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(Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Death? Planned It!''}}'''''The Death? Planned It!''''' was an early episode of ''The Rainbow Adventures'', a fantasy animated series created by the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Department of Entertainment for internal broadcast in the Cupid Homeworld. It and the following episode, ''The Moonbeams'', were actually parallel developments of the same original story outline from Sketchbook-430, featured versions of the fear...") Tag: visualeditor-wikitext |
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== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
''[[Plagiarism of the SavageMen (short story)|Plagiarism of the SavageMen]]'' was created as a topical satire of a [https://old.reddit.com/r/doctorwho/comments/f4g9qv/this_2016_concept_art_by_matthew_savage_looks/ then-ongoing controversy] in the ''[[Doctor Who (series)|Doctor Who]]'' surrounding the perceived resemblance between a piece of 2016 armchair concept art by artist Matthew Savage for a new design of [[ | ''[[Plagiarism of the SavageMen (short story)|Plagiarism of the SavageMen]]'' was created as a topical satire of a [https://old.reddit.com/r/doctorwho/comments/f4g9qv/this_2016_concept_art_by_matthew_savage_looks/ then-ongoing controversy] in the ''[[Doctor Who (series)|Doctor Who]]'' surrounding the perceived resemblance between a piece of 2016 armchair concept art by artist Matthew Savage for a new design of [[tardis:Cyberman|Cybermen]], and the design used for the helmet of [[tardis:The Lone Cyberman|Ashad]] as seen in the 2019 trailer for Series 12 of the TV series, which did not credit Savage. The dispute would eventually be settled amicably between the artist and the BBC along terms not disclosed to the public. | ||
As such, despite obviously having a very different storyline and main characters, ''The Rainbow Adventures'' is presented as a sort of spoof of ''Doctor Who''. Not only do the conspicuously-named SavageMen correspond to the Cybermen, with the pivotal cranial light-bulb matching the head-lamp which was one of the main smoking guns between the Savage and Series 12 Cybermen designs, but ''The Death? Planned It!'' references the title of ''[[ | As such, despite obviously having a very different storyline and main characters, ''The Rainbow Adventures'' is presented as a sort of spoof of ''Doctor Who''. Not only do the conspicuously-named SavageMen correspond to the Cybermen, with the pivotal cranial light-bulb matching the head-lamp which was one of the main smoking guns between the Savage and Series 12 Cybermen designs, but ''The Death? Planned It!'' references the title of ''[[tardis:The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'', the first TV Cyberman story, while ''[[The Moonbeams]]'' references ''[[tardis:The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'', the second such story. | ||
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