Ill Fortune

After what feels like forever (especially, I should think, anyone who actually sat through the entirety of ‘Eurovision‘), Dr Who Saturday rolls around with episode ‘42‘. While I have suffered Who depravation for the last fortnight, I approach this episode with caution. Chris Chibnall wrote this one. You may know Chris from his dubious contributions…

Watched Small Worlds again yesterday and noticed a new connection between Torchwood and Doctor Who continuity. At the beginning of the episode, we get a shot of Jack standing in the foreground of his office, with his desk sitting behind him. He’s talking to Ianto, I think. Anyway, on Jack’s right (the viewing left) sits…

I’m just so desperate for this to happen… You know it makes sense. I can’t, for one, believe we can go on any longer with only a single Timelord. That’s no fun at all…

I’m getting all excited about this evening now… so much so that I’m writing this entry when I really don’t have much to say. All these pictures of Peter and David simply make the whole wait nearly too much to handle… but, I’m sure I’ll struggle through somehow and will have the recorder ready to…

Driving to work this morning, I realised just how little Who remains before the end of the season – just four episodes. In the midst of this mournful epiphany I did, however, glean a glimmer of hope… in less than two weeks Jack will be back! I thought about this for a moment, wondering why…

Despite what feels like an endless term of planning followed by lashings of self-doubt, I move ever closer to running my own role-playing campaign using the new Doctor Who system. With that in mind, I have been concocting a story arc. So, given the common practice seems to be to have a season structured along…