{"id":185,"date":"2007-07-31T07:48:43","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T18:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2007-07-31T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T21:14:07","slug":"fast-return-july-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Fast Return – July 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SPINNING AROUND<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So Ms Minogue is in the Christmas Special and the world hasn’t ended! Maybe the news managed to be muffled under the roar of disapproval that occurred after LotTL<\/em>, maybe fans just didn’t see it coming, but overall it seems that cool heads have prevailled, and we’re not heralding the apocalypse just yet. Come December 26 though… <\/span><\/p>\n

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OH PLEASE…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Apart from Messers Preddle and Walker, who on EARTH would bother<\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n

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K-KLAK! TO THE FUTURE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Watch out, Dr Who<\/em> – Primeval<\/em> is here and it’s going to take your ass and kick your name! After\u00a0revealing more\u00a0oak in its lead performances than the entirety of Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood <\/em>didn’t seem to last long as the top contender to supplant our favourite (okay, ONLY) Time Lord. But now here’s a new show with a modern British location, cutting-edge special effects, time-travel shenanigans and a female lead who was once a pop star! Yeah, that’s right Doctor Who<\/em> – you should be scared!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>WE ARE LIVING IN A GOLDEN AGE ™<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Oh yes. There’s a theory of Dave Ronayne’s out there that likens the current series to early years of the old series. But he’s got it all wrong! Surely the series is going backwards<\/em> in its references. Not neatly and quickly like in LotTL<\/em>, but more gradually and meandering, like a cat with its head stuck in a paper bag. Sort of interestingly backwards with the tantalising potential for comedy gold pratfalling near the end. And before you all write in and report us to the SPCA, look over this formula and tell us that we’re wrong:<\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s the return of the Eighties, I tell you! Time is reversing – everybody get down!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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X OF THE Y<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Good call to Alden<\/a> this month on recognising that RTD has taken advantage of another great Welsh institution and used the Dery Mark II Title Generator for season 4’s episodes. But how cool is that title? So retro, so Seventies. Truly, We Are Living In a Gol- hang on, we’ve done that already, haven’t we?<\/span><\/p>\n

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THAT’S GAUNT. G-A-U-N-T<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Fans drooling everywhere in Wellington. You can’t make it up Courtenay Place these days without wading ankle-deep in squee juice. TheOneRing.Net<\/a> are getting all wriggly over the return of Cyrian McKellan to Wellywood for the RSC production of Lear. Who <\/em>fans are understandably excited at the prospect of Sylvester McCoy playing the Fool (like he didn’t for Inside the TARDIS<\/em>…). But it’s just not right! All this fuss over a repeat appearance of Gandalf and the Doctor, when there’s a THIRD alumnus coming in tow to no advance fanfare or jetlagged reception at Wellington International by a consignment of furries and 17 stone elves. People – William Gaunt<\/a>! Orcini is coming to see us! If he can work a bionic leg and self-destruct device into his role as Gloucester there’ll be no containing us.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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PRETTY POLYSTONE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, because under NZ law we are statutorally required to invoke the name of Jackson as soon as the word Gandalf is uttered, we segue as slick as squee juice to the Weta Collectibles. How cool are they? A Dalek exposing himself, a Cyberman sitting down – it’s all the boxes ticked for the sheer dynamism of the new show! And they look great. And they’ll cost a bomb. But to hell with it, it’s the culmination of years of hoping and speculating rendered in three loving dimensions. Who could say no?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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