Star Trek and The JFK Assassination
In 1977 Star Wars changed cinema, hot on the heels of this success Star Trek revival series Star Trek Phase two was quickly repurposed as a motion picture, titled Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The antithesis of Star Wars The motion picture presented a slow, ponderous, philosophical tale. Essentially a remake of the original series…
Blog Series Introduction: JFK and Time Travel
Dallas, Texas the 11th of November 1963 a presidential motorcade approaches Elm Street, the small numbers lining the streets include fans and critics of the 35th president of the united states, and a higher than usual congregation of time travelers and science fiction characters. On the 6th floor of The Texas School Book Depository bewildered scientist Sam…
Opinion: Decanonising The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
When Disney promised to start releasing annual Star Wars films I imagine the plan was always for the franchise to operate like sister franchise Marvel with the Star Wars ‘episodes’ being the equivelent of the Avengers movies and the standalones Star Wars Story movies being the equivelent of the individual hero movies. I think that…
Review: Dating Amber
Amazon Prime promises a “hilarious coming of age comedy” in the blurb for Dating Amber. This is bad marketing at its worst, it’s like reading the blurb for Porridge and getting the Shawshank Redemption. Dating Amber is a powerful bittersweet exploration of casual bigotry, sexual identity and the liberating joy of friendship. Eddie and Amber…
Everything Changes But Who
The Timeless Children – Commentary & Thoughts Previously on Doctor Who… The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) has tracked the Cyberfleet to a planet sheltering the last survivors of mankind (and some electricity pylons). Separated from the ‘fam’, the Doctor steals a Cyber-cruiser and heads off to meet Ko Sharmus (Ian McElhinney), the semi-mythical leader of the…
Carry On Up The Cyber
Ascension of the Cybermen – Review & Thoughts “Love, pride, hate, fear… have you no emotions, sir?” enquired the First Doctor (William Hartnell) to the Cybermen, way back in his 1966 swan song, The Tenth Planet. In last week’s episode, The Haunting of Aston Villa (I still can’t remember its actual title), we met the lone…
Monster Mash
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…
Badfinger
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…
Angry Birds
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…
Numberwang
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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