Doctor Who Almost Had A JK Rowling Episode... 

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If you dont like what Harbo is saying, dont watch his videos. Hes never pretended that hes anything but a trans ally so dont be so shocked when he takes issue with a woman seeking to do the community harm.

Boom Town makes sense as a title for a story about Pompei anyway.

My birthday is also in April and thank you for standing up against transphobia.

Thank god they didnt go through with the "doctor trying to make rose into a perfect companion" thing, that would have been extremely creepy in combination with the romance angle

Dodged a huge bullet with the alien names rowling would have come up with for the show

Thank the mighty Rassilon the JK Rowling episode didn’t happen!

While I don’t appreciate the low digs at Gatiss, The Suicide Exhibition is such a brilliant concept to have not have been made, honestly one of my most wanted pieces of Who… I know Nick Briggs has expressed interest in trying to adapt them to audio, so maybe not all is lost.

More reasons to love David Tennant then. Stopping, at the time unknown, a Transphobic person from appearing in the show. Legend!

The doctor trading his life for Wilfred was definitely the play. Especially compared to the family. It's such a good scene that he'd trade his life (sort of) for one good old man.

Glad Pompeii was scrapped for later since Donna is peak Companion & we also got Capaldi who is best Doctor

I think it's interesting that there are still hints towards both ideas that Boom Town replaced. Jack mentioned Pompeii in the episode prior "Gotta remember to set your alarm for volcano day." and at the end of that same episode:

Matt Berry as the Monk (or any Time Lord) is something that I now NEED. RTD make it happen!

I’m going to be honest here, the alien creature attaching itself to an author and warping reality into one based on their creations sounds like, well, a really cool idea. I actually want them to retool that, maybe for a fictional author or even another famous one from history. Imagine if it latched onto Roald Dahl, J.R.R. Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, Dr Seuss or even HP Lovecraft

The Stephen Fry script must be revived. Now they have the Disney money, they can offer him a huge pay deal if need be to obtain his services for RTD2. I honestly believe that and the long-mooted Peter Jackson episode should be given top priority.

Since RTD has returned as showrunner and is getting so much budget from Disney, I wonder if he’ll finally bring some of these original and alternate concepts to life.

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Imagine where we’d all be if a few more Chibnall-Era episodes had landed on this list instead of our TVs.

Honestly wonder if some Moffatt writers and even Cornell could return in Davies' 2nd run as showrunner.

Matt Berry as a new TV incarnation of the Meddling Monk would be a riot. :-))) And imagine him briefly running into Missy and figuring out it's the Master (someone even the Monk likely fears). The vampire ideas are rather lame, though. The land of fiction return would have been interesting. I think I've read before about the "Lucy Sparrow" prototype for Amy and the story originally involving a longer continuing Tenth Doctor, before things changed for good and series 5 could focus on a new Doctor and new storyline.