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OttselSpy25 (talk | contribs) (Trying to clean this up, but the authorial intent was that the John and Gillian world is real and that the two Eighth Doctors both dream of each other.) Tag: 2017 source edit |
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One commonly | One commonly repeated claim is that the authorial intent of ''The Land of Happy Endings'' was to retcon that all John and Gillian strips were nothing more than dreams in the Doctor's mind. The truth is more complex. | ||
The original concept for the story was simply to bring back the pair to celebrate 40 years of ''Doctor Who'' comics. Writer [[Scott Gray]] initially conceived of a plot as featuring an elderly John Who reliving his adventures in a virtual reality after the death of Gillian. The Eighth Doctor would have entered the virtual world to confront him and save him. However, when he described this idea to [[Clayton Hickman]], Hickman's reaction was that of nausea, so the idea was abandoned. (''[[The Flood (graphic novel)|The Flood]]'') | The original concept for the story was simply to bring back the pair to celebrate 40 years of ''Doctor Who'' comics. Writer [[Scott Gray]] initially conceived of a plot as featuring an elderly John Who reliving his adventures in a virtual reality after the death of Gillian. The Eighth Doctor would have entered the virtual world to confront him and save him. However, when he described this idea to [[Clayton Hickman]], Hickman's reaction was that of nausea, so the idea was abandoned. (''[[The Flood (graphic novel)|The Flood]]'') | ||
