SFX MAGAZINE: Doctor Who “The Power Of Three” Writer Chris Chibnall Interview
by Dave Golder
September 16 2012
“The Power of Three”, the fourth episode of Doctor Who’s seventh series, is heading our way on Saturday. Below, we’ve got an exclusive interview with writer Chris Chibnall, but since the BBC has also released its own bunch of interviews about the episode today, let’s have a quick butchers at what he has to say in the official gumpf first.
The episode features an invasion of Earth led by black cubes, and when asked where the inspiration for this came from, Chibnall comments: “A few years ago, near where I live, the MSC Napoli got stuck in Lyme Bay. A lot of its contents got washed up on to shore and people just started taking the contents. I wanted to do a story based on humanity’s ability to go ‘Oh look at that I’ll take that.’”
This will, of course, be Chibnall’s second script of the series after “Dinosaurs On A Spaceship”, and he says that, “Doctor Who is the best show to write for, because of the actors and the scale of imagination that it demands. Being asked to do the impossible, it is the best job in the world!”
However, he admits that it can be tricky to pack the story into the lean 45-minute running time, remarking that, “The show demands big ideas and big stories told in a relatively short period of time. It is an incredibly technical show to write for...”
... SFX Magazine: “The Power Of Three” sounds very different to “Dinosaurs On a Spaceship”. What’s the conceit behind it?
Chris Chibnall: “It’s Doctor Who from Amy and Rory’s point of view. We’re in the last days of the Ponds as everybody keeps saying, and it was really a chance to see where they’ve got to in their lives since “The Eleventh Hour”, and to see what it’s like to be them. And I think what’s interesting is that the companion/Doctor relationship in this series is very different to any we’ve seen before because really, they’re part-time travellers.
“They’re living at home, and the Doctor pops in and goes, ‘Shall we go somewhere?’, and they’re off. That’s very new, because they’re not permanently with him, and I wanted to see what that would mean. So it’s very different to ‘Dinosaurs on a Spaceship’, and I think it’s very different to pretty much any other episode of Doctor Who ever, which is both wonderful and terrifying. It’s got a very different structure, a very different feel, and there’s a threat to Earth in there as well, so it’s a really unusual episode...”
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE EPISODE TRAILER FOR DOCTOR WHO'S 'THE POWER OF THREE' - AIRING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2012 AT 9/8C ON BBC AMERICA!
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