It’s so strange how shows like Doctor Who effect me. It’s a very exciting drama (with just enough of that great British BBC cheesiness that I love) but it always gives me the most vivid dreams. So the other night after watching the end finale of David Tennant’s Doctor Who (I’m gonna miss him as the doctor he’s a brilliant actor) I also went to sleep listening to Right Ho Jeeves, by PG Wodehouse and wonderfully read by Jonathan Cecil. It’s a great Jeeves and Wooster book and I fell asleep sometime after this hilarious part about all these telegrams that Bertie Wooster gets from his aunt and his complete stupidity in his replies. It was Wodehouse at his best.
The weird thing that I’m leading up to, is that I had the most intense and bizarre dream that night. I won’t bore you with details, but it was all about me rewriting The Far Reaches, and coming up with a great idea to make a brand new story better and then I was looking all over for my laptop because I had a script I was working on (in the dream) and had to change the beginning. And while this was happening I was actually seeing the adventures of Gilrec as if they were an animated movie happening before me. Um, I guess that was detailed. Oops.
Anyway, it turned all nightmarish after that and I woke with a start, but then madly wrote down notes on the story I had dreamed about. But I couldn’t quite remember it. All I can say is that dreams are rummy, especially after the combo of Doctor Who and Wodehouse. To set your mind at ease, Gilrec didn’t become Docter Who or anything, although he was actually much more of a action oriented go getter in some ways.
I don’t normally like sharing dreams and goofy stuff like that, but I thought this was funny that I dreamt I was writing TFR and had a brilliant idea to make it better. Very strange.
It’s a sign?
I don’t know. If I decide to redo TFR then it definitely would go that route. Lately I’ve been too depressed to do much of anything. Not depressed on anything in particular. Just my disability acting up as usual. I have it in my head how I might want it but I just don’t have the confidence or inspiration to write a story yet. It’s so hard. And then theirs always the possibility of the retro TFR SNES style RPG. I’ve been playing around with RPG Maker and might want to do something with that. It would go along well with this new idea of TFR I had.
In this idea, Gilrec is trying to take after his late father who had been a detective for the Imperial Secret Service. He died under mysterious circumstances. So Gilrec wants to take his place and is a bumbling detective, more as a hobby for the bored rich and because he wants some excitement. Of course the real brains is Bentley who was charged by Gilrec’s father to look after him, knowing he’d get in tons of trouble. Of course, Gilrec’s friends are always getting into the soup (as Wodehouse would say) and he’s always trying to use is skills as a “great detective” to get them out of it. He invariably gets the situation muddled up and in even worse condition than before and only Bentley can get them out of it. I believe ancient relics and moon ninjas also played a roll somewhere.
Anyhow, that’s what i got from my subconscious about TFR. Might make a good RPG or comic. If only I could sit down and write a story for it.