I do tend to think that RTD etc probably owe Lawrence Miles and co a few quid (although legally they probably don't because the Beeb owns it all anyway, I suppose). Because, you know...universe-spanning war...Gallifrey ends up getting destroyed... Coincidence, I'm sure! :D
Oh yeah, and the TVM itself is clearly just a fictionalised account of the _real_ events surrounding Seven's regeneration into Eight. Yes, probably.
You know, as much as I like to diss War of the Daleks etc, they do have good points. I mean, Peel clearly finds the Daleks far more interesting than a lot of fans seem to (I'm with him on that) and writes about them in interesting ways. And he's clearly steeped in all of that 60s-era Dalekmania stuff (I think he was some sort of associate/friend of Terry Nation, so I guess that's why); you know, Marsh Daleks and Hoverbouts and the Golden Emperor and all of that stuff, and it's great to see all that revived.
However...the plots... Basically, despite the lovely windowdressing, War of the Daleks is just a rather crude and mean-spirited attempt to retcon the continuity we saw onscreen and basically nullify Remembrance of the Daleks, mainly because Nation was unhappy with what Andrew Cartmel and Ben Aaronovitch did with the Daleks and Davros in that story, and moreso by the way they basically blithely ignored his contractual right of veto over the content of any Daleks/Davros story... You know, legally and possibly morally, Nation was in the right (you know, he created them), but Remembrance is a really good story, one of my favourites actually, and surely onscreen continuity comes before spinoff novels in the "canon hierarchy" anyway?
And Peel doesn't even try to rewrite continuity in a clever, timey-wimey sort of way; he basically just has the Daleks come up with a real Dick Dastardly style plan that all concerned would have to be morons to fall for, yet fall for it they do.
And his version of how Delgado Master became Assassin Master is rubbish too (not that I'm saying my fanfic version is better).
So, yeah... Read them if you get the chance though, because as I say there are things to recommend them in spite of my dislike of them, and you might quite enjoy them.
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I do tend to think that RTD etc probably owe Lawrence Miles and co a few quid (although legally they probably don't because the Beeb owns it all anyway, I suppose). Because, you know...universe-spanning war...Gallifrey ends up getting destroyed... Coincidence, I'm sure! :D
Oh yeah, and the TVM itself is clearly just a fictionalised account of the _real_ events surrounding Seven's regeneration into Eight. Yes, probably.
You know, as much as I like to diss War of the Daleks etc, they do have good points. I mean, Peel clearly finds the Daleks far more interesting than a lot of fans seem to (I'm with him on that) and writes about them in interesting ways. And he's clearly steeped in all of that 60s-era Dalekmania stuff (I think he was some sort of associate/friend of Terry Nation, so I guess that's why); you know, Marsh Daleks and Hoverbouts and the Golden Emperor and all of that stuff, and it's great to see all that revived.
However...the plots... Basically, despite the lovely windowdressing, War of the Daleks is just a rather crude and mean-spirited attempt to retcon the continuity we saw onscreen and basically nullify Remembrance of the Daleks, mainly because Nation was unhappy with what Andrew Cartmel and Ben Aaronovitch did with the Daleks and Davros in that story, and moreso by the way they basically blithely ignored his contractual right of veto over the content of any Daleks/Davros story... You know, legally and possibly morally, Nation was in the right (you know, he created them), but Remembrance is a really good story, one of my favourites actually, and surely onscreen continuity comes before spinoff novels in the "canon hierarchy" anyway?
And Peel doesn't even try to rewrite continuity in a clever, timey-wimey sort of way; he basically just has the Daleks come up with a real Dick Dastardly style plan that all concerned would have to be morons to fall for, yet fall for it they do.
And his version of how Delgado Master became Assassin Master is rubbish too (not that I'm saying my fanfic version is better).
So, yeah... Read them if you get the chance though, because as I say there are things to recommend them in spite of my dislike of them, and you might quite enjoy them.