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Post by jjpor on Jan 19, 2011 17:05:55 GMT
Oh, and I also discovered this afternoon that the NA/MA ebooks have been removed from the BBC website... I know they're having to cut back their online services due to the infamous ConDem budget cuts, but...why those, BBC?? I've still never, in all these years, got around to reading that Pyramids of Mars sequel with Fivey and Nyssa in it... Flipping heck...
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Post by johne on Jan 19, 2011 20:31:00 GMT
Oh, and I also discovered this afternoon that the NA/MA ebooks have been removed from the BBC website... I know they're having to cut back their online services due to the infamous ConDem budget cuts, but...why those, BBC?? I've still never, in all these years, got around to reading that Pyramids of Mars sequel with Fivey and Nyssa in it... Flipping heck...Lance Parkin, in the thread on Gallifrey Base, said that the original contract to put The Dying Days online ran for five years -- and that was in 2002. Presumably, if they were all like that, someone noticed and went "Oops." My recollection of the Pyramids sequel was that it was rather pedestrian, and borrowed too much from Pyramids itself -- in particular, the way the villain dies. The author may have thought so too, because the online version included an alternative ending where the villain gets killed in a different way. Oh, and every time Shabti figures showed up, which they did quite frequently, I found myself imagining them as Mr Shabby from Monty Python, which I don't think was the author's intention at all  |
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Post by clocketpatch on Jan 19, 2011 20:41:44 GMT
JJ! You need to be less dramatic with your post titles, I got all ackkkkkkk for a second there.
(I'm sad that the Pyramids of Mars sequel is gone though. I didn't even know there *was* a Pyramids of Mars sequel)
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Post by jjpor on Jan 19, 2011 20:58:57 GMT
Lance Parkin, in the thread on Gallifrey Base, said that the original contract to put The Dying Days online ran for five years -- and that was in 2002. Presumably, if they were all like that, someone noticed and went "Oops." Heh, that would make sense, I suppose... ;D Thanks for the recap - I now feel as if I've read it, and slightly regret having done so.  I suppose it could be argued that if I'd never managed to read it despite having known it was there for several years and having in that time read/reread all of the other stories on there, then subconsciously I probably didn't really want to read it... ;D It would have been better with Mr Shabby in it, I suspect. JJ! You need to be less dramatic with your post titles, I got all ackkkkkkk for a second there. (I'm sad that the Pyramids of Mars sequel is gone though. I didn't even know there *was* a Pyramids of Mars sequel) Hey, just keeping you on your toes! It's all right - I've now imagined reading it with johne's help, and it wasn't really worth the effort. Well, apart from that bit where Fivey and Nyssa... No, but that would be telling. ;D |
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Post by johne on Jan 20, 2011 1:04:33 GMT
Thanks for the recap - I now feel as if I've read it, and slightly regret having done so. A lot of the reviews at DWRG (spoilers!) seemed to like it. But I rather agree with Finn Clark's viewpoint: |
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Post by jjpor on Jan 20, 2011 22:12:02 GMT
Pathological Victorianisms, though - there's a lot to be said for those... |
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