In which I resurface to write about Legend of the Sea Devils.

The second part of a still unfinished Doctor Who fiction about a stranded Cyberman (whom we might know) being restored to humanity on Karn with the help of a sister who once worked in a match factory in nineteenth-century northern England.

Title: The Brother of Karn
Fandom: Doctor Who
Rating: 13+
Pairings: None
Concepts and Characters: Sisterhood of ( Read more... )

Chapter Five of Doctor Who: Flux, Survivors of the Flux, returns to the frenetic jumping between settings seen in chapters one and three. A greater sense of urgency is balanced by disconcerting shifts in relative time. Yaz, Dan and Jericho have to cover more ground across more time than anyone else. The Doctor’s experience en route to and at ( Read more... )

Some remarks by me on last week's episode, before its context is changed by Survivors of the Flux later today:

I’m not able to offer reviews of every episode in this current series of Doctor Who, but Flux Chapter Four: Village of the Angels captivated with its grim sense of inevitability, its subversion of the Doctor’s control of events, and its ( Read more... )

Posted today at the Tides of Time blog - Russell T Davies and the Rejoining of the Ways. which Oxford (University) Doctor Who Society members - students, alumni, and friends - comment on the return of Russell T Davies to Doctor Who. I'm pleased with how it all came together. Also posted at https://sir-guinglain.dreamwidth.org/2021/09/28/russell-t- ( Read more... )

So, Bad Wolf Productions will be taking over Doctor Who once Chris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker leave... and not only does this mean the return of Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter in some executive capacity, but the beadline news is that Russell T Davies is returning as Doctor Who showrunner. This part of the news was completely unexpected to me, ( Read more... )

I hadn't realised that the PDF of the current issue of Tides of Time is downloadable now. The current issue of the Oxford (University) Doctor Who Society fanzine, published at the end of June this year, features lockdown reflections, views on Revolution of the Daleks, Sisterhood of Karn/Cyberman fiction, Time Lord Victorious, Doctor in Distress, ( Read more... )

Jackie Lane has died aged seventy-nine. She played Dodo Chaplet, travelling companion to William Hartnell's Doctor in Doctor Who, between Bell of Doom, the fourth and final part of the story the scripts and Doctor Who Magazine call The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve but which BBC Studios call The Massacre (26 February 1966) and The War Machines ( Read more... )

I'm no longer the editor of The Tides of Time, magazine of the Oxford (University) Doctor Who Society, having left it to younger hands in the shape of recent graduate
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Back at the end of May, the locked down and locked out Oxford (University) Doctor Who Society published a double issue, 45&46, of our fanzine, The Tides of Time. We didn't expect printing it would be possible, so it was released online as a pdf. With matters being a bit more flexible in the present state of Covid-19 affairs in England, we have now ( Read more... )