1. It Really Did Tell The Story We Were Expecting, Too
With everything said before it would be easy to overlook one thing: We were expecting to be told the story of how Doctor Who was created, and we were told that story. We were just told a lot of other stories at the same time. What other production would so lovingly document the many, MANY problems encountered in Lime Grove Studio D, even obeying the old rule about showing the gun in Act 1 by mentioning the sprinkler system defects only to have the sprinklers go off as the final punch line to the pilot episode filming fiasco. With all of the themes, heartbreak, metaphors, deliberate inaccuracies, and little tributes, this was - in the end - a documentary borne out of love. It told the story of how a collection of broken and marginalized people rose above what they were and created something lasting. Something worth lasting. Verity would be proud.
Mikey is, in no particular order, a freelance writer, improvisational comedian, volunteer firefighter, playwright, Bon Vivant, and Jane Espenson enthusiast.
Born in the small mining town of Eden Prairie, MN, he has some 40 years later successfully moved about 20 miles north of there to the City of Brooklyn Center, MN where he lives with an unreasonable number of dogs.
If you'd like to hear him discuss something other than Doctor Who while pretending to be a dog, check out www.the42ndvizsla.blogspot.com or follow him on twitter at @the42ndVizlsa
