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Apr. 3rd, 2009 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcFollowing on from my complaint about the lack of Doctor Who April Fool spoofs this year, the new DWM makes an interesting point.
A good spoof has to be superficially plausible (to some extent), but get more unikely the more you think about it, so that when you learn it's a spoof you say "Ah, yes, obviously!" And in a world where the Daleks fought the Cybermen in a story featuring Barbara Windsor playing Peggy, that last part is shot to hell. Anything is a perfectly plausible story.
A good spoof has to be superficially plausible (to some extent), but get more unikely the more you think about it, so that when you learn it's a spoof you say "Ah, yes, obviously!" And in a world where the Daleks fought the Cybermen in a story featuring Barbara Windsor playing Peggy, that last part is shot to hell. Anything is a perfectly plausible story.
