Radio waves are being saturated. Everywhere I go, Queen anthems are thumping out. This is not a negative. The first CDs I bought were by Queen. I think. It was awhile ago. But there is commerce at play. Bohemian Rhapsody is in the cinemas and the music is the tie in. I wasn't going to … Continue reading Review: Bohemian like Freddie
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Doctor Who: Suffer Not Ignorance to Live
The Doctor regenerating into a woman was set up by Chris Chibnall so it wouldn't be a barrier to who The Doctor always was. New Doctor, similar traits, same memories, continuing adventures. The intention was and remains that The Doctor won't be thwarted or defeated by just the fact of her latest embodiment, just as … Continue reading Doctor Who: Suffer Not Ignorance to Live
Doctor Who: going organic
Doctor Who's Kerblam, or it's title for writers: how to do contemporary issues in an SF setting, while throwing off your audience before they reach obvious conclusions. Others have written fairly comprehensively on how the plot reflects contemporary labour and employment practices and noted the call backs to earlier iterations of The Doctor, of course … Continue reading Doctor Who: going organic
Doctor Who: Borderlines
Familiarity breeds If you learn nothing else from 55 years of Doctor Who it is that people are people, no matter if they are blue, or encased in metal, or are sentient mollusc planets escaping their own universe, or humans living in India in 1947. Thus, I don't understand the outcry about the focus on … Continue reading Doctor Who: Borderlines
Doctor Who: R&R
With any ongoing narrative, it's easy to think about each episode or series, or producer era in terms of like or dislike. I hate Moffat, some declare, others loved Amy and Rory. OK. These declarations are personal judgements, informed by individual preferences, biases and understandings, hence debating them is endless and circular. People don't change … Continue reading Doctor Who: R&R
Doctor Who: Sympathy for the Devil
Motivations We knew this would happen. New companions of The Doctor would return to Sheffield and from there, make a decision to keep going. In terms of Joseph Campbell Hero's Journey schema, heroes are called, get help (The Doctor), and then may resist the call (go home) but then decides to cross the threshold. The … Continue reading Doctor Who: Sympathy for the Devil
Doctor Who: Balancing Act
In Rosa Doctor Who achieved the balance between education, personalisation, new stories, and call backs. The Doctor Calls It's a new era but the comforting sense of continuity um, continues, with call backs to the Storm Cage, Perception Filters and a Vortex Manipulator. New viewers won't care these have a provenance, while everyone else will … Continue reading Doctor Who: Balancing Act
Doctor Who: Salad Days
Shipping steel There was plenty to relish in the first episode to feature Jodie Whittaker's Doctor The Woman Who Fell to Earth. These included the entirety of Whittaker's performance, but also the score, camera work and colour palette, and The Doctor building things, in addition to the sets. Plus Salad Man. The locations for filming … Continue reading Doctor Who: Salad Days
Rewatch: Alien/s
I rewatched the Alien franchise (the first four films). They speak about how humans incubate fears of the dark, the unknown, of disappearing, of birth, change, life and death. Probably, I'd insert a quote from Helene Cixous or Luce Irigaray here about language, myth, the body and sexuality, but you know... Anywho, these films are … Continue reading Rewatch: Alien/s
We know what we are, but not what we may be
Every now and then I become aware of my hollowness. I'm hollow but not like a log that was once a healthy tree. No. I'm hollow like a vessel made to be filled up by something else. I take on the interests of others to fill out this human form and to make up for … Continue reading We know what we are, but not what we may be
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