I have a confession to make! Actually I don’t, but I’m hoping that with some swift footwork of the likes we’ve not seen since… oh the caketin last night (woohoo!) all expectation of a Waters of Mars review published here before the patented Pattersonmatic gets kicked into gear on the NZDWFC Board will be forgotten. Speaking of Waters of Mars, isn’t it weird that it should debut on the same weekend we have NASA confirmation of water on the Moon? Spooky. And so, on that note here are some random observations of the past few days…

1. NOOOOOO!!!!

Foo sent this, suggesting it’s more the work of the Master, but the “radical internet postings” thing seems to make a terrible sense…

2. NO BIKINI AT ALL? (Atoll, geddit?)

Far be it for me to speculate on fanboy (and I largely do mean ‘boy’ in this sense) reaction to the delay/rescheduling of the so-called Anti-smac Kamelion Box Set from 2 Restoration’s forthcoming release schedule, but I bet there are a few disappointed pause button fingers out there what with Planet of Fire being an essential element of that set. Talk about your anticapointment – it’s enough to spawn a whole tide of radical internet postings, surely?

3. POST-MORTEM

It’s old stuff again, but hey – aren’t those Whitcoulls ‘classic including McGann’ Doctor Who postcards great – you know, the ones that come with the price-reduced DVDs? So who’s your favourite zombie Time Lord out of them?

 

 

4. SPEAKING OF ZOMBIES…

…and old gags, is everybody else absolutely fizzing to see Whatevers on Mars? The promotion on this has been great, with lots of cool and spooky images, but not too many spoilers. Even the guest cast announcements have been low key, what with Lindsay Duncan and River Cottage‘s Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. DOCTOR WHO IN A VAGUELY COMPREHENSIBLE ADVENTURE IN JAPAN WITH THE WRONG MASTER AND SOME EIGHTIES CYBERMEN.

Al asked for this, others have posted it, and it’s old stuff again, but if you’re not tired of Doctor Who anime yet, you could do worse (I’ve not checked, but I imagine you really could) than check out Otaking77′s channel on YouTube. Animes, he’s dun three of them now, each topping the last, and each with some great Pertwee/Courtney/Ainley and weird manga cat-girl action in ‘em.

Here’s Part One, here’s Part Two, and here’s Part Three.

Snarking aside though, this is top work and must have taken weeks if not months to do. Could still do with less cat-girl though.

6. JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE LOST DOESN’T MEAN YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU’RE GOING

Hooray! More lost stories found and recreated by Big Finish! And it’s in two flavours this time – Eighties with Syl and Soph through the original Season 27 (should put paid to some of the more outrageous creations of that old DWM article a surprisingly large portion of fandom took at face value) and Sixties with the disjecta membra of the Hartnell and Troughton years featuring re-tellings of Prison in Space, the Heady Orange Scent of Something and lost-stories-darling-of-the-day Farewell Great Mastodon. That last one is a bit of a worry what with the script, an audio and Paul’s ‘what if it were made’ article you’d think some dark and colluding fanglomerate might be doing a certain semi-regular RTP! column out of a job…

7. WHAT IF IT WASN’T AN OWL?

And finally, Dave sent me this link to some disturbing news featuring a recent incident with Torchwood radio play star the CERN Large Hand-drawn Glider* A baguette? An owl? A handbag? (whoops, wrong play). It has to be a set-up, or at the very least a cry for help from the future. I bet the pterodactyl did it.

(*at least that’s what my wife thought I said it was called. Bless ‘er)

And that’s it for the moment. I have the odd feeling I left the bath tap running, and I’m sure that’s not a good thing at all!

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