Fast Return – August 2008
THAT’S NO MICROBE…
Scoop.co.nz reveal their colours once more in another feature filler. Bless.
TAKING THE MICKEY OUT OF TORCHWOOD?
Not so long ago was the time we were sure we’d see both Smith and Jones in the Hub for Torchwood 3 – the closing minutes of Journey’s End seemed to confirm the rumour. But what’s this? No inclusions among the cast announcement for Children of the Damn- er , I mean Earth? Noel Clarke declaring the Mickster has left the building? Oh noes! What next – Freemaagyeman.com binging us down to Earth?
TORCHWOOD RADIO PLAY TO DESTROY ALL OF CREATION
Not that we’ll be around to worry about such casting pecadillos by the time the radio play is aired. Thanks to a complete fluke of timing and some hadron collider thing in Switzerland (picture courtesy of our graphics department), there’s a s-l-i-g-h-t chance we might not be around to hear the ending.*
(*unless that is the intended ending)
LOST HARTNELL STORY FOUND!
It took a while – perhaps not as long as The Lion to appear on our shores, but yes, The Time Meddler is finally in NZ. In abundance! Grab your copy… well, anytime you like, really.
THERE IS NO CONSPIRACY! ™
Eagle-eyed (and therefore weird-looking) readers have alighted on the internetical publishing of TSV 59 and within its entrails, the Greatest Show fanalytical treatise A Carnival of Metaphors writ in large (type) by a friend of this blog. But what’s this? Expurgated text? Rumours of last-minute editorial intervention? What gave? Er, to be honest he can’t remember – it was probably nothing, really! Paul?
DAVIES RUSTYPLAN SET TO MUSIC?
We think so.
And…
PARROT APES MUTANT, VANISHES LIKE DODO, REAPPEARS LIKE COELOCANTH.
Let’s hear it for Leonard, the recently-recovered African Grey Parrot – he can mimic Daleks! Wow. Very cool if it’s a big Dalek voice like the Emperor. Dalek Caan? Not so much.
September 6th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Re “A Carnical of Metaphors”: a quick comparison of the “Where do Fan Theories come from?” boxout in the print and online versions of that article will reveal the truth (I won’t reproduce it here!
September 8th, 2008 at 9:19 am
See also the bottom right-hand corner of page 15 of TSV 60.
September 9th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Since you mention the coelacanth (note correct spelling), my uncle Peter Scoones was the first person ever to film and photograph a live specimen.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
That parrot was awesome.
Didn’t think too much of the DW Handlebars though.