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[scarfman]

I was reading over some of my Flash-tagged LJ entries from about this time last year, when I'd figured out how to create tweens but had writer's block for ideas to animate. Last year's solution, you may recall, was movies based on the premises of my pre-web journal comic ... which today number half a dozen movies that all date from last October or earlier. But last spring, before that when it was All New, I took a shot at an AKOTAS version of one of my Amiga FantaVision movies c. 1990 saluting Chuck Jones ... and then broke down and reedited a version retaining the fanfiction characters from my FantaVision movie. In retrospect I think there are two lessons in this for my production of future Flash movies:

• to borrow characters
• to borrow plot

In accordance with these findings, this summer I'm going to, finally, commit to remaking in Flash the two-minute Doctor Who triangle FantaVision version of Ringworld that's the only screen attempt at Ringworld to my knowledge (unless you count HALO) ever. And then I'll move on to triangulating some other sf classic into Doctor Who, and figure out where I'll post them.

Assuming in the first place I still remember how to use the program after not cracking it for eight months.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"Doctor Who … version of Ringworld"?

I can't be the only one who finds that a terribly complex mashup. It was bad enough when the Kzinti got into Star Trek by way of The Soft Weapon/The Slaver Weapon, but the Doctor on the Ringworld? Even without the backstory of the two continuities, it sounds like a headache and a half.

I don't deny that it would be entertaining, at least as long as the Doctor refrained from taking it apart to see how it worked.

--publius--

[scarfman]

No, no disassembling the Ringworld to see how it works. For one thing, the Doctor wouldn't endanger the inhabitants like that. For another, as stated above, I only borrow the plot of the original work.

I've commented in one or two entries here before that, to me, this exercise is for putting the Doctor into the existing story - as a sort of armchair Doctor Who story editor - to make the point how versatile the character is in telling adventure stories. Now, I don't think I'da put Kzinti into Star Trek either (Orions would've done if Klingons wouldn't; or they could've just been named something else), but I haven't any quarrell with putting them in Doctor Who.

So there'll be no actions attributed to the Doctor in my Ringworld that Niven didn't attribute to Louis Wu, and in fact considerably fewer, just because I'm creating a ninety second animated cartoon instead of a ten hour miniseries.