The move from 2D to 3D went through a few permutations. Filled with hope that maybe this time things will be different. It struck me as a very Doctorish attitude to a first contact situation. The idea that he hopes the killings are accidental was a fairly early addition. He doesn't recognise them, neither does the Tardis. Anything I could do to make it difficult for The Doctor. Never about the death.įrom the beginning the Boneless were silent and from another dimension. Oh of course, there would be room for jokes. All insurance against the death of horror: mockery. Every draft I wrote, I stressed the crunch of bone and the screams that should accompany each flattening. If we weren't careful the flattening of people could cause giggles rather than gasps. One pitfall I tried very hard to avoid was the idea that these kills could be seen as silly. He approved the writing of an outline and the process began. (Pictured below)Īnd joy of joys, Steven liked it. I also included a print-out of Holbein's stretched skull, a version of which I envisaged as at least one of the creatures 'kills'. My first drawing of the Boneless accompanies this post. I arrived at the pitch meeting with four episode outlines and drawings of four fresh monsters (my years at art college finally paying off). I stopped just short of naming a character Coyote. And then of course there is Roadrunner, with Wil E Coyote painting his fake tunnels on rock dead-ends, which the Roadrunner then impossibly runs through. The Abbott estate, where Flatline takes place is named in memory of the author, Edwin Abbott Abbott. There is also the novella Flatland, (1888) a social satire about a two dimensional world. The doomed cleaner Stan in Flatline is named in his memory. The jolly tale of a small boy who is flattened by a posterboard and then gets into all kinds of scrapes by sliding under doors or being posted back home in an envelope. I remember vividly the book Flat Stanley from my childhood. It was just sitting there, waiting for me. It was one of those ideas that I was surprised Who hadn't done before.
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