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[doyle]

From Big Finish's latest Fifth Doctor audio:

"Here, are you Peri? Got a letter for you. Northern chap with big ears left it here about two years ago..."

ETA: from this play I assume Five so enjoyed Richard III's sarcastically Northern way of speaking - right down to "fantastic!" - that he based his ninth incarnation on the guy. Which makes sense, considering his sixth incarnation is a dead ringer for that Time Lord guard in Arc of Infinity.

ETA2: having listened to the whole thing I'm delighted that there's no twist where the 'Northern chap' turns out to be someone else: Five leaves a note in the TARDIS reminding any of his future selves that happen to be passing through the right time period to leave the letter for Peri. So, Nine acknowledged in a non-BBC production! I am very chuffed. And the "What the Shakespeare?" gag from The Unquiet Dead gets riffed on too.

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[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I know they can't officially reference it, but if I were one of the writers, I'd so try and sneak little stuff in - which is what this has to be, fake out or not, the writer having a bit of fun. And having Culshaw in it... they so are having fun.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Oh, they're definitely having fun: the Doctor is being hunted by his publishers for not finishing the Doctor Who Investigates books he started when he was working for UNIT. I was joking yesterday that it was clearly canon the Doctor had written all the dodgy 70s tie-in non-fiction books himself!

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

The scary thing is, I can actually sort of imagining him doing that. It's brilliant, I think I love it when fandom types have a sense of fun about things.

[paratti.livejournal.com]

Eleven is Uncle Terrance.

I skeered.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

*gets to the bit where the very Northern Richard III says "fantastic!"*

*dies*

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I love it when fandom has fun with itself.