An education from the Master. (not that one)

So as I am typing this I am about ten pages from completeting my script for project one. It’s scary, now that after years, of bashing ideas and getting the style this is going to be the first that one gets submitted and most likely rejected. So I’m excited and nervous.

However on the positive side of things Doctor Who came roaring back in on Saturday night with a cracker of an episode in Smith and Jones. Just watching Russell T Davis’s script was an eye opener for me. As I thought about how he wrote this scene this way to get the new companion (Martha) over as the sensible one, and did this to get that, and so on. It was an education. So I am really looking forward to poring over my script over the next few days, reworking scenes so that instead of writing a script as one would write a novel. The visuals show the story. I get the feeling that this script is going to work out longer than I was expecting, which means I have to think about maybe loosing that subplot or even losing a character.

Trust me having six main characters running around doing things, while focusing on two out of the six, really does give me appreciation why Jon Nathan Turner killed of Matthew Waterhouse’s character Adric.

On the novel front I have just finished reading the first book in the Fiends on the Eastern Front trilogy, and to be honest it left me very disappointed. The book was gradually building up for a rather dark ending. And it did give a rather dark ending, it was just that the action kicked up a notch in the final three chapters and left me feeling somewhat lacking. Oh well. Going to give that a break and read a book set in the Necromunda game world from Games Workshop.

Other than that DVD recommendation is Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children. It’s a continuation of the game and is highly enjoyable with great graphics. The story though good was a bit weak in places and I felt that it relied on its visual, which were stunning. Done on a computer they looked really nice, I just felt that it needed a tighter plot and would have been a lot better. However it did get me playing the game again.