absorbing monster that's actually scary
Jun. 13th, 2007 01:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethYou ever start poking a story you don't like just to see if it's fixable?
I was thinking about the Doctorless ep with the absorbing monster. Which was irritating. The monster wasn't very monsterous. I mean, okay, it killed people, but there's lots of ways to do that. The absorbing thing wasn't really gone into much.
In the Chalion books I just read there's one where someone uses demons to create the perfect offspring. They feed people to the demons to give them skills those people have, and then they put the demon in their descendant's bodies.
If an absorbing monster is targeting people because they have something, are something, know something - then you've got some fun to play with.
and you end up with a different set of Doctor fans getting ate. I mean, you have to focus on why someone trying to get powerful would take that person. The way it is in the episode they're pretty much just random victims, but it almost almost has the monster using them. So use them more directly, have it absorb people so it can pass as human, read body language, do detective work, all that. Have it acquire stuff that highlights the strengths they had as individuals and as a unit.
Not a big change, actually.
Big enough, maybe.
It's the uber-Buffy without the free will or ability to seperate out afterwards, I guess. And the parts ending up stronger than the big blobby thing that tries to appropriate them. That would be fun.
I was thinking about the Doctorless ep with the absorbing monster. Which was irritating. The monster wasn't very monsterous. I mean, okay, it killed people, but there's lots of ways to do that. The absorbing thing wasn't really gone into much.
In the Chalion books I just read there's one where someone uses demons to create the perfect offspring. They feed people to the demons to give them skills those people have, and then they put the demon in their descendant's bodies.
If an absorbing monster is targeting people because they have something, are something, know something - then you've got some fun to play with.
and you end up with a different set of Doctor fans getting ate. I mean, you have to focus on why someone trying to get powerful would take that person. The way it is in the episode they're pretty much just random victims, but it almost almost has the monster using them. So use them more directly, have it absorb people so it can pass as human, read body language, do detective work, all that. Have it acquire stuff that highlights the strengths they had as individuals and as a unit.
Not a big change, actually.
Big enough, maybe.
It's the uber-Buffy without the free will or ability to seperate out afterwards, I guess. And the parts ending up stronger than the big blobby thing that tries to appropriate them. That would be fun.