Recently Tomorrow
Where did the last few days go?
Well, on Tuesday evening I joined various of the gang from Millarworld as Millar was in town with Marvel Comics' Editor In Chief Joe Quesada and introductions were in order. For various reasons it ended up being a rather more crowded do than the intimate affair that was originally planned, but much fun was had, and I saw a certain writer of Doctor Who more pissed than I think anyone has ever seen him before. There's a write-up on the evening on Newsarama, though I wasn't around for all of it as I had to head off for an early start the following day.
One of the many conversations I had with people that evening was about the Big Finish audio dramas that *aren't* their Doctor Who output, specifically their Sapphire and Steel and The Tomorrow People series. I haven't heard any of the S and S stuff, and I'm sort of of the feeling (as was the person I was speaking to) that although they're reputedly very good, there's a completeness to the six televised stories that I don't want to break.
The Tomorrow People audios, on the other hand, I've been intrigued about for a while. This is the series that even more than Doctor Who defined my childhood TV experience. It was probably the first fully realised focus of the geeky obsession that I'm all too horribly capable of. Even then I wasn't blind to the shonky production values and the more than dodgy acting that characterised it (especially in the later years), but still I couldn't imagine missing a single episode. And so the 'intrigued' was heightened earlier this week to the point that I actually bought one of them yesterday. Rather than going back to the very beginning of the run, I decided to start with the most recent 'series', though I accidentally picked up the second story rather than the first. I'm not really sure what I make of it, because I've clearly come in right in the middle of some serious ongoing stuff, which makes it hard to judge in isolation. I think it'll need a re-listen.
But in the meantime, the obsession is rekindled and I'm now eyeing the DVD boxset on Amazon with keen interest. The Mrs reminds me that on a shelf at home we actually have a copy of what's generally regarded as the definitive TP story, The Blue and the Green, so I think I need to watch that this weekend before I make any rash purchases. It's possible that seeing it again may make me realise the error of my childhood ways....