OFF: dr. who

[M Holmes]

Jon Jarrett writes:

[Jerry Cornelius on TV...]

>         It'd have to be a kind of primer in world history, all the
> same; there's such a strong colonial/Great Powers background to so much of
> the Cornelius stuff, and so much concentration on cities and their
> characteristics... You'd more or less have to just take the characters and
> the Multiverse, and some but not much of the deep background, and then
> write new material round them.

Sure, though it needn't be limited to world history specifically. The
Multiverse would allow for alternate histories too, and that could make
it fun.

> Which'd be kind of a shame as it'd likely
> omit the incest, drug abuse, bisexuality and orbits round characters with
> prejudices you couldn't screen nowadays which make the whole thing, well,

Bisexuality wouldn't be (heh) out. Hell, it's almost mandatory in TV
soaps these days. Incest could probably only be implied, and drug use
only if bad consequences are portrayed. With a little skillful writing I
don't think the character needs to change hugely, though it certainly
wouldn't be an exact copy from the books either.

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