A question for Paul Cornell

[R.P. Augood]

In article <D7on3...@demon.co.uk> Paul Cornell <pa...@cornell.demon.co.uk.> writes:

>In article <3nn64n$p...@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> Whistler,
>shss...@pitt.edu writes:

>> By any chance was the title of "Love and War" inspired by the
>>Roman elegy of Propertius (i.e., "amor armaque")?
>> Just wondering.

>I'd love to say 'yes, it was entirely a classical allusion', but I'm
>afraid I was just thinking of 'All's fair in love and war', and the Press
>Gang episode of the same name. (Hence the chapter title 'Something
>Terrible'.)

Attention, this is a Zectron 2000 high security briefcase. Please do not cause
unnecessary shocks or agitations to this briefcase.

I had always thought of Press Gang when I saw that title.

Anyone else agree that Steven Moffatt should be commandeered to write for the
new series (should it ever actually occur)?

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[Paul Cornell]

[Whistler <shsst12+@pitt.edu>]

Good sir--

By any chance was the title of "Love and War" inspired by the
Roman elegy of Propertius (i.e., "amor armaque")?
Just wondering.

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University of Pittsburgh
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"Hey Romulus, nice WALL." (Last words of Remus)
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[Kate Orman]

In article <cenrpa.106...@leeds.ac.uk>,
R.P. Augood <cen...@leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

[snip]

>Anyone else agree that Steven Moffatt should be commandeered to write for the
>new series (should it ever actually occur)?

(Nods vigorously) Write an NA! Write an NA!

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Kate Orman
"What she may do with a word or two is much too grim to tell."
- Jack Prelutsky, "The Witch"

[Steven Moffat]

Paul Cornell writes:
"I'd love to say 'yes, it was entirely a classical allusion', but
I'm afraid I was just thinking of 'All's fair in love and war',
and the Press Gang episode of the same name. (Hence the chapter
title 'Something Terrible'.)"

Can I just clarify to everyone Paul doesn't mean by this that
Press Gang was something terrible but that "Something Terrible"
was also the title of a Press Gang episode. I mean not that I'm
paranoid or anything.

And what do you mean "just"??

Steven Moffat

[Steven Moffat]

R P Augood writes:
"I had always thought of Press Gang when I saw that title.

Anyone else agree that Steven Moffatt should be commandeered to

write for the
new series (should it ever actually occur)?"

Since it's highly unlikely anyone else is going to agree with
this, I think I will.

I *was* planning to pitch to the production office back in '89
but after Dr Who running for over quarter of a century I managed
to become an established children's telly writer about a week too
late.

Steven Moffat

(Just to embarrass Paul, I'm very pleased to have influenced his
choice of title because I think Love And War is the single best
Dr Who story in any medium. Or I did before I read Human Nature.)

[Tre Hellman]

In article <3o14l7$kdu$1...@mhadg.production.compuserve.com>, Steven Moffat
<10004...@CompuServe.COM> wrote:

> R P Augood writes:
> "I had always thought of Press Gang when I saw that title.
>
> Anyone else agree that Steven Moffatt should be commandeered to
> write for the
> new series (should it ever actually occur)?"
>
> Since it's highly unlikely anyone else is going to agree with
> this, I think I will.

_Highly unlikely anyone else is going to agree_ ,Mr. Moffat? On the
contrary, I very _strongly_ agree! Of course you should be commandeered to
write for the series... and I'd love to see what you would do with an
NA....

Tre, who loved every minute of Joking Apart and is waiting desperately for
his tapes of Press Gang to arrive in the mail.