Doctor Who, SFF, history, and other things I think about far too much
I'm currently taking part in the #WhoForSchools campaign, a project to raise money for non-profits that increase access to education. Along with dozens of other podcasters and some special guests, I've been part of commentaries being recorded for every episode of Season 26 of Doctor Who (there's one with Sophie Aldred! That's rather spiffy.) These…
I got to flail on Twitter a bit yesterday as it was announced that I've written a tale for season 7 of The Diary of River Song. It still feels a little bit unreal. River is one of my most beloved Doctor Who characters, I adore every moment of her, and The Husbands of River…
A few weeks ago (I know, I'm timely as ever, ahem) Big Finish released the news that there are to be 12th Doctor Chronicles, and the first volume will be released in February 2020. And I wrote one! Which was a bit exciting, both because it's my beloved 12th Doctor, and because it was cool…
After being determined to blog more this year I am, naturally, doing a terrible job of it, alas. So this post is about six weeks late. Ahem. At the end of February my Short Trip and Big Finish’s first Twelfth Doctor, The Astrea Conspiracy, was released. Here’s the blurb: The conspirators sit in Antwerp,…
Almost all years I do very little reflecting at the end of the year as it tends to send me into a pit of despondancy and self-recrimination as I wonder what on Earth I did with the last twelve months. 2018 has been a charming trashfire in many ways, but in my own personal little…
As well as lovely new Doctor Who this weekend I also had some personally exciting and cool Doctor Who news: I've written a Short Trip for Big Finish, and it's also the first 12th Doctor Big Finish story. Which I didn't, thank goodness, actually know when I was writing it. That would have been rather…
Continue reading ➞ I’ve Written the First Big Finish 12th Doctor Story!
It’s my Mum’s fault I love Doctor Who. As the show was off the air for most of my childhood, without her maternal influence I might never have discovered just how brilliant it was. I always find Mum’s perspective on Who interesting, or as she would more likely put it *annoyingly* interesting. I managed to…
The Doctor Who stream on Twitch reached a magical point last night: it was time for The Horns of Nimon, probably* the greatest Doctor Who story ever told. And if there's one way to gauge the greatness of a Doctor Who story, it's to take a look at the creativity it's inspired in the fandom.…
Tonight we reach the end of the Patrick Troughton era on the beautiful Twitch stream of almost of all of classic Who, and from here on there are no missing episodes (though a few stories, for legal reasons relating to Daleks, are being skipped.) But what about all those stories they didn’t show? Are they…
Yikes, I haven't made a post in almost a year. I really have to stop promising myself I'll blog more each year. It's a LIE, self, it's never going to happen. Anyway, one of the reasons I haven't been writing here are those posts of what one might generously call 'reviews' of Doctor Who episodes…
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