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Post by clocketpatch on Jan 28, 2012 21:15:58 GMT
So... I've read nearly 20 of the EDAs in the last month and a half. Would I be right in thinking this is going to have some kind of permanent warping effect on my brain?
In other news, The Scarlet Empress is wonderful, wonderful crack. I particularly love the epilogue where the author explains how he transplanted Iris out of one of his published non-Who novels just for the heck of it.
And the Doctor twisting his ankle repeatedly.
And the way all the other books reference each other to the point of obnoxiousness but the adventure with Iris is pointedly never mentioned again.
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Post by jjpor on Jan 28, 2012 22:53:44 GMT
She is relegated to the status of unperson by the Powers That Be...
What did you think of Larry Miles's entries into the canon? Alien Bodies is magnificent (I kind of like Interference too, but it's a bit of a Marmite book, I gather). The rest of the authors who tried to complete the Faction Paradox arc didn't really "get" it, I don't think, leading to stuff like The Ancestor Cell, but it was fun times while it lasted.
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Post by aquabluejay on Jan 29, 2012 2:53:35 GMT
Clocket, I read the first sentence of your above post, and my immediate verbal response was "And is your brain mush now or what!" accompanied by a momentary impersonation of Four.
I have not yet read the Scarlet Empress, and am somewhat afraid of what will inevitably, eventually be Iris' appearance into my life. Alien bodies, admittedly confused me a bit, haven't quite figured out how or why yet. I got tired of Interference after 3/4 of book one and started doing that awful skimming thing I do sometimes. I believe the last one I read was the year of intelligent tigers which was great but somehow left me bereft, wanting more from it at the same time. I believe I'm probably going to end up reading Mad Dogs and Englishmen next, which managed to scare even me off with it's luminous pink cover and pistol toting poodles. After careful consideration I have decided to be one of the people who consider The Adventure of Henrietta Street to be a work of brilliance.
I've actually found that if I read the EDA's in order both the amount of sense they make to me and my interest in them goes down drastically.
Lloyd Rose's two contributions to the series remain my favorites by far, but over the last week I keep drawing parallels to 'Tigers' for some reason.
I am deeply entertained by the occasional stab that some of the EDA authors take at eachother's works, sometimes putting words into the Doctor's mouth that deliberately discredit his solution to one of the previous novels, or otherwise dismiss it as improbable. I remember one particular instance where his companion starts to go all "but didn't you just do that exact thing to save the planet last week.." and he just ignores them, can't remember which book that's in though...
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Post by clocketpatch on Jan 30, 2012 8:15:55 GMT
Er... I'm sort of reading them in order and I don't think I've got to Alien Bodies yet. I think. I'm pretty sure I read something by old Larry and it impressed me, but I don't remember anything about it. Or possibly that was Orman.
I was suitably impressed by Seeing I which, I might add, should have a disclaimer on it as it is clearly not meant to be read by people who are living abroad. I'm not sure if my mind if mush yet (though I suspect it is) but the bit where Sam was musing about pears, and when did she last eat a pear? Made me start bawling into my e-reader. I wasn't homesick before that book but daaammmn.
I've noticed that too Aqua. The last book I read had the Doctor thinking about how he'd done a time loop with the TARDIS last week to save the day but that was clearly bending the laws of time and if he kept doing it there would be consequences of some sort and wasn't he (*cough* *cough* the other author *cough*) getting lazy in his old age?
Mush though... hmm... last night I had a dream where I was watching this up-coming season (and I'd somehow managed to miss the first five episodes even though they aren't airing until fall and I'm pretty sure this dream was set in April, also, I was having trouble finding them because the internet had shut down and BBC had decided it was copy right infringement to air its shows on non-UK networks. IDK) but anyway, this dream involved Eleven and Sam who had bright blue hair.
Speaking of which... what the flipping heck is up with this dark hair Sam that normal!Sam keeps having random visions of?
Also, and finally, because I left my computer cable at work and the battery will be dead in five minutes, but Fitz is awesome. I love him and the Doctor being dorks at each other.
In my dream Fitz and Sam were somehow the same person. I just remembered that. Because I was comparing how similar I was to them, and it made sense in dream logic - Our names start with the same letters and our parents are difficult and our hair is blue!! IDEK
Anyway... Hi all!
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Post by jjpor on Jan 30, 2012 22:36:43 GMT
Your hair is blue? The dark Sam thing is a Miles thing, iirc. Has his weird stamp all over it, and kind of makes sense in the end, I think... Yeah, authors commenting on each other's stuff in backhanded sorts of ways - a tad unprofessional, maybe, but highly amusing when you pick up on it. ;D Good call on The Adventuress of Henrietta Street, aqua. I do agree that the amount of sense the EDAs make, and indeed the quality throughout the whole series, is very variable, but then again I do admit to preferring the older New Adventures, for all their faults, so I may be biased. Certainly, it's interesting to see the bits that kind of got recycled, with their serial numbers filed off, in NuWho (you know the bits). Old RTD? What a little tinker... Glad to see I'm not the only one getting "the fear" from all this ACTA, SOPA, PIPA stuff, Clocket. I was actually thinking the other day "better write some more fanfic while it's still kinda-sorta legal." (I don't think, technically, it is legal now, but you know, it'd be like more illegal. Or something?) Not that I'm paranoid or believing all the horror stories or nothing (although I am... ).
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Post by aquabluejay on Feb 1, 2012 2:04:02 GMT
Ah, Unnatural history.... I rather enjoyed that one, particularly the bit where eleven swims San Francisco bay, twice, and then scales up the side of the bridge and just waits there soaking wet for his companions to catch up. XD These books have made me actually want to visit good ol' san fran...
This sounds like an entertaining dream. I'm pretty sure I dream about Eleven pretty regularly, but don't actually remember anything about it. It's just sort of a nagging sensation...
Yes, I have been brought around by a combination of the books and Funtimevash's fanfiction to finally appreciate the awesomeness that is Fitz. We were studying the author Fitzgerald the other day, and my English teacher abbreviated his last name to Fitz on the board in a question and is spent about 30 seconds goggling at it before I realized it couldn't be and my group ended up having to ask who she was going on about. Then we felt really stupid.
I really need to get back to reading those, but I've been terribly busy of late, and I really need to get a kindle...
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Post by jjpor on Feb 1, 2012 22:04:25 GMT
Aren't there supposed to be incredibly dangerous currents in San Francisco bay, one of the reasons why it was supposedly impossible to escape from Alcatraz? Oh well, if anyone could swim it, it'd be the Doctor. ;D
Ah, F Scott Fitzgerald travelling with the Doctor. That'd be a good "historical guest character of the week" story for NuWho. ;D
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Post by aquabluejay on Feb 1, 2012 22:28:41 GMT
He would e, although I'm sure the real life of the party would end up being his wife Zelda, according to all accounts. There could be some very cute scenes in there of the Doctor ascribing him the nickname Fitz and then deciding against it as he's already had a friend called that! ^^
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Post by jjpor on Feb 2, 2012 20:17:48 GMT
And now for some reason I've got an image of Eight travelling with the character Robbie Coltrane used to play in Cracker (gritty early-90s Brit detective series, also starred a young Christopher Eccleston...before a young Robert Carlyle murdered him), who was also called Fitz. Which would be...something to behold, certainly.
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Post by kirkg on Feb 9, 2012 2:12:05 GMT
Ah, Unnatural history.... I rather enjoyed that one, particularly the bit where eleven swims San Francisco bay, twice, and then scales up the side of the bridge and just waits there soaking wet for his companions to catch up. XD These books have made me actually want to visit good ol' san fran... [\quote] Ah, good ol' san fran.... there are dark dangers waiting there... plus, it's on the San Andreas fault line, don't cha know...
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Post by aquabluejay on Feb 9, 2012 18:31:18 GMT
And apparently thanks to the Doctor's extremely dodgy solution to the crisis of the TVM it's now some kind of tempro-spatial fault line too.
That was probably my favorite thing about that book. That they actually ascribe some consequences to the obviously cheating/paradox stuff Eight claims to have set everything right at the end of the TVM. That and Eight randomly screaming "Give back the Violet!", which is right behind this exchange from Parallel 59 which I still consider to one of Eight's best answers to a question ever.
Compassion: "Did you learn anything of use from them?" Doctor: "I discovered that we’re spies! Isn’t that exciting?" He grinned wildly at her. "I had no idea!"
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