h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

becaue of what you said on your personal space...

What's a Horta?
What's a Horda?
What's the difference?(apart from one ketter of course )

spook

Um, well, I think I got the articulation wrong, but -

The Horda are a little-known set of Dr Who monsters (as in 'the Test of the Horda' from the Tom Baker story The Face of Evil).

The Horta is a little-known Star Trek monster (the thing that looks like a giant mobile pizza from the classic series episode 'Devil in the Dark').

If the references are too obscure for the founder of the DW group I should probably take them out, don't ya think...?

i can't remember the Horda. that was my problem. I knew what the Horta was, cause i've recently been re-watchin' the Star trek original Series. Miners were destroying it's eggs and all. very sad indeed .

i'm in series 3 at the moment. a very poor series really, with episodes like Spock's Brain, although i ain't got that far yet. you'd be surprised how mmuch of the star trek Timeline is messed up by The Next Generation.

you a Trekkie?

spook

Mmm. I would say no, in that I watch Trek and more often than not enjoy it, but I don't read the books or own the tapes or speak the language. I don't enjoy ruminating on and writing about Trek in the way I enjoy doing those things about Dr Who.

I'm always dubious about those kinds of labels, anyway, the whole Trekkie/Whovian/Fanderson thing. Thankfully it seems to have gone out of style with relation to the newer crop of shows (Buffy et al, Smallville, Farscape, etc)...

I seem to recall that 'Devil in the Dark' was given a fairly cursory rewrite and reappeared in the (I think) 1983 Dr Who annual under the title 'Danger Down Below'. The annuals had a terrible tendency to recycle stories from other places (their own stories too, come to think of it - 'The Plasmoid Jungle' from the '76 annual reappears as 'Planet of Fear' in the '81 with most of the same dialogue. Hmm.

Spent the afternoon listening to the CD of Real Time. Any thoughts on it Spooky?

haven't heard it. what is it and is it good?

spookaliensmile> - out of the loop!

Oh - it's a new DW audio story the BBC did as a webcast last summer. Colin Baker as the Doctor and Maggie Stables as Evelyn Smythe, with Yee Jee Tso, Lee and Herring and the Cybermen in it. Really rather gruesome and the plot's about a time paradox that I'm not sure I actually understand!

Made by the Big Finish crew, but it's not one i'd really recommend as a good example of their work...