A new Fast Return – already? What? Whaat? WHAAAT? Heh, that never gets old, does it?

Anyway, so November has come – what did we learn last month?

PRIME TIMING
A bouquet to Prime TV from Zeus Blog for screening Waters of Mars so soon after its UK airdate. Whether it’s a programmer realising the importance of timeliness to a fan base, or perhaps someone seeing the hazards of giving impatient would-be viewers too much downloading time, it’s a welcome move. More of this for 2010, please! 

YEAH, BUT IS IT SF?
I don’t know the answer to that question (if I knew I would tell you). But that Lawrence Miles gets EVERYWHERE! Here he is, or mention of him at least in the movies blog on Stuff. And an opportunity for a fellow fan/Retrospace to help a sister out too, maybe. 

 

DID THE CHILDREN REALLY NEED THIS?
Enough wth the cheering though. Who’s for some complaining?! I thought so.

That trailer. Yeah, that one.  High definition leis and ray bans all in the name of chariddy. Is the Doctor mad, bad, or just his loveable whimsical self? The jury’s out, but as it’s a genuine excerpt from The End of Time and not a specially-made knees-up like Time Crash we can assume that all that fluff and the bit with the car lock sound is part of the Rusty Masterplan. Huh. Interesting…

“I SHAGGED HER ROTTEN, BABY!”
Yeaahhh. Not sure how to take this rather prurient bon mot from the Children in Need trailer. At face value? Well, it seals a storyline up that wasn’t screaming out to be (cf the Face of Boe and Captain Jack) and some might say it cheapens the Doctor to create a past sexual liaison with Elizabeth I for the sake of a one-liner. But you know, he could just be mad, or bad, or something. Maybe I’m wrong and DW‘s core audience man and boy, girl and woman are out there still punching the air and saying “Yesss! Get in there my son!”

Couple of points though:

1. Character milestones like this really need longer build-ups to ‘sell’. The Chase isn’t yet out on DVD, so plenty of time for the Restoration Team’s CG boffins to insert some stirring ‘neath the Hartnell trouser during the Space-Time Visualiser scene, perhaps. Continuity is so important!

2. Perhaps the gag works best because the Doctor is over 900 years old obviously so young and virile. So we’re probably supposed to picture him in union (if we must) with, say, the likes of Miranda Richardson’s Elizabeth or Cate Banchett’s version of the Virgin Queen. And not, say, the versions portrayed by Judi Dench, or Glenda Jackson. Or Quentin Crisp. As fine as they all were.

Me, I just pity the poor parents who have to explain the joke to the kids.

JUST IN TIME FOR XMAS: A BELL-END.
But of course it’s also time for another novelty alien head, after the Moxx of Balhoun (a ringpiece on a blue bollock), the dreaded Dalek Sec (a one-eyed willy-go-round on a pair of gonads) why not do the same for the already squeamish-looking Ood? So step forward our new super Ood for the end of the year finale, with a bonce that looks for all the world like a… well. Moving on, who’s the special guest star voicing this specimen then? Brian who? Oh dear…

AND FINALLY…
Doctor Who turned 46 last month – hooray! Now there were a lot of tribute videos made to mark the occasion and you might want to cross over to some blogs such as Morgue’s or Jamas’ to see some, but here’s our pick. It’s not a tribute per se, but a nice linking between the old and the new, the first and the most recent. Set TARDIS desktop pattern to Old School…

Play safe everyone!

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