Doctor Who 2008: Sontarans cometh, RTD Ood 'ave 'im etc.

The Happiness Patrol has its moments. The Candyman is one supremely mental idea for a villain (robot made from boiled lollies mounted on cut-price-terminator-style endoskeleton), and really cool with it.

I won a Dalek Sec voice-changer mask from answering some trivia questions at a drunken geeky movie awards show at a local comic shop tonight. Photos to come.

I'm thinking of just ripping out the voice-mod circuit to see what interesting thigns I can do with it.

Ghost Light doesn't really make any sense and the last act kinda sucks but I still like it a lot. Greatest Show in the Galaxy and Survival are both pretty cool.

"Ghost Light" works much, much better as a book than it does as a television story. "Paradise Towers" is incredibly goofy but also pretty awesome in its full-on dementia; I also recommend "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" and "Happiness Patrol". The ones that get mentioned as McCoy classics ("Remembrance of the Daleks", "The Curse of Fenric", "Ghost Light") have interesting ideas but seem to have been bungled one way or another in their presentation as shows; "Survival" isn't necessarily much better but most of the WTF-factor actually works for it rather than against it.

"Dragonfire" is possibly the worst thing ever filmed, don't ever watch it.

The chief clown in 'Greatest Show' is also an ace villain.

Dragonfire is worth watching for that very reason. See if you can spot the cliffhanger.

okay, i have 1.5 dvds to watch before they have to go back to Videorama, and only 2 pints of beer left. However will I make it?

Okay, finished the McCoy Dalek story, now watching 'the Mind Robber'. I like how this has some serious late-60's Prisoner-level shit going on. If nothing else, this is one of the things that proves that if you have good enough ideas & an imaginative way to do it, you can get around the lack of a budget.

Zoe in the white catsuit has some serious cameltoe going on.

for those who haven't seen it yet:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/20/tesla-coils-sing-the.html

I was hoping the guy on stilts would get a bit closer to the coils.

Watching the Colin Baker Dalek story. Cute little turn by Alexei sayle as the DJ frying daleks with amp feedback set to a drum machine.

Also, when does 'The War Games' get released on DVD?

War Games will be this year, no dates confirmed as yet.

The Rescue/The Romans came out yesterday (and are both very good, Rescue better rthan I remember it and Romans a brave stab at an out-and-out Farce in places)
Attack of the Cybermen is next up

Apart from that, other confirmations (from BBFC clearances or DWO announcements ) are

Black Guardian trilogy
War Games
Deadly Assassin
Image of the Fendahl
Delta & the Bannermen
Dalek War (Frontier in Space/Planet of the Daleks box)
Keys of Marinus

Also rumours of a "Myths & Legends" box
which would be Time Monster, Horns of Nimon, Underworld.

lol, "Underworld"

Make your own Underworld by badly cutting out a picture of Tom and Louise, drawing a thick blue line equally badly round the outside, and film it moving up and down inside your coat sleeve.

I know I've seen Underworld but I can't for the life of me recall a single thing about it.

What, is the whole thing just bad chromakey or something?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld_(Doctor_Who)

Just finished "Ghostlight." Several of the talking heads mention how the plot made far more sense in the original script, but was cut for time.

So yeah, the book would probably work better.

Tonight's dvd is "Hand of Fear", and you can tell you're in the Hinchcliffe/Holmes era, b/c of the gothic horror vibe and massive fucking bodycount.

hahaha, horror of fang rock sets the record for that!

i'm watchin' the invasion of time.

Havent seen that one yet

it's alright, but has an ultra-lame last two episodes and exit for Leela.

Okay, got the main PC up & running again, so I can finally finish the last Pertwee season.

Now on 'Death to the Daleks', still on the first ep, and I like how the story has your standard Starfleet away team(including Scottish engineer-type), mixed with space marines.

And for some reason, the ginger chick reminds me of Erin Gray w/ short hair.

That's a good synopsis, thunda lightning. Leela's exit scene is terrible!

DOCTOR: Come on Leela, let's go.

LEELA: No, I'm... staying.

DOCTOR: Why?

LEELA: I love...

LEELA GROPES IN THE AIR BEHIND HER WITHOUT TURNING AROUND, COMES ACROSS ANDRED'S HAND.

LEELA: ...this guy. Guy?

LEELA TURNS AROUND TO MAKE SURE THE HAND SHE IS NOW HOLDING BELONGS TO A GUY.

LEELA: I love this guy.

DOCTOR: Oh! Bye then.

Apparently the writers hoped she'd stick around and didn't write her leaving into the plot until the last minute.

Why'd she split the show, anyway? Didn't want to be drooled over by fanboys along with the steady paycheck?

on a related note, thanks to the wonderment wot is Google and searching for a decent modern pic of Louise, i came upon this bit of medical fun from the Daily Mail, which uses the sentence:

....If the entrance to the appendix becomes blocked - with mucus, a hardened stool or through swelling caused by bacterial or viral infection - the bacteria found naturally in the appendix invade the wall...

http://www.the-medium-is-not-enough.com/images/001_G-tm.jpg

http://www.kasterborous.com/news.asp?ac=12&id=2179

Friday March 13th is Comic Relief Day - and the obligatory Doctor Who cross-over sees the cast of The Sarah Jane Adventures appearing in a charity short with British comedy actor Ronnie Corbett (The Two Ronnies, Sorry) on the BBC One evening of fundraising comedy mayhem.

Written by Gareth Roberts and former DWM editor Clayton Hickman, the skit will star Elisabeth Sladen, Tommy Knight, Daniel Anthony and Anjli Mohindra alongside Corbett and will be filmed in advance of a third series which begins production shortly....

"I'm a Candyman of my word!"

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/03/02/we-will-be-doctoring-the-tardis-115875-21164417/

More rooms/corridors please.

lolz where are they getting the precise age of 903 from

he was 900 three years ago

He shares a birthday with Catherine Zeta Jones.

Photos from the set:

http://io9.com/5162583/the-comeback-that-brings-the-doctor-to-his-knees

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01359/dalek_1359465c.jpg

Dalek Found Submerged in Pond

http://www.gallifreyone.com/news.php

March 4, 2009 • Posted By R. Alan Siler

In a scene right out of a Doctor Who script, a team of volunteers clearing a pond of rubbish uncovered a long-submerged Dalek.

The Telegraph reports that sales executive Marc Oakland was pushing a rake around the bed of the shallow pool when he found the object with its distinctive eye stalk.

The 42-year-old said: "I'd just shifted a tree branch with my foot when I noticed something dark and round slowly coming up to the surface. I got the shock of my life when a Dalek head bobbed up right in front of me. It must have been down there for some time because it was covered in mould and water weed, and had quite a bit of damage. One of the dome lights was smashed, but the eye-stalk was intact and the head and neck stayed in one piece as I carefully lifted it out."

Pond warden Tony Brown, 70, was leading the volunteer squad clearing dumped rubbish from the pond, near Beaulieu, Hampshire. He said: "We made a very thorough search of the rest of the bottom of the pond and there were definitely no alien remnants lurking. We've all agreed it best to keep the pond's exact location under wraps. The last thing we want are sci-fi fans descending on the pond frantically seraching for other Dalek parts."

Mr Brown, who trained as a pond warden with Southern Water, has been helping clear out the area for the past eight years. He said: "We've dredged up everything from shopping trolleys, toys, and bicycles. But this is the first time a Dalek's appeared. We have no idea how it ended up in there, or how long ago. We discovered the BBC often took the Daleks out on location for filming, and they travelled to Hampshire on at least one occasion in the 1980s, when Colin Baker played the Time Lord. Who knows? This might be the remains of one of the originals from the old TV series. I'm told they were built to last."

The story is also covered by The Sun, Metro, the Daily Mail and Ananova.

First special is on tomorrow.

http://echidnite.livejournal.com/23690.html

okay I unreservedly hate this type of thing and I have to admit it's kind of cute

I still hate it, but it is cute

Yeah, I'm with you; annoying on principle, but definitely would.

definitely would.

lol

extermeniren indeed

new thread time. somebody give it a good title

I saw (most of) tonight's Easter special. I really quite enjoyed it, partly because it was ... comforting? - to watch, the standard new Who conventions rattling past with a hot cross bun and with a pale Spring evening outside, and even more partly because the chick in it was so very shamelessly attractive. I don't know whether it was good in other ways.

Having watched Michelle Ryan smirk bossily through this and Merlin, I've come to the conclusion that I don't like Michelle Ryan. Which made this episode a wash since it was basically subtitled Isn't It Charming When Michelle Ryan Smirks and is Bossy.

I thought it would've been interesting to take the two fly aliens back to the bus, to see how everyone dealt with aliens that were really just friendly refugees. But I guess it would've stolen focus from the epic Space Bus vs. Giant Fuckoff Stingray battle.