{"id":219,"date":"2007-09-22T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T11:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2007-09-22T00:01:23","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T11:01:23","slug":"fast-return-september-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Fast Return &#8211; September 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/fastreturnsep.JPG\" alt=\"fastreturnsep.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Aaand welcome to a new month&#8217;s worth of Fast Return &#8211; September-flavoured!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">It&#8217;s been what they call a &#8216;slow news month&#8217; out there in the Interior, but we&#8217;re doing our best to see that all the news that&#8217;s fit to burst for the past month gets\u2026 er, burst. On the other hand your regular Fast Returners won&#8217;t be around after mid-next week to post this, so this is what you get! No more news from here until October everyone&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>OH &#8211; AND THERE ARE POTENTIAL SPOILERS IN THE FOLLOWING TEXT&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">A <em>WEB<\/em> OF MAYHEM AND INTRIGUE<\/font><\/strong><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">So what the Hepesh was that all about? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drwho-online.co.uk\/news\/news.htm\">DW Online <\/a>&#8216;report&#8217; that they&#8217;ve [allegedly] heard &#8220;rumours&#8221; of a new missing episode find and that it [allegedly] might be something from<em> The Web of Fear<\/em>. Cue fanboy frothing and not a lot of &#8216;squee&#8217;-ing because we had more self-control back in 1968. Anyway, end of the month, no discoveries of the episodes (but check out that careful wording <em>DWO<\/em> used &#8211; it&#8217;s only their job to <strong>report<\/strong> rumour, not investigate it. How very modern media!), more than a few angry fans and in all likelihood a\u00a0very healthy hit-rate for <em>DWO<\/em>! Not that we&#8217;re suggesting anything or anything.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Anyway, there&#8217;s got to be nothing more forlorn than a news site that doesn&#8217;t &#8216;do&#8217; news, so in order to inject some purpose to the whole affair and give those plump net-potato fingers a bit of a workout, why not go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netdisaster.com\/go.php?mode=tomato&amp;url=http:\/\/www.drwho-online.co.uk\/news\/news.htm\">here<\/a> instead&#8230; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nzdwfc.tetrap.com\/forums\/mbs\/0003926.html\">THIS MONTH&#8217;S NEW SERIES SCOOP!<\/a><br \/>\n<\/font><\/strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Has anyone informed OG yet?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nzdwfc.tetrap.com\/forums\/tsv\/0000412.html\">MEANWHILE, TSV DEVELOPMENTS CONTINUE APACE&#8230;<\/a><\/font><\/strong><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">All quiet in Hamilton you say?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">FOR THOSE NOT ABOUT TO START WATCHING LOCAL SOAPS &#8211; WE SALUTE YOU!<br \/>\n<\/font><\/strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">But in case last month&#8217;s mention of Adam Rickit was just too too &#8216;niche&#8217; for you genre-afficionados, here&#8217;s a list of some properly <em>DW<\/em>-connected actors who have also appearaed in New Zealand soap operas.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Ilona Rogers<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Bruce Purchase<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Alan Dale <\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">[that&#8217;s enough pushing old non-news items -Ed.]<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">PAST TART TO BLAST FARTS<br \/>\n<\/font><\/strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Kudos to Gareth Roberts for putting the Slitheen in a programme where they&#8217;re a hundred per cent guaranteed to find their target audience &#8211; the<\/font><em> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Sarah Jane Adventures<\/font><\/em><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">. Kids love &#8217;em, adults\u2026 not so much. Seriously &#8211; good move. Could you imagine the<\/font><em> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Torchwood<\/font><\/em><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"> team coming up against them? Say, in a follow up to<\/font><em> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Combat<\/font><\/em><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">SIN IS IN<\/font><\/strong><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Cool! Just when the cost of living increases yet again and crude oil prices send the plastics industry into conniptions, here&#8217;s a new range of <em>DW<\/em> miniatures ready for the fan market. Although it was nice and unexpected to hear that the &#8216;half&#8217; new figure actually was a scaled-down figure after all. And it&#8217;s Mister Sin! Bless.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">SHOPPING LIST MAKES HEADLINES<\/font><\/strong><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">With their purported love of &#8216;shopping list production&#8217; it&#8217;s somehow inevtiable that Rusty Davies and Gaz Russell should find a mutual playground in<\/font><em> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Torchwood.<\/font><\/em><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"> How intriguing for fan speculators to read in the pages of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfx.co.uk\/page\/sfx?entry=new_doctor_who_book_teases\">SFX an actual list of Series 4 &#8216;ingredients&#8217; for a forthcoming publication<\/a> &#8211; a sort of Tenth Doctor&#8217;s Dictionary, if you will &#8211; only actually completed this time and done by a publisher. Ahem. Said ingredients make for an interesting cake: Enid Blyton (we suspect Gary&#8217;s hand in that inclusion unless he&#8217;s planning a return to acting), bannakaffalatta (banana coffee perhaps?), Sensorites (ignore it, it&#8217;s probably a<\/font><em> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Gloss<\/font><\/em><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"> reference). The acronym for Gareth Roberts&#8217; story is apparently TUAWT, although it might be one of RTD&#8217;s naughty anagrams for all we know. Truth be told, we love this guessing game stuff &#8211; so much better than &#8216;Stay Tuned&#8217;!<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><strong>AND FINALLY&#8230; some music<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZpsfGv0GnJ0&amp;mode=related&amp;search=\">Dean Gray&#8217;s Doctor Who on Holiday<\/a> (courtesy of YouTube). <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaand welcome to a new month&#8217;s worth of Fast Return &#8211; September-flavoured! 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