Tursiops
Sunday 9th September 2012 10:36am [Edited]
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Quote: sootyj @ September 9 2012, 10:50 AM BST
You've got 45 minutes you can piss about with meaningful explanations or you can just let some bits slide.
I don't mind letting a few bits slide but the whole episode was like being buried under a scree of plot rubble...
Right the starting point is that to escape the K-T event the Silurians have launched an Ark full of dinosaurs.
That's good, but we will lose any reference to K-T event in the script edit, we don't want to risk boring the audience with all that complicated technical exposition.
Right now we need to ratchet up the tension - how about the Ark is crashing into the earth?
Great idea.
Yeah, I saw it in an episode of Doctor Who in which the K-T event was caused by a spaceship crashing into the earth...
Why would an Ark be crashing into the planet that it has come from?
Oh we'll just get the Doctor to mumble something.
It needs a villain though - it can't be the Silurians, not if they're being Noah.
How about the Ark has been hijacked by an unscrupulous intergalactic businessmen, so he can sell the dinosaurs? Got to be a market for extinct earth fauna, right?
Yeah, bound to be just what they are looking for in Andromeda Galaxy... And the Silurians?
Oh he ejected those into space, because he is that much of a bastard, see?
There's no market then for extinct sentient races...? Never mind, Silurians are a drag. That last episode with them in got slated for being really po faced and boring.
Tell you what, how about we have Rory's dad along for comic relief. Not enough comic relief? Okay, we'll throw in a couple of camp robots.
It's still missing something.
Well since we've got dinosaurs, how about a big game hunter? You know like in Jurassic Park.
Good, but it just isn't over-egged enough.
I know an Egyptian queen!
Terrific. Now has anyone go the phone number of Mitchell and Webb's agent...?