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12/02/08
They couldn't have forshadowed his imminent death any more if they'd tattooed an expiration date across his forehead.
Of course, part of this was because in the earliest drafts of the story he was supposed to die defending the Earth from The Destroyer (and posthumously awarded the rank of General.) The televised confrontation between man and demon ened up being severely scaled back due to special effects limitations (Aaronovitch originally envisioned a shape-shifiting character that looked like a regular business man, but who eventually transformed into something more approaching The Beast from 'The Impossible Planet'), but it was still a class A fake-out, since you knew darn well that The Doctor and Ace were going to make it out alive, but you weren't quite sure about the Brig.
12/02/08
I just think it's a shame he'll never get a chance to star opposite David Tennant's Doctor. I can just imagine poor old Letherbridge-Stewart trying to keep up with the energetic timelord, grumbling that "You may be over 900 years old, but I'm the one with a plastic hip," then stepping in to save the world with his service revolver one last time. (until the next last time, of course)
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Which is all to say - it's capable of being a rather good show, and "only a kids' show" is both dismissive of the whole package and lets them off the hook for not doing better.
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