THE COLLECTED RTA DAILY CARTOON (PART FIFTEEN) JANUARY 2020

FAMILIAR TUNNEL

FAMILIAR TUNNEL

When watching Ghost Light There's a familiar sight A studio tunnel Which my thinking ignites I do like to suspect That this piece of stock set Was whilst getting ratted Where dear Leela got wet And might we implore That a decade before Cybermen and Yeti Were treading that floor

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FILLING THE GAPS

FILLING THE GAPS

Nowadays it’s the culture

To take narrative structure

And find you know every blessed thing

About what the girl did

Or what the guy hid

Before the plot’s barely opened its wings

Fans want to fill in the gaps

Invent their own mishaps

Scream it out at the top of their lungs

That their theory is sound

They should be more renowned

’til someone can prove them quite wrong

And yet there’s something I miss

Midst speculation like this

And that’s not to dismiss such excitement

If it is all explained

The universe gets constrained

Imagination can take quite a dent

If you fill all those voids

Possibilities get destroyed

And everyone knows where it’s going

By untangling the knots

Joining all the dots

You lose the excitement of simply not knowing

I don’t wish to annoy

And can appreciate the joy

Of working out “so that means this…!”

But that definitive answer

May not prove such an enhancer

When you think of those options you’ll miss

So sometimes it seems best

Not to be second-guessed

And told exactly what they chose to do

’cos I’m missing the mystery

With all this Big Finishery

That simple joy of not knowing Who

Martin A W Holmes, January 2020

THE COLLECTED RTA DAILY CARTOON (PART FOURTEEN) DECEMBER 2019