Legends Of Tomorrow to do “what if George Lucas never made Star Wars?”
I had this idea a while back, with the change point being in his drag-racing days, when a crash encouraged him to go to study film instead.
Wednesday, 28 December 2016
Sunday, 25 December 2016
The Return Of Doctor Mysterio
The Return Of Doctor Mysterio was one way to have party balance in a Doctor Who group...
Thursday, 15 December 2016
Wednesday, 7 December 2016
Pearl Harbor
The Pearl Harbor attack which brought the USA into the Second World War was seventy-five years ago today. It has its share of time-travel stories already...
Timeless coming to UK TV
Timeless will show on E4, starting Wednesday the 14th. I hear rather mixed things about the levels of paradoxical mucking around going on...
Thursday, 1 December 2016
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Class reading
More adaptations of novels by Class creator Patrick Ness, with Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland looking to star in Chaos Walking.
Monday, 28 November 2016
The Size Of The Miniatures
Thanks to vanvlak on Lead Adventure, a size comparison of the Warlord Games aliens with some humanoids from other companies.
Perry, Silence, Infinity, Judoon, Foundry, Zygon, GW
They look a fair size to me. I would like to see how the Doctors and companions match up too...
Perry, Silence, Infinity, Judoon, Foundry, Zygon, GW
They look a fair size to me. I would like to see how the Doctors and companions match up too...
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
Happy anniversary
One this day, we met the mysterious exile from another world...
... and his current face considers why the story goes on.
... and his current face considers why the story goes on.
Friday, 18 November 2016
Monday, 14 November 2016
Sir Frederick Banting
A Google Doodle for the 125th birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, discoverer of insulin, and so it’s also World Diabetes Day.
Friday, 4 November 2016
Dalek miniatures for Time Vortex
The plastic Daleks for Time Vortex, the Miniatures Game, previewed here.
Hm. Well, they look like nice Time War era Daleks. And snap together is handier than needing glue, and the eyestalk attached to the base should be stronger than one attached to the head. But compared to the 80s Citadel four-part versions who had separate heads (and a choice of plunger or claw) making a multi-part figure with no posing options seems like a step back, and the separate eyestalk means moving the head around would involve cutting all three parts.
Hm. Well, they look like nice Time War era Daleks. And snap together is handier than needing glue, and the eyestalk attached to the base should be stronger than one attached to the head. But compared to the 80s Citadel four-part versions who had separate heads (and a choice of plunger or claw) making a multi-part figure with no posing options seems like a step back, and the separate eyestalk means moving the head around would involve cutting all three parts.
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
BBC TV is 80 years old
The first day of BBC television was November 2nd 1936.
It took over a year for something SF-y to be made, but there were a few things before Quatermass hit in 1953. Stranger From Space, Number Three, Time Slip, The Lost Planet...
It took over a year for something SF-y to be made, but there were a few things before Quatermass hit in 1953. Stranger From Space, Number Three, Time Slip, The Lost Planet...
Saturday, 29 October 2016
Regeneration
To quote Cameron McEwan at BBC Worldwide on Twitter:
50 years ago today, Doctor Who fandom was truly launched with fans moaning, “The new guy isn’t as good as the one before!”
It’s the idea that let this show run for half a century, especially when Patrick Troughton didn’t just play a rejuvenated version of William Hartnell’s Doctor but the role changed to suit him.
It’s very obviously an idea brought into the fiction from practical concerns, but it has come to matter to the story, especially with other Time Lords changing as well - and usually being better at it than the Doctor, as they can stay similar across regenerations more easily in smaller roles. I’ve run with that in RPGs, where recasting isn’t necessary - Kai in The Door In Time is really good at regenerating under stress, for example.
And I’ve used regeneration as a plot hook a few times. Its power can ignite dying stars, save (and change) other lives, burn, and more, and it allows a skilled user to become someone else even if they don’t need to heal...
50 years ago today, Doctor Who fandom was truly launched with fans moaning, “The new guy isn’t as good as the one before!”
It’s the idea that let this show run for half a century, especially when Patrick Troughton didn’t just play a rejuvenated version of William Hartnell’s Doctor but the role changed to suit him.
It’s very obviously an idea brought into the fiction from practical concerns, but it has come to matter to the story, especially with other Time Lords changing as well - and usually being better at it than the Doctor, as they can stay similar across regenerations more easily in smaller roles. I’ve run with that in RPGs, where recasting isn’t necessary - Kai in The Door In Time is really good at regenerating under stress, for example.
And I’ve used regeneration as a plot hook a few times. Its power can ignite dying stars, save (and change) other lives, burn, and more, and it allows a skilled user to become someone else even if they don’t need to heal...
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
The Gunfight At The O.K. Corral
The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral was 135 years ago today. It was also not actually at the O.K. Corral, starting a grand tradition of reporting it inaccurately, as seen early in Doctor Who...
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