tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1890070227123527782024-03-05T21:32:13.129+00:00Fish Fingers and Custard - A Doctor Who Fanzine - FFAC2A free-to-download Doctor Who fanzine that takes a lighthearted look at the popular Sci-Fi drama - visit to learn more.danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.comBlogger136125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-89093394156354243952020-07-04T12:00:00.000+01:002020-07-07T20:54:00.842+01:00Issue 19 – Submissions Wanted!<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgsEKbYI17h3QVi_HnFJ0LI6vreU1xeLPDnUL5HKpvxASo9eUClJlMBNPRHPazVXIkIkNMk-StFw-YfiNDj-z51wy3j9RaQWmgZZCJNiEVZUP6Fae9_LiKbPGDaKvsG64R-7LTr6JUY03s/s1600/black-orchid-doctor-who-season-19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="501" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgsEKbYI17h3QVi_HnFJ0LI6vreU1xeLPDnUL5HKpvxASo9eUClJlMBNPRHPazVXIkIkNMk-StFw-YfiNDj-z51wy3j9RaQWmgZZCJNiEVZUP6Fae9_LiKbPGDaKvsG64R-7LTr6JUY03s/s400/black-orchid-doctor-who-season-19.jpg" width="306" /></a>We’re back for more! After spending 4 years doing nothing
but eating biscuits (cookies, for our North American friends), we’re back for
our 2<sup>nd</sup> issue in 3 months!</div>
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September will see us release Issue 19 – and we need
contributors!</div>
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Whilst we will always accept ANYTHING that is vaguely
related to Doctor Who (you just have to read the other 18 to see that) for this
particular issue we’re especially looking for:</div>
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<li><b>Reviews of Series 10 (Peter Capaldi’s last one)</b> – We’re
looking for your thoughts on the series; this can be you going through the
episodes, your thoughts on the series as a whole, your favourite moments, your
worst moments…whatever you like. There is no maximum word count for this – <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>generally, we get between 500-1000 words for reviews like these, but
we’re willing to have more (or less). Just don’t go mad with your big words, this isn’t
Buzzfeed.</li>
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<li><b>Your thoughts on the casting of Jodie Whittaker (and the
current state of the show)</b> – (Here we go) We're looking for diverse takes on
the casting of Jodie Whittaker, the current standing of Doctor Who and fandom
in general. NO MATTER your opinion, we want to hear it. We exist to provide a
platform on which thoughtful views can be exchanged with respect – all we ask
is that you be considerate. Again, there is no real word count – just don’t go
mad with your big words, this isn’t Cosmopolitan.</li>
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<li><b>Art!</b> We’re always on the outlook for Doctor Who art – we use
it for the back covers, inside pages and to help us fill up pages when our
writers don’t use big words, as we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">always</i>
instruct them to.</li>
</ul>
If any of that doesn’t take your creative fancy, send in
whatever you like – comics, reviews, your take on something…if it’s about
Doctor Who, we’ll have it!
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The closing date for all submissions is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Saturday 22<sup>nd</sup> August</b> – please send to <b>fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com</b>.</div>
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Thanks for reading and (we hope) considering contributing –
have a great what’s left of the summer (or winter, for our friends Down Under) and if you haven’t already, <a href="https://fishcustardfanzine.blogspot.com/p/issues.html" target="_blank">download our back issues</a> to get you through/put you off Doctor Who content in these barren
times!</div>
danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-87280795242742312772020-05-17T09:00:00.000+01:002020-05-17T09:11:27.774+01:00Celebrate 10 Years of Fish Custard With 1p Fanzines And A Competition<div class="MsoNormal">
To celebrate 10 years since the launch of Fish Fingers and
Custard, we are going to offer our readers the opportunity to get their hands
on some of our swag <b>for 1 pence plus postage costs</b> (so 1p + P+P – we wanted to give them away for free, but our shop provider doesn't allow sellers to enter in a 'zero price'!).<br />
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Okay,
the Fish Custard storeroom needs clearing out – and it’s either us giving them away or burning them.<br />
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The following items are available from <a href="https://fishcustard.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">our shop</a> now:<span style="font-family: "symbol";"> </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "symbol";">I</span>ssue 2 (two copies left)<span style="font-family: "symbol";">.</span></li>
<li>A 16-page promotional issue that was originally handed
out at London Film and Comic Con in 2011 (thirteen copies left)<span style="font-family: "symbol"; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">.</span></span></li>
<li>Pin badge sets (three sets left).</li>
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Once they’re gone, they’re gone – and please only order one
item, so there’s more to go around.<b> </b>Thanks.<br />
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<b>Win A Historical Fanzine!</b><br />
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Also, we are launching a competition to win the original proof
copy of Issue 1 – aside from being the first copy ever printed, it’s nothing
special. We’ve no idea why anyone would want it tbh – the covers have been
printed on the same paper as what the interior pages are (they were usually
printed on matte/gloss paper for cleaner, crisp imagery), some ink has bled
through the pages and there are a number of errors accompanied by some unreadable
handwriting, correcting them. Nevertheless, you can get this important
historical document for FREE, so it must be good.<br />
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Well, I say free – we have to get something out of it. All
you need to do to enter is to <a href="https://fishcustardfanzine.blogspot.com/p/subscribe-to-our-mailing-list.html" target="_blank">sign up for our new mailing list</a>. You can opt out
any time, but we hope you stick around for future communications from us.<br />
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Once you’re signed up, you’ll be entered in the draw. The closing
date is <b>Saturday 23<sup>rd</sup> May</b> at 23:59 BST (we have to be specific
about these things).<br />
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Cheers and good luck! If you haven't already, check out our latest free download issue - <a href="https://fishcustardfanzine.blogspot.com/2020/05/doctor-who-fanzine-issue-18-download-now.html" target="_blank">Issue 18</a>.</div>
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<![endif]-->danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-63287259694263972222020-05-15T15:00:00.000+01:002020-05-22T16:37:47.126+01:00Issue 18 - Download NOW!<div class="MsoNormal">
With the world possibly coming to the end, we’d thought it
the perfect time to make a dramatic return <br />
to ensure we don't go out on an odd number.<br />
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<li><i><b>The Curse of Time</b></i> – Are all Doctor Who stories with ‘Time’
in the title destined to not be very good?</li>
<li><i><b>The Doctor Who Cookbook</b></i> – A review of one of the more ‘left-field’
official publications.</li>
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claim to have been ‘fanzining’ for a decade.</li>
<li><i><b>Returning Villains</b></i> – Which classic Who baddies are due for a
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made her exit from Doctor Who, so we’re on the lookout for a new companion for
the upcoming series. So who is next? Which <i>sort</i>
of companion (or companions) should The Doctor travel around with? Should he
even have a companion? Well yes, otherwise this entire article would be utterly
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zombie-filled shopping centres in major cities around the world - let’s build
an uplifting and inspiring companion!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">There’s been
a rumbling underground campaign amongst forum-dwellers for a while about this
issue. I suppose that Rory has arguably been the only (regular) male companion
since the series came back in 2005. Even then, he seemed to play second fiddle
to Amy and was only really brought on board after Amy tried to jump The Doctor
at the end of <i>Flesh and Stone</i>. Would
a male companion work? I’m not sure how I feel about this; if you look through
the history of the show, it has generally <i>balanced</i>
having The (male) Doctor with having at the very least, one female companion.
Unless they were to introduce a female Doctor to compliment our man, it would
be ‘unbalanced’ if balancing genders is indeed important to us viewers (imagine
the criticism a male-only Doctor Who, or even, a female-only Doctor Who would
receive) If we do indeed have to have a ‘balanced’ Doctor Who with at least one
member of each sex, then why not introduce a secondary companion? Somebody who
isn’t related to the current companion, someone who they just happen to pick
up? Someone who would ironically unbalance the genders, despite what I said
earlier? Rigsy would have been ideal, I personally would have loved to learn
more about him, but he has a family now and is seemingly settled down and him
abandoning all of that would just seem tactless on his part.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I don’t know
about you, but I’m constantly growing tired of re-visiting the modern-day with
our modern-day companion. Russell T Davies once tackled this issue by making a
comment of something along the lines of ‘<i>we
need a modern-day companion for the viewers to be able to relate to them</i>’.
That’s a fair point – but is it something that needs to happen <i>every single time</i> a new companion is
cast? I feel that if you treat viewers like they won’t understand a character,
if you don’t think they won’t relate to them, then you run the risk of growing
complacent by constantly treading the same old ground – which will only seep
into the story. Using an alien, who is very unfamiliar with Earth customs, has
been done before – but barely in the modern-day series. I’m thinking of a
Leela, but not a direct copy of Leela. I’m not sure they’ll be able to get away
with the skimpy outfits. Similarly, a non-contemporary companion would offer a
balance between being familiar with Earth, but unfamiliar with other elements,
which can only make stories set in the modern-day, that more interesting to
viewers and perhaps help us to learn things about our modern life that we tend
to neglect.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Yeah, we had
a Turlough who wasn’t necessarily happy to be around and more recently, Donna
who appeared on board just as she was about to get married, before returning of
her own volition. What would be interesting, is having our character who is
simply not happy to be aboard the TARDIS – not necessarily trying to sabotage
The Doctor, but someone who is desperate to get home but is constantly messed
about with. Why are they desperate to get home? Who (if not The Doctor) is messing
about with them? Like a Big Finish Lucie Miller, but not exactly a Big Finish
Lucie Miller. You can already see how story branches can grow from this
narrative tree.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">One aspect of
the RTD era I didn’t like was the drafting in of these ‘in the moment
celebrities who play themselves’ just to gain an extra few thousand viewers –
will kids in 50 years time know (or care) who McFly are? No, in all likelihood
they won’t, but I’m all for the casting of a <i>long-deceased</i> celebrity in Doctor Who. It would be interesting to
see a character with an established history experience something that <i>didn’t happen</i> in reality and it can only
bring out the creative best in writers, as they try to interweave established
fact around their stories. It will only work with a deceased Celebrity, as
aside from the murky rights issues, the fact that we know who these long-dead
people are today, just shows that people will always remember them in the
future, which obviously isn’t the case with modern-day or relatively-recent-living
celebrities.</span></span></span></div>
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Who, we’ve had celebrity historicals that perhaps take a liberty or two with
established fact, so having one travel with The Doctor for a bit probably won’t
do any harm. Maybe it can be someone who has a history that isn’t laid-down,
perhaps someone from The Dark Ages, where historical fact is very vague. I feel
an opportunity was perhaps missed when Agatha Christie’s ‘missing years’ were
solved in <i>The Unicorn and The Wasp</i> –
missing years that could have been spent on board the TARDIS! A celebrity
travelling with The Doctor isn’t anything new mind, more recently it was done
in Big Finish, as the 8<sup>th</sup> Doctor travelled around with Mary Shelley
(played on audio by Julie Cox) and saw us delve into <i>her story</i>, whilst another fictional story was going on around her.
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another historical celebrity! Margaret of Anjou slays McFly to death in their
prime for making lewd comments. The universe might explode, but at least we
were entertained for 45 minutes, which is all that matters in the end.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">We’ve had this idea
before, as John Nathan-Turner hit on the belief that casting an American
companion could potentially be an hit with the burgeoning waves that Doctor Who
was making on public television in the US and Canada in the 1980’s. After
reportedly seeing many US and Canadian actresses, JNT went for 23 year-old Surrey
girl Nicola Bryant and the rest they say is
low-cut-outfits-for-the-lads-before-coming-to-their-senses-when-it-was-too-late
history. With Doctor Who’s viewership growing more around the world with each
series now, why not pander to what some newspapers call ‘foreigners’? We could
go down the ‘traditional’ Doctor Who foreigner heartlands; Americans,
Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders – or for a completely different type of
foreigner. We seem to be laying out the red (no pun intended) carpet to the Chinese
government and its businesses in the UK at the moment, so why not a Chinese
companion? They have seemingly buried their hatchet with Hollywood recently, as
many a new film is apparently doing well over there, so we’ll be fools to not
get stuck into the rapidly-expanding Chinese entertainment market. Hopefully
the companion will played by someone native this time - imagine the letters the
BBC would get if they didn’t. </span></span></span></div>
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inside (I was joking by the way) it’ll be intriguing to see a ‘foreigner’
aboard the TARDIS. From a purely believability point of view, it IS rather odd
that most of The Doctor’s companions are British and live in London!</span></span></span></div>
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title is partly misleading, as we all should know - there is no ‘normal’, we’re
all different, all of us brilliant. Apart from Donald Trump. No, what I mean is
that why does The Doctor’s companion NEED to be the ‘key to the universe’ or <i>someone who isn’t like anyone The Doctor has
never met before</i> or is embedded in The Doctor’s entire timeline. Why can’t
they just be a ‘normal’ person, maybe they’re a bit fed up of their current
life and want to go travelling? From here, writers can GROW the companion, as
they experience new things, instead of just hitting points A, B and C on their
way to being revealed as <i>the saviour of
The Doctor and entire time itself</i>, or whatever. I feel that a ‘normal’
companion will be able to connect with the viewers more – and from this
connection, we too can learn to go out and experience new things like said companion,
not by travelling the universe, just by stepping out of our front doors and
carrying on experiencing, even if we are too fed up. That’s more inspiring to
me than shooting Daleks.</span></span></span></div>
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danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-1246269792281223592016-02-05T09:00:00.000+00:002016-02-05T09:00:10.903+00:00Issue 17 Contribution DetailsHello all, we'll be back next month with a brand-new Issue, kicking-off this somewhat barren year without much Doctor Who with our own brand of sunshine!<br />
<br />
For Issue 1<b>7</b>, we're generally on the lookout for reviews of the
latest series - we're going to be reviewing the individual stories
(seeing as there are so many two-parters) and we've got the following
left to offer you:<br />
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<b>Magicians Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar<br />
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Under The Lake/Before The Flood<br />
<br />The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion<br />
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The Husbands of River Song</b><br />
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If you'd like to review a particular story, please e-mail us at <b>fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com</b>
asap so we can save you the slot. The stories are given on a
first-come-first basis, so if your chosen story is taken by the time you
e-mail, we'll offer you another if there are any left! Please keep your
reviews from 500-1500 words – if you need more (or less!) please get in
touch and we'll sort something out. <u>Don't be afraid of being too critical or praiseworthy</u> - We're just <u>looking for passionate, constructive reviews</u>. <br />
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Otherwise, if you'd just like to review the series as an whole, or want
to give your thoughts on recent developments with Steven Moffat/Chris
Chibnall and the switching of the series, please feel free to do that
also! Or if you'd like to write about what you think was in the Fourth
Doctor's inside pockets or why Attack of The Cybermen is the best story
ever - basically, <i>anything vaguely Doctor Who</i> is our motto and we'll lap it up!<br />
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The deadline for all contributions is <b>20th February</b>.<br />
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Cheers!danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-63374480651999576722015-11-20T23:33:00.000+00:002016-01-31T23:42:06.729+00:00Issue 16 - DOWNLOAD NOW!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRjtLVGYcPuSrvgohOAJAp0YfQVAX8G0iufOq-mV1LuwOkYarroooxIGDkWrwy5Yo5ZNhQvy9cHob_iZyYcal5sYBZRVCDceB8X3UjD33WJwKGNp4PPXexdw2ipKsokD6AkmjMIe2Q61pZ/s1600/previewcover-16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRjtLVGYcPuSrvgohOAJAp0YfQVAX8G0iufOq-mV1LuwOkYarroooxIGDkWrwy5Yo5ZNhQvy9cHob_iZyYcal5sYBZRVCDceB8X3UjD33WJwKGNp4PPXexdw2ipKsokD6AkmjMIe2Q61pZ/s400/previewcover-16.jpg" width="281" /></a>Like a bad penny, we’ve turned up again, looking even more <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fabulous</i> this time. Despite the regeneration,
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as ever.<br />
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With <span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE">evan</span></span> more
spelling mistakes this time.
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In Issue 16 of Fish Fingers and Custard:</div>
<ul>
<li>We take a look at series 8, review the episodes
and investigate whether or not Steven <span class="SpellE">Moffat</span> likes to
strip off when writing scripts</li>
<li>Growing up as a fan; one ardent fan looks
through his life and how it has intertwined with Doctor Who, on and off-screen</li>
<li>Russell T. Davies’ novel ‘Damaged Goods’ is
reviewed, along with its recent Big Finish adaptation</li>
<li>Toby <span class="SpellE">Hadoke’s</span> Who’s
Round – A Podcast for fans of all ages</li>
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If you'd like to contribute to a future Issue of the fanzine, please don't hesitate to drop us an e-mail at <b>fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com</b></div>
danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-34926531285367585102015-09-10T22:15:00.000+01:002016-01-05T12:02:52.571+00:00Issue 16 - OUT NOW!!<div class="MsoNormal">
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we guarantee that <span class="GramE">inside,</span> we’ll be as shabby and as controversial
as ever.<br />
<br />
With <span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE">evan</span></span> more
spelling mistakes this time.</div>
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In Issue 16 of Fish Fingers and Custard:</div>
<ul>
<li>We take a look at series 8, review the episodes
and investigate whether or not Steven <span class="SpellE">Moffat</span> likes to
strip off when writing scripts</li>
<li>Growing up as a fan; one ardent fan looks
through his life and how it has intertwined with Doctor Who, on and off-screen</li>
<li>Russell T. Davies’ novel ‘Damaged Goods’ is
reviewed, along with its recent Big Finish adaptation</li>
<li>Toby <span class="SpellE">Hadoke’s</span> Who’s
Round – A Podcast for fans of all ages</li>
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danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-39283727206762054332015-07-08T18:07:00.000+01:002015-07-08T18:08:25.492+01:00Issue 16 - NEW Contribution Details<span style="font-family: inherit;">The time has come again...Fish
Fingers and Custard Issue 16 will (hopefully) be released next month and as
always, we need YOUR help to make it happen!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For this issue, we're mainly
looking for reviews (positive or negative - we don't discriminate!) of the
entirety of Series 8, or even just individual episodes. We have no set word
count - we generally aim for about 700 or so, but we'll except anything really! For further details, please see our <a href="http://www.fishcustardfanzine.co.uk/2011/02/about-fanzinecontribute.html">information page</a></span></span><br />
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about something other than the latest series then please feel free to
contribute that also. The only rule is - it has to be at least vaguely-re<span class="textexposedshow">lated to Doctor Who!</span></span></span><br />
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danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-44952012113670536812015-02-18T19:15:00.000+00:002015-02-18T19:15:35.242+00:00Issue 16 - Contribution DetailsThe fanzine will be back next month -
and as always, we're looking for contributions.<br />
<br />
We'll be reviewing Series 8 as an
whole, there's no set word count for these reviews as of yet, so
you can just send in whatever you feel like writing (positive or negative) on the last series of Doctor Who. If you'd like to
write <i>anything else</i> that relates to Doctor Who, this too will be
gratefully accepted. If you've been to any conventions in the last 6
months or so for example, we'd love a report on one. We have a
submissions guide <a href="http://www.fishcustardfanzine.co.uk/2011/02/about-fanzinecontribute.html" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a> if you'd like to check it out for any ideas.<br />
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The e-mail address to send us your questions or <i>stuff</i> to is <b>fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com </b> and the deadline is 6th March.<br />
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Cheers!
danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-60282426405045160492014-11-27T18:58:00.000+00:002015-02-09T02:29:01.776+00:00Fish Fingers and Custard - Issue 15 - OUT NOW!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtI7kMhK6Ap0M7jTXiIqb5fLyOZRW7qYv8osrG3lcpX6Huxqlb1J1oJQ1v0W14WSUyi3eCKQ2GudNmz-zBohW1RPLb9wsGncOp8MQJQ8XMNvTLHkBu_OiY8tjNR58h3C9y8a6QDvagGRrD/s1600/previewcover-15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtI7kMhK6Ap0M7jTXiIqb5fLyOZRW7qYv8osrG3lcpX6Huxqlb1J1oJQ1v0W14WSUyi3eCKQ2GudNmz-zBohW1RPLb9wsGncOp8MQJQ8XMNvTLHkBu_OiY8tjNR58h3C9y8a6QDvagGRrD/s1600/previewcover-15.jpg" height="400" width="278" /></a>If we were a little bit sexist, then we'll say that waiting for a new
Issue of Fish Fingers and Custard is <br />
like waiting for the right <i>woman</i>, who will turn up fashionably late. So, just imagine that <i>woman</i> turns up 3 months late? You're not bothered, because <i>she's great, she's different</i>. Beautiful, funny, <i>masterful</i>, if you will. What a <i>woman</i>.
Well, we're nothing like that, apart from being 3 months late, we
contain the same-old love and spelling mistakes that you've come to
expect.<br />
<br />
Anyway, here are the details of how to buy the new issue, which has
got nothing to do with Series 8, despite the rubbish I've just written
above:<br />
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<b>*PLEASE NOTE THIS ISSUE IS NOW SOLD OUT*</b><br />
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For a finely-printed, but adequately put-together paper copy of the fanzine, the prices are as follows:<br />
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Rest of the World - <b>£4.50</b> <br />
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To order a copy, please send the payment that applies to you, via PayPal to <b>fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com</b> (please mark your payment as a 'gift' so we get the full fee from PayPal so we can buy more knocked-off paper from the local stationers). Alternatively, you can buy one from our <b><a href="http://fishcustard.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">shop</a></b>, prices inflated by 25p or so because of PayPal fees. The swines.<br />
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We have also re-printed the first 4 Issues of the fanzine to celebrate 4 years of us taking the Fanzine World like a mild breeze. Each re-printed Issue will come with a unique code number, slipped in somewhere, so nobody tries to rip people off when we've made it and old mags are selling for £20k a pop.Yeah.<br />
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Sadly, we can only offer this deal to people who reside in the UK at the moment.<br />
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First 4 Issues: <b>£7</b><br />
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Please use any of the above payment methods to order.<br />
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FINALLY! We're open for submissions for Issue 16, which we hope to release in early 2015. We'll be looking at Series 8, as well as the upcoming Christmas Special. If you'd like to send in any reviews, thoughts or rants about Series 8 or any 2014 episode, please e-mail us at <b>fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com</b> <br />
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If you despise new Doctor Who - you can send us anything that vaguely relates to the classic series too!danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-55516463900715201342014-11-07T14:48:00.000+00:002014-11-07T14:58:03.383+00:00Fish Fingers and Custard - Issue 15 - DOWNLOAD NOW!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If we were a little bit sexist, then we'll say that waiting for a new Issue of Fish Fingers and Custard is like waiting for the right <i>woman</i>, who will turn up fashionably late. So, just imagine that <i>woman</i> turns up 3 months late? You're not bothered, because <i>she's great, she's different</i>. Beautiful, funny, <i>masterful</i>, if you will. What a <i>woman</i>. Well, we're nothing like that, apart from being 3 months late, we contain the same-old love and spelling mistakes that you've come to expect.<br />
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Anyway, here are the details of how to download the new issue, which has got nothing to do with Series 8, despite the rubbish I've just written above.<br />
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You can download it in PDF form <b><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58233899/Fish%20Fingers%20and%20Custard%20Issue%2015.pdf" target="_blank">here</a></b> (right-click and select 'save as')<br />
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If you'd like to order a paper copy, details will be posted in the next week. If you'd like to register your interest, please send a blank e-mail to <b>fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com</b> or tweet us at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/fishcustardzine" target="_blank"><b>@fishcustardzine</b></a> so we can gauge how many we need to print. We promise not to share your e-mail address with unscrupulous companies. Unless you'd like us to.<br />
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If you'd like to have your say about the new series, please e-mail us at the e-mail address above. We hope to have the next Issue in early 2015. Definitely.<br />
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Cheers and enjoy the last episode of Series 8! <br />
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Yeah, we've Missy you too.danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-51180312219600223662014-02-11T22:54:00.001+00:002014-02-11T23:03:18.763+00:00Issue 15 UpdateWe're well into production of the brand new Issue here at the Fish Custard office (we've had a delivery of tea and biscuits) but we're still looking for more contributions from Doctor Who fans to give their views on the anniversary and/or the Matt Smith era as an whole. We have no word count, or any guidelines for you to abide by (as long as you keep it sensible!) If that doesn't float you boat (which it technically won't) we're also looking for your view on the casting of Peter Capaldi and what future Doctor Who has got to look forward to. We'd also welcome any art or spoofs you can come up with, too! And if you can lend us £5000, that'll also be acceptable. Joking*<br />
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Please e-mail <b>fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com</b> and one of our team of bores will get back to you. The deadline is the <b>28th February</b><br />
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*Not reallydanielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-45662259379879974032014-02-01T22:05:00.000+00:002014-02-01T22:08:08.693+00:00Contribute To The First Issue of 2014!We're tentatively stepping out, like a drunken woman outside a nightclub with no shoes on at 5am, to announce that we're back from our self-imposed sabbatical and are ready for another new Issue. But like the aforementioned lady, let's call her Fanny, we need a taxi to get her home - and less wet than she already is. It's raining. We want YOU to be that taxi driver and to contribute to help to get Fanny home.<br />
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over...but it isn't! The 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who is just
starting! To celebrate this, we're producing (what we hope!) will be our
biggest and best Issue ever. As always, we need contributions from you.</div>
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For this Issue we're looking for essays/reports on
the 50th Anniversary, amazingly enough! We want to know what YOU did for
the big day, what you thought, what you felt etc Whether you watched it
at home, saw it at a cinema, went to a party...anything! Also, we're
after your reviews of the actual episode (positive - or negative). If
all of that doesn't take your fancy, you can write about what you think
of 50 years of Doctor Who and what it means to you.<br />
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Cheers!danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-52360979537081569202013-11-23T14:07:00.000+00:002013-11-23T14:07:33.401+00:00Happy 50th Birthday Doctor Who!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">"<i>Susan and I are cut off from our own planet, without friends or protection. But one day we shall get back. Yes, one day. One day.</i>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What can you say about a television programme that has kept generations of people happy for 50 years? It has - and will continue to - inspire and entertain many more in the next 50 years and for that reason alone, Doctor Who has proven to be the best television programme of all time. Let's raise a glass to everyone who has worked on the programme. Thank-you Doctor Who. The world would be an infinitely duller place without you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have a great day, however you're celebrating! </span></div>
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We're looking for contributions for our next Issue, so if you fancy telling us about what you did today, how and where you watched the episode, what you did to celebrate the Anniversary, please e-mail us at <b>fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com</b><br />
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(After today, obviously!)danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-11691724092610096832013-11-22T16:39:00.000+00:002013-11-23T12:53:05.895+00:00 The Randomiser - 50 Years of Doctor Who Stories - Part 5<div class="MsoNormal">
The final day of our journey. Here are three stories from
the three Doctors of the 2000’s. Expect scares, laughter and a bit of wood.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Unquiet Dead</b></div>
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It’s arrived! Doctor Who has arrived! That was the thing
most people took away in 2005 after The Unquiet Dead first aired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rose</i>
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The End of The World </i>were okay, but this episode really forced Doctor Who, and what it was about, home to
millions of new viewers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I should know,
I was one of them.</div>
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It’s funny, whilst watching this again, I thought back to
that first series and think about how average some of the episodes were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think if the same episodes were aired
during Series 2 or 3 they wouldn’t have gone down as well, but despite that
first series being chaotic from a production point of view, it was all new, so
it’s still held in high esteem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me
though, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Unquiet Dead</i>, along with
a few others from Series 1, will go down as a bone-fide ‘new series
classic’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The story sees The Doctor and Rose appear in Cardiff in 1869, just as
Charles Dickens (Simon Callow) is in town. At a local Funeral Home however,
they have a problem. The dead are rising and killing the living…</div>
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It’s a great story, which zips through 45 minutes in
seemingly no time at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea of
The Gelth was a clever one and it follows the tradition of Doctor Who explaining
things that appear to be ‘magic’ (or <i>phantasmagoria</i>, as Charlie Boy calls it)
with science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is Mark Gatiss’ first
script for the series and you can tell it’s something that he was probably
planning for years.</div>
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Simon Callow was great as Charles Dickens, the line "<i>I
thought you was a fan?</i>" when The Doctor criticises one of his books, could have
been aimed at Who fans! Similarly, I thought that this was one of Eve Myles’
strongest performances in the Doctor Who ‘universe’ – as we know, on the strength
of this, she went on to play Gwen Cooper in <i>Torchwood</i>. And speaking of which –
this story is the start of ‘The Rift’, which attracts all sorts of alien
attention and brings them through onto the streets of Cardiff!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The later episode <i>Boom
Town</i> investigates this
further and of course, the job of the branch of Torchwood in the spin-off
series was to monitor The Rift. It’s a clever idea which serves many purposes,
the main one being to explain why Cardiff
is constantly a setting in the show!</div>
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I don’t want (and can’t) say any more – but if you ever need
a fun and scary 9<sup>th</sup> Doctor episode – this one is perfect. Which is a
good job really, as he’s only got the 13 episodes!</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Unicorn and The
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This is an episode that I feel is something that divides
fans. It’s not quite on the same scale as the love-it-<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">or-hate Love and Monsters</i> (for the record - I
like them both) but it’s not far away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Unicorn and The Wasp</i> is basically a
light murder mystery. Like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Murder, She
Wrote</i>! (But without the old lady batting her eyelashes at any elderly
Gentleman she meets).</div>
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The story sees The Doctor and Donna gatecrash a high-society
garden party, laid on by Lady Eddison (Felicity Kendal).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many guests turn up, including famous crime
novelist Agatha Christie (Fenella Woolgar) just as someone turns up dead in the library, smacked with some lead piping. There’s a Cludeo-style mystery afoot!</div>
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The story was fine, though I felt the conclusion was a
little bit rushed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe it could
have been the beneficiary of an extra couple of minutes, just so time could be
taken to explain how The Doctor and Agatha came up with their conclusions, at a slower pace, so we could take it all in! Otherwise,
it’s an enjoyable story with plenty of laughs and references.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The actors make this and all the cast are on
top form. It was great to Christopher Benjamin (Sir Keith Gold in <i>Inferno</i> and
unforgettably – as Henry Gordon Jago, originally from the Tom Baker classic <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Talons of Weng-Chiang</i>) again and he
had a few good lines as the wheelchair-bound Colonel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fenella Woolgar, at the suggestion of David
Tennant, plays Agatha Christie and she portrayed a woman, despite her
brilliance, doubted herself both professionally and personally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The explanation of her real-life disappearance
was well done and despite my earlier complaint of the conclusion being too
rushed, this felt fine as actions take no time at all to transpire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Agatha says,
the joy is in the chase, never the capture.</div>
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Donna made me laugh when she was sitting there, listening to
The Doctor whilst he was summing up the case like <i>Poriot</i>, asking him if
such-and-such was the murderer, whilst she was eating. It’s exactly like us
watching a murder mystery and wondering <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">whodunit</i>,
sat in the comfort of our homes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Doctor being told off by Agatha for ‘taking joy’ in the case (when people are
being murdered) was well played and basically summed The Doctor up. I do wish
the series would play more on this aspect of The Doctor sometimes – in some stories,
he seems to enjoy himself when death and destruction is all around.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Unicorn and The
Wasp</i> is a nice little ‘romp’ that will be enjoyed by people into their
Murder Mysteries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s even a
reference to Dickens and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Unquiet Dead</i>!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those who don’t like it, just think, it
could have been worse. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Murder, She Wrote</i>
had a few stinkers too!<br />
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You know, when I drew this out, I wasn’t looking forward to
it. I think I’ve only seen it twice and being a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Doctor Who fan, that isn’t
enough. </span>I just remember not being
entertained at all by it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Times change
and almost 2 years on, I think better of it.</div>
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2005, nor is it even the best Christmas Special.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem I think it has, is that it’s
tagged ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christmas Special</i>’. In these
episodes we expect big, massive, enormous stories with story arcs converging
and playing out<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe</i>
just isn’t that. It’s a Christmas adventure that subtly tries to do something
different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Doctor Who hype machine
and fans alike tend to build things up and build things up and all the
attention just doesn’t suit what the episode was. It isn’t the greatest thing
ever, nor is it the worst.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s just <i>alright</i>.</div>
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The story sees The Doctor crashland on Earth and after a local woman,
Madge Arwell (Claire Skinner) helps him to find his TARDIS, he decides to repay
the favour by treating her and her family to a Christmas ‘they’ll never
forget’.</div>
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I think the episode showed a few sides to The Doctor, namely him
being naive by leaving something as dangerous as a time portal out of his
sight, alarm system or not. But I think it showed how lonely he had become. He did the right thing
in trying to repay Madge, but you could argue that he only did it because he
had nothing else to do and nobody with him to impress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But with The
Doctor’s life, he tends to lead people into danger and I didn’t really feel
that there was any real threat in the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe that’s the problem this story has, something to get you off the
edge of your seat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s just a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nice</i> watch, a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">comfy</i> watch. </div>
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I don’t really mind the whole ‘Mother knows best’ aspect of
the story and the lack of screen time for other guest stars in this, which were
the two biggest criticisms that I read about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I enjoyed the Androzani shout-out (though no camera asides by any of
actors – that would have been hilarious!) and the story of Madge had shown that
she was a strong woman, at a time when everyone needed to be strong. She had
purposely hid the news of the death of her husband because she didn’t want to
spoil Christmas. Telling Children news that like must require great strength. The solution was about the lifeforce of the
trees being carried by a childbearing being, so I don’t really see anything
there that needs to be picked at.</div>
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The ending was undoubtedly great though. The Doctor
going back to the Pond’s and wiping away that tear of happiness when he learns
that they always set a place for him. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I
couldn’t feel those things anymore</i>” he told Madge earlier. Now he does.
Class ending in a story that rattled along nicely without hitting any real
heights (or drops) Think of it like a ride on a train, rather than a
rollercoaster (unless you’re travelling on your local train company’s service).</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">So our random adventure through 50 years and 11 Doctors comes to an end. Thank you for reading and
enjoy whatever is you’re doing tomorrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For our next issue we’re looking for contributions from people, telling
us what they did for the big day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anything
you’re doing, from watching it at any events you may be going to watching it at
home. Please e-mail us at <a href="mailto:fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com">fishcustardfanzine@googlemail.com</a></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Cheers!</span></b>danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-50087199035282262302013-11-21T16:40:00.000+00:002013-11-22T17:19:45.936+00:00The Randomiser - 50 Years of Doctor Who Stories - Part 4<div class="MsoNormal">
Today’s Randomiser sees us do things a little bit different. But
don’t fret – both of these stories are CANON. Remember that.</div>
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The one story that you don’t want to pull out of your 10
year-old Quality Street
lid, and it’s probably this<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Time and
The Rani</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes <i>Terror of The
Vervoids</i> look like an episode of Poriot.<br />
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I don’t like bitching about episodes, as plenty of people
worked very hard just to bring these to our screens, but after watching this, I
wondered why they bothered.</div>
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It’s 1987 and Colin Baker had been sacked. Not by the
producer or anyone who had anything to do with the making of the show, but the head of
Programming at the BBC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not just that –
but the budget continued to be whittled away by the powers-that-be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whilst watching this, I kept wondering; <i>Why
did they set this on a alien planet, when they had a miniscule budget to play
with? Why couldn’t they have done what they did in 1970 and bind The Doctor to
earth?</i> That way – they save money on sets and what’s more, the scenery is
actually real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The situation with Colin
(quite rightly) refusing to come back to film a regeneration scene couldn’t
have been avoided, but wouldn’t it have been more believable if the TARDIS
crash-landed on Earth, with The Doctor trying to fix things in the console
room? Mel could have toddled off to a new Zero Room or something, which would
explain why she was unscathed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead
we got a ridiculous story, with The Rani shooting down the TARDIS and dressing
up to fool the regenerated Doctor. No wonder he didn’t know what was going on,
I didn’t either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s more, after the
pretty decent <i>Mark of The Rani</i>, this story pushed the character down that
slippery slope of being held up as a ‘joke’ and that just got worse with <i>Dimensions
In Time</i>. Normally, I don't mind 'bad' stories, as long as I see something in it that captures my imagination or makes me laugh. This didn't do any of those things.</div>
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The story revolves around The Rani (Kate O’Mara) and her
stealing some of the universes greatest geniuses (and The Doctor) to contribute
to a ‘Time Brain’ that will turn the planet into a ‘time manipulator’ that will
give her control of time across the universe. Or something.</div>
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For a start - the story isn’t worthy of four parts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing really happens in the first two parts
to advance The Rani’s plan – she just dresses up as Mel and gets The (newly-regenerated)
Doctor to fix one of her machines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have trouble with this, as it’s been well established that The Doctor isn’t exactly
a standout ‘genius’ within his own race, The Master and The Rani have
demonstrated more ability. Meanwhile, Mel just pisses around on the surface of
the planet, that looks like nothing but a quarry, screaming her head off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the acting is quite painful.
Sylvester is so off the pace here, regeneration or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be fair, I don’t think the actors were
particularly helped by the direction.</div>
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Apart from The Rani, the other ‘villains’ of the story were
the Tetraps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These monsters look like
something that was rejected from Tom Baker’s era for being <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">too rubbish</i>. I could have sworn that one of the Lakertyans was
trying his best not to piss himself laughing when he was being talked at by a Tetrap. Just sums the story up for me.</div>
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Like I’ve previously said with these reviews, I would <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">never</i> recommend not to watch any Doctor
Who story, all I’ll say is that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Time and
The Rani </i>is a real <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">education</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a lesson on how not to do Doctor Who, especially
at a time when the knives were out for this ‘rubbish and outdated’ programme,
it’s extremely sad to see what was produced.</div>
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With <i>The Night of The Doctor</i> establishing the Eighth Doctor’s
audios as CANON, this would be a great opportunity to mix things up and put
them into the draw along with McGann’s two on-screen stories. The odds were
always in favour of me picking an audio and low and behold, the Series 3 ‘finale’
two-parter was the chosen one (or 'The Great One' if you will). It's fortunate in a way, because this story
brings back a classic monster race from Jon Pertwee’s final story – The Eight
Legs!</div>
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The Doctor and Lucie are in London, investigating a space probe and a
strange cult that seems to have come from nowhere to become a major religion,
professing the end of the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are
they being truthful? You'd better watch your backs…</div>
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This story is an interesting listen, but I don’t particularly
think that this is the strongest Eighth Doctor story in terms of advancing the
main characters. It starts off great, but once the Eight Legs come to fore, I
feel that the action aspect slightly tails off as it delves into ‘sciencey territory’
which, if you're not fully concentrating on, might be a bit confusing, so you’ll need to listen carefully to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Otherwise, it’s a clever story and fits in seamlessly with what we
learned about The Eight Legs<i> </i>in<i> Planet of The Spiders</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The title of the opening part ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Eight Truths</i>’ relates to a Buddhist believe system ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path</i>’
and I felt that the story captured the sense of (what some people) would call ‘a
cult’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, this
fictional ‘cult’ has been designed for a motive not relating to peace and harmony
- but you’ll need to listen to find out what it is!</div>
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The story is crammed with more guest stars than a Stellar Manipulator. Stephen Moore, Sophie Winkleman and Sanjeev Bhaskar play the main supporting cast and there's also a couple of characters from previous stories in the audio range. This story isn't any different though, as all the episodes contain a big name or two amongst the cast. The quality of the casting just shows how much of a pull Doctor Who is and a quality name, by definition, adds that little bit of extra quality to the story and makes it more of an enjoyable experience.</div>
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I wouldn’t recommend that you listen to this right away, as I've mentioned above,
it contains a couple of characters exclusively from the Eighth Doctor audio range. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re new to these stories, start from
Series 1 (<i>Blood of The Daleks</i>) which introduces Lucie and go from there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The majority of the stories are a great
listen and really do bridge that gap between ‘classic’ and ‘new’ Doctor
Who.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sheridan Smith is great and
likeable as Lucie and McGann is always fun to listen too. Maybe it'll work well in a <i>Spiders</i> Double (or 'Treble', if you're being pedantic, Bill.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tomorrow is our last
day as we cover the Doctors from the ‘new era’ of Doctor Who!</b></div>
danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-17407690287100631672013-11-20T20:00:00.000+00:002013-11-21T03:50:50.680+00:00The Randomiser - 50 Years of Doctor Who Stories - Part 3<div class="MsoNormal">
On day three of our pissing over the legacy of Doctor Who by
writing quick, random and let’s face it, poor reviews, we’re covering stories
from two Doctors who never changed their trousers.</div>
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No, I haven’t cheated. The fact that my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">random drawing system</i> produced the 20<sup>th</sup> Anniversary
story is purely coincidental. I wanted <i>Caves of Androzani</i>.</div>
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I’ve seen this story a few times and I must admit, I enjoy
it more with each watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s
(obviously) references flying all over the place, some hammy (but great) acting
and of course – there’s Five Doctors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Well, technically only 3 of the actors returned – William Hartnell sadly
passed away 8 years previously, so the role of the First Doctor was played by
Richard Hurndall. Tom Baker declined to return, so clips from the unused <i>Shada</i> were used in this. Hartnell does appear at the start though - the marvellous clip of him saying goodbye to Susan in <i>The Dalek Invasion of Earth</i> is used as the pre-titles sequence.</div>
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The story sees someone attempting to ‘collect’ all the
Doctors and place them in Gallifrey’s ‘Death Zone’ – a area put aside for ‘The
Game’, a long-banned Time Lord pursuit that saw them collect different aliens
to make them fight. Can The Doctors get themselves back together and find out
who is behind their kidnapping? </div>
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Coming in at around an hour and 40 minutes, <i>The Five Doctors</i>
is pure joy. The pacing of the story works well and you never get bored
watching this, as your eyes will be constantly glued to the screen with all the
goings-on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are some very convenient
plot devices (like there being roads on Gallifrey, Sarah wearing a rain coat
when being dragged up an hill and let’s not forget - torches placed at the foot
of a dark cave!) but those just wash away when you see The Doctors arguing with
each other and the Master creeping around, trying to ‘help’ – and then his day
being ended prematurely when the Brigadier punches him! </div>
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It’s a great shame that Tom wasn’t involved, but Hurndall,
who was given more to do following Tom’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no</i>,
does a good job of playing the First Doctor. It isn’t an <i>exact </i>impersonation,
which I think was for the best, but I could have done with less of him calling
himself (the Fifth Doctor) ‘young man’, when he’s actually younger than him!
The idea of having another actor to play the role worked, simply because many
people watching at the time, wouldn’t have seen Hartnell in the role.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember – this was 20 years later and
repeats were never shown. A market for VHS was a few years away, and it’s not
as if they had the episodes in the BBC vaults to sell!</div>
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The availability of certain Doctors wasn’t the only thing to
hamstring this – the writing proved to be difficult too. Robert Homes
was originally slated to write, but after a disagreement with script editor, Eric
Saward, Holmes left the production and Saward went cap-in-hand to Terrance
Dicks. Terrance actually tells a good story about this – Saward wanted both
Holmes and Dicks to write a script each and the best one would be chosen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dicks declined, claiming that it was ‘disrespectful’
to both himself and a man who he called ‘the best Doctor Who writer’, so Holmes
went ahead to write a draft (entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Six Doctors</i> – the ‘sixth’ being a Cyberman-created First Doctor – hence why
he looks a bit different) but it never got past it’s first draft.</div>
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I think, in the circumstances, Dicks did a great job. It can
be difficult to get in enough lines for 4 Doctors, a few companions AND to give
preference to the current Doctor and his team, especially with the amount of
rewrites that had to be done with availability/budget issues, but it
works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I mentioned, the pacing really
helps this to tick along and it just shows that you can do a Doctor Who ‘feature’
on telly, so it bodes well for the upcoming Fiftieth!</div>
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The main thing I can say about this story, without going
into details and spoiling it more than I already have, is that it’s very fun. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it’s something that you can show to a casual
Doctor Who watcher (as they generally know what the show is about) but don’t show
it to any new watchers. They won’t appreciate the threat of the magnificent Raston
Warrior Robot – they’ll just laugh at it!</div>
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Do yourself a favour this Anniversary - get a copy of The
Five Doctors and whack it on. It’s fun all the way through!</div>
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The Doctor is giving evidence at his trial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His defence sees him show his future
adventure aboard the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">spaceship Hyperion III, with Mel Bush. </span>He and Mel have been summoned to investigate
a murder, but who is doing the killing and where are the bodies going? </div>
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Okay, I know this is technically part of one story, but each
story is a story, within a story, if that makes any sense at all? Plus they’re
all assigned individually production codes, so if I see these as different
stories, I will. So <i>ner</i>.</div>
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Needless to say that my long-winded introduction is more entertaining
than <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Terror of The Vervoids</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To sound extremely blunt – it’s a bit
boring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pacing really lets it down –
and it’s not because of the cutaways to the court room, which in all fairness,
were by far the most entertaining aspects of this story.</div>
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What I do like though, is the sneakiness of the Vervoids.
They don’t come to the forefront until late on, maybe that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> the problem that hampers the script, but I thought it was a nice
change not to have ‘the monster’ popping up constantly. The other happenings in the
story just didn’t transpire to offer anything vaguely entertaining. I don’t
want to see Mel telling The Doctor what to do, I don’t want to see Honor
Blackman, complete with tracksuit, on a exercise bike.</div>
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Ah, Honor Blackman. The former Bond girl who was brought in
to give this some credibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even Sean
Connery (in a wig) couldn’t give this any credibility. To be honest, she just
wings her way through this and I felt no feeling for her, or any of the other
characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, my favourites were the
Commodore and the Stewardess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t
help when you’ve got your guest ‘star’ not doing much, but judging by the
script, there’s nothing much more she could have done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pip and Jane Baker have a poor reputation
amongst fans, which is a shame because their earlier story, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mark of The Rani</i>, is one of my favourite
Sixth Doctor stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you look at
stories like this though, you can see why they get a rough ride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s nothing much redeeming about it, even
if the Vervoids look like a group of talking penises.</div>
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The story is also notable for the introduction of Melanie
Bush. Oh Mel! She came in telling the Doctor what to do and screamed her way
through many a story (her screams could be heard even when a mask was covering
her mouth, amazing that).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her character
just shows the quality of writing at the time – on Big Finish Audio, Mel is great.
She’s a really likeable person and fun to listen to, but here, you just want that
laundry basket, that she got dumped in, to be thrown into the fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea of introducing her before us seeing
how The Doctor met her, seems like an interesting idea, but with the future of
the show up in the air at the time (and knowing what we know now, with the
sacking of Colin Baker) it seems like a strange twist at a time when they needed to
keep viewers, not confuse them with unlikeable new companions and plot ideas.</div>
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The show was really in a flump at the time, but I don’t
think most of the blame can be levelled at John Nathan-Turner. He wanted to go a few
years beforehand, but wasn’t allowed to move on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had to stay to keep the show going, when it
desperately needed a fresh eye and a bit of investment, which wasn’t forthcoming
by the BBC. It’s all well and good patting yourself on the back and jumping on
the bandwagon when things are going well, but when it’s going bad, you need to
offer support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doctor Who didn’t get the
support and you could argue that this couple of years ruined the careers of a
few key people, namely Nathan-Turner and Colin Baker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s sad to think of what might have been and
this story just sums up the era – trying, but just not good enough.</div>
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I’ll never say that you shouldn’t watch a Doctor Who
story, but if you ever watch <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vervoids</i>,
I would do it as part of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Trial of A Timelord</i>
series. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, what kind of lunatic watches
these stories individually? Oh.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Come back tomorrow
for more cheerful nonsense, as we choose more random stories. I bet you can’t
wait.</b><br />
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danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-72003177111190031402013-11-19T22:15:00.001+00:002013-11-19T22:32:47.561+00:00The Randomiser - 50 Years of Doctor Who Stories - Part 2On Day Two of our random journey through 50 years and 11 Doctors,
we have a couple of episodes that are historically important because of two
very different reasons. One introduces a major villain, a new companion and a recurring
character, or ‘semi-companion’ if you will. The other never got broadcast,
well, it was never <i>actually</i> made.
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The opening story of Season 8 proved to be significantly
important for a number of reasons – it introduced <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">the characters of The Master, played by Roger Delgardo,
as The Doctor’s best enemy, and Jo Grant (Katy Manning) as The Doctor’s best friend. </span>Richard Franklin also made his bow as Captain
Yates, as the producers decided to lock the revolving Captain door that had
existing during the previous year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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a robbery in the UNIT vaults and a mysterious man, with a beard, is going
around hypnotising people and using his horsebox as a base for all sorts of
unspeakable deeds…</div>
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steals the remaining Nestene unit that originated from that story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That's where the similarities end though, as <i>Terror of The Autons</i> seems like a very plodding story and,
in all honesty, a bit of letdown after the brilliant Season 7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s not to say this story doesn’t have it’s
good bits – I LOVE the way in which The Master was introduced, immediately after
the opening titles in Episode 1 (which hooked in viewers into the mystery of ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">who is this man?</i>’ right away).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The introduction of the Time Lord, bizarrely dressed
like John Steed from The Avengers, was a nice moment too. Though I’m always amazed as
to why they keep trusting The Doctor to do their work for them, when they’re
not all that keen on him? Couldn’t they have spared a few more Time Lords to
help him out? The use of his TARDIS would have helped too! Okay, okay, I know
it wouldn’t have made the story what it was, but a line here or there to
explain their unhelpfulness would have helped!</div>
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Other bits I enjoyed: The Chair of Death!!! (and The Master’s
line “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">He sat down in this chair and…he
just slipped away</i>”) The highlight of the episode though was the rapport
between The Master and The Doctor, talking like two Gentlemen, going over a restaurant
menu, as The Master is threatening to kill him and to destroy the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brilliant.</div>
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Sadly, as mentioned, the story doesn’t seem to match up to some of it’s
great lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt the plot just
petered out as The Master changed his mind about having a group of creepy big-heads taking over the world (why anyone would take a flower off them, I've no idea) and the Auton threat itself seemed to be a
shadow of what it was in <i>Spearhead</i>.</div>
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Overall, an interesting enough watch for historical
purposes, but a story that is probably forgettable.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Shada</u></b></div>
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video from 1992, surrounded by<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Doctor Who monsters. </span>When he’s not looking seductively into the
camera, or taking the piss out of the surrounding monsters (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I beat you…and you. And you too!</i>) he
provides the linking narration in an attempt to ‘flesh out’ the story.</div>
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Shada is (in)famous for being the only Doctor Who story that
was left unfinished, because of a strike at the BBC at the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As it is, only about half the story exists,
what with them filming scenes out of order, the linking narration, kind-of
works in attempting to piece the story together.</div>
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The Doctor and Romana are in Cambridge after they receive a message from
fellow (retired) Time Lord, Professor Chronotis (magnificently played by Denis
Carey). The Professor wants The Doctor to return a book he took from Gallifrey,
but someone else is after it, because it could be the key to taking a grip on
the universe…</div>
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The story starts off well, the first 3 parts in particular are
really enjoyable, but the latter 3 tail off, partly because of the lack of footage,
but I think mostly because it isn’t really that interesting. Written by Douglas Adams, the story has been released on a
number of platforms, including on audio (with the 8<sup>th</sup> Doctor and
Romana) in book form and a vast number of fan videos and reconstructions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it’s fair to say that it probably isn’t
Adams’ best work for Doctor Who, but that’s
like saying that the Leaning Tower of Pisa is disappointing because <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">it’s leaning a bit</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first 3 parts alone have that ‘Adams magic’ that put most stories in the last 2 years of
Tom, in the shade. Or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shada</i>, if you
will.</div>
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We’ll never know how the story would have really shaped up and it’s
a great shame that it was never completed. We can only guess from scripts,
books and audios as to what the story could have been like. We’d have no idea
about how it would have looked, or how it would have been acted and directed.
Aspects like that mean everything to a story, even one with a dodgy plot, so because
I felt that it ‘petered out’, I also realise it doesn’t necessarily mean that
it actually <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">would</i> have.</div>
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I would say this is the version you should watch and with it
being out on DVD now, it’s easy enough to obtain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh and if you do manage to watch this – look out
for the cliffhanger at the end of episode 1, where The Doctor climbs over a
fence, only for him to, quite clearly, place his leg underneath the fence to
look like he’s ‘trapped’ as a massive beach ball is bearing down on him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s very funny!</div>
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Shada is something that started off well, but thanks in no
small part to not being completed, didn’t fulfil its potential.<br />
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<b>Come back tomorrow for more instant reviews on two more random Doctor Who stories. These quick reviews are the Doctor Who blogging equivalent to showing respect by stepping on a grave, but we'll persist nonetheless</b>.</div>
danielgeeisgreathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472900958387758115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189007022712352778.post-30753312059355994912013-11-18T21:16:00.000+00:002013-11-19T22:24:02.905+00:00The Randomiser - 50 Years of Doctor Who Stories - Part 1<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">To celebrate 50 years of Doctor Who stories, we decided to
do something that is perhaps a tad ambitious for our lazy selves – watching and
reviewing two Doctor Who stories a day (one per Doctor) up until the 23<sup>rd</sup>
November. Somehow, we hope these quick observations
and thoughts will make a little bit of sense and get you (and us!) in the mood in time for the
big day!
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">We’ve used our hi-tec ‘randomiser’ (a lid of a <i>Quality Street</i> tub
and pieces of paper, with numbers corresponding to episodes, written on them) and drew one out for each
Doctor. So we have our 11 random stories to watch in 5 days (yes, we know that
on one day, we’ll need to watch 3!) question is, what are they? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><u>The Aztecs</u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Piece of paper No6 meant that I drew out ‘<i>The Aztecs</i>’. A
story which saw The Doctor hitting on women, </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">long before the modern day series,
Barbara becoming a god, Ian having (what seemed like) drunken fights and Susan
just shouting at people. It’s great.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Written by John Lucarotti, who had previously written <i>Marco
Polo</i> and would go on to write <i>The
Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve</i> and also be commissioned to write <i>The Ark In Space</i> (but never completed
his work as it was re-written), the story sees the TARDIS land in Mexico at the
time of Aztecs and after Barbara goes snooping and gets herself locked in a
temple, it’s up to the others to go and rescue her. Unfortunately, there’s a political
threat going on…</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT9IsK0j8eLnnKkmE_kZEM6wxYgmhoj_U4ZQ8oWldVQd9eyDxtinwoKHzKtMrWrdAmxQAxTss-vtXVhk4tZF-ML7q0dGzoRrt3hTNtipWcfspazDOOK9Z75okxWnvzQ3x8-DA7mpXgoTHz/s1600/azt1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT9IsK0j8eLnnKkmE_kZEM6wxYgmhoj_U4ZQ8oWldVQd9eyDxtinwoKHzKtMrWrdAmxQAxTss-vtXVhk4tZF-ML7q0dGzoRrt3hTNtipWcfspazDOOK9Z75okxWnvzQ3x8-DA7mpXgoTHz/s320/azt1.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I quite enjoyed this story the first time I saw it - and I
still do now. The ending of the first
episode is quality, as Tlotoxl looks straight into the camera – at you – and
says <i>I will destroy her</i>! I can just
imagine viewers at the time being slightly frightened. He’s really not a pleasant
fellow to look at either (thanks to the make-up may I add!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">There’s some good character development too – Barbara believes
she can change history and despite The Doctor advising against it (<i>You can’t change history – not one line!</i>)
she still tries but ultimately sees through her own folly. The Doctor too has started to mellow and this
is a great performance by Hartnell. He’s got a good rapport with Jacqueline Hill
in this and the plot of him and the Aztec woman is amusing and a little bit
heartbreaking, if truth be told. The
scene of him putting down the gift which she gave him, before he left in the
TARDIS, only for him to turn back, pick it up again and slip it into his
pocket, just shows you the amount of feeling that The Doctor has. Much different to what he was like in the
prior stories.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ian on the other hand, cements his position as the ‘Action
Man’ of the show, as when he’s not knocking out an Aztec warrior with his
thumb, he’s having a rather funny fight scene with his nemesis and eventually
throws him to his death. Powerful stuff.
John Ringham (Tlotoxl) almost steals the show with his sneaky political dealings
and attempts to proclaim Barbara as an imposter (which she is of course). Sometimes I wonder who the real villains are
in Doctor Who – what if they would have never landed there? Would as many
people have had their lives changed? The place would have carried on as normal,
surely? The Doctor claims to Barbara that <i>you
failed a civilisation but you saved one man</i> but was the death of a couple
of people worth that? It’s something to think about at least!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">So if you’re looking for an early Doctor Who that is
enjoyable, has some great characters and lines – The Aztecs might just fit the
bill.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><u>The Dominators</u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’ll level with you here – this is the first time I’ve seen <i>The Dominators</i>. And to be even more honest – despite reading
negative reviews, I actually enjoyed it.
Okay, the story is too long and the Quarks and costumes are hilarious,
but that’s exactly why I like it!</span></span></div>
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Written by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln (under
the pseudonym ‘Norman Ashby’ – you probably can guess why) the story sees The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe ‘on holiday’ on a
planet that The Doctor thinks is safe, but apparently, it's radioactive and the
occupants of a spaceship are hanging around, killing people who get in their
way…
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I can see why this story gets a bit of negative reaction - if
you’re not in the mood, especially after watching people, dressed in curtains, hauling rocks for a couple of
episodes and being shouted at by men wearing boiler
jackets about 10 sizes too big, it can rub you up the wrong way. Apparently this was originally going to be a
6-parter, but was cut because of the lack of material - it would be better as a
3-parter in all honesty, as the actual ‘story’ doesn’t get going until the third
episode. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I really enjoyed the character of Cully (played by Arthur
Cox, who would later, much later, pop up as Mr Henderson in <i>The Eleventh Hour</i>) who seemed like one
of those men, born into a powerful family and wanted to do something to please
his father. I giggled at his ‘<i>Cully’s
Adventures Limited</i>’ business and his partnership with Jamie seemed to work
well too. Sadly, the words ‘character development’ couldn’t have applied to any
of the others in the story. I also
thought that they were really going somewhere with the two ‘Dominators’ but the
angst between them didn’t boil over, apart from the one time when things
quickly got sorted out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Quarks. Oh dear. On paper they seem like a good idea –
robots that can seemingly do anything, apart from notice someone coming up
behind them with a threatening bedsheet. They were billed as the ‘next Daleks’ but I refuse to believe that
even in the 1960’s, they looked nothing else but small men dressed in cardboard, bumbling
around. Still, it’s the sort of thing that makes you love Doctor Who, so I don’t
mind really!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Dominators, for blindingly obvious reasons, isn’t down as a
classic, but if you’re after rubbish monsters, it’s the one for you!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>More random stories
tomorrow, as the Third and Fourth Doctor’s are the subject of our Randomiser!</b></span></span></div>
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