... my views are still mixed.

I'm not going into it today or probably even tomorrow. Time to digest and mull is required.

upon reflection and a third viewing
The Doctor Who Christmas episode, "The End of Time, Part One", really left a lot to be desired for me. Sure, it had its moments, but Russell T. Davies can write wonderful moments like most writers can. It's just with these season ending 'events' he concentrates more on spectacle than he does on story. The bigger ( Read more... )

reverseI'm backing out of one of the Dr. Who fan film writing gigs tomorrow. I had the writing started. I just needed some clarification from the producer/head writer/script editor on a few key things. I sent him an email with two very specific queries, and they were written in such a way that I explained the information I needed and why. His ( Read more... )

The titles listed below are favorite Doctor Who audio plays by my friends at Big Finish Productions. They are listed by Doctor.

Paul McGann as The Doctor
Invaders from Mars by Mark Gatiss
The Chimes of Midnight by Rob Shearman
Zagreus by Gary Russell and Alan Barnes
The Last by Gary Hopkins
The Next Life by Gary Russell and Alan Barnes
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On my way to my ortho-appointment this morning, I was, as usual, stopped in bumper-to-bumper traffic in the middle of a construction zone in Charlotte. It was a fairly nice morning, and I had my windows down. A 'Doctor Who' CD was playing in my car stereo, one of my Big Finish audios. The second part of the adventure was starting, and so the theme ( Read more... )

When Doctor Who went off the air when I was a kid, I was your typical fanboy. "Disappointed" failed to cover it. I was confident, however, that the show would come back... some day. In a big fanboy moment I re-wrote Joan Jett's "I Love Rock and Roll," taking my inspiration from 'Weird Al' Yankovic's "I Love Rocky Road" parody of the former. I found ( Read more... )

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The ChicagoTARDIS Doctor Who convention was great. This year's headliners were Eric and Eliza Roberts, and there's quite a tale as to how that all went down. The long and the short of it is that the Robertses were slated to fly in from filming in Bulgaria on Friday for the convention weekend. They were, however, stranded in Bulgaria due to ( Read more... )