Methinks The Review Blog Doth Protest Too Much
Robot: If ever there was a story to excuse on the ground of production circumstances, it’s this - the outgoing production team produces a story introducing the new Doctor with no knowledge of where...
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But the latest version of StoryBundle, a name-your-own price bundle of ebooks, just went up, and this edition is a Doctor Who themed bundle with either one or two of my books in it.For any price you...
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Outside the Government: Greeks Bearing Gifts
Well that's all a bit SHODAN.It’s November 26th, 2006. “Smack That” has been unseated by Take That, with Emma Bunton, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, and Girls Aloud also charting. In news, Michael...
View ArticleThe Death of Marguerite-Charlotte David
If you missed it on Tuesday, the Patrick Troughton volume of TARDIS Eruditorum is part of Storybundle's new Doctor Who-themed bundle of ebooks. You can set your own price to get it, Barry Letts's Who...
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Outside the Government: They Keep Killing Suzie
The real tragedy is, it's a better logo.It’s December 3rd, 2006. Take That are at number one with “Patience,” just ahead of “Smack That” by Akon and Eminem. Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake, Emma...
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Saturday Waffling (August 10th)
My God, work. This was a TARDIS Eruditorum week - still is, actually, as I've got one more post to write over the next two days. The stretch before this was the only all-Torchwood stretch, and was...
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Outside the Government: Random Shoes
Not so much bovvered as... dead, really.It’s December 10th, 2006. Booty Luv’s “Boogie 2nite” has slipped into a newly formed gap between Take That and “Smack That.” Gwen Stefani, Lazy Town, and Jamelia...
View ArticleThe Colour Foundation
More flash fiction.Marcel Miedinger surveyed the system one last time before he disconnected. The dumbs were already active, weaving their own tagging system to correspond to the existing catalogue....
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Outside the Government: Out of Time
Have I done the "wrong image" joke recently? I can neverremember.It’s December 17th, 2006. Take That remain at number one. Cliff Richard stalls at number two with his attempted Christmas number one...
View ArticleYour Mom is a Review Blog
Castrovalva: The back half is marvelous, but the front half is mispaced as the show tries to grapple with its strange new airing schedule. This marks the beginning of “post-regeneration stories are...
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Outside the Government: Combat
Fight off the lethargyDon't go quietlyIt’s Christmas Eve, 2006. Leona Lewis is at number one with “A Moment Like This,” with Girls Aloud, Booty Luv, and Chris Cornell also charting, alongside the...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling: August 17th, 2013
Work continues apace. I've got Last War in Albion up and running, and it'll roll out again on Thursday with the start of Chapter 2. I'm going straight into working on Chapter 3 so there will be less of...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 67 (About Time)
I went back and forth over whether to run this as an Eruditorum post or as a side post. Ultimately, I wanted to put it in before we started talking about The Runaway Bride, so it got an Eruditorum...
View ArticleA Not-Review-Blog of Many Colours
Today is the last day you can get the Storybundle deal. The Twin Dilemma: The most jarring gap in quality in Doctor Who’s history. The most colossal lapse of judgment in Doctor Who’s history. A story...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 68 (The Catherine Tate Show)
There’s a decision we have to make going into The Runaway Bride, which is, in effect, the same decision we make about The Web of Fear - namely whether or not we’re going to treat the episode as extra...
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Warriors in the Vale of Entuthon-Benython (The Last War in Albion Part 6:...
Greetings, faithful readers! As part of an effort to figure out how to make The Last War in Albion something I can fit in as part of a professional career, I'm trying an experiment. This is the first...
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I Happened To Be Wearing This Old Thing (The Runaway Bride)
One wonders why she was fooled. After all, everyoneknows that spiders are from Mars.It’s Christmas, 2006. So we’ve made it a whole day forward since Combat. There hasn’t really been any news, and the...
View ArticleSaturday Waffling (August 24th, 2013)
Just finished off the week's blogging, setting me up for nine straight days of mucking about with books. If all goes well Hartnell v2 will be almost wrapped up at the end of it, barring the essays that...
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Outside the Government: Captain Jack Harkness
Hello Sailor.It’s January 1st, 2007. Leona Lewis is at number one with “A Moment Like This,” while Iron Maiden, Take That, Girls Aloud, Gwen Stefani, and Chris Cornell also chart. Since Christmas,...
View ArticleA Sweater Vest of Reviews
Time and the Rani: For all its faults, and there are very many of those, and they are very obvious, already the process of improvement is beginning. Having Kate O’Mara impersonate her is the closest...
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