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Post by Pinwig on Aug 12, 2024 14:45:11 GMT
Bah, I've just had the joyous experience of finding one of the three marvel era DWM specials I don't have for two quid in a quaint second hand bookshop sullied by the fact that just as I picked it up, several boys intent on trouble pushed over a rotating book stand behind me. If I'd turned round a split second quicker I could have caught it.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 12, 2024 15:33:26 GMT
They may have been Dalek agents.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 12, 2024 17:07:32 GMT
They just wanted to know the location of the renegade Dalek base
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 12, 2024 17:24:20 GMT
You must tell them where it is, Pinwig.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 12, 2024 17:47:11 GMT
It was pretty sad. The lady in the shop said they'd been in earlier in the week and were throwing books out of windows. Unnecessary and thoughtless.
I also got a first edition paperback of the Ice Warriors and the Achilleos cover version of Curse of Peladon to replace very battered copies in my collection.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 11, 2024 12:48:14 GMT
#608 arrived. The free gift advertised for #609 is jolly exciting.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 17, 2024 14:33:05 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 17, 2024 21:20:41 GMT
Not another one of these. I hoped that one last year was an anniversary special.
Possibly misguided pitching your most expensive product at new or casual fans?
Get back to the chronicles books please!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 17, 2024 21:28:48 GMT
The 'slipcase' on the 60th Anniversary one was very thin and easily damaged.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 17, 2024 21:32:31 GMT
Get back to the chronicles books please! I did hear a rumour they were no more. Sad if true. |
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 17, 2024 21:37:35 GMT
WHAT.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 17, 2024 21:49:01 GMT
I have also heard this sad rumour.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 18, 2024 18:34:41 GMT
Well that's disappointing to hear. That messes up the rather neat release pattern of special/chronicle, but hey ho. So I suppose now we're looking at 3x standard £9.99 special issues a year interspersed with 2x £11.99 bigger ones and a big £19.99 job. Looking at the page examples for Into the Vortex on Panini's website it may have redeemed itself. It just looks like an episode guide, which recalls memories of the importance of the old programme guides back in the day. I don't have a handy programme guide book for the 2005 era onwards, so this may have a place in my collection after all. Although it does look pretty basic.  |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 18, 2024 18:44:04 GMT
Hmmm.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 2, 2024 13:44:05 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 2, 2024 20:20:29 GMT
Ooh!
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 7, 2024 21:05:53 GMT
I ordered direct from the publisher. I had not expected bookazines to appear elsewhere.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 7, 2024 21:26:03 GMT
The slipcase ones are more books. BooksEtc had last years
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 9, 2024 7:46:29 GMT
It claims the UNIT stories were set in the 1970's. Utter shite! They were set in the fucking 1980's!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 9, 2024 8:02:35 GMT
We've done this before. Nothing on screen dates the actual Unit stories to the 1980s, and visual evidence very much suggests the 70s.
The one onscreen date is in Pyramids of marsFour other mentions later when they visit the ruined 1980.
I personally think Sarah is from 1980, but she's been home at least once early in the Fourth Doctor's time - between Lock Ness Monster and Planet of Evil would be my bet.
But if Sarah is from 1980 and no time has passed the majority of the UNIT stories must have taken place prior to 1980. And that causes a huge continuity error with Mawdryn Undead cos the Brigadier is retired by 1977.
The intention may have been for the UNIT stories to be set in the 1980s but the evidence is generally not followed through on screen.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 9, 2024 8:25:13 GMT
You are talking shite, Phil.
Sarah is from 1980. The Brig refers to the PM as a woman.
Open and shut case. UNIT stories are in the 1980's. There's not even a debate to be had here.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 9, 2024 8:54:33 GMT
*reads on*
Tremas is an anagram of Master! I never noticed before!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 9, 2024 12:20:37 GMT
*reads on* Tremas is an anagram of Master! I never noticed before! -Ralph Oh dear. You'll be telling me next you never noticed Sir Giles Estram's surname next....` |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 9, 2024 12:26:00 GMT
You are talking shite, Phil. Sarah is from 1980. The Brig refers to the PM as a woman. Open and shut case. UNIT stories are in the 1980's. There's not even a debate to be had here. -Ralph PM could be another woman or even Thatcher, at an earlier point in time. The PM in the Green Death, Jeremy, is not a PM in this reality. The most likely candidate for a Jeremy who was the PM in this reality opens up an interesting line of thought as to how there was a woman PM so soon after. |
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Post by legios on Oct 9, 2024 18:02:43 GMT
We've done this before. Nothing on screen dates the actual Unit stories to the 1980s, and visual evidence very much suggests the 70s. The one onscreen date is in Pyramids of marsFour other mentions later when they visit the ruined 1980. I personally think Sarah is from 1980, but she's been home at least once early in the Fourth Doctor's time - between Lock Ness Monster and Planet of Evil would be my bet. But if Sarah is from 1980 and no time has passed the majority of the UNIT stories must have taken place prior to 1980. And that causes a huge continuity error with Mawdryn Undead cos the Brigadier is retired by 1977. The intention may have been for the UNIT stories to be set in the 1980s but the evidence is generally not followed through on screen. Isn't it the case that there are two distinct decisions taken by different production teams on when the UNIT stories are set? I was under the impression that the production team for the Pertwee UNIT stories viewed them as taking place in the near future, in the decade following transmission, but that the production team on the Baker stories and after viewed the Pertwee UNIT stories as having been contemporary and to have taken place at the time of transmission. So there isn't a single date for when the Pertwee stories take place, it depends on which story you are watching when they are referenced. So, from the point of view of "Mind of Evil", the story is taking place in the 1980s, but from the point of view of Madrywn Undead "Mind of Evil" takes place in the 1970s. So there are two different datings for them, depending on what you are watching, both of which are correct in their reference frames. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 9, 2024 19:05:44 GMT
You are talking shite, Phil. Sarah is from 1980. The Brig refers to the PM as a woman. Open and shut case. UNIT stories are in the 1980's. There's not even a debate to be had here. -Ralph PM could be another woman or even Thatcher, at an earlier point in time. The PM in the Green Death, Jeremy, is not a PM in this reality. I deny this reality! -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 10, 2024 13:42:12 GMT
I'll be buying a second copy of DWM. The Target book with this month's issue turned up crumpled to fuck due to no protection in transit. Just chucked into a paper envelope. FFS.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 10, 2024 17:08:01 GMT
I may do the same, my book isn't damaged by delivery but the spine has come pre-cracked because it has a wrinkle in it where it's been stuck to the book. Gives the effect it's already been read by a heavy-handed reader. However this is a twelve quid issue isn't it? Expensive replacement.
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Post by Benn on Oct 10, 2024 18:11:07 GMT
I may need to try and find one of this month's issues.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 11, 2024 7:47:41 GMT
I may do the same, my book isn't damaged by delivery but the spine has come pre-cracked because it has a wrinkle in it where it's been stuck to the book. Gives the effect it's already been read by a heavy-handed reader. However this is a twelve quid issue isn't it? Expensive replacement. Other folk on GB have wrinkled spines. It may be all of them. -Ralph |
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