FFS, Sparacus!

Now, normally I try to keep this thread free from heckling the creator of BC, but this is a unique occasion, unsurpassed by any previous Spara action - from claiming he has the support of the silent majority, to insisting that School Reunion could be refilmed and remove Sarah, Mickey and K9 and bring in Ben Chatham as the new bloke.

But this... this goes beyond the pale.

I am not making this up, or parodying it: my sources swear blind it's true.


SPARACUS SAYS:
I have sent the following letter to DWM (Doctor Who Magazine), the sentiments within I'm sure are shared by many posters here:


Dear DWM team,
I would like to compliment you on an interesting and well written DWM 389.

Despite a continued over-concentration on the new series and the rather mundane Sarah Jane Adventures, the article on 'Destiny of the Daleks' was excellent and well researched and I have enjoyed the comic strip, 'The First'.

However I would like to suggest that you include some articles on Ben Chatham , if only a few reviews of his latest adventures. Ben is the most important Doctor Who spin-off character and I'm sure many fans would be pleased to see him featured in your magazine.

Yours, [Sparacus]

He has sent that to Doctor Who Magazine.

And Doctor Who Magazine, now under the despotic rule of Benjamin Cook (wait a minute... get back to writing about Big Finish, you git!), replied thusly:


BENJAMIN COOK SAYS:
Dear Sparacus,

Thank you for your generous praise of DWM 389. We put a lot of hard work into it, so your kind words are much appreciated.

Sadly, I have never heard of Ben Chatham, and neither has Nyssa the office cat.

I would ask around the DWM team, but Andrew Pixley is on a kayaking holiday in Aviemore, Sorvad is serving three years for credit card fraud, and Tom and Peter are in bed. But not together.

So I consulted Wikipedia, but no one appears to have heard of Ben Chatham there either.

I'm afraid I must conclude, Sparacus, that Ben Chatham is NOT the most important Doctor Who spin-off character of all time, and that comparatively few of our tens of thousands of readers would be at all pleased to see space devoted to him in the magazine.

I’m sorry to disappoint you in this way.

However, we've an extra eight pages to play with next issue, so I'll ask our esteemed editor, Thomas Spilsbury, to consider an article on Ben Chatham... if we decide to shelve our exclusive interview with Kylie Minogue.

Thanks again, Sparacus, for your continued support of DWM.

Ben (Cook, not Chatham)


Honest to god.

Only time will tell what in the name of God Sparacus will do now the Official Publication has spoketh (and these are people who are happy to post long forgotten comic strips about Quarks and Giant Wasps...)

--------------------ADDENDUM--------------------------

Sparacus apparently sent in that letter, and also sent it to the DWM section of OG (or the Doctor Who Forum to give it it's new friendly title). The answer as quoted above was given and the thread rapidly locked by the mods on the ground the matter was settled.

It now transpires that this letter has actually been published in the magazine.

The reply from the Official Magazine, Whose Comic Strip Is Canonical According To RTD Who Writes There Every(ish) Month?


"Er, who?!"


That noise you heard was the sound of irony. This blog's task is done, pretty much.

I recommend people check out the 350th issue to see the special letters column filled with all the insane correspondence Doctor Who Magazine - in some similar anniversary issue, we'll discover a reprint of Spara's pathetic gasp.

Is this some hideous feeding of the fire? Unless the magazine agree to write about BC, they've just very simple showed Spara for the nutter he is to their entire readership. They most likely have crushed his pathetic illusion far worse than I ever have.

But on the other hand...

Let us be absolutely honest here people - even if you LIKE Ben Chatham and considered him WORTHY of all this attention, the fact remains to read about him you need to either come here (a site devoted to taking the piss) or else sign up to OG and visit a closed archive of material and poke around for Spara threads.

Therefore, I urge all readers of this blog to write to DWM and tell anyone who's interested that if they want Ben Chatham, this is the best place to go - after all, does Spara's blog contain a wikipage explanation, illustrations, and links to youtube? No.

Come on people! Spread the word about Chatham Odyssey!!!