It’s November so some brave souls are embarking upon this year’s NoNoWriMo. Good luck to you if you’re one of them.
I’m in no way dedicated enough to try an entire novel in one month, but I do want to write more so I’m declaring November to be my NaBloPoMo – I will be endeavouring to post at least once a day for the next 30 days.
“Na No Wri Mo Na Blo Po Mo” – I think I know how RTD comes up with Judoon dialogue.
cold3 x packs of Doctor Who CMG figures from Woolies, @ £8.00 ea
1 pack of Star Wars CMG figures from Forbidden Planet, @ £14.99
4 Rare Star Wars CMG figures via eBay, £9.94
1 issue of Miniature Wargames, @ £3.70
Total: £52.63
At the end of this post, Neil Gaiman reveals that Taipei airport toilets cater for Daleks. So does Victoria train station in London, as I pointed out four years ago.
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snapesbabe pointed out that the Herts and Essex Observer have a poll on their home page to find who was the best Prime Minister.
Rather suspiciously Harold Saxon is in the lead.
But even more suspiciously there’s no option for Harry Perkins. Right wing revisionism at work.
chipperGot my order from Big Finish today – £90 worth of books for £35 courtesy of their summer sale.
Nice use of Page 3 from the Daily Star as packing material…
Last week I asked “Was that the most expensive piece of fanwank ever?” and grahamsleight correctly pointed out “Yes, but it’ll only hold that record for seven days” beacause on the fanwank scale adding ( Spoilers! ) adds quite a few points and on the cost scale an extra twenty minutes of explosions and CGI adds quite a few pounds.
RTD is a very evil man. In many ways parts of this could be seen as sticking two fingers up at Rose shippers, at the McGann TV movie and at Lawrence Miles. Work it out for yourself which bit is which. But as all three more or less deserve two fingers, that’s okay.
In a lot of ways this was a distillation of the RTD years, which means that it was a second hand distillation of the New Adventures novels. Really BIG space opera scope, ambiguous Doctor, high emotion and companions getting shafted all over the place.
It was just too busy to get a grip on – there were several very good ideas that needed an episode each to properly explore. I honestly don’t know whether I liked it or not.
confusedWas that the most expensive piece of fanwank ever?
surprisedMoffat to replace RTD in 2010.
Steven Moffat should be scared, very scared. If his Who is too much like RTD’s he’ll be damned, if it’s too different he’ll be damend, if every episiode isn’t up to the standard of ‘The Empty Child’ he’ll be damned. Some fans have built him as the solution to everything they dislike about the show that he can’t possibly meet their expectations.
I’m looking forward to the remaining stories that RTD has to tell and hope he continues to write scripts for Moffat; and I’m also looking forward to seeing what Moffat brings to the show when the time comes.
Oh, and the news story above mentions “four specials to be shown in 2009″. I think that’s just sloppiness and counting the 2008 Christmas special as well, unless anyone knows differently.
1 pack of Doctor Who micro-universe figures from Woolies, @ £9.99.
1 pack of Doctor Who micro-universe figures and 1 starship pack from the Doctor Who Exhibition, £18.98 total.
1 pack of Copplestone Castings Cavemen and 1 Walrus, @ £10.00
2 issues of Miniature Wargames, 1 @ £3.50 and 1 @ £3.70
Total: £46.17
Total for the quarter: £31.02 + £22.25 + £46.17 = £99.44 (Bang on budget – £100)
Went to see 10,000 BC this afternoon. Oh boy, history, biology, geography, astronomy – they all get a hammering in this film. I can’t be bothered to even start listing everything that was goofy here.
It was one of the most by-the-numbers renditions of (the easy to understand bits of) Joseph Campbell’s monomyth that I’d seen in a while. I smiled at the bemusement when hunter-gatherers first came across the evidence of agriculture, but of course in Campbell’s scheme there has to be a ‘boon’ to take back home at the end (sorry, that was a spoiler). There were also bits lifted from the Bible, Stargate, Conan and 300, just in case the mention of Campbell misled you into thinking there were highbrow sources being used.
The action and CGI were very good, the actors managed to keep straight face. It’s not a bad movie in the sense that it’s exciting and visual, but it’s certainly one to watch with the brain switched off.
Oh, by the way, the Doctor Who and Star Trek trailers look amazing on the big screen.
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