#gary russel

[crustaceousfaggot]

Gary Russel has got to be one of the strangest contributors to Doctor Who. Guy who has had a substantial impact on the canon of the show, while also never writing or directing a single episode. He gave us one of the worst Big Finish audios ever written, but he also gave us fucking Zagreus. He allegedly shut down the Canon Fiveainley Novel Pitch with a "death glare", but also wrote the book that's basically considered the Academy Era Thoschei Bible at this point. What a guy

[noahsbookhoard]

📚May 2024 Book Review (Part 3/3)📚

A slight change of plan: this review was supposed to include a french thriller, Le manuscrit inachevé by Franck Thilliez but since it's a trilogy and I read all three books it will be easier to speak of all three at once!

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

India, 1634. Detective Samuel Pipps is arrested by governor-general Jan Haan for reasons unknown. He is to be brought back to Amsterdam aboard the ship Saardam with his sidekick Arent Hayes, the governor-general, his wife and his mistress. As they board the ship, a leper appears and curse the ship before bursting into flame. With Pipps under arrest, Arent will have to solve this mystery by himself and make sure the ship reaches its destination, despite the lepers prediction.

Stuart Turton's The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle has been a total hit for me earlier this year, I wanted to read another book of his. I couldn't get his latest book yet but this one was available!

The premise intrigued me, historical novel, a nautical story (with an author's note indicating that there were licenses taken, I knew next to nothing on the subject and the period so if there were, they flew past me) and a murder mystery with a pinch of horror. The balance is really well built, the ship and period create interesting obstacles to the investigation and nook and cranies to build a horror atmosphere. The main character is not the weathered detective who guesses everything and withhold his discovery à la Poirot, we get to see his deduction as he makes them, and it adds to the threat until the very end.

The characters are nicely drawn, I felt like I knew them already and had read about other cases they solved before. The author is great at giving tiny details that makes the characters and their relationships feel life-like, it made the ending hit that much harder.

Nonetheless I wasn't awed by the resolution: I had seen not of it coming, which is frequent eniugh in murder mystery but some aspects of it didn't feel like they had been set up upstream. It was also very down to earth, and I was expecting some supernatural elements to actually be supernatural in the end (I can't be much clearer without spoiling the end). That one is on me but it still tinted my feeling.

In conclusion, I found it a bit less awe-inspiring than The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle but a nice read and a good thriller. Specialist of sailing, and the 17th century might find some historical incoherence but the book is really enjoyable.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1) by Douglas Adams

Arthur Dent is the last human survivor of planet Earth, destroyed to make way for a galactic highway. His friend Ford Prefect, an alien in disguise saved hit at the last second. Together they will explore the new planets, guided by Ford's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and solve such grand questions as "where did all the ballpen go?" and "what is the meaning of life, the universe and everything?"

This is a cult classic and, as I get acquainted with SciFi and British absurdism, I gave it a go.

This was a wierd experience. Fun but wierd: I was a bitclost and Arthur's reaction to everything was so far out of what I would have felt that I had difficulty identifying with him. Other characters were really fun, I love Ford and Martin most of all. I admit most of the longer names are blurry for month after reading.

The different adventures were fun, I'm really growing fond of the absurd. Zaphod's ship and its propulsion system, the Impossibly Drive is such a funny yet efficient mechanism!

This was a fun discovery, I probably missed 48% of the references but I finally have context for that "42" easter egg on Google. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is on the TBR for late September or October and I'm looking forward to it.

The Start Beast (Doctor Who 60th anniversary novelisation) by Gary Russel

The Doctor just regenerated, and this new face is strangely familiar. The coincidence is too much when he runs into Donna Noble, still amnesic. She can't remember him, it would be fatal; but as an alien called The Meep crashes in London and has to run to escape pursuit, the Doctor and Donna will run into each other again and work together to save planet Earth.

I was so excited for the 60th anniversary episodes!! David Tennant and Catherine Tate are such an awesome duo and Russel T Davis back on the team was a great news to me! I loved those new episodes and this one especially.

Aaaaand that's about all I have to say! Unfortunately, the book adds very little to the show. I hadn't rewatched it recently but it was still fresh enough that I didn't rediscover it through the book. I should have expected it. So yeah, novelisation doesn't add much but that's still one hell of an episode!

[theangelshavethephonebox]

Okay. Divided Loyalties says the Doctor had started making the deca call him The Doctor (instead of Thete/Theta/Theta Sigma) in the Academy. I strongly disagree. Thoughts?

Read the full answers carefully! Many are similar to each other!

(GR is Gary Russell, DL is Divided Loyalties, Dr is Doctor)

For the fourth one: *between graduation and becoming a renegade

For the fifth one: *became a renegade

For the sixth one: *(put when in the tags)

[quailfence]

[Image description: two extracts of text from the Doctor Who wiki. 1: “David A. McIntee once pitched a Fifth Doctor novel which would instead have revealed the Doctor and the Master as former spouses, in a plotline allegedly inspired by War of the Roses. The pitch was refused with a "death-stare" from Gary Russell.”

2: "Douglas Adams considered that the villain of The Pirate Planet could be the Master's daughter, who was collecting the planets where he'd been defeated because she either loved him or hated him. While trying to determine the villain's motivation, he also considered that she could just be the master. (Prose: The Pireate Planet)". End description.]

@doctorwho

incredible scenes happening in my brain tonight

[waterfowl69]

a little cod dump because i havent drawn in a bit :(

can you guys tell im obsessed with roach and bell…..

[calciumdeficientt]

bad bully memes. please enjoy

[niresenrab]

Christmas gifts for the Modern Warfare characters

Soap gets one of those fucking art kits that every child who enjoyed art got that we can't use.

Ghost gets his favorite Sargent.

Just to clarify, that positive pregnancy test in Gaz's box is his. I'm going to impregnate that man.

Price gets a day off.

Alex is certainly a wife guy. He gets a shirt that shows how much he loves his wife and burn cream because he blew himself up for his wife once, and he likely will do it again.

König gets 30 seconds of straight pepper spray directly into his eyes. If he closes his eyes, I will hold them open and resume.

Roach gets a speak and spell. Feel like he would use it to cause chaos during briefings.

Nikolai would get a copy of Cold Chains for Old Men Magazine and a gold chain.

Farah gets to CRANK THAT MFING HOG

Laswell gets a couples massage with her wife

Graves gets bass pro shop opossum (Russell 2)

Makarov gets coal, though, it kind of backfires because he goes on a rant about how cold is underrated and that Russia is the 6th highest global producer and the third highest consumer, but when he takes over he'll maximize production.

[celorangeine]

I support Bullying!

[cinemabuffoon]

When I'm talking with my family and realize I've spouted off too many fun facts about a middle aged celebrity I "don't care at all about"

[pizzacade]

One addition that the TV Movie's novelization made from the source material is that the Eighth Doctor while under amnesia, watches Tom and Jerry on the television inside the hospital, revealing he isn't a fan of the cartoon because it includes wanton violence, something he finds out he despises, though he doesn't know why.

[nickstarking]

(Bully - Live action version)

Jimmy Hopikns

Gary Smith

Pete Kowalski

Trent Northwick

Gord Vendome

Kirby Olsen

Russell Northrop

Derby Harrington

Johnny Vincent

Bif Taylor

[mtthellspawn]

*you can ignore my dumb deviantart name that's stuck on there*

A silly project I've been working on , 'Bullworth Girls Academy' , since ... oh boy, late 2012. It's going by very slowly. =D

Our lovely ladies here are (left to right): Gerri Smith, Jamie Hopkins, Patricia ' Patty ' Kowalski, Barbie Harrington, Algina ' Algie' Papadopoulos and Rachel Northrop.

I promise to draw better versions of these in the future. Really!

Original post -> here

[companion-showdown]

Who is most important to the history of Doctor Who?

TOURNAMENT MASTERPOST

propaganda under the cut

Peter Cregeen – BBC higher-up who cancelled Doctor Who

the dude who cancelled doctor who in 1989. (anonymous )

Sydney Newman – BBC higher-up who came up with the idea for Doctor Who

Guy straight up created Doctor Who. Without this guy no Doctor Who. (anonymous)

Gary Russell – prolific work behind the scenes of the show and extended universe

Where to even start! Gary has probably one of the biggest and most diverse amount of contributions to the Whoniverse as a writer, actor, director, producer, executive producer, script editor and DWM editor. I guarantee that pretty much anyone and everyone who's into Doctor Who has enjoyed at least one of the many *many* stories he's been involved in and i'd be here all night listing them, so feel free to scroll through his (very long) TARDISwiki page for that (anonymous)

Nicholas Briggs – prolific work acting and behind the scenes of the show and extended universe

Daddy Big Finish, Voice of [insert alien here] in New Who (anonymous)

I just want to add the Nick Briggs should not just be remembered for his acting but for the fact that he created Big Finish and Played the Nth Doctor (aka Fred) (anonymous)

[theladyjojogrant]

Got my hands on the updated TV Movie novelization and uhhhhh

[gallifreywhere]

Blue eyes? David Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor?

What?

(The Star Beast novelisation, Gary Russell)

[silverfoxstole]

It’s interesting watching the Big Finish Talks Back interview, and hearing Paul talk about not wanting to do conventions because the idea gives him the creeps and he doesn’t think he’d be any good at that sort of thing knowing that he would soon be talked into it and over the past couple of decades he’s become so enthusiastic that he did ten in the first half of this year.

A few random bits I made a note of:

On his brief recording career: ”We made a single. It was terrible.”

When asked if he’d like to consign some of his work to the bin: “I’ve been in some dogs.”

About working with Eric Roberts: “Eric was very serious. He had a sense of humour somewhere. I didn’t know where.”

This interview is also the origin of “They found a wig in a box”, the source of which I’d been trying to recall for ages.

He loves telling those awful jokes in the outtakes.