tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post4760742643022346561..comments2023-04-06T22:01:07.239+10:00Comments on YOA's Blog Of The Unusally Pointless: What REALLY happened on Thoros Beta?Youth of Australiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-18730236382253057952015-09-13T09:40:06.178+10:002015-09-13T09:40:06.178+10:00I would've preferred a livelier Grant as villa...I would've preferred a livelier Grant as villain, to tell you the truth. Eh.Matthew Blanchettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03829163626544348823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-55858524668818315892015-09-11T12:49:54.727+10:002015-09-11T12:49:54.727+10:00"Still not clean, using episode 3 as soap and..."Still not clean, using episode 3 as soap and still not clean..."Cameron Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06361563785705155695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-57402643223887098282015-09-11T12:45:48.051+10:002015-09-11T12:45:48.051+10:00It still felt dirty afterwards, though.
I know I ...It still felt dirty afterwards, though.<br /><br />I know I would.Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-89631207418282054192015-09-11T12:43:50.517+10:002015-09-11T12:43:50.517+10:00Nah, GI offered 4 episodes of Web of Fear in excha...Nah, GI offered 4 episodes of <b>Web of Fear</b> in exchange for its freedom...Cameron Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06361563785705155695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-66756799129713951922015-09-10T18:41:14.316+10:002015-09-10T18:41:14.316+10:00I think Ian Levine was what drove the GI to suicid...I think Ian Levine was what drove the GI to suicide...Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-81758638411500173602015-09-10T18:40:00.576+10:002015-09-10T18:40:00.576+10:00I thought the Great Intelligence was angry at the ...I thought the Great Intelligence was angry at the Doctor for being forced to appear in Downtime while the Doctor got away with it :( (Though then McCoy was dragged back into that one!)Blueshifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04257023013296188861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-47927886560307486982015-09-10T13:42:36.753+10:002015-09-10T13:42:36.753+10:00Grant's not a bad actor, he just gets cast a l...Grant's not a bad actor, he just gets cast a lot as depressed vampire types. Simeon's supposed to be a dysfunctional manic depressive nihlist. He plays the part perfectly.<br /><br />And none of the GI stories would make sense if House was there. I mean, why would a TARDIS-eater psychopathic manchild want to pull off a series of Scooby-Doo stunts with Yeti? As for being damn angry at the Doctor, there's four tv stories showing our hero whupping his arse. Plenty of good reason. House would be more angry at the TARDIS.Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-54714903471437182582015-09-10T13:33:23.916+10:002015-09-10T13:33:23.916+10:00Would've explained why he's so damn angry ...Would've explained why he's so damn angry at THE DOCTOR, though... even more than <i>"The Snowmen"</i> does, I think. Besides, Michael Sheen would've been a far more entertaining/creepy avatar of the GI than Richard E. <i>"looking bored off his face"</i> Grant proved to be.Matthew Blanchettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03829163626544348823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-53233096082493098452015-09-09T13:53:15.523+10:002015-09-09T13:53:15.523+10:00Ah, but time travel is always possible in dreams a...Ah, but time travel is always possible in dreams and astral travel. It also fits with the Intelligence's strangely posh and polite manner (such as his respectful treatment of a lady like Victoria in The Web of Fear). Victorian values.<br /><br />Sides, TDW was packed enough with incident. Better the GI be introduced in a story ABOUT the GI than "random alien menace retconned at the end."Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-64780645865733209682015-09-09T13:47:20.247+10:002015-09-09T13:47:20.247+10:00Incidentally, I would've loved it if "The...Incidentally, I would've loved it if <i>"The Doctor's Wife"</i> had remained the oblique (well, in reference, at least) origin story for the Great Intelligence that Neil Gaiman had planned it to be... when I first heard of that, I fairly sighed at what might have been. (If nothing else, it would've been internally consistent with poor Padmasambhava meeting a time-traveling Great Intelligence on the astral plane in the 1600s...)Matthew Blanchettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03829163626544348823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-29589328981080466632015-09-09T12:36:47.953+10:002015-09-09T12:36:47.953+10:00He wrote The Monsters - a kind of semi-fictional b...He wrote The Monsters - a kind of semi-fictional book with beautiful illustrations retelling TV stories from the point of view of the aliens. So for Sil's stories we get his statement in court, Sontaran stories are training scenarios on Sontara, Yeti stories are Edward Travers' diaries, Ice Warrior stories are Varga's personal log.<br /><br />The fact is, Rigelsford was the only person I know of to give any explanation for what happened at the end of Mindwarp instead of completely ignoring it. A fictional explanation, admittedly, but that's as good as his own statement in court.<br /><br />He also wrote The Roof of the World for Big Finish which didn't feature the Great Intelligence or the Yeti. Definitely not. No sir indeedy.Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-17802779464740196192015-09-09T12:31:14.793+10:002015-09-09T12:31:14.793+10:00I know who you're talking about, and that stil...I know who you're talking about, and that still distresses me. <br /><br />I'm surprised you've taken Rigelsford as an authority, though -- actually thought he'd only written <i>"The Dark Dimension"</i>; didn't realize he'd written anything more...Matthew Blanchettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03829163626544348823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-20982747385453747572015-09-08T19:09:13.096+10:002015-09-08T19:09:13.096+10:00As for Briggsy, well, he wasn't in charge of t...As for Briggsy, well, he wasn't in charge of the Lost Stories so he's not in charge... but the original had Briggsy's character try to Nigel Verkoff his way into the lady's pants and they go "Eww, boy germs!" as he continues his advances.<br /><br />In the audio version they say THE ENTIRE FEMALE CIVILIZATION OF THE PLANET will submit to men or else they will be denied humanitarian aide and left to die. So the women were right that men were evil after all, but tough shit, they're going to be screwed like Thaiwanese whores for getting above their station.<br /><br />I... I can't understand why they changed it. Or why a certain must-not-be-named cyberstalker prefers this over anything Moffat has written.Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-7698362859751488142015-09-08T19:05:40.436+10:002015-09-08T19:05:40.436+10:00Oh yeah, btw, I'm basing my evidence what happ...Oh yeah, btw, I'm basing my evidence what happened next entirely on a story by Nev Fountain. That's how bad it gets.Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-35660027100873918392015-09-08T19:03:57.181+10:002015-09-08T19:03:57.181+10:00Classic Nick BriggsClassic Nick BriggsJared "No Nickname" Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825668092428993308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-77464010990635876052015-09-08T18:56:53.959+10:002015-09-08T18:56:53.959+10:00His latest BF audio "Antidote to Oblivion&quo...His latest BF audio "Antidote to Oblivion" shows he's not got any better. Anything that might piss you off about his previous tales (needless and plotless torture scenes, heavy-handed political satire, dream sequences, the Doctor doing fuck all and hardly being in it) are they by the dozen.<br /><br />And I took some time out to watch Gangsters which was apparently this amazing metatextual drama. BULLSHIT! Andrew Denton's Money or the Gun episodes blurred the lines between the fourth walls better than this. Just because you leave the camera running while all the actors bugger off doesn't make it clever or subversive!<br /><br />And people think Varos is subtle? WITH ACID BATHS! You know, people are still baffled by the ending when Sil's invasion is called off because no one noticed Martin mistyped the message Sil gets - so instead of saying they're busy with a rival competitor, it implies Zeiton is now worthless...<br /><br />Mind you, it pales compared to his "new improved" Mission to Magnus which ends with Police Academy laughter as Random Nick Briggs character #834 announces he's going to rape all the female characters to get rid of their feminist ways...Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-43014631268845769632015-09-08T18:44:23.383+10:002015-09-08T18:44:23.383+10:00If you want something done properly do it yourself...If you want something done properly do it yourself. Twice.<br /><br />This post just made me reflect on how many plot holes there are in Mindwarp.... well beyond the obvious ones.<br /><br />I think Philip Martin is the most niche writer of Doctor Who ever. And it's a weird bloody niche. Every story has an inhuman alien trying to make a heap of cash, torture, people turning into animals, a dystopian society and nearly all the guest cast getting killed. When I reflect on his writing I think the success of Vengeance on Varos is mostly down to direction, production and acting.Jared "No Nickname" Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825668092428993308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-77744558510299183982015-09-07T22:22:44.033+10:002015-09-07T22:22:44.033+10:00Typical. The Doctor had to do the prosecutor's...Typical. The Doctor had to do the prosecutor's job for him...Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-65059870360153288792015-09-07T21:44:05.810+10:002015-09-07T21:44:05.810+10:00I was scratching my head until I remembered that V...I was scratching my head until I remembered that Vervoids was actually the Doctor's defense rather than another round for the prosecution! Of all three Trial segments it is that one that makes the most reasonable case for the Doctor's actions being criminal after all!<br /><br />Blueshifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04257023013296188861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-91457238530041272242015-09-07T18:37:17.848+10:002015-09-07T18:37:17.848+10:00Uh-huh.
I quote:
‘I was taken out of time for an...Uh-huh.<br /><br />I quote:<br /><br /><i>‘I was taken out of time for another reason... and I have every intention of finding out what it is!’<br /><br />The Valeyard smiled sardonically. ‘That is something for the final section of the prosecution – the future. Doctor, we have seen you active in the far past. As to your recent activities – we have just witnessed your ineptitude. We had no choice but to extract you from the consequences of your dangerous meddling.’<br /><br />The Doctor ignored the Valeyard and addressed an appeal to the Inquisitor. Waves of grief were coursing through him at the loss of Peri. have seen my errors, my Lady, I will change. I promise.’<br /><br />‘No, Doctor, you do not change.’ The Valeyard interjected before the Inquisitor could respond. ‘Sagacity, I will demonstrate that in a possible future the Doctor continued to be the same interfering destroyer of the delicate fabric of time.’<br /><br />The Inquisitor sighed. ‘Will this take long, Valeyard?’<br /><br />‘Yes, Sagacity, I’m afraid it will.’<br /><br />‘Then I will declare a recess. After which the trial of the Doctor will continue.’</i>Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-81020097639964765692015-09-07T18:32:55.244+10:002015-09-07T18:32:55.244+10:00>like the way it cliffhangers into Attack from ...>like the way it cliffhangers into Attack from the Mind <br /><br />Wait, really?Blueshifthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04257023013296188861noreply@blogger.com