Doctor Who, SFF, history, and other things I think about far too much
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…
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:
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
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…
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…
I'm on a podcast now! Which is mostly quite exciting but also a little bit scary because sometimes I hear my own voice, and sure, everyone says Scottish accents are great and they are, but only when they're Other People's accents.But, yes, podcast! It's called Verity! And, yes, it has an exclamation mark in the…
*WARNING: PG rated DISTURBING IMAGERY ahead* Because it's Doctor Who's fiftieth birthday this year there are going to be STAMPS. Lovely stamps from the Royal Mail who're making one for each Doctor with the space vortex on them and the Doctor's head coming out of it to EAT YOUR FACE. (That's not true. Except for…
With the competition to win a copy of Chicks Unravel Time at my fine co-editor's blog now over, you might be wondering (if you're not the winner anyway) where on Earth you can get your own physical copy of this nifty keen book. Well, it's back in stock at Amazon.com! (For the time being at…
Lizbeth Myles 