I keep constructing posts in my head instead of on the keyboard (not unlike my general productivity workwise of late, oops).  Hormonal wackiness.  Oh what fun.

Aaaaanyway, I sort of missed the boat on actually properly responding to the new Who, so the drive-by version is:


I'm accidentally watching random Blake's 7 S1 thanks to Lovefilm being a bit batshit.  (With this Disk 2 before Disk 1 you are really spoiling me, ambassador!)  But Terry Nation script and Dudley Simpson music?  Really, what is there not to love?  I have weird fannish osmosis, coupled with dim memories of watching it way back when, so it's all pretty familiar anyway, and I can just enjoy how very obviously it was made with a budget of ninepence and the whole thing is held together by crossed fingers and hope.  I do wonder how the hell anyone in the late 70s could have preferred the tightarsed mummy's boys of Trek over crazy space terrorists sticking it to the man, especially post-Star Wars, truly: they've got such scrappy charm.  But good lord, they are SO AMAZINGLY POSH.  Blake wanders into Brizzle every now and then, but he's infinitely more plummy than I remembered, and Gan is possibly very slightly more RADA than his 'Hulk smash!' thing really demands.  But fuckit, Cally is clearly Noel Fielding's spacemum, and Vila is still the awesomest thing ever to happen to sci-fi. 

I've gone all fannish again.  It's like springtime sets me off, somehow.   Peculiar.  But nice.

ETA: classic who figures!!  Eeee!  I am so very much buying myself a Zygon!  (And yes, batshit selection, natch, bring on the 'where's Sylv?' wank followed by the 'where's Trout?' wank, but, cmon, ZYGON!)

Having discovered that the new Tom Baker figure will have a detachable head, I was driven to speculate on potential playtime fun - and created Officially the Most Terrifying Doctor Who Monster Ever.

( Dare you click the Cut of Terror? ) ETA: The horror continues here, and indeed here. Do feel free to play along at home, kids.

His head! It's just so...interchangeable (The original horror is here, btw.)

( fear factor: eleventy )

I would pay cash money for that first one.