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Your run on Doctor Who saw you bring back plenty of old favourites: K-9, the Master, Davros. Anything you didn’t get round to?

RTD I would have loved to have done a Star Trek crossover. The very first year, we talked about it. Then Star Trek finally went off air. Landing the Tardis on board the Enterprise would have been magnificent. Can you imagine what their script department would have wanted, and what I would have wanted? It would have been the biggest battle.

From this interview with RTD and Tennant

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I can't lie. The mere thought puts 'quivers in my nethers' as

fashionbeast would try to phrase it politely. In another universe, this probably happened on Enterprise and I didn't watch because I was all 'fuckin' goddamn Enterprise, goddamn Borg episode.' And it was probably right after

aj made me Doctor Who season one disks and I was all, 'ppft, this show sucks, goddamn Rose Tyler.'

Actually, I'll be straight: writing that out just convinced me it was a horrible idea. Thank fuck that didn't happen.

In other news, I just finished the third season of Slings and Arrows. Best. Show. Ever. I wish I lived in Boston so that

tangleofthorns would have come over and slapped me up the head several times until I watched it. OH WELL. SOMETIMES THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE YOU COME TO LATE. LIKE DOCTOR WHO. AND SLINGS AND ARROWS.

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Actually I probably would have said the thought would make you quiver in your nethers. Putting quivers in your nethers just makes me envision some drunk trip to an archery store gone horribly, horribly wrong.

Point taken! (I amuse myself so much.) There's a reason I'm not you.

I vote it would have been a failure, but an insanely entertaining and brilliant one. Also, I really liked that interview. My favourite part, though, was:

DT He’s quite a natty dresser, is Matt. He could probably delve into his own wardrobe for something fairly . . . They may have to tone him down, actually. He’s quite wacky. In a very stylish way, of course. Makes me feel old.

RTD Maybe they should do something different every story. Have him dress like a real person.

DT “Like a real person?” You crazy heretic. He’s already got quite Doctoresque hair.

RTD Yes, but it’s not as good as David’s.

DT Ha! It’s different.

RTD It’s good hair. I like his hair.

DT It is quite . . .

RTD The poor man. We’re discussing his hair!

DT Well, so’s the rest of the country. We may as well join in. I’m just glad it’s somebody else for a change.

Curse it, Tennant, I'm going to miss you and your fanboy ways!

I vote it would have been a failure, but an insanely entertaining and brilliant one.

I'm trying to imagine Paramount going for it and my head spins. (Mind, there are A LOT of Doctor Who-esque adventures going on in that particular season, if I've got the season of Enterprise correct.)

Curse it, Tennant, I'm going to miss you and your fanboy ways!

Me too. :(

So I take your silence on the matter to mean you've nothing to say about Slings and Arrows?

Only because I haven't seen it yet. So you see, it'll come even later into my life than yours.

I figured. I'd send you avi copies of the first two seasons, but it's probably faster to download and I really, really think you should.

I think I first watched Slings & Arrows when Studio 60 had just finished. Really, really helped get rid of the bad taste.

Season 1 is my favourite though.

Yeah, I thought Season Three was pretty weak - in their eagerness to do the storyline about Lear, they sort of forget that Geoffrey's quest to move past the Ghost of Oliver Welles is the driving narrative. Possibly cliche, but the Tempest would have worked better. (It's also the play he's doing at Theater Sans Argents in the beginning, and I like when things end where they started.)

That said, it was still fucking better than almost every show I've ever seen.

Oh, and Studio 60 is such an apropos comparison. I was mentally comparing it to that the whole time. Aaron Sorkin wishes he was that good.

The way the Mark McKinney character ended up, where it turns out that despite everything he really was a total weasel? I can't imagine that in a Sorkin show.

Very true. Sorkin would have played up his love for musical theater as proof he wasn't all soulless.

(To be frank, I think I'm a wee bit uncomfortable with the portrayal of musical theater and science fiction in the show. It would be nice to get characters who aren't 'evil' to defend them.)