Doctor Who, SFF, history, and other things I think about far too much
New Doctor Who! Practically a whole two stories of new Doctor Who! So, after some considerable flail, I was able to summon the calm to sit down and watch the beautiful, perfect, shiny new Troughton stories now free in the world, without accidently dancing the dance of Omg!New!Troughton. Well done me. They're not entirely new,…
Continue reading ➞ Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World, episodes 1 -3
On Verity! this week we were discussing The Sea Devils in particular and the Third Doctor in general. So, in honour of our delightful episode,* I've put together a handy guide to the five most important things about the story we rattle on about for a good hour or so.The Five Most Important Things About…
Continue reading ➞ (A Handy Guide To) The Five Most Important Things About The Sea Devils
I went to Worldcon in Texas in the United States and I did not get shot or die of heat. I admit it's probably fairly unlikely either of those things was actually going to happen and I may have been worrying about them far too much but still, I count it as a win. (Also,…
The next cover of Doctor Who Magazine makes me flail with such fannish glee, it's difficult to express in words. So I expressed it with Photoshop instead: Ahem. There'll be an ever so exciting post about Worldcon up soon, but, in the meantime, there's a lovely new Verity! Extra episode up in which Deb…
In a Cunning Marketing Ploy or Sheer Coincidence, who knows, the same week that the lovely and perfect (shusht, I can't help it, I may love Peter Capaldi) new Doctor is announced, Big Finish have permanently reduced the price of their first fifty Doctor Who audio plays to a very more-ish £5, or, if you're…
...and just incase you missed the announcement, the headlines about the annoucement, the saturation news coverage, tweets, and planes writing the news in the sky, this is exactly how the BBC let everyone know the news. Exactly. Yes:
Since the names of the season finales of Doctor Who are now basically trolling fandom (last year The Wedding of River Song; this year, well, it's a spoiler, I guess), I thought I'd help out by giving a few suggestions for future episode names that'll totally have fandom flailing around in wild speculation and even…
I should have made this post a week or so ago, at least, but first I was at Eastercon, then I had a horrid cold, and then I flailed over catching up with work. So it's late, but never mind:The Hugo Nominees for 2013 have been announced and Chicks Unravel Time is on the ballot…
Almost appropriately timed (it was actually posted yesterday) is the release of the first episode of Anita Sarkeesian's phenomenally successful Kickstarter Trope vs. Women in Video Games. And it's bloody good. I was a bit worried it was going to be informative, but kind of dry and dull. And, lo, it is quite dry, but…
Sadly I'm not actually going to be defending the Skittle Daleks in this post, but I will be doing so this Saturday. So if you too are heading to Gallifrey One (that whacking great Doctor Who convention in LA) this week then you can mock me in person. Hurrah! This'll be my, er, sixth Gallifrey,…
Continue reading ➞ Defence of the Skittle Daleks & other news
Lizbeth Myles 