Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25222488-20140827235621/@comment-6078851-20140829163532

i love the comparison of space marines to daleks :P

as supah points out the meshing of the different narrative styles - hope vs no hope - would break one or the other.

however, if the doctor travelled to an alternate reality/dimension which was 40k, it could be a glimpse of a universe where the hope of the doctor is completely trampled on. after a bit he'd realise there's nothing he could do to help and then leave back to his own dimension.

now this, obviously, would be a loss for the doctor, and as we all know the doctor never loses, but there is one precedent that i know of - the episode 'midnight': the doctor is mentally taken over, beaten before he even realises he's under attack, by an unknown entity, and is inadvertantly saved by someone else.

this is one of my favourite dr who episodes because it ends with the doctor deeply upset that 1) there was literally nothing he could do, and 2) he was completely and utterly conquered. i find the fatalistic narrative feel of this episode to be quite unlike the rest, and so this narrative feel could be used in a 40k crossover. but as is also mentioned such a crossover would require an entire series to tell and dr who is far too hopeful (wholesome even) to keep a dark narrative going for an entire series.