This little factoid was pointed out to me earlier today:

Yes, I realize that I’m in the minority of people who think Speed Racer was a really good movie, but no matter what you think of it, there is no objective standard by which you could argue that The DaVinci Code, a film based on the worst novel of all time, a novel inspired by right-wing French conspiracy theories from the 1930s, is a better film.
And yet, it not only made more money, it has sequels coming out.
Meanwhile, the visually stunning film that actually had something to say about the conflict between artistic integrity and working within the commercial corporate structure is just yet another thing nerds like to gripe about to impress each other with their supposed cultural superiority.

*sigh*
We really do get the film industry we deserve, don’t we?

I started to suspect that the bad blood between various story-book characters would eventually turn into gladiatorial combat when The Little Engine That Could ran over the Saggy Baggy Elephant…

The Pit, 1993, Neil Penswick
There was a strong thread of Lovecraftian horror that picked up in the New Adventures era, picking up from some of the implications of villains like Fenric and the Gods of Ragnarok from the original series, and this was the novel that more or less started that trend, though it would be awhile before the books really developed that theme and tried to integrate the Cthulhu “mythos” into Who continuity.
I chiefly remember it for the rather odd inclusion of William Blake as a supporting character.

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