Bittorrent Find of the Day
The magic of filesharing is not fr33 mu5ic& mov1ez!!!, it’s people coming together to create a library of otherwise unavailable things.
Big Finish Week
Throughout this week Big Finish is offering many of their early Doctor Who audio plays at a huge discount. One day only for certain stories, plus a month long sale for collections. CDs for US$10.96 (includes shipping), which, according to their blog, should come with a digital download, and download only for US$5.
Big Finish produces an entertaining and polished final product. It is not uncommon for me to stop whatever I’m doing and just listen. If you haven’t heard one of their audio plays, now is the time!
Among what they’re offering are many of my favorite stories. I was going to detail a number of them, but decided I should just focus on one. If you’ve never listened to a Big Finish before, go with Spare Parts (on sale June 9th). It stands alone well and is superbly terrifying and heartbreakingly sad.
I’d also be remiss in not mentioning that on the 10th they are offering The Pirates which features Colin Baker singing Gilbert and Sullivan parodies (and managing to rhyme something with “Rassilon”, if you can believe that). And I’d like to plug the oft neglected story Omega, also on sale in the 10th, which features some of the cleverest dialog and is a great show of the kind of stories you can tell with audio.
-> Big Finish Summer Sale Page
-> Complete Calendar of Sales
More Goodbyes
Heads Up: Doctor Who Audio Play Updates
Has Doctor Who fueled my love of audio plays, or have audio plays fueled my love of Doctor Who?
First, for those in the Boston area, The Post-Meridian radio players are putting on two performances of their radio play The Starship of Madness, March 25th and 26th. I saw this group at Arisia and they were incredible, very talented. I highly recommend you go. How can you beat seeing a live Doctor Who radio story!?
-> More info
I thought I was the only one that remembered, let alone liked the apocryphal Death Comes to Time. Includes Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann in new, non-Doctor, roles and also the line “When I need your opinion I’ll…shoot myself”. I’m excited to see what this is about, as the Minister of Chance is an all time favorite character.
-> More info and a free Prologue
[via: The Doctor Who News Page]
And last, Tom Baker has joined Big Finish. …I think that statement can stand alone in its awesomeness. New Fourth Doctor stories.
Death of Nicholas Courtney
“Having written his memoirs – leaving out the classified information – he’s probably tending his garden and waiting for the call to arms from the Doctor. Which may never come.” -Nicholas Courtney, 1929-2001
In my mind the Brigadier will eternally be waiting and ready for the Doctor; Nicholas Courtney, however, we will miss very much.
Christmas Link Dump
I have a Christmas tradition of my very own: Every Christmas Eve, at about 11pm, I get the idea that I should watch The League of Gentlemen’s Christmas Special. One hour later, completely sickened, afraid to turn off the lights, I realize I have ruined Christmas for myself yet again. I love these horrible bastards.
A few things:
- In 2008 I made a Christmas link dump of many Christmas specials I enjoy. If you’re not running around doing last minutey things, you could check them out. A Car Talk carol still makes me cry with laughter, the 1951 Christmas Carol is still one of the best movies ever made, and I still think you should watch Hogfather if you have no “Christmas spirit”.
- Tim Minchin’s White Wine in the Sun – Comedic, yet sentimental, Christmas song. Minchin speaks truths and plays piano.
- Holmes Decorates His Chemistry Set – Even Sherlock Holmes can enjoy Christmas. “Mrs. Hudson, don’t you dare take my aspidistra!” Uploader made an amusing Freudian typo in the opening.
- The BBC’s Doctor Who site has many Christmas goodies up, including some short stories. None of which I’ve managed to check out, because I’m too busy with this.
- “Merry Christmas Gabriel. I got you the truth.” – Is a line I hope to find a way to use at least once tomorrow. There’s also a seasonal PATV episode.
- And finally, if you have any last minute shopping to do, check out the Humble Bundle. A pay-what-you-want bundle of indie games to benefit the EFF and Child’s Play. If you pay more than $7.73 you also get some additional games, including one of my favorites, Aquaria.
Merry Christmas and other applicable winter holidays all! And don’t forget to leave beer for loli Santa.
A Study in Time
By di_br.
Startlingly, despite the width and breadth of both Holmes and Who non-canonical works, not one crossover seams to exist. An idea whose time has perhaps come?
Many Fanvids in This Post
This video wins for reminding me that Torchwood had some moments that I actually enjoyed. All These Things That I’ve Done is one of my favorite songs and this video does a great job of juxtaposing some of Torchwood’s more meaningful themes with it.
I’m really posting this because I can’t decide which Sapphire & Steel video to post. The one set to Carmalldansen? The creepy one? The humorous overview, introduced by Tom Baker, confirming, yes, you weren’t supposed to know what the hell they were fighting against? The one set to a song from seramyu (the Sailor Moon musicals – oh yes, believe it!)? Of course such a strange show generated such strange fanworks. You see, it’s so impossible!
Edit: Sorry, looks like the video player’s not showing up in the RSS feed. Gonna have to click through if you want to watch it!
Christmas Doctor Who Station Ident
Doctor Who, Anime Style
This fanmade clip hits the nail on the head, exactly what a Doctor Who anime would look like! I’d probably never want to see such a thing really come to pass, but the injection of a hyper, scantily clothed, anime girl-with-guns into a classic Jon Pertwee story is hilarious. Also, animated Pertwee gets to kick some serious ass…on the streets of Tokyo!
A few more examples can be found over at creator OtaKing77077′s YouTube page.