Has there been anything said about when/if the hard copies of these are coming out in the US? I would like to avoid the cost of importing if possible, but ebooks are all Amazon has listed at the moment.
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I thought some book sites like the Book Depository did free international delivery?
The Factory Acts don't apply to fictional entities, only child actors. It's a novelization so the writer can indulge.
Ah, so they do. Thanks, I never used their actual site before.
Some comics announced for the lead up to 13
http://ew.com/tv/2018/04/05/doctor-who-comic-road-to-the-thirteenth-doctor/
http://ew.com/tv/2018/04/05/doctor-who-comic-road-to-the-thirteenth-doctor/
The Time Warrior
Another Robert Holmes script, although not nearly as sharp as his Carnival of Monsters. This is a big episode in a lot of ways: the first historical in quite a while, and the beginning of a "historical...but with aliens!" trend that persists to today; the first appearance of a Sontaran, whose costume looks like actual shit; and the debut of new companion Sarah Jane Smith, who immediately sets herself apart from Jo in far being less deferential to the Doctor, not to mention less clumsy. The actual plot is whatever: Sontaran is kidnapping scientists from the present and bringing them back to the Middle Ages to help fix his ship, and is building guns for a local warlord and his knights for...reasons. The Doctor and Sarah set out to rescue the scientists and make sure the Sontaran isn't introducing guns into human history centuries too early.
A throwaway story for me, but Pertwee gets some good, funny lines. His green jacket is also fine as hell. I think this is my favorite Third Doctor outfit.
Another Robert Holmes script, although not nearly as sharp as his Carnival of Monsters. This is a big episode in a lot of ways: the first historical in quite a while, and the beginning of a "historical...but with aliens!" trend that persists to today; the first appearance of a Sontaran, whose costume looks like actual shit; and the debut of new companion Sarah Jane Smith, who immediately sets herself apart from Jo in far being less deferential to the Doctor, not to mention less clumsy. The actual plot is whatever: Sontaran is kidnapping scientists from the present and bringing them back to the Middle Ages to help fix his ship, and is building guns for a local warlord and his knights for...reasons. The Doctor and Sarah set out to rescue the scientists and make sure the Sontaran isn't introducing guns into human history centuries too early.
A throwaway story for me, but Pertwee gets some good, funny lines. His green jacket is also fine as hell. I think this is my favorite Third Doctor outfit.
Maybe it's a story of him aging on Trenzalore :lol
The new Target Collection novels are listed in the current Previews catalog, so it looks like they're coming out in the US sometime in the near future.
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It's amazing. Even if you were to strip all of the stuff from the episode out (and a lot of it's damned near unrecognisable), it'd still be one of the best, most interesting pieces of Who fiction in years.
Interesting bit of information as well from the Day of The Doctor novel about the Peter Cushing movies.
The movies exist in universe where they are based on the Doctors adventures. Kate Stewart explains to Clara that the Doctor loves them and that: "He loaned Peter Cushing a waistcoat for the second one, they were great friends."
Moffat goes on to say tried to get the posters for the special but couldn't afford them.
Moffat goes on to say tried to get the posters for the special but couldn't afford them.
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This gets even better if you read between the lines a little.
It's stated that Peter Cushing, as a result of his friendship with the Doctor, was able to continue appearing in movies long after his apparent death.
Yes, the Doctor's responsible for Rogue One.
Yes, the Doctor's responsible for Rogue One.
Started Rose today as well. I'm really enjoying it. Nice to see the little nods to stuff that happened later in the RTD era and little bits of stuff getting fleshed out.
Can you elaborate under a spoiler tag? No idea what that's about!
There was an incident during the initial broadcast of "Rose" where
some audio of comedian Graham Norton was played over the episode; notably during a critical scene of tension-building at the start of the episode (where Rose is walking through the spooky basement of Henriks). In the novelisation, Russell mentions that somewhere in the distance Rose can hear a radio; "some Irish comedian's voice echoing in the dark".
Amusing to read after all these years.
Would be even funnier if the novelisation of The Time of Angels somehow managed to reference the later incident.
I've heard of such an incident, which I think you're referring to here. This?
Previews are going up on Silva Records YouTube page for Series 9 OST.
Here's the first one:
Saving Rigsy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BkFu0elgek
This channel seems to have all the previews in one video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V6QTm7q7zQ
Mostly listened to Heaven Sents previews and some are soooo good.
The one we're all looking for is:
25:00 - The Shepherd's Boy, which iTunes has a nice length of 4:47. I feared it might be short but thankfully its not.
Here's the first one:
Saving Rigsy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BkFu0elgek
This channel seems to have all the previews in one video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V6QTm7q7zQ
Mostly listened to Heaven Sents previews and some are soooo good.
The one we're all looking for is:
25:00 - The Shepherd's Boy, which iTunes has a nice length of 4:47. I feared it might be short but thankfully its not.
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I really dislike the framing device of the Day of the Doctor novel, but the meat of the book itself is really wonderful. Some great new stuff!
A teasing note clearly for Chibnall... the Tenth Doctor sharing a bath with River, and him remembering the Moment appeared as Rose and having a revelatory moment over it...! Flashbacks of a sort to Kate Stewart (aged 7) meeting the Fourth Doctor and Sarah. Lots of nice bits like this.
Can honestly say that the unskippable advert at the start of the Frontier In Space DVD for the Doctor Who DVD range itself is perhaps the thing in all of Doctor Who that I appreciate the least.
It's time for the latest installment of Doctor Who New Logo Watch, the ongoing series that I'm sure you all care about!!!!111
We now have the first exciting glimpse of the new logo being applied to a Second Doctor release as it graces the front cover of the audiobook version of the novelisation of The Dominators!
We also have a tantalising glimpse of our new logo overlord gracing a Third Doctor story! Our Logo, who art in heaven, has deigned to appear on the cover of the audiobook of the novelisation of Doctor Who and the Mutants!
Just what will that crazy logo do next?!?!??!?
We now have the first exciting glimpse of the new logo being applied to a Second Doctor release as it graces the front cover of the audiobook version of the novelisation of The Dominators!
We also have a tantalising glimpse of our new logo overlord gracing a Third Doctor story! Our Logo, who art in heaven, has deigned to appear on the cover of the audiobook of the novelisation of Doctor Who and the Mutants!
Just what will that crazy logo do next?!?!??!?
I'm really enjoying the new logo on everything.
Still waiting for my Day of the Doctor Target to come in
Still waiting for my Day of the Doctor Target to come in
I read that yesterday and proper laughed out loud. I'm nearly halfway through the Rose novelisation now and it's lovely. So much added to the tale and Russell's lovely prose.
Should point out seeing as it's my first post in the thread big fan here since about 78 watching and reading about it for nearly all my life. I live in South Wales so was ground level for the return in 05. Met with and friends with a few writers of Who and it's spin offs and just basically love the show and nearly everything about it. Fandom is a bit toxic sometimes.
I cobbled this together to see what it looked like combined with the First Doctor era.
Perhaps the hottest of takes: the white logo suits the Classic era stuff, the fiery one, for whatever reason, doesn't and should just be used for the modern era.
Some people in the comments where I found the audiobook covers seemed to think they had reversible covers with a different logo on the back, yes.
Rewatched Voyage of the Damned tonight for...some reason. It's still not a good episode, but it still made me smile a couple times, which is something I need right now. RTD's particular brand of cheese is really effective at getting that kind of reaction out of me. Also, Ten bitterly growling "no more" after one of the survivors died has extra meaning now that Doctor 8.5 is a thing.
I assume based on some teases in the prose of the Day of the Doctor novel that Moffat is going to to the silence stories next, as there's a few prods and nods to that storyline being a bit incomplete, and a 'deleted' chapter missing from the book where it's implied you've read it and immediately forgotten thanks to them. I wonder if RTD will do another? I assume Gatiss must be doing one, I bet he can't resist. I'd love to see Cornell do Father's Day, too...
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I'd quite like to see Gatiss do Victory of the Daleks as the backstory regarding the Daleks had to be cut for time.
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Russell is fairly emphatic in DWM that Rose is the only one he'll be doing.
Moffat seems keen to do more, name-checking The Time of the Doctor and World Enough and Time as ones which would be interesting to do.
I picked up DWM for the Target article. Was interesting to read how the cover illustrations deliberately have 'mistakes' in them as a tribute to the originals.
The series 9 soundtrack was leaked by Amazon over the weekend (whoops!)
It's already made its way onto YouTube if anyone is interested. Here are a few tracks:
The Shepard's Boy (the one you've all been waiting for)
The Singing Towers
Face The Raven
EDIT: And they've been taken down on copyright grounds. Hopefully they come back up soon.
It's already made its way onto YouTube if anyone is interested. Here are a few tracks:
The Shepard's Boy (the one you've all been waiting for)
The Singing Towers
Face The Raven
EDIT: And they've been taken down on copyright grounds. Hopefully they come back up soon.
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The Christmas Invasion novelisation was fun but, as I expected, the embellishments weren't particularly interesting compared to the other two I've read so far. Not read Twice Upon A Time yet but apparently it restores most of thirty-minutes' worth of extra script. So I'd say Christmas Invasion is worth picking up if you fancy it but bottom of the shopping list in terms of changes and new content.
Bleeding Cool has posted leaked photos from the Free Comic Book day Doctor Who comic, including the 13th Doctor's introduction to comics -
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/04/15/thirteenth-doctor-debut-fcbd-2018-spoilers/
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/04/15/thirteenth-doctor-debut-fcbd-2018-spoilers/
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That's a fantastic photo!
I can't say he was right to cancel the show, but I can't really say he was wrong either. What he says here about it not being high-enough quality is kinda right; there's a period in the 80s there where the production values just aren't good enough. The show was being produced with a very old-school BBC "do the best we can with what we have!" mindset, which I think the world had sorta moved past. Toward the very end of McCoy's run things are starting to improve, but I suppose it was too little too late.
I can't say he was right to cancel the show, but I can't really say he was wrong either. What he says here about it not being high-enough quality is kinda right; there's a period in the 80s there where the production values just aren't good enough. The show was being produced with a very old-school BBC "do the best we can with what we have!" mindset, which I think the world had sorta moved past. Toward the very end of McCoy's run things are starting to improve, but I suppose it was too little too late.