tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.comments2023-07-05T02:46:59.740-07:00A Madman With a Box (Without a Box)John Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07530526320973807452noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-90536339284494051552020-04-30T19:23:21.763-07:002020-04-30T19:23:21.763-07:00Are you tired of being human, having talented brai...Are you tired of being human, having talented brain turning to a vampire in a good posture in ten minutes, Do you want to have power and influence over others, To be charming and desirable, To have wealth, health, without delaying in a good human posture and becoming an immortal? If yes, these your chance. It's a world of vampire where life get easier,We have made so many persons vampires and have turned them rich, You will assured long life and prosperity, You shall be made to be very sensitive to mental alertness, Stronger and also very fast, You will not be restricted to walking at night only even at the very middle of broad day light you will be made to walk, This is an opportunity to have the human vampire virus to perform in a good posture. If you are interested contact us on Vampirelord7878@gmail.comLord Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08802168788305626209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-3011549204143230562020-04-30T19:23:11.781-07:002020-04-30T19:23:11.781-07:00Are you tired of being human, having talented brai...Are you tired of being human, having talented brain turning to a vampire in a good posture in ten minutes, Do you want to have power and influence over others, To be charming and desirable, To have wealth, health, without delaying in a good human posture and becoming an immortal? If yes, these your chance. It's a world of vampire where life get easier,We have made so many persons vampires and have turned them rich, You will assured long life and prosperity, You shall be made to be very sensitive to mental alertness, Stronger and also very fast, You will not be restricted to walking at night only even at the very middle of broad day light you will be made to walk, This is an opportunity to have the human vampire virus to perform in a good posture. If you are interested contact us on Vampirelord7878@gmail.comLord Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08802168788305626209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-6491478072796994442020-04-30T19:22:53.778-07:002020-04-30T19:22:53.778-07:00Are you tired of being human, having talented brai...Are you tired of being human, having talented brain turning to a vampire in a good posture in ten minutes, Do you want to have power and influence over others, To be charming and desirable, To have wealth, health, without delaying in a good human posture and becoming an immortal? If yes, these your chance. It's a world of vampire where life get easier,We have made so many persons vampires and have turned them rich, You will assured long life and prosperity, You shall be made to be very sensitive to mental alertness, Stronger and also very fast, You will not be restricted to walking at night only even at the very middle of broad day light you will be made to walk, This is an opportunity to have the human vampire virus to perform in a good posture. If you are interested contact us on Vampirelord7878@gmail.comLord Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08802168788305626209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-13257536726024425412020-04-30T19:22:08.523-07:002020-04-30T19:22:08.523-07:00Are you tired of being human, having talented brai...Are you tired of being human, having talented brain turning to a vampire in a good posture in ten minutes, Do you want to have power and influence over others, To be charming and desirable, To have wealth, health, without delaying in a good human posture and becoming an immortal? If yes, these your chance. It's a world of vampire where life get easier,We have made so many persons vampires and have turned them rich, You will assured long life and prosperity, You shall be made to be very sensitive to mental alertness, Stronger and also very fast, You will not be restricted to walking at night only even at the very middle of broad day light you will be made to walk, This is an opportunity to have the human vampire virus to perform in a good posture. If you are interested contact us on Vampirelord7878@gmail.comLord Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08802168788305626209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-66142825503311576652020-04-30T19:21:52.681-07:002020-04-30T19:21:52.681-07:00Are you tired of being human, having talented brai...Are you tired of being human, having talented brain turning to a vampire in a good posture in ten minutes, Do you want to have power and influence over others, To be charming and desirable, To have wealth, health, without delaying in a good human posture and becoming an immortal? If yes, these your chance. It's a world of vampire where life get easier,We have made so many persons vampires and have turned them rich, You will assured long life and prosperity, You shall be made to be very sensitive to mental alertness, Stronger and also very fast, You will not be restricted to walking at night only even at the very middle of broad day light you will be made to walk, This is an opportunity to have the human vampire virus to perform in a good posture. If you are interested contact us on Vampirelord7878@gmail.comLord Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08802168788305626209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-22530590833067147612016-07-29T23:21:57.040-07:002016-07-29T23:21:57.040-07:00Sounds like About Time. Shame Lawrence Miles didn&...Sounds like About Time. Shame Lawrence Miles didn't continue with that. His opinions were rubbish on anything outside the show and his graps of science is hilarious but his critique of the show - which is what I bought them for - was very good.<br /><br />Never heard of the one your friends wrote.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04355521785297533930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-58782964790470126642016-07-29T23:14:09.637-07:002016-07-29T23:14:09.637-07:00Lawrence Miles is essentially the silent partner i...Lawrence Miles is essentially the silent partner in all Moffat's efforts on Doctor Who. The sooner Moffat is gone, the better.<br /><br />I don't like the Miles take on Who, I think it is patently classical fan fiction and has no place in a broader storytelling environment such as television. Ironically, because fan fiction "wow" moments are all incredibly limiting for future stories.<br /><br />Far better to keep all the operatic things big and far off and keep it on a smaller scale for most of the time in the show itself.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04355521785297533930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-59965088141164560672015-04-30T14:10:13.258-07:002015-04-30T14:10:13.258-07:00I'm not necessarily sure that "praise&quo...I'm not necessarily sure that "praise" is the right word--Hartnell's more or less just trying to use schtick to make it seem as though more is happening on the screen than it is, which makes sense given how weird and disconnected that first episode is. But there's something very modern about that--Tennant and Smith both pump up their energy levels to "manic" when they're saddled with a crap script ('Age of Steel' and 'Curse of the Black Spot' come to mind), and I think you see Hartnell here for the first time trying to just muscle through a dodgy bit with sheer charisma. It's neither good nor bad, it just is.John Seaveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07530526320973807452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-91104762290597144132015-04-28T14:10:44.419-07:002015-04-28T14:10:44.419-07:00I find it interesting that you praised Hartnell...I find it interesting that you praised Hartnell's performance in this story. In my own write-up, I was much more critical -- not of Hartnell himself, I love the man & think his technical genius as an actor is criminally underrated. But this script gives him nothing to do and doesn't play up to any one of his strengths as an actor. Here's what I wrote 2 years ago:<br /><br />*****<br /><br />The first clue to the disaster is William Hartnell’s performance. We’re just coming off a masterful comedic turn for the Doctor, in which he effortlessly delivered rapid-fire witticisms. In The Web Planet, though, there is one and only one moment in which Hartnell gets to do what he does best:<br /><br />[The Doctor has confiscated Ian’s belt in order to conduct a scientific experiment on a pool of acid]<br />Ian: Hope my pants stay up.<br />The Doctor: That’s your affair, not mine!<br /><br />Hartnell’s performance in the rest of the story is dissociated and absent, presumably because he could make neither heads or tails of the script. Starting with the lengthy TARDIS sequence that opens Episode 1, he seems to be inventing every line of dialogue on the fly, over-rely on humming, “hah”-ing, and muttering “Dear, dear, dear”, to cover the fact that he just can’t deliver Bill Strutton’s poorly-written technobabble.<br /><br />*****<br /><br />My view of the story didn't improve with Episodes 2 through 6, suffice to say ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-89551839064934921572015-04-23T19:03:11.102-07:002015-04-23T19:03:11.102-07:00Wow, I'd totally forgotten about the existence...Wow, I'd totally forgotten about the existence of this collection (and I've never even read it!) The table of contents looks like an index of Who Was Who on rec.arts.drwho in the mid/late '90s, with a bunch of other Virgin/BBC Books authors in for good measure. A happier time, when "Doctor Who" was a smaller, more self-contained property, and still belonged to "us" fans!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-33242253173919908302015-04-21T12:36:58.810-07:002015-04-21T12:36:58.810-07:00Actually it was a category error; I meant to inclu...Actually it was a category error; I meant to include "Planet" and "Death" both as complete but missed (along with "Invasion of the Dinosaurs"), but screwed up. It's fixed now, thanks for pointing it out!John Seaveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07530526320973807452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-52732899666184192632015-04-20T14:55:37.850-07:002015-04-20T14:55:37.850-07:00I think you may have flip-flopped two Dalek storie...I think you may have flip-flopped two Dalek stories, "Death to" and "Planet Of". Death is complete. Planet was "missing" Episode Three for years, as only the B&W version existed; it was screened incomplete on PBS and the B&W episode didn't get a commercial release until about 15 years ago.<br /><br />Many of the stories you missed entirely are well worth missing... however, I'm quite looking forward to your reactions to "War Machines" and "Enemy of the World".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-33120718146426305712015-04-16T12:47:46.185-07:002015-04-16T12:47:46.185-07:00I felt like my predecessors had already covered th...I felt like my predecessors had already covered that particular issue as well as it could be covered. :)John Seaveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07530526320973807452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-41311585843638674382015-04-14T17:02:39.267-07:002015-04-14T17:02:39.267-07:00What, no comment about the Ian/Barbara sex comedy ...What, no comment about the Ian/Barbara sex comedy also lurking beneath the surface of this story, as barely-disguised subtext? :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-50601277149415574942014-09-02T04:29:31.924-07:002014-09-02T04:29:31.924-07:00I ahev already watched the reconstruction of this ...I ahev already watched the reconstruction of this twice, but you make me want to watch it all over again!Talliferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08541684895097153972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-56404966495383417062014-08-21T00:34:50.782-07:002014-08-21T00:34:50.782-07:00I heard that the Enemy was going to be revealed to...I heard that the Enemy was going to be revealed to be the Great One from "Planet of the Spiders" as she hadn't died due to the events of on Dust in "Interference."Quenkaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05158191122873678496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-85939790825653783732014-08-21T00:30:49.293-07:002014-08-21T00:30:49.293-07:00The Doctor's death is described in some detail...The Doctor's death is described in some detail in "Alien Bodies."<br />After doing a lot of research its pretty clear to me that Morbius is indeed the Imperator.<br />If you remember that there is more then one Gallifrey, and that the Faction Skulltroopers who invade Gallifrey are from the far future of the Time War, its pretty easy to reconcile "The Ancestor Cell" with the rest of the Faction Paradox stories. Quenkaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05158191122873678496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-32850363534906039212014-06-22T14:07:22.631-07:002014-06-22T14:07:22.631-07:00It's so much fun to go back and read these thi...It's so much fun to go back and read these things to see how fan expectations lined up with reality. Michael Healyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17574157895104724805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-3934739787068912872014-06-15T17:09:00.801-07:002014-06-15T17:09:00.801-07:00Probably just me but I always got the vague idea t...Probably just me but I always got the vague idea that there was some connection between the Doctor and Robert Scarratt, just little things like claiming to have served on two different sides of one war which recalls the Third Doctors Napoleon/Wellington comment and the whole washer woman thing. Scarratt comes across as a militarised Doctor type. In my own head cannon he was to the Doctor what the Doctor was to the Other. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03321428346312260676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-14042657333575942282013-12-10T13:20:12.754-08:002013-12-10T13:20:12.754-08:00I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed ...<br /> I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed the possible Miles references in "The End of Time" and "The Impossible Astronaut." I'd like to direction some potential suspicious towards "The Big Bang", where the TARDIS is referred to as "old, new, borrowed, and blue". Miles described it as such in "The Adventuress of Henrietta Street". And while most people think of the War in Heaven's human TARDISes when discussing "The Doctor's Wife", there's also Miles' short story "Toy Story" where the Doctor's TARDIS uses Compassion as a mouthpiece.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03860185369779641240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-1168278826063866802013-10-30T05:44:17.160-07:002013-10-30T05:44:17.160-07:00I haven't read any Doctor Who book, but Lawren...I haven't read any Doctor Who book, but Lawrence Miles name came up in a Den of Geek list and so I Googled him. I came across this excellent essay about him and I now cannot wait to read his Doctor Who novels. Thanks Shawn Lukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01639620554856725330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-14165875148493280892013-09-05T20:32:01.977-07:002013-09-05T20:32:01.977-07:00You are a terrible person, John.You are a terrible person, John.Elizabeth Sandiferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18337209180846868581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-58021724437721244922013-06-14T00:32:31.719-07:002013-06-14T00:32:31.719-07:00I have to add a passing mention to XKCD's rule...I have to add a passing mention to XKCD's rule about relationships, which says that if the older of a couple is age A, then the younger should be no younger than A/2+7. So it's OK for a 20-year-old to be with a 17-year-old (20/2+7 = 17) but unthinkable for a 30-year-old to have a paramour younger than 22. I always managed to stick to that rule, so I think it makes sense.<br /><br />Romana claimed to be 140 when the Doctor was allegedly 760, so clearly he wasn't sticking to the rule, the lecherous old goat...Eric TF Bathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17877525364475334374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-32110527060774478532013-06-13T20:41:08.560-07:002013-06-13T20:41:08.560-07:00No, some weird formatting got in there by accident...No, some weird formatting got in there by accident. Stripped it out, so it should be far more readable now.John Seaveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07530526320973807452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519191628472859985.post-53071543222482632922013-06-12T09:21:09.094-07:002013-06-12T09:21:09.094-07:00The black lettering is hard to read on my screen; ...The black lettering is hard to read on my screen; was the change from white to black on purpose?magidinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12255841033538755123noreply@blogger.com