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Skulltopus

A series of linked posts, examining Doctor Who's employment of 'the Weird'.


Skulltopus

Skulltopus 2: Bad Night at Fang Rock

Skulltopus 3: Yes, We Have No Macra

Skulltopus 4: Attack of the Plot-Device Monster

Skulltopus 5: Fair Exchange, No Robbery

Skulltopus 6: Macra Revisited

Skulltopus 7: Tentacle, Plastic and Bone

Skulltopus 8: Society of the Tentacle

Skulltopus 9: Signs of Progress and the Progress of the Sign

Skulltopus 10: How Green Was My Death?

Skulltopus 11: Changing States

Skulltopus 12: Come Out onto the Balcony and Wave a Tentacle

Skulltopus 13: Return to Fang Rock

More to come.
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The Shabogans are the invisible underclass on Gallifrey. The plebs. The nobodies. They're not the posh drop-outs outside the Capitol; they're the unseen guttersnipes trapped inside. They're the vandals who shoot stasers at the Seal of Rassilon. And maybe they do more than that. Maybe they riot. Maybe they erect barricades. Maybe they throw stones. Maybe they daub things like "GALLIFREY WILL NEVER BE HAPPY UNTIL THE LAST CASTELLAN HAS BEEN HANGED WITH THE GUTS OF THE LAST CARDINAL" on the walls of the Time Toilets.

Because if there is hope, it lies in the Shabogans.


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