Important things from DWM... (The repost, with new improved ticky boxes)
(Well, they aren't important, really. It just seemed like a nice header.)
1. Reading the details of 2012 DVD releases was like a Good News, Bad News joke (but only if you are me, fear not everyone else). As follows:
GOOD NEWS!
They have finally given out details of the Robots of Death Special ed.
BAD NEWS!
David Collings is not on the new commentary. *cries*
GOOD NEWS!
I won't be tempted to buy/ask nicely for the wretched box set of things I already own!
BAD NEWS!
Are you joking? You won't be tempted to buy/ask for shiny new RoD with Louise, Tom & Pamela Salem on the commentary, with a new documentary that does include David Collings? Plus, some of the extras on the other two look mildly shiny.
BAD NEWS
Damn. You got me. 2Entertain are evil masterminds.
GOOD NEWS!
They are actually, actually going to release More Than 30 Years... on DVD next year. I was only thinking last night how much I wished they would, but how unlikely it was now.
Also in a similar vein (from last month and this month), it seems 2012 will be the year for some serious McCoy/NA bonuses, thanks to Big Finish. They're going to do a spin-off range featuring Rachel, Gilmore & Allison from Remembrance (with the original actors, yes) and to celebrate Benny's 20th birthday, Jac Rayner is adapting Love & War for Big Finish, and it will feature Sylvester and Sophie and Seven and Ace as well as Lisa Bowerman as Benny.
However, the important bit was the regular debate feature, which was should the anniversary story in 2013 be multi-Doctor or not? Well, we don't really have a choice - Mr Moffat is the lucky (or perhaps highly unlucky?) chap who gets to decide and I am sure he will do something properly celebratory. But, given the choice, is anyone really going to say no on the flimsy pretext that multi-Doctor stories are often silly and sometimes disappointing? If you asked the person on the street who had only watched one episode, they would say there should be multiple Doctors. Non-fans are always wanting to watch the story with lots of Doctors.
This is my theory, so: Poll! Please especially vote if you know very little about DW. :-)
Poll Doctor Who 2013 Anniversary story again
This poll is very important, because obviously Steven Moffat reads my LJ (he likes people who like Press Gang) and will take the answers into account. (That might not be true.)
Personally, I totally agree with the 'yes' writer, especially on the conclusion, which was basically JUST GIVE US PAUL MCGANN IN A THINGY THAT'S NOT THE TVM. Thank you. Quite. (Even if obviously I would most love Seven, and even though Ten would not be my first pick, can you imagine the combined on-screen hyperactivity there would be with David Tennant and Matt Smith at the same time?)
List of Yuletide fandoms is up. Some slight hitches (oh where is the fandom that was going to be my fourth request? Also Spooks was my fallback, but it doesn't have the character I need) but mainly GLEE. I had seriously worried I wouldn't be able to offer things (because I do need to be realistic at the moment), but someone's nomination even looks as though they seriously want to request a story I've been wanting to write since I was about 13. Also, look, look at the characters in Dungeons & Dragons! Backstory!! (Sorry. I am resigned to the knowledge that this will excite no one else on my flist.) Ye-es. I am probably going to have to request that one...
The important bit about this is mainly that sign-ups are going to go live very soon. Possibly they are, as I haven't checked this afternoon yet. I just need to decide what req. no 4 will be and try and write a Yuletide letter that doesn't go on for thousands of words about how much I love the things I am requesting & confuse my poor, unlucky writer.
Also, the highly organised nature of Diana Wynne Jones's fans is amusing me. You can request/offer Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Dalemark, Eight Days of Luke, Enchanted Glass, Fire & Hemlock, The Game, Hexwood, Magids series, The Homeward Bounders Howl series, The Ogre Downstairs, The Power of Three, A Sudden Wild Magic, A Tale of Time City, The Time of the Ghost and the Tough Guide. (As far as I can think, that's only Dogsbody, Black Maria and Archer's Goon not nominated. And maybe I missed those. :lol:)
Also, the last minute discussion on which fandom Kaboom was seems to have generated an unexpected addition of anthroprohic fic about Kaboom cleaner, breakfast cereal...
1. Reading the details of 2012 DVD releases was like a Good News, Bad News joke (but only if you are me, fear not everyone else). As follows:
GOOD NEWS!
They have finally given out details of the Robots of Death Special ed.
BAD NEWS!
David Collings is not on the new commentary. *cries*
GOOD NEWS!
I won't be tempted to buy/ask nicely for the wretched box set of things I already own!
BAD NEWS!
Are you joking? You won't be tempted to buy/ask for shiny new RoD with Louise, Tom & Pamela Salem on the commentary, with a new documentary that does include David Collings? Plus, some of the extras on the other two look mildly shiny.
BAD NEWS
Damn. You got me. 2Entertain are evil masterminds.
GOOD NEWS!
They are actually, actually going to release More Than 30 Years... on DVD next year. I was only thinking last night how much I wished they would, but how unlikely it was now.
Also in a similar vein (from last month and this month), it seems 2012 will be the year for some serious McCoy/NA bonuses, thanks to Big Finish. They're going to do a spin-off range featuring Rachel, Gilmore & Allison from Remembrance (with the original actors, yes) and to celebrate Benny's 20th birthday, Jac Rayner is adapting Love & War for Big Finish, and it will feature Sylvester and Sophie and Seven and Ace as well as Lisa Bowerman as Benny.
However, the important bit was the regular debate feature, which was should the anniversary story in 2013 be multi-Doctor or not? Well, we don't really have a choice - Mr Moffat is the lucky (or perhaps highly unlucky?) chap who gets to decide and I am sure he will do something properly celebratory. But, given the choice, is anyone really going to say no on the flimsy pretext that multi-Doctor stories are often silly and sometimes disappointing? If you asked the person on the street who had only watched one episode, they would say there should be multiple Doctors. Non-fans are always wanting to watch the story with lots of Doctors.
This is my theory, so: Poll! Please especially vote if you know very little about DW. :-)
Poll Doctor Who 2013 Anniversary story again
This poll is very important, because obviously Steven Moffat reads my LJ (he likes people who like Press Gang) and will take the answers into account. (That might not be true.)
Personally, I totally agree with the 'yes' writer, especially on the conclusion, which was basically JUST GIVE US PAUL MCGANN IN A THINGY THAT'S NOT THE TVM. Thank you. Quite. (Even if obviously I would most love Seven, and even though Ten would not be my first pick, can you imagine the combined on-screen hyperactivity there would be with David Tennant and Matt Smith at the same time?)
List of Yuletide fandoms is up. Some slight hitches (oh where is the fandom that was going to be my fourth request? Also Spooks was my fallback, but it doesn't have the character I need) but mainly GLEE. I had seriously worried I wouldn't be able to offer things (because I do need to be realistic at the moment), but someone's nomination even looks as though they seriously want to request a story I've been wanting to write since I was about 13. Also, look, look at the characters in Dungeons & Dragons! Backstory!! (Sorry. I am resigned to the knowledge that this will excite no one else on my flist.) Ye-es. I am probably going to have to request that one...
The important bit about this is mainly that sign-ups are going to go live very soon. Possibly they are, as I haven't checked this afternoon yet. I just need to decide what req. no 4 will be and try and write a Yuletide letter that doesn't go on for thousands of words about how much I love the things I am requesting & confuse my poor, unlucky writer.
Also, the highly organised nature of Diana Wynne Jones's fans is amusing me. You can request/offer Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Dalemark, Eight Days of Luke, Enchanted Glass, Fire & Hemlock, The Game, Hexwood, Magids series, The Homeward Bounders Howl series, The Ogre Downstairs, The Power of Three, A Sudden Wild Magic, A Tale of Time City, The Time of the Ghost and the Tough Guide. (As far as I can think, that's only Dogsbody, Black Maria and Archer's Goon not nominated. And maybe I missed those. :lol:)
Also, the last minute discussion on which fandom Kaboom was seems to have generated an unexpected addition of anthroprohic fic about Kaboom cleaner, breakfast cereal...