Doctor Who, SFF, history, and other things I think about far too much
Greetings, delicious readers! Are you a fan of that fine telly show Doctor Who? Are you planning to attend Nine Worlds, the most delightful convention these United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have to offer? Yes? Then consider making your convention time Infinitely More Exciting by volunteering to be a panelist on the…
Continue reading ➞ Call for Doctor Who panellists at Nine Worlds
What happened to that amazing plan to blog every week, self? What happened? You're going to have to do a week of lists or something to catch up. But lists are great, right? Everyone likes lists! (Five Vegetables of Most Hellish Taste; Five Beigest Trek Episodes; Five Lego Creations People Should Make For Meeeee….by gum,…
To tie-in with this week's Verity! where we discuss the Cybermen, I've written what is surely an inarguable and definitive ranking of all the Cybermen stories, oh yes. You can read this exciting list-type thing over here on the Verity! blog.
This blog post does slightly resemble a rabbit in a waistcoat in that it is a smidgen late, and according to my dubious schedule of "surely you can find time to write one of these things a week, self?" I'm actually due to write another one, um, today. But never mind! Let us move on…
My timing is amazing. This is Exciting News that was in a Big Finish news post over a week ago so, naturally, I had to take days and days to perfect this post and certainly haven't dashed it off in the last twenty minutes, that would be silly. But yes, news! Lovely news! Which is…
I'm heading off down to London tomorrow, then planing off across the Atlantic to the Americas where I'll be going to the smashing ChicagoTARDIS for Thanksgiving weekend.If you happen to be going to this lovely event and, goodness knows why, wish to see my, er, very informed and eloquent flailing in person, I'm on a…
The loveliness continues, in episodes four through six: Episode 4 Giles vs the Doctor – OH THEIR FACES. The actor playing Giles is really v good. Look at his eyes! Shining fanaticism for ridding the world of Salamander in there, dammit! The whole aesthetic of the thing makes me yayful. How much of a television…
Continue reading ➞ Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World, episodes 4-6
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
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…
Lizbeth Myles 