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He is very passionate about certain elements of ''Doctor Who'', calling Anji Kapoor someone who would have been treated "as a piece of self-obsessed parasitic vermin" because of her job in the City of London in the [[Virgin New Adventures]], explaining it wasn't the job itself but that she was proud of it; something he considered so "mean-spirited and trivial". <ref name="Outpost Miles Interview"> [http://web.archive.org/web/20080509161052/http://www.gallifreyone.com/interview.php?id=miles Archive of Outpost Gallifrey - Lawrence Miles Interview] </ref> | He is very passionate about certain elements of ''Doctor Who'', calling Anji Kapoor someone who would have been treated "as a piece of self-obsessed parasitic vermin" because of her job in the City of London in the [[Virgin New Adventures]], explaining it wasn't the job itself but that she was proud of it; something he considered so "mean-spirited and trivial". <ref name="Outpost Miles Interview"> [http://web.archive.org/web/20080509161052/http://www.gallifreyone.com/interview.php?id=miles Archive of Outpost Gallifrey - Lawrence Miles Interview] </ref> | ||
In a 2000 interview he said he | In a 2000 interview he said he didn't like [[Lance Parkin]]'s work, ''but'' he was one of the writers ''still'' talking to him. <ref name="Miles Interview"/> | ||
He called [[Gary Russell]]'s work "crap" | He called [[Gary Russell]]'s work "crap", saying he wrote the lowest-rated ''Doctor Who'' book "on the rankings chart" at the time of the interview, ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]''. He also disagreed with Russell "taking over as much as fandom as possible", a fandom which according to Miles was gaining younger fans that "actually wants to go somewhere" at the time, but also one which "the Gary Mafia at [[Doctor Who Magazine|DWM]] seem[ed] to be doing everything it [could] to make sure it all [got] fucked up". <ref name="Miles Interview"/> | ||
Miles, by his own admission, had "slagged off" BBC Books novels he hadn't written which had used Faction Paradox. <ref name="Outpost Miles Interview"/> | Miles, by his own admission, had "slagged off" BBC Books novels he hadn't written which had used Faction Paradox. <ref name="Outpost Miles Interview"/> | ||
Miles considered [[Roz Forrester]] a "genuine character in a way that Bernice and Anji aren't" because "apart from her overall grumpiness she had nothing in common with the people who wrote her or the people who read about her". He also mentioned that her background was so apart from that of the readers that her writers had to try "bloody hard" to make her understandable." <ref name="Outpost Miles Interview"/> | Miles considered [[Roz Forrester]] a "genuine character in a way that [[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice]] and Anji aren't" because "apart from her overall grumpiness she had nothing in common with the people who wrote her or the people who read about her". He also mentioned that her background was so apart from that of the readers that her writers had to try "bloody hard" to make her understandable." <ref name="Outpost Miles Interview"/> | ||
Miles is noted for creating [[Sabbath]] (another recurring concept/villain) in the Eighth Doctor Adventures. Miles said that Justin Richards wanted Sabbath as a recurring character from the synopsis alone, at which point Miles didn't even know he was going to be like. <ref name="Outpost Miles Interview"/> | Miles is noted for creating [[Sabbath]] (another recurring concept/villain) in the Eighth Doctor Adventures. Miles said that Justin Richards wanted Sabbath as a recurring character from the synopsis alone, at which point Miles didn't even know he was going to be like. <ref name="Outpost Miles Interview"/> | ||
