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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Mar 30, 2013 18:33:38 GMT -5
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Apr 27, 2013 18:39:49 GMT -5
Flesh and Stone: On The Brilliant Book 2011 read the piece on Flesh and Stone in which there was a line that Steven Moffat wrote which did not make it to the final version of the episode. The line had River saying to the Doctor: “You’ll step out the TARDIS and I’ll slap you in the face for something you haven’t done yet.” While Alex Kingston as River did not get to say that line, Moffat eventually did get to have River slapping the Doctor in the face after stepping out of the TARDIS in The Impossible Astronaut. Of course in The Impossible Astronaut, River slapped the Doctor after she, Amy and Rory had just seen the older Eleventh Doctor apparently killed by the said astronaut who would later revealed to be River herself.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Jul 30, 2013 22:30:02 GMT -5
2013 Annual
Lorna’s Escape: Second story. In A Good Man Goes, Lorna says that she first met the Doctor when she was a girl. Well Lorna’s Escape is that story. Intriguing story about Lorna’s first meeting of the Doctor and provides a neat link-up to A Good Man Goes to War.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Jul 30, 2013 22:38:30 GMT -5
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship: Read in DWM’s The Doctor Who Companion: The Eleventh Doctor Volume 6 in the article on Dinosaurs on a Spaceship that although it was written by Chris Chibnall it was Steven Moffat who came up with the title with the movie Snakes On A Plane as the inspiration and asked Chibnall to write a script from that title. Frankly I am not surprised by the inspiration of Snakes On A Plane on Dinosaurs on a Spaceship since that movie immediately came to mind when I first learnt about the Dinosaurs on a Spaceship title. At that time I had not seen Snakes On A Plane, something that I rectified hours before seeing Dinosaurs on a Spaceship.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Aug 26, 2013 17:51:26 GMT -5
Summer Falls: Summer Falls is the book that was seen in The Bells of St John and any eagled viewer would have noticed that it was written by a Amelia Williams. Of course she is better known to Doctor Who fans as Amy Pond. Summer Falls was eventually published for public consumption and here is what I think of it: A very fun little adventure with a very good protagonist in Kate. Very intriguing on what went on here including how Mr Mitchell and the Lord of Winter played their part in the story. After the resolution was provided for in the penultimate chapter it sure brought a calming effect in the final chapter and what a way to end this very enjoyable book.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Aug 26, 2013 22:44:26 GMT -5
I am reading the novelisation of Shada, Douglas Adams’ story which was not completed in production for it to air on television. The novelisation was written by Gareth Roberts and Shada is the name of the Time Lord prison planet and the book reveals that among the prisoners there is Scintilla whose crime was for conspiring with Carrionites. The Carrionites were not the invention of Douglas Adams as they didn’t exist at the time of the television production of Shada. In fact they didn’t even exist when Adams died in 2001 as they were the invention of Gareth Roberts himself when he wrote them in for his debut Doctor Who television episode The Shakespeare Code.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Aug 27, 2013 0:31:25 GMT -5
2013 Annual
The Tomb of Shemura: Third story. The Doctor is travelling with the kids that he met in The Zentrabot Invasion. Pretty enjoyable on what they discover at the titular tomb and what a pretty good villain this story presents.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Sept 25, 2013 1:38:32 GMT -5
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Sept 28, 2013 22:52:10 GMT -5
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Sept 28, 2013 22:53:26 GMT -5
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Sept 29, 2013 2:45:15 GMT -5
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship: In DWM’s The Doctor Who Companion – The Eleventh Doctor Volume 6 in the look at the making of Dinosaurs on a Spaceship which had was the first episode to feature Mark Williams as Rory’s father Brian and it pointed out that just as the Doctor had started calling Rory, Rory Pond on his wedding day to Amy in The Big Bang, the Doctor called Brian, Brian Pond in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. The fact that the Doctor called Brian a Pond in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship is not the reason I brought this episode up it was instead the reminder of Rory and Amy’s wedding in The Big Bang and the fact that Brian wasn’t at that wedding with no explanation for his absence at his son’s wedding. The absence of an explanation of Brian not attending his son’s wedding is in contrast to the explanation given in The Sontaran Stratagem for Wilf not attending his granddaughter Donna’s abortive wedding, the explanation being that he had Spanish flu at the time. With Wilf, the explanation for him missing out Donna’s abortive wedding came after the ill health and subsequent death of Howard Attfield who had played Donna’s father Geoff Noble resulted in making Wilf, who was originally meant to be a one-off character in Voyage of the Damned, taking the spot that was originally written for Howard. It is a different case with Brian as Mark Williams played him as a new character due to the fact that Rory’s father was never identified back in The Big Bang. After all It could easily been implied at the time of The Big Bang that Rory’s father was at the wedding but whose identity was never pointed out. In fact The Big Bang in dialogue neither confirmed nor denied the presence of Rory’s father at the wedding. Therefore there was no necessity in casting someone at the wedding in The Big Bang and making him Rory’s father in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship and Mark Williams was cast as Brian with no prerequisites for being in the wedding reception in The Big Bang.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Oct 26, 2013 16:41:07 GMT -5
The Angel’s Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery: In The Angels Take Manhattan the Doctor and Amy were reading the book Melody Malone: Private Detective in Old New York Town in which Melody Malone would turn out to be River Song, the Melody Malone name coming from the name that she was born Melody Pond. The book became the basis for The Angel’s Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery, originally an e-book but it is an adventure that I experienced as an audiobook narrated by River herself Alex Kingston. A very intriguing tale of River’s guise as Melody Malone as she investigates a case involving a studio owner and a couple of movie stars and Alex Kingston does very well in her narration of the story.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Dec 23, 2013 18:25:51 GMT -5
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Dec 23, 2013 20:57:16 GMT -5
5.28 The Web of Fear Episode 6: Excellent conclusion to the story. When most of this story was still believed to be missing, the audio soundtrack of this story was released several years ago and unfortunately anyone who read the sleeve note before listening to the CD already got spoiled that Staff Arnold was the Intelligence. Of course the revelation about Arnold was still not a surprise when finally seeing this episode but the revelation still felt creepy. The final episode of this story was very good in maintaining the eerie atmosphere of the story and it was especially good when everyone was in the same place with the Yeti and the voice of the Intelligence including when the Doctor’s Yeti attacked its fellow Yetis. The Doctor was rather livid when his friends saved him from the Intelligence saying that he had intended to drain the Intelligence not for it to be the other way around. Of course the return of the Intelligence was going to be open-ended. It is too bad that Nick Courtney only passed away back in 2011 as it would have been interesting to have known his reaction on seeing again the bandanna cap that he was wearing in this story. One of the Yeti was played by John Levene he would later has his face shown when he played Benton in the UNIT stories. This episode is the last we see of Professor Travers and Anne in TV Doctor Who although Jack Watling did reprise the former in the video drama Downtime which also had daughter Debbie reprising her role as Victoria. However the Doctor and Lethbridge-Stewart would have no idea just how much they would see of each other in the then future.
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Post by Angel Lewis' Chinese Husband on Feb 3, 2014 19:44:27 GMT -5
False Gods CD Extra: On the Forty-five CD Extras included an interview with False Gods writer Mark Morris that before becoming a story set in Egypt and Howard Carter, that he originally set the story at a Victorian theatre. Sounded intriguing what if this story had been set at the Victorian theatre and the 45 bodies which would become 45 statues for the eventual Egypt story.
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