Just got back from the 3D theatrical showing.

It was fun. These multi doctor shows have never been great, plot wise, and I've never been terribly fond of the idea of the Time War. Great fan service, though, even with the throwaway lines. I think I was the only one to laugh at the one about the UNIT files being dated either from the 70's or 80's (one of the big continuity questions is when the 3rd Doctor's adventures take place: they were written as if they take place in the "near future", and Sarah Jane says she's from the 1980 in a 1974 episode. However, later episodes assume they take place when they aired, in the early 70's).

The two small bits before the show were also good: a Sontaran giving cinema manners, and the two doctors telling how to use 3D glasses.

All and all, not as good as The Two Doctors, but one of the better new Who's.

The entire idea of saved drafts is probably done with. Yes, some software keeps an archive for you, but as you keep editing the same screen of text instead of typing a new page, the old is more often just deleted.

She may have done what I try and do: have "stealth" foreshadowing. When you can't go back and change what you have written, it's best to leave your options open with regard to what the reader is told is important. By mentioning so much detail, she gave herself room to change her mind, drop whole plot lines without the reader noticing. Unless you sit down and write the whole series before releasing the first book, keep your options open!

I recommend to all Doctor Who fans interested in the making of the show the 'About Time' series of books, which tell about the making of each episode in great detail. For US fans, it goes into the various cultural influences on the show, the other TV series it was being compared to. The newest volume tackles the first two seasons of the new Who.

OK, what has to happen to make something Public Domain? I watched the Rifftrax VOD for Planet of the Dinosaurs tonight, and they referenced in the riff that this 1978 film was, indeed, PD. The Holiday Special is from the same year. Given how abandoned this is, do we know it's not possible? Although, I like the idea of it in fact being super copyrighted even more than Star Wars, just to keep it from seeing the light of day again

Gee, someone should do a kickstarter to raise money to pay for the restorations, so Disney can just release them

The Rani first showed up in a Colin Baker story. That they then put her in that horrible first McCoy story isn't her fault

From The Last Starfighter:

Lord Kril: Damage report!
Officer: Guidance system out. Auxiliary system out.
Lord Kril: Divert! Divert!
Officer: She won't answer the helm! We're locked into the moon's gravitation pull. What do we do?
Lord Kril: [his eyepiece swings over left eye] We die.

It didn't in the first few Godzilla movies where he fought other monsters. As for your fear, only one Godzilla film has really been serious and poignant (the first). I could almost argue that a movie that took that tact should use a different monster.

So, this makes four shows On the one hand, I love it. On the other, unless you go back to releasing two episodes a week (as was the case at the start of The Intermission), it's less of the other shows. Maybe that can be a fundraising goal: get so many donations, and we get two episodes a week for a bit. Maybe set up a Patreon.com account. If I can get donations for every story posting, surely you can get a few hundred an episode. (you can now set goals, so getting so many patrons could lead to the release of a new episode)

Is there such a thing as a "comedy" book? "Humor", yes, and Hitchhiker's qualifies as that.

Hitchhikers isn't a parody. It's a comedy. I think there's a difference. It is a SF story that is funny, but is not directly mocking the genre, or any particular aspect of it. It just is what it is.