Talk:Ghost Light (TV story)
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Fruit And Nuts
"Josiah offers a banana to Matthews, who begins to turn into a monkey." It looks like Josiah pushes the whole bowl of fruit to Matthews, who chooses the banana.165.225.76.55talk to me 16:07, November 26, 2018 (UTC)
Unsourced
Moving the following unsourced info here. It can be added back only if there is a valid source provided that states that it was an intentional production choice. Shambala108 ☎ 06:00, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
Influences
- The works of William Blake. (Various elements of the plot and themes)
- The Turn of the Screw (various characters and atmosphere)
- Pygmalion (Control's subplot)
- A Thousand Plateaus (the Rhizomatic model)
- On the Origin of Species (Evolution, survival of the fittest)
- Poltergeist II: The Other Side (Light's design)
Stories that crossover with non-DWU series
I don't recall anything overly crossover-y in the story, at least in terms of stuff relevant to getting a source put in this category. What's the justification for the category? Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 11:55, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- My first thought is that someone might've added it because of Mrs Grose, who has the same name and job as a character in The Turn of the Screw. Jack "BtR" Saxon ☎ 12:07, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, it's Grose. If it's called Sherlock Holmes and it's a consulting detective… And that goes double given that we have quotes to the effect that it was very much a concerted decision in the Cartmel era to have the Doctor and Ace existing in a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen-esque universe of classic British fiction, hence the Quatermass references in Remembrance of the Daleks and, of course, everything about Battlefield.
- That being said, I would not swear that this is enough for the category, if only because Turn of the Screw is not technically "a series". Scrooge MacDuck ⊕ 12:54, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the information. I'd say it qualifies under the same conditions as a few other pages, which also feature elements of other works that aren't part of a "series". (Surely the main purpose of the category is "all sources featuring or referencing elements of non-covered sources as real"?) Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 13:00, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
