Triskaidekaphobes may not care for the idea that I’m highlighting this as the thirteenth year of the blog, but in my household thirteen is actually one of our favorite numbers. Further, we’ve just ended the Thirteenth Doctor’s era, and I can look forward to meeting Jodie Whittaker herself at Gallifrey One next month. I’d say Year Thirteen is worth celebrating.
This year will, as I’ve hinted before, be the last for the blog. Now that I’ve finally sold some fiction (you can find my first published story here, if you’re interested; I use a pen name), I want to focus more of my time and energy on that kind of writing. There are also several other personal stressors that have ramped up recently, and I simply have less energy to dedicate to blogging.
That’s not to say this year will be lax. I hope to be able to announce my part in that project to which I alluded a couple of years ago. I’ll be reporting on my experiences at Gally as usual, with the bonus of having one of my kiddos with me to provide fresh eyes. And I will finish up my Everything Else series of reviews of the Classic adventures.
Given that there are only five of those left, the blog schedule gets a bit loose around mid-year. But here is the schedule for those final five stories:
- Jan 25: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
- Feb 08: Enlightenment
- Mar 22: The Invasion of Time
- Apr 26: Frontier in Space
- May 24: The Pirate Planet
Note that the February entry will be in the first half of the month instead of the usual second half. That’s because I won’t have had time to do a re-watch and write-up by 22 Feb, as I’ll just have returned from Gallifrey One. (The middle of February will be filled with Gally posts anyway.) In order to provide a proper review, I’ve decided just to move Enlightenment up and leave the rest of February to convention posts.
The review slots for June through October have yet to be decided. Perhaps I’ll go over some of the modern Who stories I have never reviewed. We were starting Series Six with the Eleventh Doctor back when I started the blog, and I’ve done Nu-View (remember those?) reviews of Series One with the Ninth Doctor. However, I’ve only done a select few reviews of the Tenth Doctor (six episodes across five posts, three of which were specials of one kind or another), so perhaps it would be fitting to do a retrospective of sorts before Tennant returns to our screens.
Said return will make for a fine conclusion to the blog. With highly anticipated new specials; the return of a producer, a Doctor, and a Companion from fifteen years ago; and the advent of a brand new Doctor, I can go out with a bang. I’m looking forward to a great year to end this crazy ride. Thanks for riding along!
Well at least the moment has been prepared for.
Oh come on, somebody had to say it 😀
Like I’ve said before, you can be proud of all the work you have put into this blog and I’ll always take pop back and a look at your various posts. As a paleowhovian I have always been interested in your views as someone who came to the show at a different time to me.
I said it on Facebook! XD
Thank you for your long-time readership; I do appreciate it! I’m sure I’ll keep Having Opinions™ in public somewhere even after the blog ends (particularly at Gallifrey One), but I’m definitely feeling that it’s about time to wrap it up. Hopefully there will still be lots of interesting things to talk about in the coming year.