So, my latest EN World column is up. In it, I ruminate a bit–with all love and respect to designers throughout the years 😉 –on something that I think no edition of D&D has ever entirely done to my satisfaction. (This despite the fact that I have barely the vaguest notion of how it should.)
And in which I also take a moment to doff my hat to Phil Athans, and thank him for the years of hard work he put in at WotC–and the opportunities he offered me personally.
And a new Suvudu column for your entertainment, edification, and enlightenment. (It also cures athlete’s foot and improves gas mileage. Results not guaranteed.) Today, I talk about secondary worlds, point out an area of fantasy where they’re not only not dominant, but almost utterly absent, and ponder a bit on why that is.
Best. New Who finale. Ever.
Yes, there are some holes, but not nearly enough to ruin my appreciation of the episode. And it’s got me absolutely hyped for next season.
More like this, please.
(More in-depth discussion, with spoilers, somewhere down the road.)
Got a new Suvudu column up, in which I ruminate about the nature of religion in your average fantasy novel.
Some random fannish Dr. Who musings here. No spoilers or anything, but also of no interest to non-Whovians.
I was just thinking, first of all, that it’d be really nice to eventually see a multi-Doctor story in the current incarnation of the show. There were several done back during the old series; I’d love to see Smith, Tennant, and Eccleston together, no matter how unlikely it may be.
But I think it would be even more interesting if we were to eventually get a multi-Doctor story using a Doctor who hadn’t appeared yet.
It would require a few very specific set of criteria to make happen. It would have to happen late in Smith’s run, and he’d have to have given the producers some pretty advance notice of when he was planning to leave the part. And they’d have to cast the next Doctor earlier than normal. But I think it’d be really cool to have the first introduction of a new Doctor occur during a previous Doctor’s run (and not at the very end of it, either).
But even if that’s asking too much, I don’t think some form of multi-Doctor special would be.
(And I also want us to start seeing more of the TARDIS, damn it! The old series showed us multiple rooms of it; the current series only occasionally mentions them.)
For each of the first seven Doctors, name the one storyline that you’d most recommend.
Catch: You must choose from those currently available on DVD.
I’ve already seen The Chase, Logopolis, City of Death, Genesis of the Daleks, and Pyramids of Mars. Talons of Weng-Chiang is already on my list. If one of these truly is your favorite, go ahead and list it, but I’m mostly looking for new stuff.
(And if you list The Chase as one of your favorites, well… No offense, but I’ll likely dismiss your other suggestions. 😉 Good lord, that was some of the most awful television I’ve ever seen.)
