Reading, Listening, Watching

[purplecat]

Reading: Doctor Who Magazine (which I still think of as Doctor Who Monthly even though it has been Magazine for decades). I was two issues behind because my habit of putting it in my bag to read on the train is no longer effective. The train was also when I used to read fanfic which is now backing up on my ereader. Given I hope never to commute by train ever again, I'm going to have to think of a new way to integrate fanfic reading into my routine. I'm not keen to include it in my bed time reading since - well - there is always more fanfic and I like to read professionally published work too.

Listening: Currently listening to the All new Doctor Who Book Club Podcast discussing Una McCormack's The Way through the Woods. Given how few of the NuWho tie-in novels I've read (or at least think I have read), I'm surprised how often they discuss the one's that I have.

Watching: I watched Dimensions in Time which I have never seen before, but I felt the whim last night and found it on YouTube. It's an Eastenders/Doctor Who crossover for Children in Need. I was expecting it to be bad in a "bemused Eastenders actors" kind of a way. I was not expecting it to be bad in a borderline incoherent/random events happening too fast/badly cgi-d floating heads of the first and second Doctors kind of a way. It's quite something. Not in a good way.

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[ffutures]

Dimensions in time was supposed to be watched with special 3D glasses, which you can simulate by holding sunglasses over one eye, using the Pulfrich effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulfrich_effect

You then got really crappy 3D which gave a lot of people motion sickness and so far as I know was never used again by the BBC. Unfortunately they were so obsessed with making the tech work that they spent nothing on giving it a coherent script.

[purplecat]

Oh Wow! I'd either forgotten or never picked up on the 3D thing. In retrospect it makes sense of some of the visual effect design (lots of swirly whirling things).

It's a shame its so bad given it obviously had a lot of good will with all those actors agreeing to turn up and pitch in.