Highway To Mars

I am joined by Gareth Edwards the creator of the “Adric Plays” series on Youtube to review the Doctor Who Adventure Game Series. Gareth covered all five games in his Adric Plays series which was a lot of fun to watch and I highly recommend them in their own right. The games cover Daleks, Cybermen, Vashta Nerada, Sontarans and Rutons and are not just fun for kids, they have some great stories in their own rights, especially The Gunpowder Plot.

FLASH! AHHHHHHH!!!!! This is it Flash Gordon tees up in a head to head battle with Tristran in a fight to save the universe. AGAIN! The terrible trio join me once more as we discuss the movies Stardust and Flash Gordon. Enjoy our new segment Phoenixes Rant.

Just before Christmas I had a great discussion with Odile Thomas from Sending a Wave Podcast on the TV Series firefly. It’s taken a while but here it is and I hope to be talking to her again soon on the last of the Tripod Novels.

This week the mini martians and I cover two Dr Who stories with a theme – Murder Mysteries. The contenders – Plushy Rat vs CGI Wasp. Who will win. Join the New and Old Farts as we check out The Unicorn and the Wasp and The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

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A reasonably spoiler free (well as much as we could) discussion on the new movie The Hunger Games. Phoenix and Raven represent the target audience, Kiarra the resident expert on fighting and me the nagging parent. Definitely a challenge to review but the girls did a great job.

We did it!  We made it to the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular and it definitely lived up to it’s name.  Thank you to the BBC, Tom Clement and Sharon Wilson who made it possible for us to go and have one of the best nights out ever.  This is a must see show for anyone out there thinking about it and our review is a reminder that in the end Doctor Who is a gift best watched through the eyes of a child.

Did you know David Tennant is considered hot by 12 year olds?  No? Well he probably doesn’t either and that’s probably a good thing.  The martians are back and on a trip to melbourne (australia for those hemisphere challenged northerners) to see the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular courtesy of the BBC.  Can life get any better?  I think not.

What’s this 2012 arrives and my podcast has been highjacked????  Odile takes on the reigns as chief martian as she delivers the promised interview with Ed on the Pool of Fire.  Honestly, I can’t imaging that this kid is 15, I wish I was that switched on at the same age.  A great interview and I am hoping Ed will follow up for the prequel.

With Apologies to Dr Seuss.

Every Hu-man

Down in Hu-ville

Liked Christmas a lot…

But the Martian,

Who lived just North of Hu-ville,

Did NOT!

The Martian hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!

Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason.

It could be that his eyeballs weren’t screwed in quite right.

It could be, perhaps, that he held his raygun too tight.

But I think that the most likely reason of all

May have been that he saw red at sight of santa’s smalls.

But,

Whatever the reason, The gun or the smalls,

He stood there on Christmas Eve, hating the Hu-mans,

Staring down from his cave with a sour, Martian frown

At the warm lighted windows below in their town.

For he knew every Hu-man down in Hu-ville beneath

Was busy now, hanging a mistleoe wreath.

“And they’re hanging their stockings!” he snarled with a sneer.

“Tomorrow is Christmas! It’s practically here!”

Then he growled, with his martian fingers nervously drumming,

“I MUST find a way to keep Christmas from coming!”

For, tomorrow, he knew…

…All the Hu-man girls and boys

Would wake up bright and early. They’d rush for their toys!

And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!

That’s one thing he hated! The NOISE! NOISE! NOISE! NOISE!

Then the Hu-mans, young and old, would sit down to a feast.

And they’d feast! And they’d feast!

And they’d FEAST! FEAST! FEAST! FEAST!

They would start on Hu-pudding, and rare Hu-roast-beast

Which was something the Martian couldn’t stand in the least!

And THEN

They’d do something he liked least of all!

Every Hu-man down in Hu-ville, the tall and the small,

Would stand close together, with Christmas bells ringing.

They’d stand hand-in-hand. And the Hu-mans would start singing!

They’d sing! And they’d sing!

AND they’d SING! SING! SING! SING!

And the more the Martian thought of the Hu-Christmas-Sing

The more the Martian thought, “I must stop this whole thing!

“Why for four hundred years I’ve put up with it now!

I MUST stop Christmas from coming!

…But HOW?”

Then he got an idea!

An awful idea!

THE MARTIAN

GOT A WONDERFUL, AWFUL IDEA!

“I know just what to do!” The Martian Laughed in his throat.

And he made a quick Santy Claus hat and a coat.

And he chuckled, and clucked, “What a great Martian trick!

“With this coat and this hat, I’ll look just like Saint Nick!”

“All I need is a reindeer…”

The Martian looked around.

But since reindeer are scarce, there was none to be found.

Did that stop the old Martian…?

No! The Martian simply said,

“If I can’t find a reindeer, I’ll make one instead!”

So he called his dog Max. Then he took some red thread

And he tied a big horn on top of his head.

THEN

He loaded a sheep-ray to take care of Saint Nick

And some old empty sacks

On a ramshakle sleigh

And he hitched up old Max.

Then the Martian said, “Giddyap!”

And the sleigh started down

Toward the homes where the Hu-mans

Lay a-snooze in their town.

All their windows were dark. Quiet snow filled the air.

All the Hu-mans were all dreaming sweet dreams without care

When he came to the first house in the square.

“This is stop number one,” The old Martian Claus hissed

And he climbed to the roof, empty bags in his fist.

Then he slid down the chimney. A rather tight pinch.

He got stuck only once, for a moment or two.

Then he pulled out his death ray and blew up the flue

He plopped to the ground where little Hu- stockings all hung in a row.

“These stockings,” he grinned, “are the first things to go!”

Then he slithered and slunk, with a smile most unpleasant,

Around the whole room, and he took every present!

Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums!

Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums!

And to cover his tracks, then the Martian, very nimb[...]

We here at martian creative are about to get serious about our first full comedy project and as a precursor to that I interviewed fellow martian Simon on Comedy and how it works for him little knowing I would be getting a whole bunch of ideas for the show.