Interesting, I think volume 2 is the best so far, my reservations about the project as a whole notwithstanding. I agree about the "Why was a McCrimmon fighting..." essay being incoherent, though. I never got around to recording the errors I've spotted - and I'm not entirely sure what I've done with the list of those from earlier volumes.
I agree about the "anyone who wasn't there" business. Tat Wood, according to something he wrote in one of his fanzines, turned 18 during Logopolis, which would have made him six in 1969. It isn't impossible for him to remember coverage of the Apollo landings, but a six year old's definition of 'a long time to wait' is rather different to that of an adult.
As for Miles' absence from the next volume, other theories are: he's too ill (he's a manic depressive and agoraphobic, according to his on-line "diary"); he hates late eighties Who too much to say anything Mad Norwegian's lawyers will allow to go into print; he's fallen out with Tat Wood (I have no idea if that's true, but he was very rude about him here).
In fact you can't help get the feeling from this that they don't really much like the Doctor Who of the Troughtan era
I'm not quite sure what Doctor Who they do like. Not Troughton, Colin or Pertwee, and they're split on the Williams era and early eighties. Only Hinchcliffe and parts of Hartnell have got an easy ride from them so far.
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Date: 2007-07-15 10:50 pm (UTC)I agree about the "anyone who wasn't there" business. Tat Wood, according to something he wrote in one of his fanzines, turned 18 during Logopolis, which would have made him six in 1969. It isn't impossible for him to remember coverage of the Apollo landings, but a six year old's definition of 'a long time to wait' is rather different to that of an adult.
As for Miles' absence from the next volume, other theories are:
he's too ill (he's a manic depressive and agoraphobic, according to his on-line "diary");
he hates late eighties Who too much to say anything Mad Norwegian's lawyers will allow to go into print;
he's fallen out with Tat Wood (I have no idea if that's true, but he was very rude about him here).
In fact you can't help get the feeling from this that they don't really much like the Doctor Who of the Troughtan era
I'm not quite sure what Doctor Who they do like. Not Troughton, Colin or Pertwee, and they're split on the Williams era and early eighties. Only Hinchcliffe and parts of Hartnell have got an easy ride from them so far.