{"id":511,"date":"2008-08-03T21:32:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T08:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2008-08-04T08:19:33","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T19:19:33","slug":"fast-return-july-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Fast Return – July 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well that has to be it – July 2008 is a dead cert to being the swiftest July on record. Where did it go? Probably stoled. Maybe by Davros and his minions, that scallywag. Anyway, things moved quickly last month, so you may have missed these happenings…<\/p>\n

X-TENDED! X-MAS TRAILER! X-CITEMENT!<\/strong><\/a>
\nHmm. They’re really keeping things under wraps, aren’t they? Anyway, it appears an extra ten seconds or so gives us\u00a0but a very confident young urchin, the likely companion of the piece, more David Morrissey\u00a0and an evil Dirvla Kerwin. And Cyber-Wraiths, or robot Taran Beasts or something. Are we excited? Well, lots of this stuff was to be had in the set photos section of the DW Forum (if you could bear the trudge through the squeeing that is). But at the moment? mm. We’ve been disappointed before with a huge build-up. Scare us this time, Mister Davies!<\/p>\n

MOST IMPROVED WHO-BLOG?
\n<\/strong>Why, it’s Kasterborous<\/a>! We may have bagged them slightly earlier in the year for getting a bit huffy with the more outrageous rumours (and some which came true… ahem), but hey – a new look, lots of intelligent, up-to-date content\u00a0devoid of the sort of\u00a0fannish speculation which makes the DW Forum a chore to read these days, and great editorials. We’ve been away a while, but it’s nice to be back. Well done,\u00a0Christian and Co!<\/p>\n

MEANWHILE ON THE DOCTOR WHO<\/em> FORUM…
\n<\/strong>Yes yes, that’s two bags full so far in one installment. So what’s got up our goat this month? Apart from the ennui of it all over there with the youngsters and their shipping and squeeing and Janto-ing. Well, nothing outrageous. And maybe that’s the problem. But just as it appears young Rusty gets the gist of hiding spoliers from us (until the inevitable leak to the tabs that is), young fandom runs out of new series facts to talk about and, say, starts to create their own series five. And you get this…
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\nEee-yikes.<\/p>\n

DALEK-MASKED WOULD-BE ABDUCTOR FOILED BY CAR HEADLIGHTS?<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Words fail us.<\/p>\n

POLISHING UP THE SILVER?
\n<\/strong>Aaand it’s twenty years now since Silver Nemesis<\/em> was unleashed onto an unsuspecting world (insert obligatory ‘NZ got an episode before everyone else’ note – Ed.) There’s precious little McCoy left to release, and going by the stories remaining one does get the feeling 2Entertain have their own impressions as to what’s going to sell quickly or not (a clue: Battlefield<\/em> is next)\u00a0. Anyhoo – that wouldn’t stop the interested fan from frustrating the forum\u00a0administrators<\/span>\u00a0bringing up the topic of format and version on the Doctor Who Technical Forum<\/a>. And what a discussion! Special Edition or standard, slightly wonky edition? Add the documentaries, or delete the rubbish bits? Worth a little extra in the budget to give punters the choice via a two version double disc like Fenric<\/em> and 5 Doctors<\/em>, or a blight on potential resources for other, probably less-vanilla-bound stories? Phew! Good job it’s not on the schedule yet…<\/p>\n

DWM COMIC STRIP FINDS ITS MOJO ONCE MORE.
\n<\/strong>Now, ’tis true that we’ve been a bit harsh on DWM lately, perhaps not on this blog, but behind the back of the series’ esteemed organ. but to be fair, despite a whole internet of spoiler potentials and interviews and what have you, the Official Magazine sees to be doing alright for itself. Particularly quite recently in the comic strip department. There was a time, your loyal\u00a0Rapid Returner must confess,\u00a0when this was the first and sometimes only thing he turned to with the mag in the new series, most other content being either already old by the time it got to these shores, or a bit… fluffy.\u00a0But we’re loving Rob Davis’ The Widow’s Curse<\/em> (spoiler-tastic panels here<\/a>) right now. Lovely artwork by Martin Geraghty, solid nods to the new series’ history, what could well be Donna’s only comic strip outing (we’ll see, maybe) and bets of all a story that seeks to build on the recent past. A one-off monter race gets fleshed-out (if you could say that) is a quite respectful and very effective way.<\/p>\n

THE ‘QUEEN’S BUM’ AWARD
\n<\/strong>As in… we believe it occupies physical space, but we’ve not actually seen proof of its existence. And it goes this month to the Time Meddler<\/em> DVD. Has anyone actually seen a copy here, let alone bought one? From a terrestrial shop?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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