I know some of my readers regard even idle speculation as spoilerrific, so …
SPOILER WARNING:
Neil Gaiman is writing an episode for next season’s Doctor Who. (Yay!)
He’s had to cut over ten pages out of it. (Boo!)
He’s posted online a bit of dialogue that was cut. (Yay!)
Gaiman says this is spoiler-free, since it “tells you absolutely nothing about the story except that it now doesn’t have a scene with a bowl of food in it.” But of course that’s not quite true. We can infer, at least, that there are non-humanoid aliens in the story (since Amy would be unlikely to exclude humanoid aliens from the category of “people”), and that they are on sufficiently good terms with our protagonists to offer them food. (Of course prisoners get fed, so that doesn’t tell us all that much. The reference to “background radiation” makes me think of Daleks, but I can’t imagine Dalek cuisine being yummy even by Gallifreyan standards, and besides I somehow don’t expect a Dalek episode from Gaiman.)
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