From:        Damon Jason Casale, scyth+@andrew.cmu.edu

Excerpts from mail.fanfic: 18-Apr-96 Re: [FanFic] Marriage Prosp.. by
Hibiki Ryoga@tendo-dojo. 

On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, Travis Butler wrote:

Ah!  Another Doctor Who fan amongst the rabble scum!!  *grin*

Why, yes... however did you guess? ;>

Eagerly awaiting the new movie on May 14... have you seen the Fox
preview yet? Looks nice.

Haven't seen the preview...

It's on two or three web sites, as a .mov file; 
<http://www.brad.ac.uk/ubu/club-soc/culttv/drwho.html> is the URL I've 
got off the top of my newsreader. :)

Yes, the one flaw in an otherwise great series (the rather cheesy nature 
of the special effects) should be corrected.  Though I hope they don't 
change the feel of the show too much. ;)  (For example, they need to keep 
the sort of cheesy grinding sound effect for the TARDIS' phasing in and
out)

But I always *loved* the cheesy effects!  *grin*

Depends on the episode. ;) And the Fox trailer ends with the old 
materialization sound, so it looks like they're keeping it. :> Gave a 
thrill to the old heart, it did...

Yeah, the episodes that Douglas Addams did were pretty good, weren't
they?

Uh-huh. Now if he would only novelize them, as something other than
Dirk Gently...

Hey, the Dirk Gently stories are GOOD. ;)

Never read any of them.  I didn't like Adams' books, although the Doctor
Who episodes he *contributed to* (since they got edited after that) were
good.

I enjoyed the first couple of Hitchhiker's books, because they were fresh 
and funny; the later ones went downhill, as he was rehashing things over 
and over.

b) As I recall, all the episodes he wrote were during the Fourth Doctor's
   era...and the MAJORITY of the Tom Baker stuff was better than the 
   rest. ;)  Adams' scripts were just the best of the lot. :)

Actually, I disagree here.  I think "Genesis of the Daleks" was one of the
best Tom Baker serials, and it wasn't an Adams one.

"Genesis" was one of my favorite Tom Baker eps; "Deadly Assassin" was 
another, and the Key to Time season was another (though weak in spots). I 
have trouble naming any of the Doctors as my favorite, though; *all* of 
them have had superb episodes. "Rememberance of the Daleks," for example, 
is IMHO the best Dalek story since "Genesis," and probably equals it.



Travis Butler
(The Professor, formerly of Myth and Magick!, Lawrence, KS;
 tbutler@tfs.net, now from the Wandering Powerbook;
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