...was a fairly whacked-out cartoon they used to show on Children's BBC back in the early 90s. It was about this alien planet (I assume) where there was, well, a lot of ocean. A bit like Earthsea or somewhere. And pirates. And "dark water", which was like this Lovecraftian abomination from the Beyond, one part oil slick one part The Blob, which was ( Read more... )

I think it's pretty much a truism of Doctor Who fandom that everybody's - everybody's - favourite story is some other fan's most hated. And the reverse, of course.

For me, this bit of news is yet more proof that that truism is, er, true. Once again I am given cause to reflect what a long shadow, for better or worse, the Ten/RTD era still casts ( Read more... )

The mind boggles at this announcement:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/19055342

I'm staring at my bookshelf right now trying to gauge the relative thicknesses of my paperback copies of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The one is a not particularly thick single volume. The other is three big, fat volumes. Do the math, as somebody from 'tother side ( Read more... )