Who, Now

Core Conceit Ooh, Scary Rebuilding Archetypes Rites of Passage Thumbnails Rumors and Legends Scaling Up Remind Me Who I recently discovered that the BBC requested proposals for a presumably post-Disney Doctor Who ©. The deadline passed on October second, so I can’t do much about that, and presumably they don’t want more American interlopers, especially of the sort that won’t shut up about Star Trek. Instead, I’d like to think about what a Free Culture version of the Doctor Who franchise might look like, something that feels somewhat like the series and its offshoots, but where anybody can get involved or branch off. Core Conceit First, we need that big tent-pole, the driving idea for the franchise. This makes the exercise interesting to me, and I think would make the stories comprehensible to fans of the original. Let me explain: I mean that we could spend hours or weeks running down characters from works in the public domain with some sort of reincarnation-on-demand power, or time…