No Complications

 

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Epipod Nine: Tickle

Drama, death, tragedy – everybody has these. But with humour you've got all these, and the antidote. You have found the answer. It doesn't follow that because you are a good comedy writer, you're a happy fellow. I've got one of the most miserable faces in the world. I am only happy when I am working. If I'm not working, I get screwed up because my time is going, my life is slipping by.
- Eric Sykes

Or

If there is a book you want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

- Toni Morrison

This.

That.

The other.

NO COMPLICATIONS ODDCAST NINE:

TICKLE

SHOWNOTES 

(NOT TO BE READ UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me:  Can't say you weren't warned.

Epipod Eight: The Tally Ho

I am very upset, because I'm an old man now, at the short length of childhood that children have. They don't have childhood for long and I think that's a wicked shame, because childhood is the most marvellous thing you've got to remember for the rest of your life.

- Gordon Murray 

Or

Your village may be different from other people's villages but we are all prisoners.

- Patrick McGoohan  

Me:  You know what we’re doing this oddcast’s commentingary on, don’t you?

Him:  No.

Me:  Excellent. 

Him:  Wasn’t it some guy called, like, ‘Ser Eric’ or something?

Me:  Ha!  No.  We’re not doing that one.

Him:  What one?

Me:  Exactly.  We’re looking at a children’s TV show that I, basically, knew next to nothing about.

Him:  And you expect me to know next to something about it?

Me:  Not really.  I’ll do the ‘facts’, you just react.

Him:  Okay, Doctor Seuss.

Me:  Shhh.  Nobody’s worked that out yet.

The sea badger drops in through the ceiling and makes a dreadful mess that takes the best part of an afternoon to clear up.

Him:  Aren’t your jokes...  I can’t remember what I was going to say.

Me:  Improvise.  I’ve got the show notes to help us stay on track.

Him:  Okay.

Me:  Shall we?

Him:  If we must.

Me:  Yes, we must.

Him:  Well then.

NO COMPLICATIONS ODDCAST EIGHT:
THE TALLY HO
 

SHOW NOTES:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Epipod Seven: Flumpire

I don’t really think about the fans. I think about what I want because I’m the guy who’s taking the comic book he read as a kid and turning it into a movie that I want to see as much as I want people to see it. Kevin Feige and I are fanboys, straight up. But we also know that if you just spend your time catering to the fans you make something that is hermetically sealed... 

You need to be thinking about everybody all the time. 

 - Joss Whedon 

Me:  Ah, okay.  Voyager wasn’t totally the final Doctor Who comic to count.  That was Once Upon a Time Lord.  Which wrapped up the Voyager storyline. 

Him:  I don’t really care.

Me:  Fair enough.

Sea badger cameo.

Him:  What do want?  Some typical Norwegian banter?

Me:  Aye, go on then.

Him:  You’re not getting any.

Me:  What’re we looking at in today’s oddcast?

Him:  I have no idea.

Me:  Excellent.  You really can’t remember?  I did tell you.

Him:  Yeah, but I try my best to push it out of my mind.

Me:  I think you’ll like it. 

Him:  You say that now.

Me:  Ha!  I do.

Him:  Well.

Me:  And we’re off!

NO COMPLICATIONS ODDCAST SEVEN:
FLUMPIRE

SHOW NOTES:

DAVID YATES: DAVID YATES DIRECTING DOCTOR WHO MOVIE 

STEVEN MOFFAT: DAVID YATES NOT DIRECTING DOCTOR WHO MOVIE

WIKILEAKS: SONY SAY DOCTOR WHO MOVIE TERRIFIC IDEA

STEVEN MOFFAT: SHUT UP ABOUT DOCTOR WHO MOVIE (PARAPHRASED)

Epipod Six: Reptile Collector

 

My aim in this world is to make that brown snake, that crocodile, that koala, that red-backed spider, that black widow, look good. That's my job. 
– Steve Irwin

 I make television because I want to change the way people think. 
– Mark Strickson

Me:  We’ve had comments about our lack of show notes. 

Him:  Okay. 

Me:  Do you know what show notes are? 

Him:  It’s not really my area. 

Me:  Fair enough.  Just to give you the heads-up that there’ll be show notes on this epipod. 

Him:  Alright. 

Me:  At this stage you still don’t know what we’re doing. 

Him:  No. 

Me:  Is that exciting? 

Him:  No. 

Me:  Even knowing there’ll be a Paul McGann variant cover? 

Him:  Ooo.  Everything should have a Paul McGann variant cover.  I expect you to do one for every drawing from this point on as well. 

Me:  Ha!  Don’t hold your breath. 

Him:  Why not? 

Me:  Because you’ll pass out. 

Him:  Oh.  That makes sense. 

Me:  Any idea what we’re going to be talking about? 

Him:  I still don’t, no.  But they do.  They know more than me. 

Me:  Both of ‘em? 

Him:  Yup.  All both of them. 

Me:  Excellent.  Brace for adventure, Lady and Gentleman.  Let’s journey into mystery!

The Him makes a noise not dissimilar to a deflating armadillo.

NO COMPLICATIONS ODDCAST SIX: 
REPTILE COLLECTOR

SHOW NOTES

Epipod Five: DWM 485 Commentingary

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought feeding the structure like root nodules.

- Lewis Thomas

Me:  So, how are we introducing this?

Him:  I’m tired.

Me:  Me too.

Him:  I’m warm.

Me:  Yeah, that’ll probably do.

Him:  I just recorded a commentingary.  You can read about it below.  Or listen to it, I suppose.  You won’t get far if you read about it.

Me:  That sums up this particular commentingary alright.1

Him:  And a good night’s sleep to all of you at home. 

NO COMPLICATIONS ODDCAST FIVE:  

DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE #485 COMMENTINGARY

1.  How many Nimon?

Are You Afraid of the Dark? Commentingary

Everything is held together with stories.  That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion. 

- Barry Lopez

Me:  Shall we explain what this is then?

Him:  No.

Me:  Really? 

Him:  We explain what it is in the thing. 

Me:  Yeah, but no-one’s going to be interested in the thing unless we tell everyone – well, both of them – what we’ve got that’s so interesting.  Or not. 

Him:  But that can be their problem. 

Me:  That’s one way of looking at it. 

Him:  Exactly. 

Me:  So, I’m going to have to write an introduction.1

Him:  If you want to. 

Me:  I was hoping this would act as the intro. 

Him:  Well, it kind of does.  It leaves things intriguing and mysterious without giving anything away. 

Me:  There’s that.  How am I going to correct the factual inaccuracies though? 

Him:  What factual inaccuracies? 

Me:  Ha!  There we are then. 

Him:  Yup. 

Me:  Lady and gentleman, here’s a thing.  Splundig Vur Thrigg. 

The Episode 

The Commentingary

1.  This was fairly off the cuff, and although I’d ‘researched’ a particular episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? (The Tale of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice2 to be exact) for a commentingary, we opted to try an improvised one instead.  I’m still getting to grips with the glorious new USB recorder so, even with a fair amount of cleaning up, the audio’s not quite up to The Pink Floyd’s exacting standards.

In other news, we’re still stuck in a tent of the north face of the Trout.  Hopefully the weather’ll clear up soon and we’ll get back to ascending.  After all, we’ve only got five recons left.  Unfortunately, they’re The Space Pirates episodes two to six.

Anyway, hope you enjoy this daft knockabout.  It might seem random but – as both of you know full well – this blog only appears to be about Doctor Who.

2.  You’ll already know why we almost went with that one…3  

3.  blah blah it’s the Master blah