After all the months of news covering his magnificent journey, from feverishly completing his script to fully introducing himself as one of Doctor Who's latest and greatest scriptwriters, established science fiction scribe Neil Gaiman has been interviewed in next week's released issue of SFX magazine.
Now SFX has provided an exclusive online extract of its interview with Gaiman himself.
"The joy of my episode is that you get to realise how much of what's in the TARDIS is probably still in there somewhere!" . . . He's referring to the fact that he got a mate to make a list for him of "every part of the TARDIS that has ever been named and referenced throughout the entirety of 50 years of Doctor Who". The TARDIS plays a big part in the story.
But did Gaiman find it somewhat straitjacketing with a BBC budget?
"I don't think it's straitjacketing. It's part of what you do. The nature of the beast is that on the page you have infinite time and infinite money. In reality… But there are things that happen for budget reasons that actually make things better.
In my episode I get to bring back a classic monster. I didn't plan to bring back a classic monster. I tried to create a completely new monster. But shortly before shooting it became very apparent that given the incredible amount of money they were going to have to spend on my episode – they were taking other episodes behind the bike sheds, beating them up and taking their pocket money – there came a point where they said, 'Look, we cannot stretch to doing this prosthetic stuff that you wanted, would you like a classic monster?' And I said, 'Well, actually you have this thing that would fit perfectly there, and we could do this to it, and it would make it work…'
So we got to take a Russell monster and bring it back, which made me incredibly happy, in a weird way. It was a nice link between the Tennant era and the current era, and it was nice to bring it back and do something very different with it, turn it upside down."
In case you couldn't guess, the "classic monster" from Russell T Davies' era of Doctor Who is the Ood, seen in Series 6 trailers with piercing green eyes and an oodly (I actually mistyped that) glowing translator ball.
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