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[kowarth]

Well its a bank holiday weekend and i feel a little ill so i struggled through to issue 230 of dwm in search of stuff and things
From this point in the gallery theres parts of an article about what contemporary news reports made of Adric's life and Times, theres full scans of Issue 202 interview that vandonovan has already posted the pictures of, and theres

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[van]

Awww, that's quite delightful, thank you! The interview at the end, with the 50 random questions was quite interesting. I have to pick up that issue for myself. :D

[kowarth]

i very nearly described it as a lost interview, i'd forgotten about it completely. terrible of me i know.
tis a shame that in the same period as these images came from Turlough recieved almost double the coverage however

[van]

Ahahaha, yeah. indeed lost interview! Well, it was a nice discovery, eh? :)

Turlough's universally liked more, so I guess it's not that surprising. It's interesting though, how much mentality, and the magazine itself, changed between Adric's introduction and Turloughs.

[kowarth]

yeah, especially when they are essentially the same charecter - disspossessed alien teenager.

theres an online essay out there somewhere that posits the differences between them are solely that Adric is too much like a cypher for the 'fan' mentality while Turlough is the more 'alien'.

of course the next issue starts the John Nathan Turner Memoirs. dont know if i should scan them or just the pic spam from them...

[van]

Adric very much did suffer through the "Fan mentality" more so than Turlough did. They were similar characters, but different enough that I get different things from them. i.e. I think Adric was inherently a good person, but sometimes was easily misguided. Turlough I think as an inherently evil/bad/selfish person who was sometimes persuaded toward good. It is an interesting thing to compare them though. I would have loved to see them interact.

How do the JNT Memoirs read? Are they worth sharing? Picspams will never be complained about to be sure.

[kowarth]

well, they're story centric so Matthew gets mentioned for full circle and Earthshock. at the time it was a 'mythbuster' lots of stories told about 80s who were laid to rest a little.
but a lot of whats said on Adric has already appeared in the Adric interviews i've posted. though at least 1 of the pics is a familiar promopic taken from a different part of the room...

[van]

Well, if you want to post them, go for it. Otherwise, don't feel obligated.

I'm always excited to see new photos, even if they're from other angles. It's still new! :D