When We Say Watch...Watch!
Forty-six years ago today, the day after an international tragedy (so very few people were actually paying attention), the BBC ran a strange little twenty-four minutes of television. One year ago today, the TARDIS Project began with our review of those twenty-four minutes.
Happy forty-sixth birthday, Doctor Who!
Happy first birthday, TARDIS Project!
See you in December, everyone!
THE HISTORIAN
Look for our post for the episode “The Daleks” on Sunday evening. Sorry for the delay!
THE HISTORIAN
Hello all, the Historian here, with a TARDIS Project wrapup for Doctor Who season one. Yes, we have made it 1/6th of the way through to our goal! It’s taken us just over 10 months, from 23 November 2008 to 9 October 2009. We were forced to skip one episode, due to technical difficulties, and we were occasionally forced to break our “one every week” rule for various reasons, but we still managed to get through every other episode, a week at a time. My plan is to break this post down into two basic sections, one about the season itself and the other as a bit of a “Project Report.” So, let’s begin!
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Hello everyone, the Historian here, with a request for all of our readers. As we approach the end of the first season, Ketina and I have been considering the future. Not of the Project itself (we’re having too much fun watching each episode!), but the blog posting. There’s no question that we’ve gotten a bit more complicated in posting than in, say, our first episode post, with detailed summaries and overviews/reviews. Ketina has admitted to some blog fatigue; I’m still enjoying it, but there’s no question that each post is a lot of work. They take us, on average, about an hour to put together, not least because of the summaries! And, of course, we’re doing this without any feedback from you folks (some of whom we know, some of whom we don’t). So, as we near our first real landmark, I’m asking each of you to take a moment and leave a comment. Or e-mail us at tadisproject at gmail dot com (yes, tadisproject; typos are bad, especially if you don’t catch them before the entire blog has been set up). Feel free to give us any feedback you’d like, but if you could include something about the following, I’d appreciate it:
What do you like about the posts? What do you enjoy? What don’t you like? Is there anything you’d like to see us change?
Do you enjoy the summaries? I make them detailed so, even if you haven’t seen the episode in question, you’ll be able to follow along (especially important with reconstructed episodes). Are they too detailed? And what about the format? (A constant argument between Ketina and myself.) I put it all in one paragraph to make it easily skippable if people want to just jump to the review, but would people like it to be broken up more? How would you prefer to see the summaries, or would you rather do without them altogether?
As for the reviews, how do you enjoy them? Are they dull, pedantic, whatever, or do you find our insights interesting? Is there anything you can suggest that we’re not doing?
Please, prove to us that people really are reading and following along! Let us know what you think! I’ll put a link to this post to remind people for the rest of the season (five whole weeks), so please comment or e-mail by then. Thanks from both of your hosts and we’ll see you in a few days for the second episode of “The Reign of Terror.” Until then, and with my thanks for reading this, I remain
THE HISTORIAN
Due to various circumstances, the TARDIS Project will be taking a break for a couple of weeks. We will return with “Strangers in Space” on July 10th. We hope you’ll join us again then!
First of all, a hearty welcome to any and all new readers who may have come here via links at The Tardis Newsroom! (And a personal thank you to the Newsroom from Ketina and myself for the plugs!) For those who might find it easier to follow that way, we also have a Livejournal feed for the Project. We’d love new readers, so if you like what you see, feel free to spread the news far and wide.
Secondly, a note on this week’s schedule for those who only occasionally look in. Due to various circumstances, our viewing/blogging of the next episode won’t be in our normal Friday timeslot. Instead, we’ll be taking a look at episode five of Loose Cannon’s “Marco Polo” reconstruction on Sunday afternoon. Look for the post on Sunday evening!
Until then, as always, I remain
THE HISTORIAN
…A Happy Christmas to all of you at home from the Doctor and all of us here at the TARDIS Project!
Hello everyone, the Historian here. I felt that I should let those few, those valiant few who are following the progress of the Project know that it looks like our viewing of “The Dead Planet” will be delayed by a few days at the very least. Here at TARDIS Project central, we are in the middle of a series of winter storms that are limiting (among other things) travel, and thus Ketina and I have been unable to meet to view the episode. We have hopes to do so, if not before Christmas, then hopefully shortly after. I apologize for the delay, but even the Doctor can sometimes be at the mercy of atmospheric disturbances, now, can’t he?
Hopefully, we shall resume the Project soon, but until then, I remain
THE HISTORIAN
Ahem. Welcome to the TARDIS Project. I am the Historian and, together with my courageous companion Ketina, we will be journeying through the mists of Time to explore the early televised history of Doctor Who. To put it more simply, Ketina and I (and any others we may pick up and drop off along the way–time travellers have a tendency to do that, you know) plan to watch every episode of the first six seasons of the BBC series, one at a time. Ideally, our schedule will be an episode a week, though Ketina has promised to continue to attempt to convince me to watch more at a time. I shall, of course, continue to resist. (We shall see who wins out in this battle of wills and how long it might take!) We will do this using both televised episodes and, where necessary, reconstructions of episodes that are missing. This web log will be used to chronicle our travels with the Doctor, looking at the show’s development, the characters who come and go, our views of the production and probably many other things along the way. Ketina and I invite you to follow us in our quest! Postings should be at a minimum of once weekly from the 23rd of November when we sit down on Doctor Who’s 45th birthday to watch “An Unearthly Child.” We may have to skip a few weeks, we may have multiple posts in a week, so keep checking back!
Until next time, I remain
THE HISTORIAN
