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27 Jun 2011, 4:38 pm
Lime, J, delivers the opinion; Mithradates, J., concurs only in the result: I take issue with my colleague [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 8:00 am
No time to mince words here: my main man Mithradates gets it exactly right when he says I’ve found [read post]
23 Mar 2013, 10:15 pm
Hello again, Mithradates here, and back on the job, sans my erstwhile partner. [read post]
23 Mar 2013, 10:15 pm
Hello again, Mithradates here, and back on the job, sans my erstwhile partner. [read post]
22 May 2011, 8:15 pm
Hello again. We seem to have gotten out of order here — my colleague was reduced to such a state of torpor after watching The Daleks that he pleaded an inability to write on the topic. My reaction was much more positive, so I have taken it upon myself to set down a few words on the series. I will focus most of my discussion on the first two episodes, as they set the tone for the whole thing. What set The Daleks above An Unearthly Child for me was the keen air of foreboding that it established… [read post]
11 May 2011, 8:59 pm
Howdy folks. I’m Lime’s erstwhile interlocutor. Like him, I grew up on the third, fourth and fifth Doctors. In effect, my exposure has been limited to what has shown on American TV. I have watched some of the newer episodes with Eccleston and Tennant, but don’t get BBC America. I never saw an episode with Patrick Troughton (unless you count The Five Doctors) until a couple of years ago; my first William Hartnell serial was late last year. So I’m going into this without a lot… [read post]
11 Mar 2012, 8:37 pm
Early Who tried to rotate between “historical” and “sci-fi” episodes, something foreign to this Who watcher for whom actual time-traveling into the past was a rarity for Doctors 3-5 (although this has thankfully been revived for the new episodes). So after visiting the Marinus, the travelers set down in ancient Mexico. This immediately made the episode interesting for me, as I am an archaeologist by trade, and the Aztecs are more unfamiliar to most western viewers than even… [read post]
11 Mar 2012, 8:00 pm
Not the best vacation spot. Fresh from their visit to medieval China, the travelers come to Marinus. There they uncover a complex mystery: a strange structure with no obvious entrance; a sea of acid, and several minisubs piloted by humanoids in wetsuits — the Voord. This sets up the frame story for the plot, which reads like something I would have developed as an RPG gamemaster in high school: The building houses the Conscience of Marinus, which has the ability to control the thoughts of… [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 9:59 pm
After some work-induced blogging hiatus, pointed out by my bud Mithradates, a recent turn of events compels [read post]
