The Hopes and Fears of all the Years

[Andrew Curnow]

There's a Christmas tale from Paul Cornell in the Telegraph today, and also online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main...2/bowho122.xml

It's pretty good, I think.

[Dirk Gently]

Thanks Andrew, that is worthy of our own Brief Encounters. May be Paul or someone could copy it & keep it with the others. I've got it on word now.

Really nice Christmassy story.

[Andrew Curnow]

I'm not sure we'd get away with that, copyright wise. But it is a nice little tale - I notice there's a thread on OG about it, with people complaining that the Doctor must have had two sonic screwdrivers during the story, but I think that's missing the wood for the trees. It's not a story about time paradoxes, it's a story about Christmas and the Doctor, and I actually found it very moving as the years rolled on.

[Dirk Gently]

Surely the Doctor that left his Screwdriver on the tree then goes to get his Sonic Screwdriver from his past self in a bit of pick pocketing shenanigans & the Doctor that comes down the chimney has 'lost' his?


And as for copying the story, that's in the public domain surely? It was published on a free site.

[Jon Masters]

I notice there's a thread on OG about it, with people complaining that the Doctor must have had two sonic screwdrivers during the story, but I think that's missing the wood for the trees.

Oh dear - I was just coming here to point out how the logic of the screwdrivers doens't work at all....

It is very Christmassy though - although I wouldn't know because I'm dead inside