The Haunting of Villa Diodati – Review and Thoughts Before we begin, let’s get something clear right from the outset. Doctor Who isn’t science fiction – it’s horror, albeit horror dressed in the clothes of science fiction, in much the same way as Alien is a haunted house in space. For all its neutron flow […]
Can You Hear Me? – Review & Thoughts “If you’ve been affected by Graham’s story…”, said the sombre voiceover at the end of this week’s instalment of Doctor Who, the seventh episode of the current run – Can You Hear Me? It’s fair to say that this episode did affect me, ironically filling me with a […]
Praxeus – Review & Thoughts In popular fiction, birds have always taken on a spiritual, even supernatural aspect. From the raven in Edgar Allen Poe’s poem of the same name to the Albatross in Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, our winged friends have often been portrayed as harbingers of doom, bringing death and destruction […]
Fugitive of the Judoon – Review & Thoughts On the planet Logopolis, setting for Tom Baker’s 1980 swansong, there lived a race of beings who cared so much for numbers that they could convert them into solid matter. Mathematics so pure that objects, even living creatures capable of independent thought, could be summoned into being. The […]
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