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A Cosmos Without Iris Wildthyme Scarcely Bears Thinking About
I’ll Explain LaterWe’ve skipped… oh lordie. Kursaal (58th on Sullivan’s rankings), Option Lock (37th), Longest Day (67th), Legacy of the Daleks (72nd), Dreamstone Moon (59th), Seeing I (A quite...
View ArticleOutside the Government 8 (The Curse of Fatal Death)
The Curse of Fatal Death is a 1998 comedy spoof of Doctor Who written by Steven Moffat. It's also embedded below this paragraph. If we want to get accusatory, of course, it's also a work of cynicism by...
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You Were Expecting Someone Else 15 (The Infinity Doctors)
The Infinity Doctors, BBC Books’ 35th Anniversary book, presents the adventures of an unspecified version of the Doctor having adventures on Gallifrey, seemingly, but not necessarily prior to An...
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If There Were Stars Up There, We'd Be Able to See Them, Wouldn't We?...
I’ll Explain LaterNo, really. I will. But I’m traveling this weekend and forgot to bring the stuff I need to write this section.——It’s June of 1999. Shanks and Bigfoot are at number one with “Sweet...
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You Were Expecting Someone Else 16 (Grant Morrison's Doctor Who Comics)
“Why,” one might reasonably ask, “are you suddenly doing late 80s Doctor Who Magazine comics featuring the Sixth and Seventh Doctors when you’re supposed to be hip-deep in the Eighth Doctor era?” And...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 52 (The Invisibles)
That I’d have to deal with Grant Morrison before tackling Lawrence Miles in full is obvious. They are, of course, constantly compared. But exactly why is actually a bit tricky. Miles, at least, has...
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Outside the Government 8 (Dead Romance)
Dead Romance is, it seems, the best Lawrence Miles novel ever. Possibly the best Doctor Who-related novel ever. And so, whatever the larger argument I may be making about Lawrence Miles’s failings are,...
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You May Find His Behavior Somewhat Erratic (Interference)
This post should display in five distinct typefaces and three distinct colors of text. Although the post is readable if it is not formatted like that on your screen, the difficulty level of it...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 53 (Queer as Folk)
I was going to go with this, but I realized I didn't actuallyknow what Google's policies on "adult content" were. Ohyeah, NSFW and all.When talking about The Scarlet Empress I suggested that there was...
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Outside of These Experiments You Have Absolutely No Significance (The Blue...
I’ll Explain LaterThe Blue Angel is Paul Magrs’s second Doctor Who novel, co-authored with Jeremy Hoad. It features Iris Wildthyme in a dense plot weaving its way through multiple levels of reality, a...
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Oh Dear. Women. Not Really My Field. (The Shadows of Avalon)
I’ll Explain LaterWe went skip-happy again. No The Taking of Planet Five (12th best), Frontier Worlds (29th), or Parallel 59 (54th). The Shadows of Avalon is Paul Cornell’s one contribution to the...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 54 (The League of Gentlemen)
So, I watched The League of Gentlemen for this post, and my immediate reaction was, essentially, barely coherent rage. At a very specific aspect of the show, for what it’s worth, namely the character...
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He Still Possesses The Moment (The Ancestor Cell)
We’ve skipped The Fall of Yquatine, Coldheart, The Space Age, and The Banquo Legacy. One’s got a giant worm, one’s rapey, one got credited with capturing the Eighth Doctor perfectly despite being...
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Sacred Fire, Sacred Flame (The Burning)
I’ll Explain LaterThe Burning is the start of the six-book Earthbound arc, in which the Doctor spends a century hanging around Earth waiting for the TARDIS to finish regrowing itself and to meet Fitz....
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A Timehead or Something (Father Time)
I’ll Explain LaterSince we’re skipping an awful lot of books from now on, I’m not going to attempt to summarize those. Father Time is the penultimate book of the earthbound series, and tells the story...
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I Move So Fast, I Don't Exist Any More (Storm Warning)
It’s still January of 2001, so I suppose I’m kind of stuck not having much of an intro here. This marks the point in the McGann era where we jump tracks. Thus far we’ve focused primarily on the Eighth...
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A Journey to the Edge of Space (The Sword of Orion)
It’s February, 2001. Limp Biskit are at number one with “Rollin.” A week later it’s Atomic Kitten’s “Whole Again,” which manages the of-late unheard of feat of actually staying at number one for more...
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I Can Swim (The Stones of Venice)
It’s March of 2001. Atomic Kitten are “Whole Again” at the top of the charts. That lasts a week more before Shaggy takes over with “It Wasn’t Me.” That gives it up to Westlife’s “Uptown Girl,” which...
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I Said, "I Hope You Enjoy Your Meal." (Minuet in Hell)
It’s April of 2001. Hear’Say are at number one with “Pure and Simple.” Emma Bunton unseats them a week later with “What Took You So Long,” which lasts two weeks before Destiny’s Child take it with...
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Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 55 (Coupling)
There’s an oddity to some of these Pop Between Realities entries. Once again, we’re on a show that we’d never have talked about if we didn’t know that Steven Moffat was going to be one of the central...
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