DIDN'T forget to blag yesterday, I just didn't have a lot to say...

Honourable mention (that I forgot last week) goes out to the most awesome birthday card ever. Featuring a Dalek motif, open this card and it squeals "This is a comm-u-ni-ca-tion from Da-lek Co-mmand. It is your birth-day. Ce-le-bra-tions are au-thor-ised. Ce-le-brate! Ce-le-brate!" at an extremely loud volume. If it weren't this loud, you could hear the "kerching!" of Nick Briggs' bank account every time you opened it. Thanks Fran! ^_^

The Unicorn and the Wasp. Firstly, that title is just silly! Gareth Roberts admitted that Agatha Christie never used "The Blank and the Blank" as a book title, and considering the Unicorn has hardly anything to do with the plot... But since Roberts also admitted that this episode was a comedy, I'm willing to be a bit more forgiving. No wait, that's a lie. I'm NOT going to be forgiving: Roberts' humour felt invasive on the story (for example, Professor Peach in the library with lead piping, or when Donna kept saying "Did SHE do it?") though not entirely (like when the Doctor said "I went to Belgium once", when he had to detox, or when Donna gave away the plot of The Unquiet Dead). Also, the buzzzzzzzzing lizzzzzzzzp of the eventual villain wazzzzzzz really zzzzzzzilly and clichéd. Waspinator?! To be honest, I find this story may have worked better if it was a two-parter, with the Doctor's poisoning providing the cliffhanger. Oh, and the Reverend Golightly totally reminded me of a young Peter Davison.

Speaking of the Fifth Doctor, I finally got around to listening to Cuddlesome, that free audio CD with Doctor Who Magazine #393, and it's well cool! Though I do wish I'd heard it before I watched Partners in Crime, cos it's hard not imagining the Cuddlesomes looking like the Adipose. It got tedious in places, such as when I couldn't comprehend what the Tinghus (David Troughton, son of Patrick) was saying, cos his voice sounded like a pitch-shifted Baron Greenback. Like, totally. And Peter Davison's right when he says they've tried to make it more "filmic", as I couldn't imagine this one being animated in Real Time or Shada stylee. (Audio dramas immediately equate with animations in my mind.) However, this did come with some cool one liners, such as the Doctor asking Angela (the divine Roberta Taylor) "Do you always carry a hammer in your handbag?" And Turvey's backstory is so poignant and believable.

I was planning to review Seeing I, the best book ever of the Eighth Doctor range, but I haven't finished reading it yet, so maybe later. I will, however, give you some cool quotes, such as

'This was not some moony little teenage crush. This is a real live want-to-throw-him-on-the-floor-and-shag-him-till-bits-break-off kind of problem. Alright?'

from Sam, talking about the Doctor. Also from Sam comes

'Gods,' said Sam with a shaky grin, 'do not wear question-mark boxer shorts.'

and my favourite Doctor quote

'Sonic screwdriver mark nine,' said the Doctor. 'It also makes splendid milkshakes.'

Do you mind if I also mention the new Doctor Who action figures, while I'm on a roll? [link] Some of them I'm happy with, like Chip, the Ninth Doctor, Jack and Martha, but others are just old figures with new accesories which I MUST OWN FOR I AM A COMPLETIST. Slitheen with Floppy General Asquith I wouldn't mind, cos then I'd have three Slitheen. I never got the original, undamaged Cassandra. At least they've dirtied up Space Doctor's suit a little, and I'm guessing the Master is made from the good old plastic, but Rose I'm going to give a miss.

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Considering I didn't have a lot to say, I had a lot to say... Seeing I review later tonight, maybe.

Oh, and before I go, download [link] from Mondas - Sound and Music. It's a truly appaling version of the Doctor Who theme tune with spoken lyrics by Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee!

I cross the void beyond the mind
The empty space that circles time
I see where others stumble blind
To seek a truth they never find
Eternal wisdom is my guide
I am the Doctor.

Through cosmic waste the TARDIS flys
To taste the secret source of life
A presence science can't deny
Exists within outside behind
The latitude of the human mind
I am the Doctor.

My voyage disects the course of time
Who knows you say
But are you right
Who searches deep to find the light
That glows so darkly in the night
Toward that point I guide my flight.

As fingers move to end mankind
Metallic teeth begin to grind
With sword of truth I turn to fight
The satanic powers of the night
Is your faith before your mind
No man, Am I the Doctor?

Peace out X

EDIT: Seeing I started off awesome. Considering it's Doctor Who, precious little happens for three quarters of the book, the narrative being more concerned with the lack of alien action. And for that, that's wonderful, giving tonnes of character development for both Sam and the Doctor. I was really enjoying it, but then, in that fourth quarter of the book it's almost as if the authors decide that it needs some alien invasion, and so the I are introduced. Funny name, that, leading to some rather double-taking dialogue: "I am I." The first thing I thought of, after the development followed by a swift invasion, was the later book The Gallifrey Chronicles. Which I probably enjoyed as much as this. Also, comparing Seeing I to the previous EDA I read (Vanderdeken's Children) comes out rather favourable for Blum and Orman.

Also, I've recently found an awful series of comics I drew over the previous five years. They're mainly spoofs, the first of which is called "Frankensuit" and the second being "Fatman". Then, there's "Supafly", a Spidey spoof, and "The Y-Men". And to round it all off, there's even a Crisis of Infinite Earths-style epic. So my plan is to redraw them all to make them half-decent, and upload one a week like a real webcomic! Woot!

Longest blag ever. Over and out.