Blog: Doctor Who Kerfuffle

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Ever since I read that the second episode of this series of Doctor Who was going to be called "Dinosaurs On A Spaceship" i have been CONFLICTED. On the one hand I'm REALLY excited - I mean, come on, if you had a TIME MACHINE surely the FIRST thing you would do is go back and look at Dinosaurs, right? So it seems DAFT that it's taken THIS long for the NEW series (yes, I know they did ropey model Dinosaurs in the original series) to do a proper episode with them. It's going to be GRATE!

HOWEVER I was a bit concerned with the whole "on a spaceship" thing, having spent the past few years touting a story about dinosaurs on a spaceship around the nation's pubs and CD players. I reassured myself that there HAVE been plenty of stories about Dinosaurs in space in the past, so it would be unlikely that there'd be much more than a vague similarity of subject matter. I mean, i DID send a copy of the album to Steven Moffat, via his agent, back at the start of the year, but I'm sure there'd be nothing more to it than A Vague Cool Idea being the same.

But then I read more about it, and GOLLY but they DID seem to be alike. The Dinosaurs were RETURNING to earth in a spaceship, and there DID appear to be some Giant Robots involved, and there was talk of SPACE PIRATES, but the biggest thing that struck me was the appearance of Rory's Dad, which reminded me A LOT of Terry Truelove and his grandfather. And then I saw an oddly familiar publicity picture, which doesn't half remind me of something else...


(left to right) Dinosaur Planet, Doctor Who

Now, to be clear, I am PRETTY MUCH CERTAIN that the Doctor Who office did NOT get together one day and say "HA! Let us NICK this story WHOLESALE! HAAHAHAHHAHAAA!!!" and goodness knows as a DWM subscriber of long-standing i BLOODY LOVE the show - the one and only reason i DID send Mr Moffat a CD is because I think he is GRATE - but I didn't want to let the whole thing go by without saying SOMETHING. If nothing else, if ANYBODY watches the show and thinks "Hmm, I like the idea of Dinosaurs returning to earth after 65 million years, but I'd it MORE if it featured some indie songs" I would like them to come my way!

And so, after HEAVY CONSULTATION with The Rooms In My Tardis, we have concocted a PRESS RELEASE concerning the whole matter, which you can read at www.dinosaurplanet.co.uk/drwho. I've sent it to Press People VARIOUS and, as ever, any mentions, tweets or REMARKS anybody would like to make about it would be MOST appreciated. If it means someone who's never heard of Dinosaur Planet DOES get to hear about it through this, then I shall be very pleased indeed!

posted 3/9/2012 by MJ Hibbett

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Comments:

Duly shared to various #whovian circles! There might be no justice in the world, but free publicity is a good substitute.
posted 3/9/2012 by PaulW

Bloody BBC.
posted 4/9/2012 by Charlie Flowers

Un - bloody - believable! It's not nice to be plagiarised. My condolences.
posted 11/9/2012 by infamousT

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