I think the cybermen were good in the role play. : ) Interesting too.
He's the Doctor. He could be anywhere in time and space.
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Maybe they have. Maybe enlightenment is scary. Maybe, once you've found enlightenment, there's nothing else to do. Now what.
Maybe, just maybe, enlightenment actually is banal.
Why thank you! 
What episode is this
from?
None of that is the same thing as "meaningless".
None of it is this.
And I have been known to explain things poorly. Jerk.
The Cybermen in the roleplay are a lot better than they've been in ages. And the first few encounters were basically perfect.
You've done better than a long list of people, including Neil Gaiman. Have a cookie.
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea: Coupling.
Earthworld by Jacqueline Raynor.
EDIT: To answer T Paradox, of the 73 Eighth Doctor Adventures, the Eruditorum did, like, 17 of them.
This is a list of all the New Adventures the Eruditorum did.
There is a substantial difference. And one I can't blame him for.
edited 20th Apr '14 6:02:34 AM by unnoun
Antiheroic antivillain
I want to say robot, but I don't know
None of it is this.
And I have been known to explain things poorly. Jerk.
You've done better than a long list of people, including Neil Gaiman. Have a cookie.
And sorry for focusing on the negative instead of this. I was kinda cranky coming out of the hospital.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
I probably shouldn't have bitched about your hard work when I knew you were sick.
I mean, I'm probably going to be really cranky postpartum.
...Of course, I didn't direct any of my musing towards you per se. I wasn't thinking you'd be back so soon to address any of it. I was basically just sorta thinking aloud. Except in the thread.
Well, I mean, I was always gonna catch up at some point. That I might not see and respond to it was never a possibility. I might've been a little less Accentuate the Negative about it if I'd waited, though.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Eighth Doctor Schedule. Has a lot of links to some Big Finish things and some of the New Adventures and Eighth Doctor Adventures that became available as Ebooks or were still being sold by Amazon. Highlights include the Human Nature ebook, Dead Romance, This Town Will Never Let Us Go, The Infinity Doctors, Scherzo, and other things. All of the links are legal, some of them are free. Some of them are on the internet Wayback machine thingy. Check it out. Or don't. Whatever.
Funnily enough, none of those highlights were Eighth Doctor Adventures. One of them (Dead Romance) was originally a Bernice New Adventure from Virgin Books, that was then remade by Mad Norwegian into a sorta Faction Paradox prequel. Human Nature was a Doctor Who New Adventure from Virgin. The Infinity Doctors was a Past Doctor Adventure by BBC Books. This Town will Never Let Us Go was a Faction Paradox book by Mad Norwegian. Scherzo was a Big Finish.
The Gallifrey Chronicles has an ebook. It's fairly good. Ish. It's also the last book in the line. So.
So, I was listening to The Butcher of Brisbane...is there supposed to be a ten-minute long music interlude ten minutes in or is something wrong with my copy?
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Funny but not helpful
Time Can Be Rewritten: Fear Itself by Nick Wallace.
I like how the comment thread is all about the Eight to Nine regeneration. Funny how Night Of the Doctor and Day Of The Doctor happened.
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea: The West Wing, 9/11
Dang.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
I could have sworn I'd linked to that.
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea: Marvelman
Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea: The West Wing, 9/11
The Adventuress of Henrietta Street by Lawrence Miles.
edited 21st Apr '14 4:53:13 AM by unnoun
Antiheroic antivillain
I just watched the happiness patrol. That was... erm... bizarre to say the least. It was quite enjoyable though.
The internet is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it-William Gibson
It is that.
The Adventuress of Henrietta Street by Lawrence Miles.
I haven't read the Faction Paradox comics, but from what I've heard, they were set after the War, and supposedly served as a prequel to The Adventuress of Henrietta Street.
And they apparently still ignored The Ancestor Cell.
...So, I mean. That's interesting.
My copy of Adventuress was actually one of the first things my niece ever burned. So I can't look at it for any possible continuity references it does or doesn't make. From what I remember it was just that the Doctor had amnesia, and Gallifrey was gone. I don't remember the hows or whys being specified.
Convergence, divergence.
Not entirely true. There's more than a few hints in there. And, I mean, the book goes into a fair amount of detail about what they do. I don't actually know how it could be more explicit on that front.
This is, of course, bizarre. Indeed, the entire camera-ready copy ends up with subtly different pagination than the published book, due purely to the addition of these extra twenty words, which in turn alter the remaining pages of Chapter Five. The only possible clue is a hand-written note found in a filing cabinet containing the instruction to “use alternate proofs” for Chapter Five. The note is signed “Editor DW,” presumably a reference to Justin Richards’s title as editorial consultant for the line. And yet the note is not in Richards’s handwriting, and he, in interviews, has insisted that he has no memory of any such substitution.
The identity of this “Editor DW” remains impossible to determine.
Like that. That's the sort of thing the Enemy does.
edited 21st Apr '14 10:21:07 AM by unnoun
I have to say I love the Doctor-shaped hole in The Book of the War. It mentions that there were four great renegades from the Homeworld: the Imperitor President, the War King (the Master), Grandfather Paradox... and doesn't name the forth one or make any more reference to that individual. Also the stuff with the Babels, and some of the War predictions, and and...
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
The Imperator is basically Morbius. From "The Brain Of Morbius".
And the Doctor shaped hole is one of the best parts.
edited 21st Apr '14 10:27:09 AM by unnoun
Funny but not helpful
The Rani: Officially not great.
edited 21st Apr '14 10:36:10 AM by Bocaj
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
The Adventuress of Henrietta Street by Lawrence Miles.
Invaders From Mars by Big Finish.
hhhhhhhhiiiiiiiissssssssssssssssssssssss
edited 21st Apr '14 10:41:12 AM by unnoun
Maybe the Rani is Grandfather Paradox...
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
No.
...And, really, the Rani isn't. She never really did much. The Doctor and the Master are always doing things, Grandfather Paradox started a cult, Morbius was kind of a thing. The Rani did science. That's about it.
Scientists don't make for very great renegades. We don't like the effort involved.
Invaders From Mars is a Big Finish audio production starring Paul McGann and India Fisher. Written and directed by Mark Gatiss.
edited 21st Apr '14 10:56:56 AM by unnoun
I mean, there was one about survival at the expense of the ability to enjoy said survival would result in little desire to do much else.