I've enjoyed Hill's work quite a bit, but honestly his magnum opus isn't a novel, it's a comic. Locke & Key. Absolutely brilliant.
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I've enjoyed Hill's work quite a bit, but honestly his magnum opus isn't a novel, it's a comic. Locke & Key. Absolutely brilliant.
Yeah, Locke & Key is pretty well known, it's being turned into a TV show and Hill's other big property was Nos4a2, which was also a show on AMC. And his novel Horns was adapted into a movie starring Daniel Radcliffe.
He's fairly well regarded and a successful writer. Not at the superstar level as his father, but that is extremely rarified air.
He's fairly well regarded and a successful writer. Not at the superstar level as his father, but that is extremely rarified air.
Locke & Key (the TV series) looks fascinating, if a bit young adult-ish. I don't know if that applies to the comic or not.
I haven't read the comic yet, it's on my list.
Though the protagonists are teenage-ish, I wouldn't characterize the comic as young-adultish.
The news fans of Big Finish’s Eighth Doctor audios have been dreading... https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2020-02-04/doctor-who-mary-shelley-episode/
Good to know. Hopefully the show stays true to the comic in that aspect (and others).
True, but the fact the writer of the episode is an expert on Mary Shelley and they cast actors who are actually the age those people were at the time is very encouraging, along with the idea it'll be some kind of ghost story.
Besides, that doesn't take away from the greatness of the stories told by Big Finish (and others).
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Episode 9 is Ascension of the Cybermen and Episode 10 is The Timeless Children (and is 65 minutes long).
According to Chibnall you want to watch that last one live or as soon as possible...
https://cultbox.co.uk/general/doctor-who-magazine-reveals-titles-of-two-part-series-finale
According to Chibnall you want to watch that last one live or as soon as possible...
https://cultbox.co.uk/general/doctor-who-magazine-reveals-titles-of-two-part-series-finale
Here's a horrible thought. What if the early Time Lords discovered that in order for a TARDIS to work you didn't just need the energy from a black hole, you also had to strap a child into the engine to control that energy. That would be enough to make you want to destroy your planet.
It's a franchise about a time traveling hero and their several time traveling nemesis (The War Chief, The Master, The Monk) who all come from the same time traveling species that has fought in three different Time Wars (The Black Sun War, The War in Heaven, The Last Great Time War) against other time traveling species. Oh, and also there's the Time Agency and Faction Paradox.
Continuity errors are inevitable in a nearly 60 year old franchise where even the EU is canon. Thankfully, the explanations are already baked into the series. "A time war did it." Which one? "Uh...Alan Moore's." We've already had to deal with three different versions of the destruction of Atlantis. This is nothing.
My headcanon is that Mary Shelley was a brief companion of the Eighth Doctors, but that was changed by the Time War. Now time is correcting itself (like Moffat & Davies' idea about Frobisher and the dude from Pompeii), and now she's meeting the Thirteenth Doctor.
It's also completely in keeping with Omega being nuts and Rassilon being a complete dick.
Somebody presented a video on YouTube (as part of some BBC sponsored contest) that presented a perverse twist upon regeneration. A hapless soul somewhere in space and time dies (suffering a Thanos treatment...before that depicted in the movie) and a TimeLord gains that body. The Doctor (as depicted by Capaldi using clips and manipulation of actual footage) is not aware of this "body snatching" until a Dalek reveals it to him, gloating that the TimeLords are no better than the "children" of Davros.
I have searched high and low trying to find that short narrative again...to no avail.
I have searched high and low trying to find that short narrative again...to no avail.
Isn't that Torchwoods' CHILDREN OF EARTH?
Wasn't that the faith healer episode of Supernatural season 1
I honestly don't know as I've never watched that series.
Interesting that the title of episode 9 mentions "Children" Plural. We've always assumed it was one child
The Doctor and the Master? Perhaps more?
It's gonne be at least the Doctor and Master, since the Master mentioned the Time Lords lying to Us, not You
