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

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.

Lady Smug was pretty annoying, and I enjoyed the Doctor blowing her off at the end of the episode. But it was an otherwise entertaining hour of Doctor Who. Especially considering we're not getting any more until November. Suppose I'll have to make do with the watery gruel that is season 3 of Robin Hood.

I liked the sound of drums at the end. The rest was pretty good too.

november?! bah.

That was a pretty fun episode! i alternated between being really charmed and really annoyed by lady person but ultimately thought she was a good one-off sidekick.

i was hoping that weird eating things were vashta nerada - in keeping with the "of the dead" theme.

This felt oddly restrained for a Bank Holiday special - I'd expected all guns blazing. Actually after 15mins or so I had a feeling this would be Rusty ripping off Lost but with a bus in a desert, and felt strangely disappointed that there wasn't more weird shit going on on the planet itself.

It seemed a bit like a showcase for Tennant to go through his whole repertoire of Tennant things (manic, flirty, sycophantic, emo) one more time, rather than a full on story in its own right (far-off everything-eating stingray swarm? Is that the best you can do?) But then again the full repertoire of Tennant things is terrific so I'm happy to see it again knowing that it's end is near.

The portentious part at the end was the only bit that really excited me though. "Your song is ending" we all know about already. "It is coming through the darkness" = Gallifrey, surely? It's the only really big rabbit Rusty has left in his hat. I'd like to see The Master again though, unless he's played by James Nesbitt which is probably inevitable.

This was all right, but didn't quite have anything as fun as the ridiculous giant robot from the Christmas special. Ryan is pretty damn hot, but I don't know, maybe it was the bangs and the outfit, didn't work for me, and her character was generally more annoying than charming. Chilling ending bit was good, though.

November????? Shit!

Rather enjoyed this--had a mini-movie feel because of the obviously upped budget and so on. Pity the way the wormhole was created was basically the same as 'Superman flies around the world anti-clockwise really fast and goes backwards in time!'. Also like the chilling ending.

Poor effort I thought. The premise was OKish, but no real drama, and far too much I wuv you Doctor bullshit at the end. And Michelle Ryan's character was just crap.

I was looking forward to the fly-aliens coming on board the bus too, thought that would have been an interesting setup. Michelle Ryan's obnoxiousness and man-faceness took away from the overall episode, I know it's law for there to be an attractive female sidekick though but perhaps they could have worked around it and had the various passengers accompany him for his

IIRC there were pictures of John Simm on set filming the next episode.

Really liked Michelle Ryan's character in this.

Quite liked this episode, but I'd have rather one of both of the fly dudes had survived, coulda sacrificed a human or two in exchange.