So I thought I'm just going to get in early. And Ice Warriors aren't really the Ice Warriors they're Martians, but they are the Ice Warriors. It's like the Silurians all over again.' That's because it's a thing over the years like the Silurians are called the Silurians even though it's the wrong time. "There’s a particular thing Clara suddenly says, 'Because of the Sandmen.' And like, 'What?' And she says, 'The Sandmen after the song.' And he says, 'I do the naming around here. The Silurians can't have named themselves Silurians: It's not an intentional metaphor because it is like sitting there and authoring your own episode."Ĥ. It all makes sense because ultimately he is pulling the strings. In the end, it kind of gets you out of all kinds of holes because there is a bit of music in there. But it turns out that he is putting all of this footage together deliberately to put that glitch in people's eyes and spread the Sandman. "The first thing he says against the black is 'You must not watch this,' which, of course, is an invitation to watch. He is making a film, and I was very particular about this. But the great get-out is that Rassmussen is ultimately making a film. Otherwise, it'll look like a very badly shot episode of Doctor Who. And Steven kept saying, quite rightly, that let's remind people all of the time that they are seeing different viewpoints. You can't make it like a pitch-black horror film. Well, we can't really have any music in it because it's not like that. "It's amazingly handy because essentially we had all of these conversations. There is no credit sequence because the episode is Rassmussen's film of events: And then I had the found footage idea, and that's why it became a single because I don't think it could sustain it over two. And then I'd rein back, and I kind of didn't. Two things I thought, at Steven's encouragement, I said I'll write this as a horror film, as it were going to be a movie. "And it's all there in the existing script, but instead they sort of throw away references rather than a fully worked-out thing. So that was the whole idea the sort of two factions. And then there are sort of refuseniks, who they would refer to as the Rips, the Rip Van Winkles. There are people who go for it who are known as the Wide-Awakes, and they're like the thrusting executives. "So in Neptune, around Neptune, they are actually from Triton, which is the chief moon where there is a colony where there are all of these cities, and they've developed a thing called the Morpheus process, which reduces sleep to five-minute bursts, and you can work a week without sleeping. I did all of the work, but it's only there very lightly. But I feel like it's good because it's the best possible way of doing it. Essentially what happened is that all the backstory that was going to be throughout the two-parter got crunched down, so it's there. The story was originally longer, and you can tell from some of the references in the script: And the best possible vehicle for satire is science fiction because you can imagine a world based on concept that you can have fun with, so that was the essential idea."Ģ. And something Doctor Who hasn't done for a really long time is satire, really. "So I thought if in the far future, what if they found a way of eliminating sleep altogether. and I read this article about how essentially the pressure we're all under these days to be permanently working is only going to get worse. Those moments spent looking up at the ceiling. Actually, I'm a lot better than I used to be. The idea comes from a very personal place: We have writer Mark Gatiss's insider version of events, complete with nods to classic Who, references to old songs, and the reason why there was no credit sequence.Īnd being a natural raconteur, he gave us more than our usual 10 things, which is hardly a cause for complaint:ġ. A bit of a change from the usual in this week's collection of interesting facts around the latest episode of Doctor Who.
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