A DWAITAS thread about Greys as villains got me thinking about a historical connecting them with the earlier fear of being taken by faeries. Which reminded me of a story my brother wrote about primitive Greys living in deep caves.
And that also made me think of the Pied Piper. And that made me think of the time a Dire Wraith played the part in ROM: Spaceknight.
Thursday, 28 November 2013
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
The Lord of Docclare escaped the Palladin Hordes in the CADESAE
Have now read the anniversary issue of DWM, as it is probably safe to do so. And one of its main features is about Anthony Coburn, writer of An Unearthly Child, and his earlier drafts of that first script. Like the early drafts of Star Wars which are now being adapted into comics, they show a familiar but rather different world.
This happens, for one thing.
And it gets weirder from there.
This happens, for one thing.
And it gets weirder from there.
The Culture Show: Me, You And Doctor Who
Matthew Sweet charts where it came from and where it’s taken us.
Better get it on iPlayer while you can!
Better get it on iPlayer while you can!
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
One last note...
Turns out the Cameo cinema in town is showing The Day Of The Doctor until Thursday!
And a small extra observation, behind this spoiler cut.
And a small extra observation, behind this spoiler cut.
Nostalgia for Saturday
Fifty things SFX loved about The Day Of The Doctor. Big important bits, little blink-and-miss-it bits and all in between.
The Impossible Day - Coming soon to this blog. Maybe.
I have just about confirmed that some time early in the New Year (so after the Christmas Special) I will be helping run Propulsion, a 24-hour gaming marathon for charity here in Edinburgh.
And I just had a very daft idea.
Do a big multi-Doctor adventure for eight to twelve hours. Doctors and companions coming and going (yes, like Dimensions In Time, shut up) as players come and go.
Hmm. Will think on this further.
And I just had a very daft idea.
Do a big multi-Doctor adventure for eight to twelve hours. Doctors and companions coming and going (yes, like Dimensions In Time, shut up) as players come and go.
Hmm. Will think on this further.
Monday, 25 November 2013
Sunday, 24 November 2013
An extremely timey-wimey observation
Having just celebrated the fiftieth anniversary, we now have a year and a half to wait for the tenth...
Saturday, 23 November 2013
The Day Of The Doctor
Right then. 50 years. 900 posts. 55552 pageviews. And something to talk about.
I saw it in 3D, along with a thousand other people in three screens in that cinema alone (and five hundred more waiting for the encore) and was pleasantly surprised that it didn’t break down halfway through and drop a giant 3D Graham Norton on us.
SPOILERS!
I saw it in 3D, along with a thousand other people in three screens in that cinema alone (and five hundred more waiting for the encore) and was pleasantly surprised that it didn’t break down halfway through and drop a giant 3D Graham Norton on us.
SPOILERS!
Doctor Who: The Complete Series A
My own contribution to the anniversary:
My first shot at a play-by-post Doctor Who game, featuring Onyx Path writer and developer Rose Bailey writing a new Doctor, urban fantasy author Paul Leone as ESA scientist Nathalie, and our own Eternally Lost Zeppo as DI Porter among others. It produced some interesting artefacts along the way.
The trailers for one thing...
And now, as my own little bit of anniversary nostalgia, an episode guide to the series I had planned.
Some are just notes, some have been expanded to adventure hooks and the like elsewhere...
My first shot at a play-by-post Doctor Who game, featuring Onyx Path writer and developer Rose Bailey writing a new Doctor, urban fantasy author Paul Leone as ESA scientist Nathalie, and our own Eternally Lost Zeppo as DI Porter among others. It produced some interesting artefacts along the way.
The trailers for one thing...
And now, as my own little bit of anniversary nostalgia, an episode guide to the series I had planned.
Some are just notes, some have been expanded to adventure hooks and the like elsewhere...
Looking back in time...
Well, it’s here. We’ve arrived. This is The Day Of The Doctor. Let’s all take a moment to reflect...
As I’ve mentioned before, my earliest memories are of Tom Baker, probably with K-9 and maybe Leela, but supported by the first few issues of Doctor Who Weekly so my first clear memories are of The Iron Legion while the first shows I really remember are the Five Faces repeats.
Although I knew enough to understand the awesomeness of getting a Fourth Doctor, TARDIS, K-9, Cyberman and Dalek for Christmas... 1979 I think? Still got them too.
Even then, looking back, DWW made a point of celebrating the show’s history, giving photo features to the previous Doctors starting with William Hartnell in issue 1 and then putting Jon Pertwee on the cover of issue 6 due to the special feature on the Sontarans. So I always knew it was older than I was, and larger and stranger than what I was seeing on a weekly basis.
And then it took a turn not to my tastes, and then it got a bit more interesting, and then it went away. And then it came back in an attempt to appeal to the US market, and then went away again, except in books and the like. And then... it came back.
I remember looking up at a huge billboard of Chris and Billie and thinking this could really work... and being rather glad when it started to.
By that point, I’d actually run a game using (some of) the FASA system, and dug out City Of The Damned to use as an adventure, along with a White Dwarf Traveller adventure about a wolflike alien loose in Victorian London. This was sometime around the McCoy era, when it was becoming something serious teen genre fans could talk about. I ran Vampire: The Masquerade for the same players. This was serious business. There were all-new novels coming out.
I nearly ran Time Lord once as well. But not quite...
As I’ve mentioned before, my earliest memories are of Tom Baker, probably with K-9 and maybe Leela, but supported by the first few issues of Doctor Who Weekly so my first clear memories are of The Iron Legion while the first shows I really remember are the Five Faces repeats.
Although I knew enough to understand the awesomeness of getting a Fourth Doctor, TARDIS, K-9, Cyberman and Dalek for Christmas... 1979 I think? Still got them too.
Even then, looking back, DWW made a point of celebrating the show’s history, giving photo features to the previous Doctors starting with William Hartnell in issue 1 and then putting Jon Pertwee on the cover of issue 6 due to the special feature on the Sontarans. So I always knew it was older than I was, and larger and stranger than what I was seeing on a weekly basis.
And then it took a turn not to my tastes, and then it got a bit more interesting, and then it went away. And then it came back in an attempt to appeal to the US market, and then went away again, except in books and the like. And then... it came back.
I remember looking up at a huge billboard of Chris and Billie and thinking this could really work... and being rather glad when it started to.
By that point, I’d actually run a game using (some of) the FASA system, and dug out City Of The Damned to use as an adventure, along with a White Dwarf Traveller adventure about a wolflike alien loose in Victorian London. This was sometime around the McCoy era, when it was becoming something serious teen genre fans could talk about. I ran Vampire: The Masquerade for the same players. This was serious business. There were all-new novels coming out.
I nearly ran Time Lord once as well. But not quite...
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