Brendan (Ascension of the Cybermen): Difference between revisions

* The dates given in [[Chris Chibnall]]'s script for the Brendan scenes are not literally possible. The script states that the scene where Patrick finds the "six-month-old" Brendan takes place in "Late 1940s West Coast Ireland", specifically 1947; but that Brendan's "first birthday", at which he is 18 months old, also takes place in 1947. Brendan is five years old on his first day of school in 1950, and "8 or 9" in 1951. He is in his "late teens" in 1953, when he joins the gardaí. He gets shot in 1955. Brendan is in his "late 60s" when he retires, but the retirement scene is repeatedly described as "1970s style" and specified to take place in 1973.<ref>https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/doctor-who-s12-ep9-ascension-of-the-cybermen.pdf</ref> These dates, though not given in the episode itself, had a clear influence on the production design; the effect is that Brendan appears to live his entire life in an impossibly protracted mid-20th-century Ireland.

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