Who spoiler - but a very exciting one!
Tuesday, 25 September 2007 10:11![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
OK, officially at the moment I am Too Busy To Post (but busy with exciting cutting-edge teaching that I shall write all about later, so that's OK). But I just had to drop by and share the love about a very exciting episode that's just been filmed for the next season of Doctor Who.
I can't really say much about why I'm so excited without spoiling those who prefer to remain innocent. I'm even going to keep the tags neutral until the episode in question has been screened. But let's just say they are pressing some particularly Pennyish buttons with this one.
*runs off squeeing loudly*

I can't really say much about why I'm so excited without spoiling those who prefer to remain innocent. I'm even going to keep the tags neutral until the episode in question has been screened. But let's just say they are pressing some particularly Pennyish buttons with this one.
*runs off squeeing loudly*

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Date: Tuesday, 25 September 2007 13:28 (UTC)Have you spotted the CLC reference?
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Date: Tuesday, 25 September 2007 13:38 (UTC)As for a book - sez who? Roman urbanism is my specialist field, so who's to say I won't publish something on responses to it some day? I've already lectured and taken seminars on the subject, and am looking forward to including both this episode and (with luck) Polanski's film in those sessions in the future.
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Date: Tuesday, 25 September 2007 13:50 (UTC)I shall check out that audio adventure Kharin mentions (warning: contains Bonnie Langford!). It's not unknown for RTD to borrow from audios or novels for ideas. There's a detailed synopsis here (http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_bf12.htm). Lots of familiar names, but not from CLC (the fact that there's a Metella as well as a Caecilius makes the CLC reference in the new ep certain, I think).
AFAIK (http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2168059,00.html), Polanski is off Pompeii, and it may never happen now.
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Date: Tuesday, 25 September 2007 14:27 (UTC)Someone else you ought to know about for your conference (and possibly already do) is Ika Willis (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/classics/aboutthedepartment/staff/academic/willis.html), who will be coming to speak to the Leeds branch of the Classical Association (http://www.classicsnet.plus.com/LADCA/prog.htm) in May on 'Science Fiction and the Romans'. She is on LJ, but prefers to keep her professional and LJ identities separate.
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Date: Tuesday, 25 September 2007 12:06 (UTC)http://www.doctorwho.co.uk/12-doctor-who---the-fires-of-vulcan-48-p.asp
- Kharin
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Date: Thursday, 27 September 2007 20:03 (UTC)Will you be casting a critical eye on it for accuracy and then writing a letter to RTD to point out any glaring errors?
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