TimeGate VI: Regenerations is the Stargate and Doctor Who convention in Atlanta, GA, this May!

For those of you trying to book a room at the TimeGate hotel, you may be or may not be aware that our hotel had some trouble with their registration system week before last. The internal problem got fixed earlier this past week, but we were still having trouble with on-line registration. Thanks to the assistance of Lukas at HI, that problem has now been solved as well. So on-line registrations are working again! Which means that if you haven't booked your hotel room yet and still want to, you have until Tuesday, May 6 to do so, and you can either call the hotel or book on-line. Rooms are only $69 a night. Remember that the con runs from Friday, May 23rd to Monday, May 26th, 2008, at the Holiday Inn Select in Atlanta, GA.

Reservations can be done here: http://timegatecon.org/hotel.htm

Well, The Fires of Pompeii was cut, just like Partners in Crime. :(

Spoilers under the cut.

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But this sort of thing, the cutting of a character-building moment (i.e. no action/adventure or other exciting stuff) is so typical of SFC and the USA network which still owns it, right? At any rate, I remember with great sadness the first time I watched the second eppie of Quantum Leap on USA, and I was stunned by the fact that they had left out a very important conversation between Sam and Al, one that established how and why they had come together to build Project Quantum Leap. Whoever cuts these shows just Does Not Get It.


Okay, just found this on the latest mailing of "The Week in Doctor Who" (May 3rd, 2008)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thisweekindoctorwho/

The SciFi broadcasts should improve for the next few weeks. Partners
In Crime and The Fires Of Pompeii were over 48 minutes long each, and
SciFi edits to about 44 minutes, so important and interesting bits
were cut from the episodes to fit SciFi's time slot (including the
final scene in Fires Of Pompeii). Planet Of The Ood (SciFi airing on
May 9) is under 44 minutes, The Sontaran Stratagem (May 16) is about
44 1/2 minutes, and it looks like the next few episodes beyond will
be about 45 minutes long. So - the next few episodes should be either
unedited or experience much less editing. Expect a better viewing
experience heading forward.

Also from the newsletter, for those of you who watch the Sarah Jane Adventures:

USA - SciFi USA http://www.scifi.com has put preliminary June
schedule information on their website. Sarah Jane Adventures will not
air in June - the last episode premieres on May 30, with
Canadian/South African triple universe saga Charlie Jade airing at
8PM from June 6, making its US premiere. Doctor Who Series 4 airs all
4 weeks with new episodes at 9PM and 11PM Eastern, paired with
Battlestar Galactica (new) on June 6 and 13 and Stargate SG-1
(repeats) on June 20 and 27. Series 3 continues at 5AM EDT Fridays.
One Series 2 marathon on Thursday June 19 - 8 episodes from 8AM EDT.

For those of you who get BBCA:

USA - BBC America http://www.bbcamerica.com starts a weekday repeat
run of new Who at 6PM and 3AM EDT from May 12. BBC America has the
right to air the first 3 series (41 episodes).

Is there any sort of reconstruction with audio track and telesnaps of The Power of the Daleks? I know that there was the Target/Virgin novelization, but I want something closer to the Real Thing. Or even just an audio track recording? There's some clips on the Lost in Time set, but I was hoping for more.

Why is it that quite often the first serial of a new Doctor is seemingly not a strongly-written story?

Over time, I wish to examine this idea, and will present each story in a separate post.

(I would like to, if I may, excuse the writer and production team and director by saying that sometimes they are new to the show, or dealing with a new actor in the part, and things don't always go smoothly. But that's all in the technical details. If the writing isn't up to par, all the wonderful acting and pretty SFX won't cover up bad plotting, weak characterizations, and other troublesome points. Btw, I will mention the writer, director, and executive producer for each story from the Second Doctor on.)

So, let's look at things on a case-by-case basis:

The First Doctor: An Unearthly Child aka The Tribe of Gum

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Today, April 30, is the last day in which to get your pre-registration memberships ($35 instead of $45 at the door) for TimeGate VI, a Doctor Who and Stargate convention to be held May 23 - 26, 2008 at the Holiday Inn Select in Atlanta, GA, USA.

http://www.timegatecon.org

You can either register via PayPal or print out the registration form and mail it to us. All information is at the Membership page:

http://www.timegatecon.org/memberships.htm

Updates are under the cut. :)


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(Alan posted this on the Atlanta Gallifreyan Yahoogroups list)

Release dates for the rest of this year's classic DVD releases has been announced, and there's some really great stuff coming this year! These are the UK release dates; North American releases are usually 6 months after.

K-9 Tales box set comprising "The Invisible Enemy" and K-9 plus Sarah Jane Smith spin-off story "K9 and Company": June 16

"The Brain of Morbius": July 21

"The Trial of a Time Lord" box set: August 18

"Four to Doomsday": September 15

"The War Machine": October 13

"Battlefield": November 17

Personally, I cannot wait for the "Trial" set! That's going to be awesomely good! But by releasing them all together, that means there's only two Colin stories left for DVD releases. "Attack of the Cybermen" and the atrocious "Twin Dilemma". It'll be interesting to see how they handle those.

There's yet another article on the Radiophonic Workshop here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7365120.stm


Lots of pictures and mentions of Doctor Who, Verity Lambert, Delia Derbyshire and some Daleks. :)


("Stolen" from Alan's post on the YG--and yes, the link stil works!)

From the Orac list (and please pass it along):

<http://eugie.livejournal.com/364858.html>

To All You Book-loving Atlanta Locals:

I just got a note from Sean Wallace, Publisher/Editor with Prime
Books/Wildside Press. It seems that SF/F publisher Meisha Merlin,
which declared it was shutting down in November, has a rather large
amount of stock (tens of thousands of books) in its Stone Mountain
warehouse (1440 Kelton Drive, Stone Mountain) that needs to be rescued
or it will all be destroyed/recycled.

Sean is renting a truck which can fit fifteen pallets, single-stacked,
or thirty double-stacked, but there's no forklift available, only a
pallet jack. So he has to fill the truck by hand. He'll be in town
Tuesday and Wednesday (4/22 and 4/23) to load up, and he's asked me to
spread the word that he's desperate for volunteers to help him. Anyone
who volunteers can cart off any books they want that don't fit into
the truck.

If you can help out or know of folks who might be able to, email Sean
at: seanwallace at comcast.net

While traweling through dwicons, certain icons made from certain screencaps kept popping out at me from PiC, and that caused me to think over certain scenes in Partners in Crime.

If you haven't seen Partners in Crime, School Reunion, and The Christmas Invasion, and the odd Sarah Jane DW story, there are mild spoilers below. (Cut for length, also.)

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http://io9.com/381305/ben-templesmith-brings-you-doctor-who-and-the-decapitated-corpse

"Welcome to a new column about science fiction art by Ann & Jeff
VanderMeer. Artist Ben Templesmith's daring, horrific, and sometimes
just plain perverse approach in graphic novels like 30 Days of Night
and his solo creation Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse is influenced by the
science-fantasy cosmos of H.P. Lovecraft's Old Ones and the work of
H.R. Giger. However, Templesmith says "The biggest influence on me
sci-fi wise has to be the BBC prop and art departments on old classic
Doctor Who episodes.""