Outpost Gallifrey is just...well, it's a great place to find things like books or the Big Finish discs for a more reasonable price (if you're in the US), but otherwise? Ridiculous. I sometimes will pop in and read some posts, but unless I am starting a new thread with a question about something (like which books folks recommend, for instance), I don't post there.
I forgot about rec.arts.drwho! Discovered it in college, though my memories of it are foggy. I don't think it struck me as ridiculous at the time, but then, I also don't think I knew any better!
You are right about New Earth being far away from Old Earth. I just...why must everything be Earth all the time? I'm starting to think that the Doctor was exiled again somehow, by the Time Lords, after blowing up Gallifrey (maybe their collective consciousness reached back and blew up the TARDIS space travel circuit? ;) ). It just starts to stretch belief, when you realize we've almost never left the same bloody planet. Maybe Kinda was a bad example, but I still think it's possible to do a good episoe set somewhere else without even needing a whole lot of CGI, necessarily. It does seem like there's a lack of imagination in that particular part of story development for the new series, and I really think that's a shame. Sure, monsters are scarier in your own backyard, but surely any planet would land in the Guinness Book of Improbable Galactic Records if this many aliens tried to conquer it. And let's not forget that Shakespeare set most of his more critical plays in other countries so as not to land in trouble at home--alien worlds offer a great opportunity for social commentary in a way that's tough to do at home.
And you're not annoying--I hope I'm not, either! I do think the glass is half-full, just because there's so much potential on this show. I just think it's a shame that so little of it has been tapped so far.
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Date: 2006-07-18 01:30 pm (UTC)I forgot about rec.arts.drwho! Discovered it in college, though my memories of it are foggy. I don't think it struck me as ridiculous at the time, but then, I also don't think I knew any better!
You are right about New Earth being far away from Old Earth. I just...why must everything be Earth all the time? I'm starting to think that the Doctor was exiled again somehow, by the Time Lords, after blowing up Gallifrey (maybe their collective consciousness reached back and blew up the TARDIS space travel circuit? ;) ). It just starts to stretch belief, when you realize we've almost never left the same bloody planet. Maybe Kinda was a bad example, but I still think it's possible to do a good episoe set somewhere else without even needing a whole lot of CGI, necessarily. It does seem like there's a lack of imagination in that particular part of story development for the new series, and I really think that's a shame. Sure, monsters are scarier in your own backyard, but surely any planet would land in the Guinness Book of Improbable Galactic Records if this many aliens tried to conquer it. And let's not forget that Shakespeare set most of his more critical plays in other countries so as not to land in trouble at home--alien worlds offer a great opportunity for social commentary in a way that's tough to do at home.
And you're not annoying--I hope I'm not, either! I do think the glass is half-full, just because there's so much potential on this show. I just think it's a shame that so little of it has been tapped so far.