This Bloody McGann Thing

So, it seems that the great bastion of integrity known as The Sun has run an article about Paul McGann returning as the Doctor in the Specials coming up next year. Ok, I thought, let's see where this came from, because, to be frank, if it was true, I would have been told. Turns out it came from OG, or TDWF or whatever it's called this week. I love it there, I really do, it's - usually - full of intelligent, well adjusted, and verbose people talking a lot of sense about the series we all love. So we found out where this story originated. Here! Turns out theres a Spoiler King called The Doctors Trainers - nice guy, hardly ever wrong, apparently, and this is why he has a massive following of guys and gals who hang on his every word. Fair enough, I thought, I'll investigate. So what do I do... well... I know Upperboat - we KNOW I know Upperboat, I'll ask there. I'm told, nope bollocks. That's usually good enough for me, but, well, this is a huge story, I mean the Paul McGann returning, to the fold... blow all the he's not canon and the Doctor's not half human guys out the water!... so I contact the press guys, again, I'm told nope, not true... then the publicists, my pal there, she says, nope, and here's a statement... fair enough I thought, but, as a belt and braces kind of guy, I thought, I know, if you wana know the time, ask a Time Lord... so I contact Paul's agent, they say "it's not true, but since it's you, it's ok to give Paul a buzz and ask..." so I text him. He calls back. Amiable, funny, sarcastic, a perfect gent. "Yeah, I heard that," he says, then goes on to deny it. Not that he wouldn't, just that he isn't. We talk about other things, football mainly, then we say out goodbyes.

Now, that's enough surely? What else could I ask? Where else could I go? I know! The Doctor, the actual Doctor! Davvvviiiiid? "When? Where? Next year? Have they changed it? I didn't know that... they haven't? Oh.... I like Paul too, that'd've been fun..."

No one knew, not a soul... not the leading man, the man in question, the writers, the publicists, no one. Then Neill Gorton comes out and mentions it too. A little ironic quip about him being the only person in Upperboat who doesn't know. You and me both Neill. So it's pretty cut and dried, you'd think, eh? The Cult of the Trainer has been given the bum steer of Harriet Jones in a Dalek Supreme proportion... so surely when I post all this, it will slowly go away?

You'd think, eh?

What happened amazed me... properly amazed me.

What actually happened was The Cult of Trainer turned into the Lalala Our Fingers Are In Our Ears And We Can't Hear You brigade. Incredible.

These are the guys who reinterprate actual facts to fit their own continuity. Well, they argue, just cos they say it isn't, doesn't mean it won't... just cos it's not happening in the specials, doesn't mean it can't.. everyone's a liar, everyone's in a huge big conspiracy - including me, Sheringham, Lee... all the guys who know what's actually happening... lalala.. we're not listening... even the voice of two Doctors' (three actually, I discussed it with Sylvester, a friend of Paul's), isn't enough for the conspiracy people. And all because RTD lied about the Master...

Now, onto a topic of a related nature. Our sad little friend Angry Who Fan - the man so fierce he moderates his comments page - decided to have a rant about the discussion on OG, calling it "tired" and describing me as, what was it... oh that's right, a "cunt" and then suggestion I was an Upperboat Stooge and the Cigarette Smoking Man. Now, considering he stole the initial X File analogy from me, it seems a bit rich. Particularly from a man who's only real contact with Upperboat is spelling it incorrectly in a sad little blog. As for my sex life, which was alluded to as well, I have to inform him, if he's interested that sex happens between two people, not one hand in front of a PC. Even with real life naked women. Imagine that.