{"id":760,"date":"2009-02-07T19:55:43","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T06:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=760"},"modified":"2009-02-07T19:55:43","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T06:55:43","slug":"not-so-fast-return-january-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"(Not so) Fast Return &#8211; January 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-762\" title=\"fasyreturnjan09\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/fasyreturnjan09.jpg\" alt=\"fasyreturnjan09\" width=\"450\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/fasyreturnjan09.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/fasyreturnjan09-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The passage of time. We&#8217;ve seen it, and it&#8217;s not a pretty sight. It does things to a man. Nevertheless, we at ZeusBlog Terraces are a flinty-eyed steely bunch, and we don&#8217;t shrink from our blogging responsibilities no sir. Thankfully, nothing of any importance <em>Who<\/em>-wise happened in January to blog about &#8211; not a single thing, so it makes this instalment so much easier.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s keep this in the manner of the TSV Message Board and start out by going completely off-topic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>OMG teh Prisoner is deads!<br \/>\n<\/strong>Okay, he was never in the series (even though The Village was of course), so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Is2nSoqFRHU\" target=\"_blank\">let&#8217;s see some of that<\/a>, as well as the late great scary man, put to the tune of some imminently-visiting senior songsters of the heavily metallic genre [indulge me, it&#8217;s the only way I&#8217;ll see them now. Curse you, parenthood!]<\/p>\n<p><strong>OMG Khaaaan is deads as well!<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/node\/39767\" target=\"_blank\">Aint It Cool News<\/a> really pulled one out of the hat on the video tributes to this guy who was also never in <em>DW<\/em>. We spent a wee while &#8211; yes, a very wee while, finding one they missed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HPc7oY1HdRw&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">Khan<\/a>. Say it once and there&#8217;s muuusic playing. Say it twice and it&#8217;s actually a little obsessive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OMG Computer voice too? Curse you, mortality!<br \/>\n<\/strong>The fickle fulcrum of fate teeters cruelly in Roddenberryland. Majel Roddenberry, the precedent of all that&#8217;s lady sounding in computers of skiffy will be broadcast live no more. She was the antecedent of Mister Smith in the Sarah Jane Adventures we suppose.\u00a0 Er, that&#8217;s about it. No, we&#8217;re not going to comment on the guy who was in the robot in Lost in Space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OMG Dalek is deads!<br \/>\n<\/strong>Lest we forget and let it be said now: before Katy Manning it was John Scott Martin who was the first actual <em>Who<\/em> actor to pose topless with a Dalek. That man &#8211; what an innovator! <em>And<\/em> he had a career afterwards as well.<\/p>\n<p>[Ed: It&#8217;s possible we may be wrong on this and the picture is of that pesky Bob Jewel again. In which case, here&#8217;s a blog covering <a href=\"http:\/\/cakewrecks.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/guest-blogger-great-white-snark.html\" target=\"_blank\">some of the worst Dalek cakes<\/a> of all time. Ye gods.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Smith not dead, but lives on in YouTube mash-ups<br \/>\n<\/strong>Which, after les Piper&#8217;s <em>Call Girl<\/em> antics, is writing &#8216;shipping&#8217; videos all by itself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>RT Forum throws in towel, becomes news site instead.<br \/>\n<\/strong>And fair enough. The RT, it has to be said, isn&#8217;t alwasys the life of the party on the Interweb, what with its talk of colour spots, 72 edits (to which we say, hey &#8211; if you can remember them you were never there, eh punters?) and fending off the young enthusiasts and their weekly assault on the board with suggestions that, gosh &#8211; maybe other stories could be animated as well? That said, what a great mont for articles about forthcoming releases &#8211; and what releases! <em>Planet of the Daleks<\/em> in colour fully of course. Yeah, and <em>Marinus<\/em>! <em>War Games<\/em>! <em>Attack of some Cybermen<\/em>! Why, you&#8217;d never think there&#8217;s a global depression looming with that shopping list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bus Smashed en route to Dubai. (gate)<br \/>\n<\/strong>We got nothing. Why is this news? More David Tennant stories? Oh.<br \/>\nAren&#8217;t we all over him now?<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s your January 2000 and nine. Peesha-pish!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The passage of time. We&#8217;ve seen it, and it&#8217;s not a pretty sight. It does things to a man. Nevertheless, we at ZeusBlog Terraces are a flinty-eyed steely bunch, and we don&#8217;t shrink from our blogging responsibilities no sir. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=760\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fast-return"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}