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Doctor Who is the Radio Times moment of the week. Apparently it’s a big surprise which eagle eyed viewers will already have figured out or something. Whether the Radio Times’ definition of a surprise is the same as fandoms remains to be seen.

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>Why does everyone know about Clark’s “secret identity”?
Chloe found out in Season 4, she’s evolved into the Justice League’s Secretary of sorts operating Watchtower. In Season 9 she started boning Oliver Queen aka Green Arrow.
Lois found out at the close of Season 9, she snogged ‘The Blur’ and knew it was Clark. A mythology devaition but 7 years is a long time for her to not know.

>What happened to the REAL Lex?
Rosenbaum left at the end of Season 7. Through the too-complicated-to-explain Veritas journals Lex found out Clark’s identity and the location of the Fortress in his last episode. The Fortress ended up collapsing on Clark and Lex. Lex disappeared, re-emerging in Season 8 paralysed and wearing a mask (not played by Rosenbaum) and was blown up by Oliver Queen because Clark “wouldn’t do what needed to be done”.

>What happened to Lana?
She finally left in Season 8. Thanks to Lex she was really fucked up and ended up absorbing kryptonite meaning she couldn’t go anywhere near Clark without him getting sick…..don’t ask.

This show was my crack, I knew it was no good for me but I kept going back for more!

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Can’t believe Idris wasn’t Romana, The Rani or Paul McGann. Bloody Gallifrey Base!

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> Darkseid’s in it?! I will have to check this show out in more detail now!

He’s the the tenth season’s big bad & Clark’s final trial (and there have been a lot of those) that pushes him toward being Superman in the finale. However, perhpas unsurprisingly, he doesn’t live up to his comic counterpart. Never physically manifests properly, aside from a kick-ass smoke effect, but a lot of possessions and marking people with the Omega symbol bringing out ‘the darkness’. In terms of a Smallville-the-TV-show villain it’s highly effective but when held up against the source material I can understand why some fans were underwhelmed.

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While I imagine I’m alone in sticking with it for ten years, anyone else seen the series finale (or should that be beginning) yet? In short: LOVED IT. Yeah TV budget…not enough Darkseid…mythology changes…blah blah…but fundamentally, the emotional beats and the reverence to the source material and the series past were just perfect. There were tears. Up there for me with DS9, ER and Battlestar as one of the greatest sendoffs ever.

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>His Superman and Batman work is awesome though :(

Yes it was. Bob Sessions is who I hear in my head when I read Batman. I used to able to recite the Knightfall “Let me tell you a few facts about Gotham City…” speech verbatim.
Anyway h2g2 Live – I’m drinking the kool-aid, tired of being pessimistic & lowering expectations. Yay!

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The second film is undeniably shit, the soundtrack on the other hand is awesome – may be blasphemous to say this but even better than the first?

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The stuff with Guinan and Geordi in Ten Forward is hilarious. “I hate this. It is revolting”, “More?”, “Please”. Whoopi’s deadpan face always cracks me up.

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Or Series 5.5/Apple/26.

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> By any TV standards, it?s complete horseshit.

I disagree, yet I can’t seem to articulate why. I just liked it.

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> A spinoff of a spinoff and canon has to be followed to the letter!

Just to clarify, my own personal attitude is bollocks to canonicity. But as RTD is the man who had Davros recognise Sarah Jane in Journey’s End (for lack of a better example), I’d imagine that the inevitable panic sweeping Gallifrey Base about their beloved canon being maintained is unwaranted – since Davies seems to get a genuine kick out of piecing these things together.

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> With RTD at the helm I highly doubt it?d be a remake

I agree. Lest we not forget that Doctor Who had 26 years of history and Russell T. still chose not to reboot. In the same way that your Rose, Everything Changes, Invasion of The Bane’s weren’t overly reliant on continuity, I’m sure Torchwood: Stateside could easily service new and old viewers alike. In fact, after reading ‘The Writer’s Tale’ I can imagine RTD obsessing over minutiae in to the small hours just to make it work as a continuation.

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As an actual proper fan of Torchwood, this sounds terribly exciting. Even if it goes arse up, it’ll be interesting to see how it all plays out – onscreen and off – the sexual fluidity of the principals IS Torchwood for many (a quick trip over to AfterElton proves this). Definitely a noble experiment.

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> God, yes.

Done.

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> The Writer?s Tale 2

Worth getting if you’ve already got the first one? Or am I just going to grumble about duplicating content I already have?

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> Paul McGann?s audio adventures aren?t canon, are they?

I watched a panel with Paul Cornell on canonicity at Novelcon (in Manchester, while most people were Dimension Jumping this year). He said he believes everything, ever is canoinical- 60s Dalek films, DIT, NA’s, EDA’s, Comics, Big Finish, Curse of Fatal Death, Shalka…the lot!

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I just picked up the DVD on Saturday as I kept missing it over Christmas, had it finished by Monday morning. Awesome. Nathan is such an endearing twat.

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> one of the worst episodes of Doctor Who ever?

Really??! I’m always curious as to why people are so vociferous in their hatred of this episode. I can only ever muster indifference at best; not that meddiocrity should be acceptable of course.

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Excellent.

Now do Holoship Remastered.

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> Good Night and Good Luck.

I adore this movie.

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> ?Caves of Androzani?. He is about to regenerate on that ship, we see his eventual regeneration effect but he stops it with enough time to save Peri and then he regenerates.

Really? I must have missed that.

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> Something is not right, it?s saying we don?t exist.

Correction, we don’t ever have existed.

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> a decent Rimmer actor

A lousy Rimmer perhaps, but Chris Eigeman was awesome in Gilmore Girls.

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Bought my copy today- currently feels like Hitchhiker’s to me, atlthough it’s been sometime since I read all of them. I’m really enjoying the Book at Bedtime (Radio 4 listeners go to bed early don’t they?) Stephen Mangan’s reading and Peter Serafinowicz is the voice of the Guide. Anyone know if Dirk Maggs has expressed an interest?

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Euan Ferguson of the Guardian rather enjoyed it:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/11/and-another-thing-douglas-adams

You know, I think I’m going to give it a shot.

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We all raised a glass for Barry Letts at Novelcon and Paul Magrs read from his Third Doctor Novel.

Also just one of many interesting facts I discovered today: Paul Cornell doesn’t think Moff ripped off Benny when creating River Song, beyond their profession he fails to see the comparison.

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See I don’t think of McCoy’s logo as 80s, rather 90s. To me whenever I see it I always think of the New Adventures novels first. Always thought it was weird how long Virgin held on to it, while most BBC products used the coloured-in diamond- very inconsistent branding.

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What are people’s favourite logos of old? Personally I’ve always been rather fond of McCoy’s. Yeah I said it.

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Just curious anyone going to ‘Novelcon’ at The Lass O?Gowrie in Manchester on Sunday?

http://www.kasterborous.com/news.asp?ac=8&id=2898

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> Cum, frankly.

I know, an interview with Graeme Harper!

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Film: ‘Good Night and Good Luck’
Book: ‘The Complete Book of Scriptwriting’ – J. Michael Straczynski (for the anecdotes, rather than the advice)
Album: ‘Parade’ – Prince
Other Cool Thing: The play ‘Blue/Orange’ – Joe Penhall

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Has anyone else been completely charmed by Angelos Epithemiou?

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So I recived my copy of ‘Hornets’ Nest, Volume 1′ today and do you know, it’s rather charming. Production wise it’s nowhere near as sophisticated as Big Finish stuff; but the two old vets reminiscing setup between Mad Old Uncle Tom and Richard Franklin works incredibly well in utilising Baker’s unmistakable tones and has a uniquely gentle feel which, while robbing the story of any great tension, makes you feel all warm inside. Admittedly the way the Doctor is written and performed doesn’t really fit into continuity – it’s like Doctor Four didn’t regenerate and grew to be, well Tom Baker as he is now, this isn’t really a criticism as it would have felt wrong somehow to have denied the passage of time since he last properly played the role. I’ve always been a fan of Paul Magrs stuff (Mad Dogs and Englishmen is the dogs bollocks) and the familiar tropes are all present and correct with a quirky mix of the surreal and the macabre. Good stuff, I look forward to Vol 2!

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> she seems too much like Bernice Summerfield for my tastes.

But is that necessarily a bad thing, since Benny will probably never be exposed to a wider audience?

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He shat on Janice Battersby as well the other week.

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I am now on hunger strike until Doug Naylor does a CarPool.

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So Richard Curtis possibly penning an episode. Discuss.

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> I thought season 4 was marvellous from start to finish.

I second that.

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Thanks for the info. Craig’s Funk and Soul Show on 6 Music is always worth a listen http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/funk_soul/. If you, you know like Funk and Soul- which incidentally everyone should. He really makes for quite a charming presenter, no doubt down to his entusiasm for the subject matter. I particularly enjoy his catchphrases “Awooga Awooga Awooga”, “ey, ey, ey, it’s The Craig Chrales Funk and Soul Show” and copius refrences to wearing your sunglasses inside.

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I know what season it is and I’m the only person who matters.

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You mean I’m NOT alone?

> So you can either have the DOG in the right aspect ratio and the picture squashed, or the picture fine but have a horrendous stretched DOG which is really fucking irritating.

Yeah another pet hate. It may seem insignificant but it makes a huge difference when done right, like you know someone actually cares! What pisses me off the most is that in other regards there is a sense of striving for perfection with contemporary broadcasting (HD/red button services etc.) but when it comes to something really fucking elemental and seemingly easy to rectify (people who genuinely know feel free to correct me)the pooch keeps being screwed.

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> the last scene of the series before it went on hiatus for a decade

It came back?

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>Does *anyone* think The Five Doctors is the dog?s bollocks?

>The Raston Robot is.

Paul Jericho’s delivery of “No, not the mind probe” is.

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It’s fantabulous and if I had such printing facilities would surely use it but… “twentieth century earth”, (ducks).

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> But nothing excuses him floating across the room, NOTHING.

Well it made me cry (in a good way). What can I say I like my Time Lords how I like my Superman…messianic.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClNAiVhcIMA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ekasterborous%2Ecom%2Fnews%2Easp%3Fac%3D11%26id%3D2679&feature=player_embedded

New ‘Waters of Mars’ Trailer.

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> there?s no way in hell RTD will forgo a full-on, traditional, ushering in a new Doctor style regeneration.

Erm…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8062511.stm
“Or do you see it” at 3.35.

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Article’s been upadated again with 3 more images. Two of which are spoileriphic & one which is just lovely. You have been warned:

http://blogtorwho.blogspot.com/2009/07/series-5-returning-character.html

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> Interesting pic (and possible spoiler) here

You beat me to it. Pretty fucking huge news.

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