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| - Anorak-Pocket-Sized Edition Resistance is futile! Fluffs, goofs, double entendres, fashion victims, technobabble, dialogue disasters; these are just some of the headings under which every story in the Doctor's twenty-seven-year career is analysed. Despite its humorous tone, The Discontinuity Guide has a serious purpose. Apart from drawing attention to the errors and absurdities that are among the more loveable features of Doctor Who, this reference book provides a complete analysis of the story-by-story creation of the Doctor Who universe.
- So, you do get a a bit of the stuff about each story and its production and behind-the-scenes crap, like you'd get in Lofficier's Doctor Who Programme Guide, but you also get a list of great quotes, so-bad-they're-good quotes, gay jokes, lines that weren't gay jokes in 1965 but were by 1995, fluffed lines, ridiculous costumes, etc., and, finally, a subjective verdict on whether or not you should watch this story and why.
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| - Anorak-Pocket-Sized Edition Resistance is futile! Fluffs, goofs, double entendres, fashion victims, technobabble, dialogue disasters; these are just some of the headings under which every story in the Doctor's twenty-seven-year career is analysed. Despite its humorous tone, The Discontinuity Guide has a serious purpose. Apart from drawing attention to the errors and absurdities that are among the more loveable features of Doctor Who, this reference book provides a complete analysis of the story-by-story creation of the Doctor Who universe. One sample story, Pyramids of Mars, yields the following gems: Technobabble: a cytronic particle accelerator, a relative continuum stabiliser, and triobiphysics. Dialogue Triumphs: "I'm a Time Lord...You don't understand the implications. I'm not a human being. I walk in eternity." Continuity: the Doctor is about 750 years old at this point, and has apparently aged 300 years since Tomb of the Cybermen. He ages another 200 years between this story and the Seventh Doctor's Time and the Rani. An absolute must for every Doctor Who fan. Wear your anorak with pride, and keep The Discontinuity Guide in its pocket!
- So, you do get a a bit of the stuff about each story and its production and behind-the-scenes crap, like you'd get in Lofficier's Doctor Who Programme Guide, but you also get a list of great quotes, so-bad-they're-good quotes, gay jokes, lines that weren't gay jokes in 1965 but were by 1995, fluffed lines, ridiculous costumes, etc., and, finally, a subjective verdict on whether or not you should watch this story and why. Also, they attempt to fit everything together into a single continuity, not by ignoring the fact that most classic Who stories contradict each other, but by celebrating that fact and deliberately pointing out the biggest and dumbest retcons and then spinning fanwank to connect them up anyway. Like Season 6B. Basically, The Discontinuity Guide is to The Doctor Who Programme Guide as /who/ Wiki is to TARDIS Data Core. (Except books, because I know you're autistic and will have a problem with the analogy if I don't point that out.) It was written by Paul Cornell, Martin Day, and Keith Topping, published by Virgin back in 1995, and reissued in 2004. In 2005, the BBC got the rights to chop it up and use it (together with The Television Companion, a book that tries to summarize decades of fanzine writing about each episode) as the basis for the official classic episode guide on the NuWho website, which you can still find here. Meanwhile, two fan websites picked up the format to expand to non-TV stories. The DiscContinuity Guide covers most of Big Finish, or they did until Briggs started cranking out 300 new audios per week. The Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide covers all the novels, or they did until that crap Krillitane book made it obvious the NSAs weren't worth covering anymore. There was also a site doing Discontinuity for NuWho, but I can't find it anymore, and they stopped pretty early because they were huge Ecclesfags and couldn't get over Tennant replacing him.
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