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[phosfate]

Holy shit, they did what to Gallifrey?!?

The things I miss...

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[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

Oh, Lor', whot have they done *now*? Hasn't that planet been through enough, what with the Daleks overrunning it like cockroaches and the creeping damp in the basement?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Apparently at some point in the BBC Eight Doctor novels it was 'destroyed.' I kind of hope that somebody pissed President Romana off one too many times and she pushed the button.

[wednesday]

Holy hell.

How much expanded Doctorverse is canon?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I have no friggin' idea. But once the new series starts, I'm sure there will be thousands of happily flaming fanboys wrestling with that very question.

[wednesday]

Juh-HOY.

I have a hard enough time trying to figure out what to buy my dad. (He grew up on the show. I just like Daleks.)

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Talk to versaphile. She knows what's what with all the post-1990 stuff.

There's a nice coffee table book out now that he might like. I haven't seen inside it.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

Ack! Alas, pore Gallifrey!

I read the entire run of Virgin Dr. Who books... let me rephrase that, I read the entire run of Dr. Who books published by Virgin, but once the rights reverted to the BBC, I felt the books became very stodgy (having lost a lot of the fun feeling that *anything* could happen) and so stopped reading. Did they get better? ;)

The fanboys I know are still wrestling with the validity of Eighth Doctor movie (fer instance, is Dr. Who really half-human (ick! no!) or was he just being all manic and wacky when he said that?) so I'm sure the book-canon question will be wrestled with... even unto "Are only the BBC books canon or are the Virgin ones also valid?"

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Yes... it sort of went, "BEWM".

The novels have been rather shit ever since. Mostly.

[wednesday]

The coffee table book looks fantastic. It's all over the shops here, but for some reason I never think to get it for him.

Did you see 2002's Dalek Survival Guide? That was hilarious.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Near as I can tell, from reading at random, they're all over the highway, from freakin' brilliant to Bring Me the Head of Terrance Dicks. I'm still catching up on the Virgin line before I tackle them in-depth.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Which book goes it in boom?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Haven't seen either book here (our local generally has 1 BBC paperback and 1 Telos novella). Usually get stuff used off of Amazon and eBay. There are also e-books on the BBC site now, which makes me happy as one of the chosen titles now goes for around $150.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

'The Ancestor Cell'.

You might see an anagram of a name you know in it ;)

I'm sure the intentions were good. It's not a bad book in of itself, and there have been some gems of stories afterwards; but in general, the timeline of Eight has been rather fucked up to the point where I don't even read them anymore.

[ahli.livejournal.com]

OMG you have Carter USM in your head! I have a Carter record with a cartoon penis on it. :D

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

If I worried about Doctor Who's timeline being fucked up, I'd've had to be institutionalized about halfway through Tom Baker.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

You dirty, dirty girl.