The TARDIS Project

Yep, it’s actually been two Anglicon’s since I posted last, but since I actually mentioned this site to several people, I figured I should put up an update.

This year The Historian (Jonathan), Ronelyn (Fran), and I (Sarah/Ketina) actually got to do the Doctor Who panel (or panels in my case) that we wanted to do two years ago when the TARDIS Project ended. And it was fantastic!
We all had a blast, and got to panel with the very generous Charles Martin (you can find his stuff here http://thehappinesspatrol.blogspot.com/) and Sarah Scrivano. I talked about the essential classics, the worst stories, the companions of the Hartnell era, and the lot of us talked about the Reconstructions. It was a very full weekend.

As I rarely check this site anymore, if you have any questions about the TARDIS Project or want to reach out to me directly, it’s best to contact me at Ketina at gmail dot com.

Also several of us from the Project still get together every other Friday night to watch classic Doctor Who. We continued where we left off with The Project, only 1) we watch more than one episode a week, and 2) we don’t blog about it. As of last weekend, we’d just finished the Brain of Morbius.

Anyway, we hope to see you again at next year’s Anglicon (which I’ll hopefully be a panelist at again), and have a great new year!

-Ketina

Ketina here. Ronelyn and I will be attending Anglicon in Seatac, WA next weekend. We’ll be there for the full convention (and even staying in the convention hotel). Hopefully some of you reading this now met us there!

If you’re a new reader, the Project is basically done. We’re hoping to add some final “Final Thoughts” posts from the crew, as they trickle in over the next week or two, but this is it. Six and half years of material is all here of our crazy adventures watching the first six seasons of Doctor Who one episode per week.

Enjoy the site, and feel free to drop me a line if you want to chat Doctor Who. You can find me as Ketina at gmail dot com (I’m Ketina, or KetinaS just about everywhere online).

-K

 

I’ll Be Seeing You
(with apologies to Billie Holiday)

I’ll be seeing you
In all the old familiar places
That these hearts of yours embraces
All day and through

In that small cafe
On Earth, or Gallifrey
That belov’d box so blue
The quarries and the bases too

I’ll be seeing you
In every episode rerun
In Vicki, Barbara and Chesterton
In Zoe, Brig and McCrimmon

I’ll find you in Epping
And when your face is new
I’ll be looking at Jon Pertwee…
But I’ll be seeing you.

Today is April 3rd, and it’s Cheese Weasel Day!

But that’s incidental. This post is because we’re skipping this week, and will be back on April 10th. Last weekend we skipped the Project because of Emerald City Comic Con. This week we’re skipping due to the Historian getting “Con Crud” from attending said Comic Con.

The Project was cancelled last Friday due to an unexpected conflict. We’ll also be skipping the Friday after US Thanksgiving.

See you again on Friday, 5th of December.

And Happy 51st Anniversary of Doctor Who today!

We’re skipping a few weeks due to various commitments, Halloween, and synchronizing the schedule better around the upcoming Thanksgiving (US), Christmas, and New Year Holidays.

The next story, The Seeds of Death, is a 6-parter, and we want to break it up as little as possible. So we’ll be watching episodes 1-3 in November, with a week break for Thanksgiving, and episodes 4-6 in December, with a break for Christmas (and possibly New Year’s)  before starting The Space Pirates.

That leaves us with two stories or 16 episodes going into 2015. Depending on future breaks, we should be wrapping up the end of season 6 sometime in May.

-Ketina

No Project post next week. See you again on August 15th.

Due to an unanticipated power outage, we were unable to hold the TARDIS Project on Friday night (seriously, everyone was here and we were just about to start and boom, no power… it was out for a good 3 hours).

Next week, on the 4th of July, is American Independence Day, so no Project then either. We’ll be making things go boom that evening instead.

See you in 2 weeks!

-Ketina