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Title: Episode IX: The Chosen One 1/1
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scarfman
Characters/Pairing: the Doctor, River Song, Luke, Leia, Jaina, Jacen/OC
Rating: G
Setting (spoilers through): both franchises 2011
Disclaimer: This work is derivative of property of the BBC and Lucasfilm Ltd. No profit shall be made and no market of the owner(s) is infringed upon.
Summary: Nephthys is found out while the Doctor aids Leah searching for a way to unite the Galaxy.
Warnings: Episode VIII included a different telling of the Doctor's most recent regeneration than we saw on the screen. Most of fanfiction fandom would call it an alternate universe, but I don't believe in "canon" in the first place so no.
Part three of the third Star Wars trilogy; encorporating a few elements of the "Expanded Universe", crossed over with Doctor Who, and condensed to twelve panels.
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Title: Episode VIII: A Galaxy Divided 1/1
Author: scarfman
Characters/Pairing: the Doctor, River Song, Luke, Leia, Jaina, Jacen/OC
Rating: G
Setting (spoilers through): both franchises 2010
Disclaimer: This work is derivative of property of the BBC and Lucasfilm Ltd. No profit shall be made and no market of the owner(s) is infringed upon.
Summary: Leia continues attempting to unite the Galaxy under the New Republic while the truth behind the changeling Nephthys is pursued by the Jedi Order, the Doctor, and others...
Warnings: This is a different telling of the Doctor's most recent regeneration than we saw on the screen. Most of fanfiction fandom would call it an alternate universe, but I don't believe in "canon" in the first place so no.
Part two of the third Star Wars trilogy; encorporating a few elements of the "Expanded Universe", crossed over with Doctor Who, and condensed to nine panels.
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Seems to me I last saw this meme about a year ago, when my only WIP was the script for STAR WARS Episode VII: The Battle for Coruscant. Now, I have bits from the scripts of Episode VIII and of the running series at Hero of Three Faces in which Buffy's crew learns to travel fiction-planes and Angel becomes the Doctor's companion at the outset of the Time War.
RIVER How goes the chancellorship?
LEIA I'm beginning to understand why it took a Force master as Emperor to keep the Galaxy united. Even Darth Tristas was a more unifying executive minister than I am.
LUKE Doctor, I know you don't want to be a Jedi, but Nephthys could use a special tutor.
DR10 Certainly, we've grown quite fond of each other in a short time. ...Er, where's she gone? She was just here.
DR8 I told you not to try to rescue the hostages, Angel!
ANGEL Right, fine. Your plan was to let the Daleks retcon the Third Zone experiments and get access to all timelines for themselves?
DR8 No, my plan was to disable their static-tachyon generator and cut off their power broadcast. Which I did thirty-five seconds ago.
Title: Episode VII: The Battle for Coruscant 1/1
Author: scarfman
Characters/Pairing: the Doctor, River Song, Luke, Leia/Han, Jaina, Jacen
Rating: G
Setting (spoilers through): both franchises 2009
Disclaimer: This work is derivative of property of the BBC and Lucasfilm Ltd. No profit shall be made and no market of the owner(s) is infringed upon.
Summary: The Army of the New Republic lays seige to Coruscant, the Sith lord Darth Tristas standing between them and the capital planet. Can Leia and the Doctor persuade Luke that his Jedi adepts are ready to provide needed support?
Part one of the third Star Wars trilogy; encorporating a few elements of the "Expanded Universe", crossed over with Doctor Who, and condensed to nine panels.
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Thawing the Butter
May. 14th, 2009 12:54 amYou may recall these LiveJournal entries about how I boasted I'd be writing my own third Star Wars trilogy and releasing the episodes annually starting in May 2006, then didn't. At the moment the two salient points from those posts I'd like you to be aware of are:
- I decided, from story needs, not to come out with Episode VII till May of David Tennant's last year as the Doctor.
- I expected to do these trilogy episodes in the same format as the most recent other crossover I'd done to fill in a missed opportunity by a franchise owner; that is, "a comic strip of a dozen panels or so with dialog that was calculatedly cliche in aid of brevity".
meme from daibhid_c
Feb. 17th, 2009 07:03 pmWhen you see this, post a brief snippet of all your fannish works-in-progress.Well, I have only one:
Episode VII: The Battle for Coruscant
In the years since the death of Emperor Palpatine, resistance against the the Rebel Alliance, now the Army of the New Republic, has largely fallen away.
While some of the outermost Imperial regional governors remain loyal to the Emperor, the core of continuing Imperial power has been forced to retreat to the galactic capitol planet Coruscant, defended under the leadership of Imperial General Ior, the Sith lord Darth Tristas.
Meanwhile the last Jedi knight Luke Skywalker has formed a small band of Jedi adepts as trainees - including his own niece and nephew, Jaina and Jacen.
As the Republican forces encroach on Coruscant, finally winning the last of Coruscant's twelve moons and establishing a seige, Captain Skywalker receives another visit from that ancient ally of the Jedi, the time-traveler known only as the Doctor ...
Putting the Butter in the Freezer
Apr. 13th, 2006 11:08 am pedanther commented at my post yesterday:
3b. Rename this script Episode VIII and draft a new Episode VII. Announce that since we've waited this long, it won't kill us to wait a bit longer. Debut Episode VII as soon as it's confirmed that David Tennant will be leaving the series (however long that takes), quickly rewrite Episodes VIII and IX to include whoever his replacement is, and take it from there.
I responded:
You know what, I like that. Well, like may be a bit strong; I dislike it no more than I dislike the options I thought of myself. "3b" hell, that's now option 4 on my list. Stay tuned.
...And it has the added bonus that it perpetuates the traditional Lucasian hiatus between trilogies. (Proportionately, sort of, since I mean to take one year between episodes instead of three.) I'm disliking it less and less the more I think about it.
I think this is what I'm going to do - so thanks, Paul.
(However, a caution to any readers who may be anticipating these crossovers with visions in their heads of my productivity levels of the early 00s: I ought to mention that as plans now stand - and as Episode VII Episode VIII is presently scripted - these stories aren't going to be full-length comic strip serials. The only way I got myself to produce the existing script at all was to recall how I treated my only more recent crossover story idea.)
Getting The Butter There
Apr. 12th, 2006 10:18 amThere may be one or two people who read this journal who recall almost a year ago when I boasted that I'd outlined my fanfiction third Star Wars trilogy within a week of the premiere of Episode III. Most readers will recall my recounting the story here more recently when moping about my recent lack of fanfiction output generally and lack of progress on the trilogy specifically. Well, I've gone and scripted the Doctor Who crossover Episode VII: A Galaxy Divided. But there's a major problem with it.
First of all, recall or observe that chronologically my crossovers are restricted to real time: When Property X is crossed over with Property Y and for story needs the crossover's set during Property X's continuity of the 1998-1999 tv season, Property Y's continuity is also that of 1998-1999. Captain Kirk's career spans the first seven Doctors; Captain Picard's spans the sixth through present's. Leia Organa attended poker games at the 4077th; Padme Amidala on the Enterprise-E. Daniel Jackson and Kenny McCormack spent the same year dead (I think). I made this decision about my crossovers in the 1970s; I think it's logical, and I think it's tidy, helping me to track my crossovers' chronology more easily.
I announced and intended I'd debut my Episodes VII-IX annually in May (just as Star Wars trilogies always debuted every three years in May): May 2006, May 2007, and May 2008. I also intend(ed) for continuity purposes to treat these debut dates as I do premiere/air/publication dates - i.e., the Doctor Who continuity in Episode VII is to be that of Doctor Who 2005-2006.
In fact I've incorporated the Doctor's regeneration into the action of the story. (Which is fudging it a little. The new Doctor's debut episode aired last December, not this coming May. But then I'm altering the circumstances of the regeneration too.) And there's the rub. See, the more I work the script I have for A Galaxy Divided, the more I realize the events it chronicles are, structurally, the events of a middle Star Wars trilogy episode. These events belong in Episode VIII, not VII. But it was this year that the Doctor regenerated.
I see three options at this point, none of which I like.
- Rename this script Episode VIII and draft a new Episode VII. Drafting a new episode that's a prequel to this one wouldn't be difficult; there's enough backstory in this episode to support it. Debut the new episode as Episode VII next month, but set it in Doctor Who continuity of May 2005; then next May debut the existing episode as Episode VIII set this May with the regeneration element intact. This option would violate the intended debut-date-as-setting-date chronology principle.
- Debut the script I have next month as planned. This option would violate established Star Wars trilogy structure and leave me with little or no story to tell in Episode VIII next year.
- Rename this script Episode VIII and draft a new Episode VII. Debut the new episode as Episode VII next month, setting it in present Doctor Who continuity after the regeneration; then next May debut the existing episode as Episode VIII set in then-present May but with the regeneration element removed. This option would violate no Gadzikowski or Lucas principles but would lose the regeneration element; and that would really, really suck because it genuinely has relevance to the trilogy's plot. (Of course, it's fanfiction; I could regenerate him next year and invent a Doctor. Despite my views on the concept of canon, however, to me the point of fanfiction is not to deviate too greatly from the familiar. If you want to invent things, what are you writing fanfiction for?)
Stay tuned.
End of an era?
Mar. 22nd, 2006 09:19 pmI've been rereading scarfmom's fanfiction, some of it - the earliest stuff - having only just become available online on a friend's site when the friend realized it wasn't online already, as well as what she's put online herself. It makes me want to sit down and write some new fanfiction myself. Good old fashioned prose fanfiction, pure words.
At the same time ...
For the fortieth anniversary of Doctor Who in November 2003, I wrote and drew for my website the multicrossover story The Circle of Time with which, to the best of my ability, I answered all the questions I'd ever left hanging about the universe in which my crossovers are set (at least one of those questions going back to my first Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover serialized on alt.drwho.creative in 1997). This despite the fact that I had always told myself that the story which answered all the questions would be a sort of capper to my fanfiction career (perhaps even to be melodramatically secreted away to be posted after my death), and now I was bringing it out just when it had been announced that there would be a new Doctor Who tv show in 2005 after a lapse of sixteen years.
There was a single exception to this answering-of-all-questions: in the Doctor's conversation with Luke Skywalker's niece and nephew there's an allusion to the Doctor being instrumental in the redemption of the Chosen Jedi. This was a new question. At the time and for some time after, the notes at the end of The Circle of Time on my website promised that tale once the sourceworks had concluded the Clone Wars trilogy. Last year when the "first" Star Wars trilogy wrapped up, I announced within a week in one or two forums that I'd outlined my "third trilogy" and would debut Episode VII in May 2006.
Also at the time of The Circle of Time, in at least one internet forum, I promised I would, as I had done for years' stories previously, produce a King Arthur in Time and Space version of The Circle of Time, and debut it May 2004 for the fifth anniversary of King Arthur in Time and Space. In 2004 I discovered that the personal account webspace where my fanfiction is archived had been expanded with room enough for all the Daily cartoon which had heretofore been rotating through the website, and through 2005 I uploaded them ten, fifteen or twenty a week.
In May 2004, no KAITAS version of The Circle of Time appeared. It's now March 2006, and Star Wars Episode VII: A Galaxy Divided remains in outline form. Eleven months ago I adopted a "sketchbook" format for the new cartoons on the fanfiction website, wishing to "reduce self-restriction in aid of production", but production continues to dwindle. And when I completed adding all active Dailies permanently to the website I found that there was only about ten percent of the alloted server space remaining.
What did appear in May 2004 was Arthur, King of Time and Space, my conventional webcomic (for conventional, read not derivative of others' intellectual property).
I'm thinking maybe it's coming up on time to own my change of focus and to retire my fanfiction site. Not to take it offline, but call it a capped-off, completed work or collection of works. I always come back to fanfiction but it's not where I am now.
Or maybe I'm just tired.
In other news I've dropped about ten pounds in about two weeks just by drastically reducing snack intake.
