Savagery

So “The Savages” is apparently going to be the next animated Doctor Who ’60s story… only discovered this somewhat randomly by looking at Rarewaves to see what’s coming up on that front; haven’t seen any formal announcement of it, nor indeed an informal one, though I now see there was one just before Xmas and I evidently wasn’t paying attention. Interesting choice that I wouldn’t have expected to appear on the schedule so soon, I’d have thought there’d be more demand for “The Highlanders” (cos Jamie’s first story) or “The Wheel in Space”, given that someone did do a partial animation of the first episode years ago as a sort of demo, I’d have thought that we’d have seen that finished first. I don’t think “The Savages” has ever been considered a classic or anything that audiences were clamouring for, but here it is anyway…

On the plus side, I was very concerned about the animation style after the… controversial 3D work done to “The Celestial Toymaker”, but it looks like they’ve stepped back from that to 2D. I’ll take that. Apparently it comes out in the UK near the end of March, so fuck knows when it’ll be out here, and I presume it’ll just be easier to get it via Rarewaves when the time comes.