Fill: Challenge #335 (DW)

[shivver]

All right, I'm doing this straight in the editor from memory. Luckily, there's no actual dialogue in this scene.


Thirty-seven years!

Donna patted down an imaginary puff in the white satin of her dress and rearranged her veil around her shoulders.

Thirty-seven blimmin' years!

Next to her, her father took her arm, asked her readiness with a pointed glance, then nodded to the usher standing by the doors to the nave of St Mary's. Grabbing the cast iron handles, the woman threw her weight to pull them open.

It's finally happening! Finally!

Her beautiful Lance, in his tailored tux and silk waistcoat, beamed at her from his position next to the minister at the altar.

It's perfect! Everything I ever dreamed of, exactly how I've always wanted it! Well, except Granddad's laid up. Can't be perfect without Grandad here.

Her mother Sylvia leant into the aisle to see her daughter in her moment of glory, her proud smile all for Donna.

And that hat. I told her, lose the hat, I said. She promised not to wear that hat. And yet, look at her! Does she have to ruin everything? Suppressing a petulant grumble, she glanced down at her father's hand on her arm. That was wrong, too. She re-linked their arms, correctly this time, and patted his hand, reassuring him with a smile as the pipe organ above them played the first chords of the "Bridal Chorus".

Comments

[romanajo123]

that description is beautiful.

The Runaway Bride, right? 😜 I can’t remember which episode said Wilf was ill that day. ( Is that part of the reason Donna’s father was killed off and Wilf written in?)



The thoughts are perfect!! I could hear CT saying them

[shivver]

Thanks! Yup, Runaway Bride. They said that Wilf was absent in "The Sontaran Strategem" / "The Poison Sky". Donna goes home to visit, and after the Doctor visits the Rattigan Academy, he goes to Donna's place where he encounters Wilf. They do the whole "Hey, you're that newsagent", "Hey, you're that guy from the street, disappeared right in front of me" thing, and Donna's flabbergasted that they've met before. Then Sylvia comes out and sees the Doctor and says, "You're that guy" and Wilf's flabbergasted that she knows him, and Sylvia says yeah, he was at the wedding, but Wilf was laid up with Spanish flu.

The reason why Donna's father was killed off was because the actor, Howard Attfield, died. He was already sick (cancer, maybe?) at the beginning of the filming of series 4 but was able to film a few scenes before he got too sick to continue - notably, he did the scene in "Partners in Crime" where Donna talks about searching for a particular man and he tells her that that doesn't sound like his Donna and that she should go out and get him. He died shortly afterwards, and RTD got the idea of replacing him with the newsagent from "Voyage of the Damned" as Donna's grandfather.

The fun thing about doing novelizations way after the fact is that you can work this stuff into them, because you have the advantage of knowing what's going to happen years in the future of the episode. In RTD's novelization of "Rose", he added images of all the Doctors to the scene where Clive shows Rose his data on the Doctor, and included Ten and had Rose be distracted at that moment so she never saw it. And, at some point, he had Rose remember meeting a drunk man on New Year's Eve who told her she was going to have a really great year.

[romanajo123]

That’s sad. But, again, we did get Wilf. Who is awesome.

It is pretty cool. I remember in the one for Day of the Doctor, the writer added a few things like mentioning Fitz among Eight’s companions. Or giving a reason why Ten was with Queen Elizabeth ( he got a message about it from a pre- Library River. The Queen tortured him a lot but occasylet him out) . And more neat little DW references including my favorite: the 60s “ Dr. Who” movies being actual movies in universe.


😉