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== Legacy == | == Legacy == | ||
In one account of events of the rediscovery of [[ | In one account of events of the rediscovery of [[Shada]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] mentioned the Corsair while he and [[Romana II]] mused over Time Lords who broke with traditional Gallifreyan inactivity, considering him "one of the good 'uns" and desiring to catch up with her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Shada (novelisation)|Shada]]'') | ||
During one adventure, while pushing a heavy crate, the Eleventh Doctor said that if he kept up this habit, he would develop big arms like the Corsair. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'') | During one adventure, while pushing a heavy crate, the Eleventh Doctor said that if he kept up this habit, he would develop big arms like the Corsair. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'') | ||
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On his blog, ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'' scriptwriter [[Neil Gaiman]] stated that before he began writing the first draft, he wanted to make sure the idea of the Corsair was okay with series [[show runner]] [[Steven Moffat]] before he became fixed in the story, so he sent him an email with a piece of dialogue between the Doctor and [[Amy Pond]] in which the Doctor discussed the Corsair. In this draft, the Doctor explained that the Corsair "[[Elective Semantectomy|did not have a name]]" and "used to travel, exploring the limits of [[time]] and [[space]]". The Doctor said that when he was twelve he had asked the Corsair if he could travel with him and act as his "[[companion|assistant]]", but the Corsair had just laughed. Moffat replied that he wanted the Corsair to be less like the Doctor, and not an explicit role model for the Doctor because the Doctor "does what he does for reasons too vast and terrible to relate". <ref>[http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/06/fairly-humongous-doctor-who-q-mostly.html Neil Gaiman's Journal: A Fairly Humongous Doctor Who Q&A Mostly]</ref> In the final draft, the Corsair is not explicitly presented as older than the Doctor, although nothing contradicts the notion either. | On his blog, ''[[The Doctor's Wife (TV story)|The Doctor's Wife]]'' scriptwriter [[Neil Gaiman]] stated that before he began writing the first draft, he wanted to make sure the idea of the Corsair was okay with series [[show runner]] [[Steven Moffat]] before he became fixed in the story, so he sent him an email with a piece of dialogue between the Doctor and [[Amy Pond]] in which the Doctor discussed the Corsair. In this draft, the Doctor explained that the Corsair "[[Elective Semantectomy|did not have a name]]" and "used to travel, exploring the limits of [[time]] and [[space]]". The Doctor said that when he was twelve he had asked the Corsair if he could travel with him and act as his "[[companion|assistant]]", but the Corsair had just laughed. Moffat replied that he wanted the Corsair to be less like the Doctor, and not an explicit role model for the Doctor because the Doctor "does what he does for reasons too vast and terrible to relate". <ref>[http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/06/fairly-humongous-doctor-who-q-mostly.html Neil Gaiman's Journal: A Fairly Humongous Doctor Who Q&A Mostly]</ref> In the final draft, the Corsair is not explicitly presented as older than the Doctor, although nothing contradicts the notion either. | ||
The Corsair was not the first Time Lord to be depicted with a snake tattoo on their arm: the [[Third Doctor]] had a tattoo of a snake in the shape of a question mark on his right arm, as seen in ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]''. [[Lawrence Miles]] suggested in ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'' and ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'' that this was a [[ | The Corsair was not the first Time Lord to be depicted with a snake tattoo on their arm: the [[Third Doctor]] had a tattoo of a snake in the shape of a question mark on his right arm, as seen in ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]''. [[Lawrence Miles]] suggested in ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'' and ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'' that this was a [[Shada]] [[convict tattoo]] with which the Time Lords branded their criminals to be able to track them. This fact was also referenced in independent spin-off novella ''[[Wringing Off (novel)|Wringing Off]]'' and in the ''[[The Missy Chronicles|Missy Chronicles]]'' short story ''[[Lords and Masters (short story)|Lords and Masters]]''. Despite the Corsair's nature as a Gallifreyan criminal who sometimes went on covert missions for the Time Lords, their tattoo was never formally linked to this point of lore. | ||
=== Ryan Fogarty's Corsair === | === Ryan Fogarty's Corsair === | ||
