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Harry Potter

Goblet of Fire

• CNN
• [1]
• EW EW (same author, same grades...different reviews?)
• Guardian

Characters

• Hermione before
• Snape vs. Snape
• Stamps

The Hunger Games

• award list
• lots of links

Banned...?

• ALA
• article

Percy Jackson

Good resource: [2]

The 39 Clues

• lots of links

Savvy (novel)

Kirkus Reviews awarded Savvy a starred review, praising Law's "fertile imagination" and "dab hand for likable, colorful characters". Susan Faust of the San Francisco Chronicle called the storytelling "magical" but noted that some of the adventures were improbable. The website Kidsreads called it "fun, hilarious, relatable and enduring".

• kidsreads
• 2nd runner up (and don't forget about Newbery)
• about writer, scholastic
• kidsreads interview
• interview

Genre and themes

"Religious Fiction, ages 9-12" "Fantasy, ages 10-13" "8-12"

"Urgency and agency"

• links

Film?

• good enough?

The Throne of Fire

• Kirkus
• audiobook review (find one for Book 1?)

Dana Scully

• The Philosophy of the X-files

Scully represents a worldview concerned with "scientific naturalism". She also presents modern thought. Scully's scientific and empirical processes come important in many episodes, such as "Ice" and "The Host".

She often has the same facts as Mulder, but interprets them differently. Initially, she places more value in experiences documented and shared by many (interpersonal) rather than personal experiences. She will only accept Mulder's theory if her scientific hypotheses fail, which is part of a standard modern scientific process. However, as the series goes along, she comes to understand that scientific experiences do not work for all phenomenon, and the scientific nature of reality may xpand to include unusual occurences.

Though Carter states that Scully becomes a "reluctant believer" to Doggett following Mulder's abduction in season 8, she can still be seen as a skeptic, as she only believes what evidence "minimally and rationally requires" of her to understand the situation, and does not share Mulder's faith in aliens. The culmination of her experiences lead her to believe in conspiracy and invasion, as by the middle of the series she cannot dispute evidence she has seen, such as that concerning the Syndicate, black oil, and alien-human hybrids,

Scully has Catholic faith, though she sometimes questions it. She and Mulder both share a theistic view that God may have created everything; however, for Scully science overrides religion, and Mulder is not strictly supportive of organized religion and is open to extreme possibilities that support his beliefs in the paranormal.

The dynamic between Mulder and Scully can be seen as similar to that of Greek philosopher Plato and his student Aristotle; Plato believed that people "must reach a nonearthly plane in order to unlock the deepest secrets of truth and knowledge", while Aristotle believed truth and knowledge could be discovered through hypotheses made from observations of earthly surroundings. Scully represents Aristotle's belief in "keeping oneself grounded", while both characters see empirical study and scientific testing as important. The views of both characters compliment each other to help them more successfully reach the truth. Scully's views gradually become less strict Aristoteliansim. She also bears a resemblance to W. K. Clifford, who was also a debunker of the paranormal. However, Clifford was more harsh than Scully, firmly believing it was intellectually and morally irresponsible to believe in things that go beyond science.

• Both of their worldviews change and come closer together as the series goes along (page 48)
• "End Game" example/quote?
• About how reviewers found it frustrating that she wouldn't acknowledge seeing paranormal phenomenon?

Relationships:

• [3],[4]
• Trusts him because he puts her interests equal to or above his own, and vice versa (page 88)

Reception:

• Not accepting the whole alien thing: [5], [6]
• #12

Sherlock

• [7]
• [8]
• annotations episode 1 (reliable source?)
• comparison with source, series 2
• Mediapack series 2
• interview

"Inside The X-Files" Notes

• "Anasazi" idea: Jews were called "merchandise", watching movie, Shoah
• Scully originally had a boyfriend in the pilot; originally pressure for them to develop personal lives, thought it would be one of many. Carter rejected this, feeling that the characters should be driven by their work
• There was enough unexplained things to peak Scully's interest
• Scully grounds Mulder: "the only thing that makes him not crazy in many ways"
• Davis thought CSM was the real hero...much more patient than Mulder
• Skinner is a "very ethical person"
• Lea liked Krychek's "physical role"...car bomb in "Paper Clip", bruised face from "Piper Maru"
• Deep Throat felt that something needed to be changed
• X was a "survivor", "stone cold killer"
• Wanted death to be one of the best exit scenes
• Anasazi" - painted rock quarry + CGI
• Submarine in soundstage ("End Game")

Remembrance notes

"Back to School"

• Aldred enjoyed working with Morgan
• Alan Stratford Johns: McCliff? Ian Oglivy for Gilmore
• Cast remained friends afterwards
• Lot of location filming, with Daleks, crowds. Q. Museum? Waterloo--worried about cobblestone. Stuart Varney made terrain Dalek with big wheels. Wobbles back and forth. Tunnel underneath Waterloo railway station for fight
• Lot of stunts. McCoy's idea to slide down rope with umbrella, wanted to do it, but wasnt allowed (stunt man). Doctor was originally going to blow up Dalek...but thought the Doctor was more philosophizing, but offered to Sophie. Aldred had to train how to fire gun.
• Williams winced when shooting revolver, had to use ones where it didn't go off, added sounds. Gun jammed once. Chunky Gilmore because script called the gun chunky. McCoy added "Why do they call him chunky?"
• Never levitated Dalek before. Scaffold over stairs, built tray
• Aldred, McCoy, Morgan felt it was one of the good stories, McCoy said it was because of Ace

"Remembrances"

• Wanted lots of death--Daleks shooting other Daleks best way
• Came up with Renegade/Imperial Daleks as an outcome of Revelation. Originally Red and Blue, but chose less "festive" colors
• Thought process: "Daleks...63...stairs!" Cliffhanger. Turn up in middle (when not expect, not reveal)...then go up stairs
• Urban myth, not really to rest
• Doctor even joked about it in Destiny
• Seemed the right thing to do to destroy Skaro, though maybe not best in long run

"Extended and Deleted Scenes"

• Cut half of cafe scene, McCoy's favorite
• Dalek controller issuing instructions by implant, guy who follows Mike
• Ace diffused tension between scene where Doctor leaves her at boarding house(?) in original
• Cure Ace's leg
• Ratcliffe's discovery of Hand different, leading into Dalek ship
• More than just another Time Lord

Information Text

Episode 1

• Third Time for post credits sequence. Voice clips from JFK, MLK, General de Gaulle, got permission for Duke of Edenburge from Buckingham, denied Queen. Proposed Kruschev and Bob Dylan, news reports on Grand National and Bob Dylan
• First made/broadcast in stereo
• Originally Ace was supposed to play 80s music, Smiths and Aztec Camers. Can do with modern arrangement Kevin McCulloh
• St John's School, Hammersmith. April 1988
• Cover version of Return to Sender
• Umbrella suggestion and design of McCoy, also paisley scarf, Scots ancestry
• Originally Beatles "do you want to know a secret", not in DVD because copyright, cover version
• TARDIS landed opposite school
• Junkyard--did return in Attack
• Spelt wrong, originally had L M
• Junkyard Kew Beudge Steam Museum, Brentford
• Stuntman Tip Tipping wasn SAS soldier, worked to make it look like they were drill-trained. Jerk-harness to be pulled back into corrugated metal when he jumped.
• Skeleton effects by Dave Chapman
• Prop guns kept jamming on location--"chunky"
• Junkyard shoot interrupted occasionally by radio traffic news helicopter circling overhead
• Thermal-imaging camera used of Dalek perspective shots
• 3 Renegade Daleks from 60s
• Scenes in the van recorded around BBC Kendal Avenue. Directed by JNT while Moegan was at Cenetaty
• Railway bridge...
• Territorial Army Hall for HQ
• Ratcliff originally Gummer, changed as too similar to Gilmore
• Dalek added in post-production in transmit, filmed in position to give idea how final effect would look
• Ail-mounted trolley to levitate
• Orange effect covered base

Episode 2

• Aaronvitch was 25 when he wrote it
• Originally submitted "Nightfall" to Cartmel, unsolicited, suggested he write something for TV: "Storm over Avallion" became Battlefield
• Wrote second story: "Nemesis of the Daleks"
• School corridor set raised; stairs for cellar
• Revelation had planned hover scene; had to be abandoned
• Imperial Daleks constructed for story
• Redesigned slightly
• Doctor not Ace destroy Dalek in original
• Sees blind Vicar in window... Cafe scene
• Funeral parlor was a real-life parlor: John Nodes Funeral Service, Ladbroke Grove, London
• Mark McGann brother of Paul, originally considered for Mike
• Lesson watched old tapes of Davros
• Peter Halliday: previous credits Invasion, Silurians, Ambassadors, Carnival of Monsters
• Two stagehands originally carried Hand when originally recorded
• Recorded with just Doctor and Vicar, added hand in post-production. First recording a guide
• Alan Stratford Johns for Ratcliffe
• Sheard released from Grange Hill work to film
• Peter Tilbury originally considered for Headmaster
• Willesden Lane cemetery. Fans gathered to watch filming at cemetery
• Book reading Doctor in the House: small joke suggested by McCoy
• Follows from Davros' experiments following Revelation, factions
• Gilmore originally a Colonel
• Set in November 1963. Should actually be dark outside. TV announcer Leedon, originally suggest as Professor X, but decided to be a reference to Doctor Who
• Ian Ogilvy and Neil Stacy for Gilmore
• Spriridon reference
• Keff McCulloch composed Ace's stero's drum music
• Double for jump through the window
• Ending originally in foyer, but shot on location instead

The Rescue

"Mounting the Rescue"

• Ford: left because of character development, type casting, scream
• Hartnell upset; wrote to ask her to reconsider her decision to leave
• Earth orphan for future: many names, some odd: Luckky and Tanni. Not shortening of "Victoria"
• O'Brien had just come out of drama school and started a theatre job
• "Vehicle" for new companion, character-driven story
• Sydney Newman told her they were considering having her cut her hair and dye it dark. O'Brien: "Why don't you just get Carole Ann Ford back?"
• Received well by actors and production team; Hill and Russell looked after her. Ford appeared on her first day to wish her luck
• Christopher Barry: directed The Daleks
• In a departure, it used the same team as the following The Romans. Treated as a single 6-episode block
• Ealing studios: concerned with model filming. Designed by Cusick, designed by outside model makers (Shorecraft models)
• Cusick: drawing of spacecraft in flight, then one where it was wrecked. They worked from two; first one helped visualize
• Found materials: "reeded hardboard", painted silver, for shell of ship. Cheap.
• Bernard Archard originally considered for Bennett. Went to Australian Ray Barrett. Barry had been impressed after seeing him on a show once, wrote it down and "dug him out of the book"
• Played as a "normal, straight human being" - not give it away
• Recorded over 2 Fridays in early December, 1964
• Hill was hurt firing too soon on the first take with the gun; not seriously injured, but startled
• Illusion that the cliffs were overlooking spaceship: used video inlay
• Dido temple: dark atmosphere, lighting, drapes and smoke
• Sydney Wilson: Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson.
• Higher viewing figures than the preceeding Dalek story

Information Text

Episode 1

• Tom Sheridan provided the voice of the space captain and also played the Sand Beast. Also supposed to be one of the silent Didonians at the end of the story, but this seems to have been dropped at the last minute. Two non-speaking extras were used instead
• Whittaker was outgoing story editor. Asked to write to establish Vicki. Story was commissioned 1 November 1964, the day after his BBC contract expired. Stories due for delivery on 10 November
• Original draft titled Doctor Who and Tanni. Differences: Vicki's name (Tanni), Bennett is more unkind, Tanni tells Barbara they were on their way to the planet Astra when they crashed
• First in new production block; after six-week break for cast
• Last episode of Dalek Invasion of Earth recorded on 23 October 1964
• 52 episodes had been made in that first production block, rate of one per week
• Decided to hold back Planet of Giants and The Dalek Invasion of Earth, so first season ended early in September, and second season began in October
• Error: police box light continues to flash after materialisation
• In the original draft, Ian tells Barbara he worries when the Doctor will close the TARDIS doors on them like he did Susan. The Doctor overhears and tell them that when they are ready to part, there will be plenty of warning
• Originally, Koquillion had a "torch" device that he could paralyse Ian in a beam of light with so he could answer his questions. He hypnotises Ian and Barbara and attempts to use them to get the Doctor out of the TARDIS. The Doctor can see them from the TARDIS scanner, and demands that Koquillion release the teachers. Ian's trance is broken when his is shoved by Koquillion against the police box; Barbara's is when she is thrown to the ground
• The first take of the Doctor and Ian reuniting after Koquillion knocked Barbara off the cliff was rejected by the director; had to retake. Caused first episode to overrun.
• To replace Ford, Lambert initially offered the part to Pamela Franklin, a 14-year-old actress. Contract of 19 episodes. Character, Saida, was to join in Dalek Invasion of Earth. Lambert changed her mind about the character. Saida's part was reduced, renamed Jenny, given to a different actress
• 14 September 1964: camera test for O'Brien and Denise Upson, whom Lambert had already interviewed for the part of Vicki
• O'Brien initial, 12-episode contract said she was playing Susan!
• Whitaker had to come up with her name. Valerie, Millie, Tanni - "i" names
• 11 November: O'Brien introduced to press as Tanni. Next day: Lambert decided she was to be called Lukki
• Became Vicki on 20 November, when promotional material was issued
• Rehearsals for first episode: 30 November-3 December. Recorded on 4 December
• Overran by 15 minutes
• 12 million viewers, 11th most-watched programme that week

Information Text

Episode 2

• Model shots of crashed ship pre-filmed on 16 November
• Lambert asked for second season in August 1964. BBC1 Controller of Programmes, Donald Baverstock, agreed, but only until the end January 1965. Lambert wanted Hill and Russell to stay on contract for 13 weeks, with an optional 13 weeks to be added by the BBC. Only 4 more episodes were needed though, since the second season was pushed back and the first two stories were already made. Lambert felt it was too short to retain regulars, and seemed pointless to write out Susan (considered keeping her). If four weeks was all she could have, she could cancel the series after Dalek Invasion of Earth. Approached again with another 13 weeks, with option of 13 more. Deal was agreed. In best interest of actors' agents. Accepted commitment to 26 episodes the day Dalek Invasion of Earth finished. Thus Lambert could consider creating Vicki
• 13 million viewers, 8th most-watched programme of the week
• Much of the set of the crashed ship is recycled from the flight deck in The Sensorites
• Death of Sand Monster: modelled after "horrible noise" from death of Dalek in The Daleks
• Ford visited during rehearsals of the first episode to wish O'Brien luck and meet her
• Rehearsals for second episode: 7–10 December 1964
• Recorded 11 December. Did not overrun
• O'Brien's agent was Terry Carney...Hartnell's son-in-law
• O'Brien not happy with "inheriting" role of screaming...disappointment
• Archard later cast by Barry in The Power of the Daleks. Also Scarman in Pyramids of Mars
• Reused score from first Dalek story to save money. From episodes 1 and 4-7
• Tape recorded specifically brought in to the BBC for this story
• Start of Dennis Spooner as story editor, but he didn't have much work to do on it and isn't listed in the credits
• Design of Koquillion was inspired by close-up of a fly
• Uncredited Didonians: John Stuart and Colin Hughes
• 13 December 1966: tapes of both episodes were part of a retention order (not deleted!). However, first episode was erased on 17 August 1967, second on 31 January 1969. They had been retained by BBC Enterprises and returned in 1978 though. Became the archive masters

The Mind Robber

"The Fact of Fiction"

• Attempt to get new writers: Peter Ling. Had never written science fiction before, so Sherwin suggested to think of it as children's imaginations
• Came up with the idea but thinking that the characters he created took on a life of their own
• Dominators was an episode short, had a gap, so Sherwin wrote first episode. Didn't have money for more sets, etc. Just TARDIS and nothing, and White Robots (from later). Robots were borrowed from somewhere else in the BBC, painted to look "sinister"
• Used white cyclorama. Lots of white light. White floors. Biggest studio.

Other Doctor Who notes

"Girls! Girls! Girls! - The 1960s

• Ford: Susan should be more realistic in her reaction
• Russell: Seemed otherworldly
• Barbara: matriarch, with the TARDIS crew originally devised as a family
• Vicki: minidress and attitude were 1965
• Why dropped: didn't get on well with John Wiles, but he didn't terminate her contract
• Sara Kingdom: evolved from "nasty" to "nice". It was the double who looked very old.

Polly: not teenager or mature; "liberated young woman"

• Victoria: reversed Adam Adament Lives! format
• Zoe: resourceful

"The Unit Family" Part 2

• Manning's casting
• Master: the Moriarty. "Gimmick" for new season.
• Yates: Wanted permanent Captain for Brig to be senior to. Originally love interest to Jo
• Corporal Bell looked as if she'd be a regular at the time (Mind of Evil). Came back for Axos for a female corporal. Explain snow because it had snowed in Kent filming.
• Needed to add men into the script; Chinease woman too
• Tramp in Axos was done by stunt guy; hated riding bycicles. Wanted to do it again, but the wheel had bent web it crashed.
• John Levene called Daemons"quintessential Doctor Who". Messed with lever in rehearsals on helicopter and changed angle of blades, nearly beheaded cast and crew underneath. Pilot angry
• Shotgun at end broken, guy had to hold the pieces together
• Franklin suggested exit like for him and Brig; improvised
• Bring Daleks back for "gimmick"
• Levene nervous about standing up as baby in Time Monster; not actually acting
• Letts: monsters, sets not good for 3 Doctors
• Manning and Levene got the giggles and kept getting sent out
• Courtney wanted Brig to have as much humor as possible, full to bark out orders.
• Delgado's death in Turkey, Levene recalled "feeling of doom"
• Letts was concerned about the ecology--inspiration for Green Death
• Courtney: maggots favorite monster

"Genesis of a Classic"

• Season 12: When in doubt, go with popular monsters: Cybermen and Daleks
• Holmes stories darker, horror
• Baker had a wry sense of humor. Really only read his part in the script: not very interested in the overall story
• Davros: Hands like a glove, but believable. Third eye: feel like it was looking at you
• Had to be small to be a Dalek operator. Bicycle seat saddle. Moved with knees and feet. Top had controls in--para scope. Operate lights on top: learn dialogue. Sync voice with lights

"Genesis" info text

• Wisher Invited to play Davros in Destiny and Resurrection. Schedule prevented.
• Original Dalek story: Nation contacted by Whittaker, same agent, working in comic, found he had time
• Day: Nation "miffed" about not being contacted , but glad they were back "home"
• Destiny was Nation's last work on Who
• Spark generator created electric cackles
• Downing Lime Works--return in Deadly Assassin
• Planet: location Daleks on plywood, hard for director

"The Eleventh Hour" Confidential

• Rory is "completely in love with her" and "romantic at heart", determined to get her, but she likes having adventures...
• Gillan: she does love him, but there are things she needs to do in life before admitting it
• Moffat: Rory grew up "not being the Doctor", became a nurse because of that (other source?), in the "shadow" of the imaginary Doctor; turns out to be real

"The Eleventh Hour" Commentary

• Thought that it would take 6 weeks for fans to like him, but turned out that he "sealed the deal" there, even just climbing out of TARDIS
• Resetting
• Magic man from space and child--also similar to "Girl in the Fireplace"
• Remains Amelia in his head
• Knew he would have to go back in time(???)
• English accent to try to disguise herself, thought she was crazy
• Fire engine idea came in LA
• Underestimate how cool he is
• Adam Smith worked with Caitlin, execs think she appears a "natural"
• Knew from second into audition that he was the Doctor, second person to audition
• Controversial (young), not obvious, brilliant, unfamiliar
• Tried to write dialogue to account for the weather, but every time the sun came out
• Someone else with different jacket did close-ups in TARDIS
• Music section? New theme...Amy's theme...I Am the Doctor...
• Bright blue - Peter Cushing

"Let's Kill Hitler" Confidential

• Mels' regeneration: looked at previous Doctors, each was unique...
• Amy was maternal to Mels
• Where she got book from, why she became archaeologist
• Beginning of River's story

"Night Terrors" Confidential

• Nine was very direct
• Ten was more "quicksilver", could talk very fast, sillier. But good at loss, anger

Series 1 Confidentials

"Rose"

• Filming began July 2004
• 5 days in Cardiff, then London to get the big locations...London Eye
• Less studio-bound
• Realizes that Rose isn't primary; has something to offer
• Hold hands = team, even though he hasn't asked
• Wanted a bus...had to wait for it to come and then film
• No regeneration: "maddness" to start with someone and then change him; think of it as a "new programme"
• Battered leather jacket: traveler. Clothes not dominate; just create silhouette. Action man.
• They get along, don't question relationship

"The End of the World"

• Go for it...the TARDIS works, so far future, lots of monsters
• "hotel for the most poshest, richest, and influential aliens in the universe"
• Moxx originally animated, then "glove puppet", but decided he should be "chunkier". Rubber suit; actor had done some stuff like that before. Pulled with a wire...but sometimes ran into things.
• Jabe was originally more bark-like in the face, but decided she should be a silver birch. Reveal that he's the Last of the Time Lords
• The walkway with the fans was a set, but the rest (including below) was green screen and "painted in" during post-production
• 203 visual effects shots created in 8 weeks. Deliberately expensive...never again. "Spectacular" and memorable.
• The Visitation: Davison recalled Terreleptil actor was in rubber suit, face blacked because you could see through the mask; after it was over, he was so sweaty that the black had run down and stained his socks
• Cassandra fully CGI. Wanamaker couldn't be on set...stand-in read for her. Had to build in eyes, mouth on flat surface. Look a little like actress. See human emotions

"The Unquiet Dead"

• New TARDIS: nature, coral
• History of taking the Doctor to the wrong places
• Show range: past
• Davies: set in Cardiff, where it's made. With Charles Dickens.
• Not much Victorian Cardiff left...went to Swansea
• Trouble getting snow (paper) to lay, horses scared of it
• Gelth: simple makeup, just shading, no prosthetics. Couldn't have missing features because censors. Contact lenses.
• Originally though effects would just be ethereal swirl, but with the seance scene they ran into a harder sequence of animating mouths. Head speaking was live action

"Father's Day"

• Collinson: wanted to tell story of dad from "very early on", "perfect time travel story"
• Easy-to-follow storyline, not soap style, drawn from "emotions"
• Spent several episodes about why Rose is a good companion, push it by episode 8 to show that she does make mistakes...but it's something anyone would do
• Doctor taking her back: shows that he doesn't quite think like humans do, didn't realize the emotional consequences
• Alien quality: doesn't understand how attached humans are to their families
• He has lost his family now too...
• Felt repealed Reapers were too close to creatures in other episodes; something more "otherworldly". Shark "quality", bar wings, mouth influenced by praying mantis. Vulture sounds
• Not to touch former self: Mawdryn Undead
• Shot all in Cardiff, not all one street, but similar streets
• 80s setting: historical, but recent. Big hair...Jackie wore wig. Brought in photographs as copied styles. Not distracting, though
• Jackie was positive about him to Rose; now she sees how he was "a bit of a loser", but he turns out to be a hero at the end
• Doctor is "incapable of doing anything"
• Davies wanted viewers to be emotionally invested and portray honest emotion

"The Empty Child"

• Two-parter tone word: "romance"
• Dark, but "bursts of color and energy" (visually)
• Difficulty of Rose flying over London: 360 degree effects
• Filmed 2 separate days, suspended Piper from a crane against green screen with wind machine. Then went to a bigger hanger and filmed with bigger crane
• Used photogrammetry for landscape of London...taken overhead shot of London and built buildings on computer, then projected painting onto it, allowing for movement of camera
• 1,300 effects shot in series
• Jack's spaceship: custom-made. Davies originally wanted it to be flashy, but glad it ended up "cobbled together". Chair is battered - character has had a life
• Earth colors vs Gallifreyan colors (Tyler's world, Doctor's TARDIS)
• Rose meeting Jack: yellows, browns, orange to emphasize banter
• Gas masks look like they are burned into faces, like it's grown out
• Thought they were going to buy them, but couldn't find them. Had to make from scratch. At least got to design as they wanted
• Gas masks out of Constantine's head: CGI
• Push body horror to the limit
• Greatest Show and Survival in Dorset sandpit
• "End of the World": spiders all CGI, except for one that the Doctor holds when it's not working (model)
• Retained police box and materialization effect from classic series

"The Doctor Dances"

• Nanogenes: Moffat vaguely recalled reading something about them once, but did not check facts. Real research into nanotechnology - picking up on current technology, showing what could happen
• Psychic paper: faster way of storytelling, easily let the Doctor in
• Pertwee was fond of "gagets" and vehicles, kind of like James Bond
• TV movie: McCoy pointed sonic wrong way, blurred it
• Brought back sonic for new series - doors getting in the way are unimportant to story
• Sonic competition: competing over Rose
• Subtext is that the Doctor is in love with Rose
• Earthshock: not only shot a Cyberman with a gun, but it was forgotten the TARDIS was in a state of grace and weapons wouldn't work
• Try to get rid of "technobbable" - made up science. Pertwee couldn't remember those lines so he would say "Reverse the polarity"
• Barry Island nightshoot. Filmed in January
• Not hard science fiction

"Boom Town"

• Did film in front of Millennium Centre
• Story with someone the Doctor had dealt with before: understands him, family had been wiped out by him. Consequences of actions: whole point is the dinner scene
• Character piece
• Explore whether the Doctor should take someone to their death sentence
• Doctor is war-damaged. Given some moral ambiguity
• Davies was interested in how the Doctor always left, rather than staying and dealing with the consequences
• Micky is a "victim of the Doctor's lifestyle" - good time to explore this
• Cardiff Bay
• Deliberate deux ex machina - regresses her so she can start again. Did establish that whoever is in the TARDIS has a psychic link with it

Series 1 DVD extras/commentary

"Destroying the Lair" (Rose)

• Mike Tucker: needed to be a major scene, reminded him of the end of The Man with the Golden Gun
• Built a 1/6 model of warehouse to film explosions in

"Rose" Commentary

• Davies, Gardner, Collinson
• Had to trim 5 seconds off title sequence
• Earth: first effects shot
• Had London bus and Evening Standard van in Cardiff to give illusion of London
• First thing filmed: "Aliens of London" with Doctor running down corridor
• Tried to keep it a secret, but Cardiff Council published a press release naming all the locations they would be filming at
• Basement: underneath Heath hospital. Very hot, over 100 degrees. Service tunnels
• Gardner phoned the controller to prevent Norton's voice for continuing on for the whole show
• Zipper on back of Auton's head covered up with CGI
• Tranter and others weren't happy with Doctor's entrance, could have been more dramatic, but never changed. Reflects Rose's POV, not audience ("the Doctor's back!")
• At once had circles coming out of sonic screwdriver, but too science-fiction-y
• Henrik's explosion CGI; too expensive to do practically. Top explosion was real, from model. Didn't realize it would be that big.
• Brandon (?) Estate in London was exterior of Rose's flat. In later episodes it is one of two estates in Cardiff
• Went to London for first five days
• Attacked by arm sequence much longer: lock themselves in kitchen, hand goes after Jackie, figure out it's attracked by sound, Rose calls her house using her mobile phone so it becomes attracked to the answerphone. Because it was cut (too many effects?), they had to do a pick-up of Jackie using a hairdryer - filmed when doing Episode 8
• Gabalfa (?) Estate in Cardiff - scene of Doctor and Rose walking. Episode was 2 or 3 minutes under so they added that scene, filmed one or two months later. Had to CGI off some graffiti because it was too rude
• Reshot "turn of the Earth" scene not because something went wrong, but because Eccleston felt his performance could have been better, also tweaked script and put more emphasis on holding hands
• Mickey's flat: redecorated set of Tylers'
• Photoshopped pictures of Doctor throughout history seemed too fake, circled face
• Clive's blue shed = TARDIS-like
• Wheelie bin: took a while to realize that would be a good way for Mickey to get captured. Unique quality of Doctor Who: take everyday things and make them scary
• Restaurant location: took a while to find because they didn't want to dress it and it needed to be willing to close for a whole day
• Audience was originally supposed to see inside of TARDIS when Rose does, but director wanted to hold it off until after she went out, ran around, and came back in. The executive producers now approve of that decision. Wanted to do a more major effects shot where Rose walked in the TARDIS in all one shot, but not in budget (this was later accomplished in "The Snowmen"!)
• Put more lights on London Eye
• Had to take out "oblique" references to Autons as terrorists because the Eye was a target of terrorism
• Had to steam clean the paper mill location because of a lot of health and safety concerns, and black out skylights. Only could film 3 days there, so had to cut a lot out: discover that Mickey is another Auton replica and he leads the Nestene to take the Doctor prisoner. Plastic Mickey was melted, found real one
• Recreate Spearhead Autons breaking out of shop windows; now had money to break the glass completely, rather than cut around
• Trailers were added because the episodes were too short

"Waking the Dead"

• Felt that the themes would make it less of a romp, but this changed
• Way to defeat them: change environment. Cool the gas to liquid
• Originally wanted to start with TARDIS scene, so the first glimpse of 1860 was through Rose's eyes
• Told to personify Gelth; was kind of against this at first because of the "Doctor" (says monster) cliche
• Change to Gelth coming through Gwenyth, Sneeds keeping secret
• Very beginning (dead relative throttle visitor) to be funny and "rescue a lot of the grimness"
• Didn't need Mrs. Sneed; Gwyenth is "heart" of the story
• Dickens' journey - confronting rationality, hero. Solving the plot was to give him something to do at end
• Alan David "top of list" for Sneed

"Laying Ghosts"

• Gatiss liked possession, death, ghost stories
• Interested in writing old-fashioned seance, elderly medium named Mrs. Plumchute was fake, Sneed was real (one one floor) but didn't know it
• Moral dilemma: can they have corpses? Doctor says yes, companion says no. But not benevolent aliens
• More interested in zombies
• Tried authentic-sounding dialogue, at least for TV
• Dickens was "challenge", part of pitch but resisted because felt like Doctor Who delt with historical figures best in the "third person" (just mentioning them)
• Callow played him well, like a weary old man, also had assocation with role so it was like they had the real thing
• Gatiss a Christmas Carol fan, wanted to do a Christmas episode

"The Unquiet Dead" commentary

• Brief: Historical with Charles Dickens, fake mediums
• Mr. Dimple was another character, more of a Dickens pastiche, Gwyenth had a younger brother who had died, grim
• Pretitles the new cliffhanger!
• Travel in TARDIS to look more dangerous; handheld camera at beginning
• Trouble with how TARDIS lands: wanted to throw them on floor, had them just laying down instead of filming the stunt
• Gatiss was a fan of Alan David since he was young
• Gatiss wanted to show how great travelling of time in, originally wanted to show snow drift in (but too expensive)
• Callow pleased that Dickens was not energetic; true to how he was ill towards the end of his life
• Scrooge parallel; realized after it was written
• New Theatre in Cardiff
• Originally had snow falling in the theatre scenes
• Snow on ground was paper; snow from sky was a kind of foam
• Color and tone theme: reds, sepia (did research Victorian morgues)
• Driver was supposed to shout (a reference to Dickens?), coach was supposed to crash, but too expensive
• "Spiritual hotel" was where it was originally set; fake mediums downstairs, Sneed on top floor. Gwyenth more popular, so she took on medium role
• Penarth (?), old children's home outside Cardiff
• Gelth voice actress had to deliver her lines in sync with other ghost actors
• Gatiss: "Gelth" name just popped into his head
• Dickens, in real life, had toyed with supernatural but was skeptical of superstition
• There was a medium they were waiting for in seance
• Overshot CGI quota, compensated with generic smoke and shots of other characters
• Needed to simplify what Gelth were after: where Rift came from
• Last-minute change: Gelth turning red
• Wanted Gelth's face in knocker on door briefly; Christmas Carol reference
• Davies wanted scene where they went into the future; cut because of budget
• Maybe there is more than science to Doctor Who

"Father's Day" commentary

• Phil Collinson, Shaun Dingwall, Billie Piper, Paul Cornell
• Director's first time on set, shot with every angle possible because he was excited
• Grangetown?
• Streets they don't have to do a lot of work on, just took a few satellite dishes down
• "Reapervision" from aerial shot they did for the first production block. The other ones specific to the episode were from a "pull cam"
• Tyler's flat redressed for the 80s
• Davies and Cornell debated over whether it was Rose's plan all along to go back; Piper felt that she didn't realize it until after she started travelling
• Production team came up with lots of "flashy" designs for the TARDIS key; Davies and Collinson said that it should just be an ordinary key
• Police box fall apart: would have required a whole new box.
• Cut out some of conversation in car because it was "bouncy"
• Del Boy cut out?
• Guy on cell phone: doubled for the Doctor dancing in "The Doctor Dances"!
• Piper scared of holding baby
• Weather kept changing, cast began to get sick; Eccleston had a cold
• Cut: three bridesmaids screaming being eaten by Reapers?
• November/December (2004)
• Reapers not originally intended to fly
• Bell's line changed for some reason they are not sure why. Perhaps changed in rerecording; had to rerecrod because original guy sounded fake Scottish, so they got a real Scot
• Wanted more light in the church; but couldn't disable the smoker lamps
• Piper listened to sad music to get in the mood; script also helped both of them
• Limited to how many hours with real baby, so had to use artificial one for some of it when it wasn't visible
• Reapers as animals vs Grim Reaper; ended up being some of both
• Originally somewhat of a fight between the Doctor and Reaper, but decided it didn't make much sense for the Doctor to struggle against such a big thing
• Pete originally took a sip of wine before going out to die; cut because they didn't think it was a good message: alcohol gives you courage
• Dad giving life for kids
• Didn't want big car accident; not about that. About emotions
• Cornell wanted to make sure that the story had changed from the beginning

"Boom Town" commentary

• Phil Collinson, John Barrowman, Annette Badland
• Collinson felt Slitheen effects improved from previous episodes
• Cardiff Town Hall (also filmed there for "Empty Child") for Mayor's office
• Prosthetic suit of Badland was made; for this episode she was told to close her eyes when transforming because the suit was made that way - would transition better
• Actor in suit worked with Badland, imitated her physical acting
• Night shoot in front of fountain: problem because fountain turns off below 3 degrees (Fahrenheit of Celcius? May leave out) and it did, so had to film over two nights
• Dinner scene shot before, during Rose and Jack sequences in "The Empty Child". Due to Badland's scheduling onflicts
• Rose can be cruel to Mickey; probably not intentional
• Zip underneath fake skin flap, melded into her forehead
• Originally considered giving her a pink zipper. Just made it shorter than the male Slitheen
• The Web Planet reference (put this back in)
• Schedule was rearranged because Piper's uncle died. Eccleston is replaced by a double during climax where he is running across cracks and entering the TARDIS. Also double for Piper.
• Egg was a prop from "The End of the World"
• Put in trailers late because the episodes were all too short

Series 2 Confidentials

"Love & Monsters"

• Tennant and Piper were filming 8 and 9 at the time
• First time not from POV of Doctor and/or companion; needed good reason for them not to be in the script
• Davies just wanted Elton to be a "normal guy", not geeky with "funny voice"
• "Aliens of London" - Blue Peter on TV
• Kay was interested in being monster; wasn't interested in Elton's role (sounded similar to Corination Street)
• Add more detail; kid called it "flubber"
• Davies: kid was quite disappointed that it was a man and a costume and not the size of a double decker bus; he never actually informed them of that
• tried to keep Kay's face
• New audience with technology: Attack of the Graske, specifically for children, press red button after Christmas episode
• More children got into the show (and online) with the new series
• Get people watching who don't watch sci-fi: women and children

Series 3 Confidentials

"Gridlock"

• Undercity: Cardiff Bay industrial warehouse (or just set?)
• Rain...trouble getting one of the side walls wet
• Undercity in disrepair...faces of buildings, just a few pharmacists left
• Dystopian...lost city. Davies likes to be "topical" and comment on everyday life...traffic jam
• Responsibility for Martha; brought her to a bad place, was showing off. He misses her; realizes he's become attached. She started feeling close to him...and he lied about Gallifrey. Can pretend with Martha that it didn't happen.
• "Some of the largest and most complex CGI effects of all the series so far". Much of the motorway was CGI on greenscreen...first time it was all set in a "CGI world"
• Shot 4 days in a "6 ft by 6 ft" car, Davies called it a "nightmare", couldn't get that many camera angles. 1 person at a time to adjust props. Wanted actors to feel claustrophobic.
• Added smoke around car, as there would be some with CGI
• Cat actor used to costumes. Kind of wanted character to be a "baddie"
• Had real kittens. Had to get mouth to open, as it would "speak"
• Just sit there, bothers Doctor. But positive toward how they have a sense of community, look out for each other.
• Two women singing: earpiece that played the music, recorded them singing. Meant to be hope.
• Jumping down from car to car: underside of one car, suspended 10–15 feet above ground, drop down, greenscreen around. Get as many angles as possible. Davies likes action sequences that goes up and down, scale that's not on television much. True of "New Earth". Redressed the one set, make it look like people lived in there for a while. Futuristic but homemade.
• 2000 AD..."Make a City One" (?). Inspiration for lots of different characters. Businessman based on one of the characters.
• "Cute" to bring back a monster not that familiar
• Martha is allowed to be afraid, but she also is intelligent and will be thinking
• Hit side of car to cue them to move
• Ageyman got along with the other two actors she was with, so it was fun
• Trilogy to maintain a sense of continuity, "consistent world". Talked in series 2 about Face having "revelation", was going to die in "New Earth", but didn't want another death in that episode. Message will be addressed in this series. (Master, Jack.)
• At end: lost friend.
• Bleak story, but Doctor literally transforms world: brings in sunlight, transforms place

The Fault in Our Stars

Interviews:

• FAQ from website
• Goodreads interview
• The Atlantic Interview
• NPR interview
• Sydney Morning Herald interview
• The Interview Show

A.S. King

• PW profile
• Glory O'Brien
• includes teenage life
• Printz Acceptance speech
• video interview, about pen name and writing process...

Awards and recognitions

Year	Award	Work	Ref
2009	Cybils Awards finalist	The Dust of 100 Dogs
2009	Indie Next List selection	The Dust of 100 Dogs
2010	ALA Best Books for Young Adults listing	The Dust of 100 Dogs
2010	Junior Library Guild listing	Please Ignore Vera Dietz
2010	Best New American Voices Short Fiction nomination	"Monica Never Shuts Up"
2011	Indie Next List selection	Please Ignore Vera Dietz
2011	ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults listing	Please Ignore Vera Dietz
2011	Cybils Awards finalist	Everybody Sees the Ants
2011	Junior Library Guild listing	Everybody Sees the Ants
2011	Michael L. Printz Award honor book	Please Ignore Vera Dietz
2011	Edgar Award finalist	Please Ignore Vera Dietz
2011	Andre Norton Award finalist	Everybody Sees the Ants
2012	ALA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults listing	Everybody Sees the Ants
2012	Junior Library Guild listing	Ask the Passengers
2012	Lambda Literary Award finalist	Ask the Passengers
2012	ALA Rainbow List Top Ten selection	Ask the Passengers
2012	Library Journal Best YA Books for Adults	Ask the Passengers
2012	Publishers Weekly Best Children's Fiction Books of 2013	Ask the Passengers
2012	Kirkus Reviews "Best of 2012" listing	Ask the Passengers
2012	School Library Journal Best Books 2012 listing	Ask the Passengers
2013	ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults listing	Ask the Passengers
2013	Carolyn W. Field Award Winner	Ask the Passengers
2013	Kirkus Reviews "Best Teen Books of 2013" listing	Reality Boy
2013	Publishers Weekly Best Children's Fiction Books of 2013	Reality Boy
2013	School Library Journal Best Fiction Books 2013 listing	Reality Boy
2013-2014	Gateway Award Nominee	Everybody Sees the Ants
2014	ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults listing	Reality Boy
2014	Kirkus Reviews "Best Teen Books of 2014" listing	Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
2014	Cybils Awards finalist	Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
2014	Publishers Weekly Best Young Adult Books of 2014	Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
2015	ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults listing	Glory O'Brien's History of the Future
2015	ALA Top Ten Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults listing	Glory O'Brien's History of the Future as read by Christine Lakin