Category: Tales From /lost+found

Yeah, I know. But stealing liberally from the TARDIS Data Core is fun. Text below the fold.

Continue reading Tales from /lost+found 32: Lost in Adaptation

Happy Halloween. (Text below the fold)

 

Continue reading Tales From /lost+found 31: One weird trick to have a Happy Halloween

Pshaw. The Doctor as Odin? What idiot would come up with an idea like that?

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Well, why did you think Hasselhoff had that eyepatch?

Continue reading Tales from /lost+found 30: Sola Scriptura

I was really hoping to come up with something about bootstrap paradoxes this week. Which technically, this is not. But then again, maybe it is…

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Continue reading Tales from /lost+found 29: The important part is not the part you think it is…

At least they didn’t call them homo reptilia. That would be obviously wrong. Text below the fold.

Continue reading Tales From /lost+found 28: This Article Possibly Contains Original Research

The thought occurred that someone might, theoretically, want one of those logos from Tales from /lost+found 21 as a wallpaper. Though I can’t imagine why.

So Daleks this week then.

It bothers me that Terry Nation gets all the credit for creating the Daleks. Terry Nation created a fairly generic sci-fi robot-mutant monster. Everything that made the Daleks the sensation they were was the invention of Raymond Cusick, who designed the look of the Daleks, a look which has proven timeless.

In our universe at least. These… Have not aged as well.

I heard there was a season premiere of something happening tonight or whatever. I’ll watch it when I get a chance. But it got me thinking back, and I managed to pull this gem out of a fictional TV Guide for the week of September 20, 1999

Before we start, you might remember that a big part of the inspiration for this project was Colin Brockhurst’s Day of Doctor Who, a collection of highly detailed historically accurate faux-ephemera related to a fictional fifth anniversary special. Well, he’s done it again with Changing the Face of Doctor Who. While I’ve contented myself with two (and a bit) alternative Doctors [spoiler mode=inline ](FOR NOW)[/spoiler], he’s gone ahead and dimensionally transposed eight of them, positing a universe where the eight classic Doctors were played by Geoffrey Bayldon, BRIAN BLESSED, Ron Moody, Graham Crowden, Richard Griffiths, Richard O’Brien, Ken Campbell and Rik Mayall. My set arrived on an otherwise terrible Wednesday, and as with the Day of Doctor Who, they’re absolutely lovely and the attention to detail is amazing. Check them out.

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Cribbed, once again, from the TARDIS Data Core. Text below the fold.

Continue reading Tales from /lost+found 24: It’s in the blood

An excerpt from Forty Glorious Years: The British Past, American Present, and Uncertain Future of Doctor Who:

The big reveal in the series finale of Doctor Who was not, as anticipated, the introduction of the long-rumored “Terrible Zodin”, but rather the cameos by David Hasslehoff and Sylvester McCoy, establishing for the only time on-screen that the 1996 US series was a continuation of the original and not, as had always been assumed, a reboot. Though not originally intended to end the series, many have in retrospect declared the finale a symbolic “healing” of the rift between the “past” and “present” of the series.