every time they do a closeup on Hugh Burden's face it's the new best shot in Dr Who

3/4 into rewatching Spearhead from Space on the Dr Who season 7 boxset. I'd remembered it as being good, but honestly kind of stunned at just how good. how sharp, how deft, how gripping. that verisimilitude that feels strikingly unlike what the show was doing even a couple of years later.

From the Film Is Fabulous Facebook page:

Got permission to post this; one of the trans women who was assaulted last week by a gang of anti-trans creeps has a gofundme up to help her with medical and survival costs while she recovers from a concussion. If you're able to help, please do.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-tra...

The Dynamite Duo, by Dick Giordano

oh, 45 years to the day since the broadcast of part one of The Leisure Hive, how about that

came across as someone with firm, sometimes contentious, views on scriptwriting, but always in the pursuit of uncompromised creative integrity, and with endearing warmth and humour too. an earnest enquiring mind. here's a video of him thinking out loud to a stuffed bear: youtu.be/X7DYJV04-No?...

one of Doctor Who's most charmingly idiosyncratic creative voices. shaped one of the show's most singular and compelling seasons. wrote one of my favourite opening lines to any book: "Events cast shadows before them, but the huger shadows creep over us unseen." will be missed.

Three days left on BBC iPlayer

Basically, a sincere perspective goes a long way. One of the first things I try to do when writing an established character is to ask "How do the fundamental things about this character actually feel to them?" Yes, they fly - but what does flying feel like? How doe sit differ to this other flyer?

1) If your characters are mocking your plot, it may be your subconscious telling you something.
2) So much is also performance: when doing Star Wars comics, obsessing over the first three, seeing how many of these classic nerd-fiction lines are said by chars who are visibly panicking was a lesson.

Ian Gibson

sometimes a productive day is just one where you close more browser tabs than you open

I've got a joke about The Creature from the Pit but it kinda blows

I've got a joke about Terror of the Autons but Terrance Dicks told it better

I've got a joke about The Shakespeare Code but it hasn't aged well

I've got a joke about The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos but it's only a first draft

I've got a joke about Kill the Moon but I think people might take it the wrong way

I've got several jokes about Shada but none of them are entirely satisfactory

I've got a joke about The Leisure Hive but I've removed all of its humorous content as a statement of intent

We are not a distraction we are real people facing real existential threats

Batman #1 Variant Cover.

In front of Numazu Station
(2021)

Conclusions now I’ve had a break:

- EHRC aren’t trying to hide that they’re transphobic & their interpretation of the Supreme Court judgement makes no sense

- MPs regularly cited what they’re hearing from members of the public in their questioning. Keep writing to them. They’re listening.