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|next2 = Things She Thought While Falling (short story) | |next2 = Things She Thought While Falling (short story) | ||
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'''''Strax Saves the Day''''' was a short webcast introduction to ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'' produced by [[Emily Cook]] in [[2020 (releases)|2020]] to go along with a scheduled screening of said story as part of the ''[[Doctor Who: Lockdown!]]'' [[self-isolation]] watch-along programme due to the outbreak of [[COVID-19]] worldwide. | '''''Strax Saves the Day''''' was a short webcast introduction to ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'' produced by [[Emily Cook]] in [[2020 (releases)|2020]] to go along with a scheduled screening of said story as part of the ''[[Doctor Who: Lockdown!]]'' [[self-isolation]] watch-along programme due to the outbreak of [[COVID-19]] worldwide. | ||
Conceived as a successor to the original [[Strax]]-focused portion of the original [[Cinema Introduction (The Day of the Doctor)|cinema introduction]] to ''The Day of the Doctor'', Cook reached out to [[Steven Moffat]] for pointers and permission to use Strax, and Moffat went as far as to write the story itself, which was then filmed in under twenty-four hours. Due to these contraints, [[Dan Starkey]] — Strax's actor — wasn't able to get into prosthetics, so an alternative was utilised; Strax would be represented by a unique prototype plushie created by [[BBC Worldwide]] that was never greenlit. Starkey later profused that his father had found it very odd that one of the props in the introduction — a punchbowl complete with a peace-lily which had belonged to his great-aunt — was now a [[canon]]ical part of the [[Doctor Who universe|''Doctor Who'' universe]].<ref name="DWM551">[[DWM 551]] - Contact Has Been Made</ref> However, this Wiki does not treat it as part of the ''Doctor Who'' universe, as we deem this source [[T:VS|invalid]] as it ostensibly breaks the [[fourth wall]]. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
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== Story notes == | == Story notes == | ||
* This webcast's title is a play on the hashtag "#SaveTheDay" that became trending around the original 2013 broadcast of ''The Day of the Doctor'', as well as the ''[[Doctor Who: Lockdown!]]'' watch-along of the story in 2020. | * This webcast's title is a play on the hashtag "#SaveTheDay" that became trending around the original 2013 broadcast of ''The Day of the Doctor'', as well as the ''[[Doctor Who: Lockdown!]]'' watch-along of the story in 2020. | ||
* Strax's point that in the end, only a small fraction of all the past Doctors appeared in ''The Day of the Doctor'' (a point illustrated by photographs of [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|the "Morbius" Doctors]]) rode the wave of the controversial reinstatement in the then-latest televised ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story, ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'', that [[The Doctor's early life|the Doctor had lives]] before being the [[First Doctor]] and that the faces seen in ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'' were indeed the Doctor's. | * Strax's point that in the end, only a small fraction of all the past Doctors appeared in ''The Day of the Doctor'' (a point illustrated by photographs of [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|the "Morbius" Doctors]]) rode the wave of the controversial reinstatement in the then-latest televised ''[[Doctor Who (TV series)|Doctor Who]]'' story, ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'', that [[The Doctor's early life|the Doctor had lives]] before being the [[First Doctor]] and that the faces seen in ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]'' were indeed the Doctor's. | ||
* For the sake of comedy, images of [[John Hurt]] and [[Billie Piper]] from other roles entirely than ''The Day of the Doctor'' are used when Strax mentions them. The picture of the [[Curator (The Day of the Doctor)|Curator]] is, meanwhile, one of an action figure rather than of [[Tom Baker]] in costume. | * For the sake of comedy, images of [[John Hurt]] and [[Billie Piper]] from other roles entirely than ''The Day of the Doctor'' are used when Strax mentions them. The picture of the [[Curator (The Day of the Doctor)|Curator]] is, meanwhile, one of an action figure rather than of [[Tom Baker]] in costume. | ||
* A brief gag is played around the Coronavirus panic hoarding of [[toilet paper]], as seen when 3 rolls of toilet paper are stacked next to Strax. | * A brief gag is played around the Coronavirus panic hoarding of [[toilet paper]], as seen when 3 rolls of toilet paper are stacked next to Strax. | ||
* The Radio Times article covering the short (written by Huw Fullerton) suggested that the fiendish device which transformed Strax into the living doll seen in the film was not the regular [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]], but a "Plushie Compression Eliminator".<ref>''[https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-03-21/doctor-who-new-moffat-scene/?fbclid=IwAR0fwWcp-5Mb1GIwrsdcpb50cGsKTKCCNUmojMQUaAbzpaQHaPgIEOJjBvw Doctor Who: Watch Steven Moffat’s new self-isolation introduction to the Day of the Doctor]''</ref> This was mainly due to the TCE rendering people into immobile "porcelain"-like figurines of their former selves, whereas this Strax doll was given mobility and voice, and appearing to be a plushie-toy. | * The Radio Times article covering the short (written by Huw Fullerton) suggested that the fiendish device which transformed Strax into the living doll seen in the film was not the regular [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]], but a "Plushie Compression Eliminator".<ref>''[https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-03-21/doctor-who-new-moffat-scene/?fbclid=IwAR0fwWcp-5Mb1GIwrsdcpb50cGsKTKCCNUmojMQUaAbzpaQHaPgIEOJjBvw Doctor Who: Watch Steven Moffat’s new self-isolation introduction to the Day of the Doctor]''</ref> This was mainly due to the TCE rendering people into immobile "porcelain"-like figurines of their former selves, whereas this Strax doll was given mobility and voice, and appearing to be a plushie-toy. | ||
* On top of being [[Steven Moffat]]'s first '' | * On top of being [[Steven Moffat]]'s first ''Doctor Who'' television script since 2017's ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'' and his first ''Doctor Who'' material altogether since 2018's ''[[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|The Day of the Doctor]]'' [[The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)|novelisation]], the introduction was also the first time since ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'' in 2014 that [[Dan Starkey]] and [[Neve McIntosh]] appeared as [[Strax]] and [[Vastra|Madame Vastra]] in an audiovisual production, although the first only appears as a miniaturised doll, and the latter is only heard from outside the frame. | ||
* The prototype plushie was given to Dan Starkey by [[Julie Holmes]], who used to work for [[BBC Worldwide]].<ref name="DWM551"/> | |||
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