...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:
Doctor Who Finales
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…
The Hugo Nominations
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…
Happy International Women’s Day!
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…
Defence of the Skittle Daleks & other news
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
Alternate Doctor Who Casting
The thing that I most love about this Alternate History of Doctor Who, where all the incarnations are played by women, is how immediately visceral my reactions are to the castings: "Brilliant!" Ugh, no!" "Interesting." "Wtf? Quit casting comedy actors, goodness sake."For real casting, I try to wait until I actually see the person in…
Great Scot!
There was a round on Pointless last week that I found a wee bit irritating (for international readers, Pointless is a rather wonderful teatime game show on the BBC that (1) has proper good questions and (2) is quite tricky to win.) It was about Great Scottish People. All fourteen answers were men. They included…
Top Five Underrated Doctor Who Monsters
There was a shiny new addition to my Very Grown-Up action figure collection a few days ago. Actually, there were several. But although I'm delighted I now have a bookshelf resplendent with Jo Grant and the Brig, my heart belongs to the third figure in The Three Doctor themed trio: a Gel Guard. This dude…
Hugo Award Nominations
It's Hugo nomination season and, for your consideration, if you’re so inclined and such, I'm mentioning the fact that Chicks Unravel Time, edited by Deb Stanish and me, is eligible in the Best Related Work category.If you're reading this blog you've probably already seen me mention this book once or twice, but just in case:…
CITV’s 30 Years of Kids’ Telly
This weekend I have the Most Exciting Plans: scheduling everything around ITV's celebration of 30 Years of Children's Television. When I first heard they were doing this, I was sceptical ("ITV?! I never even *watched* CITV. Or at least just enough to know I *hated* Children's Ward." No reflection on the quality of Children's Ward…
Lizbeth Myles 