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Richard Todd RIP

feeds@yuku.com (Sidesk) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:48:02 GMT

He was 90, he was 'Sanders' in Kinda, and he was in literally lots of films. Also a bloody nice bloke.

The Time War; Part 9- The Wounded

feeds@yuku.com (transvamp) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:37:54 GMT

Romana paced impatiently along the Panopticon, finding herself reverting to a childish habit of walking the white lines of the hexagonal floor design. She wrinkled her nose as she felt the air shimmer, and she heard the subtle scratchings of the Tardis materialising, as if clawing and scraping itself against the thin air.

She...

Dreamland - Reviews, Ratings and Comments

feeds@yuku.com (msimpson1964) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:26:28 GMT

So, what did those of us who watched Dreamland think of it? For those who didn't, it is getting a full showing on BBC2 on December 5th, or you can watch the individual episodes here...

Which of these other movies has the best music?

feeds@yuku.com (MsWho) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:29:12 GMT

Rotters, the lot of you. ;-)

Which movie has the best theme tune of all time?

feeds@yuku.com (MsWho) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:12:52 GMT

Nice, quiet poll, because we haven't had one in a while.

(Notes: in the case of Star Trek, I was originally going to make it the theme to The Motion Picture by Jerry Goldsmith; since Alexander Courage's score is more iconic, however, you would be voting for Michael Giacchino's remix used in Star Trek 2009. In the case of http://mudcat.org/thread....id=125226&messages=1

I quote:

"Whilst watching season 2 of Doctor Who (David Tennant, nice suit although I still preferred Chris Ecclestone), I noticed there's a 4 second shot of someone massacring the riddle song (I gave my love a cherry etc) - and I started wondering if it...

Holy motherin' heck!

feeds@yuku.com (MsWho) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:15:23 GMT

It just clicked what the Doctor was on about ...

Why does this debate swing 'round every few years?

feeds@yuku.com (MsWho) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:25:18 GMT

If anyone right now is watching Casualty or Holby City and thinking that is what really goes on in their local hospital, then they need to be banned from watching television forever!

Although having Hugh Quarshie as your doctor would be awesome. :-P

death will knock 4 times?

feeds@yuku.com (fluke) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:19:28 GMT

isn't the sound of the drums 4 beats?

So. Anyway. Yeah.

feeds@yuku.com (MsWho) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:03:43 GMT

So. I was in WH Smith, perusing the science-fiction section; after getting bored with the latest Star Wars releases (to say nothing of procrastinating over whether or not to get The Never-Ending Sacrifice) , I decided to have a quick reccy in preparation for Christmas. I came across the new Beano annual and had a few minutes of nostalgia, reminiscing over the good ol' days when I used to be a regular reader...

New TARDIS interior ...

feeds@yuku.com (MsWho) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:37:13 GMT

First pictures of the new TARDIS interior. It's really not much, but at this point, better than nothing.

Attack Of the NaNoWriMo

feeds@yuku.com (Count Twilight) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:45:33 GMT

Is anyone taking part in the NaNoWriMo this year? I have signed myself up to it, however insane it may be to write 50,000 words in thirty days. It starts 1st November.

It's alive! (In a way).

feeds@yuku.com (MsWho) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:02:32 GMT

The Woolworths website just came back online.

The Big Bang Theory

feeds@yuku.com (The Ninth Gate) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:25:27 GMT

Does anyone else watch this US series? The premise revolves around four 'geeks', one of which is continually trying (and, more often failing) to attract the attentions of a non-geeky girl living in an opposite appartment.

It references a great deal about 'geek' culture, and some of the obsessions sci-fi fans have, such as gaming, downloading, focusing in shows and films such as Star Wars, and generally, a US-Spaced. Even Doctor Who has been referenced a few times,...

Announcing Timelord's Very Own Time Crash

feeds@yuku.com (Kilduskland) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:01:31 GMT

Mark wanted me to contribute something in time for the clocks changing. This is not quite what he had in mind; me neither I must admit, but life has a way of throwing up the unexpected when you least expect it.

An old Doctor Who story once had it that the Union of Traken was kept together by people just being terribly nice to one another. A time came and the spell was broken; the emotional weather got heavy, and entropy quickly started raining down with Traken being swept away soon...

Good news, everyone!

feeds@yuku.com (MsWho) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:01:58 GMT

Apparently, both Doug Naylor and Robert Llewellyn have confirmed that a new series of Red Dwarf will begin filming in 2010. An official announcement is expected at the Dimension Jump convention.

RF#257: Bad Moon Rising, chapter 4

feeds@yuku.com (Seven of Borgnine) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:34:16 GMT

Some kind of grim irony was at work. Melville Katz was blind, reputedly since birth, and there he was, established as the finest 'Ear' this side of the seaboard. Verna had little idea how he came to qualify for this position, though it was rumoured he'd been on the intel section of one of the shadier government sections that hadn't survived one of the many and various internecine fall-outs that punctuated the last decade or two. He'd since been 'recovered' by some...

RF#42: The Solid Heart of Gold Rubber Chicken - Fit the Eighth

feeds@yuku.com (Seven of Borgnine) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:39:47 GMT

The room reminded Arthur of a crypt. It reminded Ford of a bedsit in Egham he'd once shared in 1976 with a hairy ex-philosophy undergraduate named Norman Blenkinsop and a patch of mysterious green fungus on the bathroom wall.

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide has this to say of Egham...

Egham is the common name given to the small green protuberance that can be found at the nape of the neck of a Vogon male adolescent during the mating...

Barry Letts Passes Away

feeds@yuku.com (Count Twilight) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:06:06 GMT
Barry Letts Obituary . A sad day. His tenure on the almost the entirity of the Pertwee era and his casting of Tom Baker place him among the most influential people ever to have worked on the show, and he hasn't been shy about returning. He will be missed.

RF: #282 - The Sky Gods, Episode Four

feeds@yuku.com (MsWho) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:24:48 GMT
Before we get to the story, I would just like to point out that, midway through, there's a scene that references Peri's troubling childhood experiences as explored in the Telos Novella Shell Shock by Simon A. Forward. It's just a brief, one-paragraph thing that doesn't get too detailed, but I thought I'd mention it for those of you who are a bit squeamish about Doctor Who going into that sort...