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Hah! Nice one.

A pleasure to work with. Mark was great. Professional, accommodating, and kept me informed regularly on the pieces he was working on. Definitely recommended.

I have a wibbly wobbly headache the more I think about all this. Come back Reapers and repair all the damage the Doctor has done... is doing... will do...

This was brought up in The Waters of Mars. Even the Daleks won't willingly kill a person if said death is at a fixed point in history.

Mars Base Commander Adelaide Brooke recounts how a Dalek didn't kill her when she was ten years old. This took place during The Stolen Earth. Despite having the opportunity to exterminate Adelaide Brooke, the Dalek doesn't and simply flies away. The Doctor explains about fixed points in history, with Base Commander Brooke's future death on Mars being one of them.

Of course the Doctor tries to get around this, believing he has every right to do so, proclaiming himself the "Time Lord Victorious". Angered and disturbed by the Doctor's arrogance, Adelaide Brooke kills herself, undoing the changes the Doctor made to the timeline.

Yes, yes it is. But any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

And I feel very sorry for your jaw.

Hi Z - non-AT Forum related post.

With regards to the Screenshots & Fan creations Forum:

If you take a gander through the Screenshots and Fan creations Forum you'll come across threads that are x number of pages long, and represent both creative content, some going back many, many months. Some of these threads are updated less frequently than every 30 days, especially those with art pieces. I hope that updating these threads with new content beyond the 30 days period isn't considered a form of necro-anything. Starting a new thread would defeat the purpose of maintaining a single maintained thread that showcases creative content that has been built up over a long period of time.


Minor query. When linking images in the Screenshots and Fan creation section, is there any particular dimensions you would prefer users to keep within? I'm thinking of artwork links rather than signature or avatar images.

Three words - slowly, but surely.

I'm still in the process of script rewrites and have learned a valuable lesson that providing the artist reference material upfront cuts down considerably on the amount of time spent on research if you hand over a script along. Of course that increases the amount of time I spend searching for reference material (images, diagrams, documents etc.)

On the plus side I recently got involved with a new initiative in my town, Enterprise Taupo. The goal is to bring entrepreneurs and businesses together, so that ideas can be taken from concept to fruition, with businesses providing assistance, advice, knowledge, expertise and contacts to entrepreneurs. Very early stages yet, but already thanks to Enterprise Taupo I will be spending time with an Intellectual Property lawyer soon.

As the Pantene hair advertisements are wont to say - 'it won't happen overnight, but it will happen.'

I can't believe I forgot 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later, that could do just as nicely.

The zombies in Outpost were created by pseudo-science while those in Død Snø (Dead Snow) were animated by mystical mumbo-jumbo. Pretty nasty pieces of work in both films that had no problem using melee weapons and firearms, and employing tactics and strategy. Not particularly brain-dead at all, but viscous and vengeful.

I found that kind of interesting as well. At least it wasn't the Sparkly Angst Brigade Vampires vs. the Romero style Zombies.

Although if you use 30 Days of Night Vampires why not have them face off against the 'modern' zombies from Outpost and Død Snø (Dead Snow) for something different.

Maori did suffer casualties, but nowhere near the levels that British Colonial and Regular forces anticipated. Maori refused to engage the British in open combat wherever possible, adopting raiding and ambushing tactics, and relying on defensive fortified Pa to draw the British into pre-arranged killing fields. The British would typically shell a Pa with artillery and then send in their forces, assuming that the bombardment would have killed or wounded the majority of defenders inside the Pa.

Much to their chagrin, not only did the shelling prove ineffective (Maori entrenched themselves in bunkers underground) but as soon as the British troops entered the defensive network of the fortified Pa, they were subjected to co-ordinated musket, rifle, and shotgun fire from trenches and hidden positions. The defending Maori would slip away at a pre-determined time (where possible) and fight another day.

One of the major weaknesses was that Maori fought warfare on a seasonal basis. Warriors went to war for x number of months, and then were required to harvest crops, and prepare for the next season.

The other was that a poorly prepared Pa without proper escape routes could become a death-trap for the defenders rather than the attackers.

I keep thinking of a quote from the Kurt Russell masterpiece 'Solider.' Truncated to fit the circumstances:

"What good is this man? All he can do is walk point, and take the first hit!"

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