeya is left out, the Doctor risks quickly himself by saving her life but Kaeya expresses that she wants to help her people.

This was a 'Doctor' moment, he is passionate about his feelings and beliefs and teaches Kaeya that she is the future of the Thal race, her generation decides the future and it must not be cast aside on war.
Ignoring what he knows he tells her about the future of her planet about what they have to face. He may be acknowledged as the Doctor but he is still a man of intelligence and morals.

During this Tarnos, the last surviving elder whose confused mind dares to seek advice from Temmosus' statue but he is unswerved from his beliefs as he too is callously killed.

Professor Taege too, a sympathetic character whose place in the story has been of an interesting light meets his end as he sits within the archive section. I wanted this character to be be a coward in the face of his nightmares. Seeing these creatures moving, attacking the Thals is of history repeating itself once more and as two Daleks enter the hall he too is eventually discovered as being within.

He suffers what seems to be a breakdown, his character reminded me a lot of Lesterson in The Power of the Daleks, he means well contained to his own beliefs but by the end he simply cannot contain what he has partially unleashed.

He is callously exterminated and his heritage falls with him. As this chaos rages around them all the Doctor realises the price is too high, again he teaches the Thals another lesson of wisdom that they must abandon their homes while he takes a distraction to the Daleks.

Here I gave the Doctor to become more Doctor-ish he seems more like the 5th Doctor as he takes grenades from an exposed crate and challenges a few creatures, dispatching them quickly though he is captured buying enough time for the Thals to escape, his ship is still within their city.

The Doctor is taken back to the city to confront the Dalek Supreme, it has great plans set into action and here I created the gap in continuity, that within the Daleks they were the 'Masters of five galaxies' but then they were forced back- my theory was that humanity was an enemy to them and that an Invasion force was dispatched to deal with them but then when the Daleks perished.

The Supreme Dalek is intent on re-capturing the galaxies lost to them but instead the Doctor's moral, his compassionate belief tries the creature's patience. Revealing that his ship is within the city he is soon brought to it, this will become part of their fleet the creature hopes but thankfully with the aid of a grenade the Doctor is capable of escaping.

While he stands within the TARDIS, I pictured the console room of the TV movie TARDIS, something that would do very well with this incarnation of the Doctor, though his concerns waver over the facts- that he was responsible for unleashing the Daleks, for granting to them mobility.

While in the future on a battleground somewhere the descendants live on battling a familiar foe and whilst the young are rebellious and uncaring, their commander- Kaeya expresses her concern for the future, a future that their protector, the Doctor has given them.

Thus the future for more Ninth Doctor stories was decided and this landmark story brought together a terrific adventure and is truly worthy of the name: Doctor Who.