Some interesting responses to my “glowing arse” (thanks @JimTheFish !) post. I just wanted to say that with respect to:

@purofilion

Then there’s Farscape as Phaseshift’s suggestion so I’ll eventually watch that too.

And @JimTheFish

Maybe Mr @Phaseshift could be prevailed upon for a blog to get us all going.

I’d be happy to lead the choir of peopl…[Read more]

@phaseshift — not had the chance to look at Penny Dreadful yet, although Mrs Fish is piling the pressure on to do so.It’s getting a bit tricky these days, what with all the decent stuff that Netflix keeps piling on.

@ichabod — Don’t judge the LoEG based on the film, the original graphic novels are pretty damn excellent, much smarter and…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

I noticed your mention of EC comics and the Comics Code. Interesting that the League books were written by Alan Moore, and that his run on DC’s supernatural Saga of the Swamp Thing was the first major run that saw one of the publishers say “to hell with this”. It’s rightly well regarded and recommended.

I only know the “League…[Read more]

@phaseshift   Good summation.  The only major overlooks were Battlestar Galactica, the remake series, which was also created as an Anti-Trek, and a ‘take that’ to Roddenberry’s optimism.   Very much a Trek for the noughties and an embattled, combative, paranoid America.

There’s also Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, which is basically another vers…[Read more]

@Phaseshift

Like @JimTheFish, I find a little space opera goes a long way. Blakes 7 I loved, Red Dwarf I could either take or leave. I made a valiant attempt to watch Star Trek: Enterprise, and Star Trek: NG, largely because I’d seen most of the original Star Trek. But Enterprise was a bit – well, pants, to be honest. And Next Generation was…[Read more]

@purofilion, @phaseshift and @janetteb —

A pretty spot-on summation from @phaseshift (hereafter known as the Glowing-Arse Argument). I find a little space opera goes a long way for me. I tend towards TOS, find TNG occasionally inspired but tediously humourless and pompous for the most part. Quite liked DS9 — and really do rate episodes like…[Read more]

@PhaseShift. Thank you for that summary. You have explained perfectly just why I never warmed to Star Trek in any of its incarnations.

@JimTheFish I’ll second that nomination for a re-watch of The Crow Road. (I haven’t been keeping up with the Capaldi retrospective but will certainly enjoy that.) And hope you enjoy JS&MN when you get round to…[Read more]

@phaseshift — I’m about halfway through Daredevil — hence Jonathan Strange getting put on the back-burner and so far I’m really impressed. I’ve been having definite superhero fatigue in terms of movies at the moment but this is really a breath of fresh air. I thought Henson took a couple of episodes to get really comfortable but I’m really…[Read more]

I think the chemistry on Firefly is just a fluke of the cast really getting on with each other. If you listen to some of the commentaries with the cast involved, you’ll hear the same thing. Not to say that the teams on Angel or Buffy didn’t get on (and there were occasional problems going by the scuttlebutt) but there seemed to be a bonding here…[Read more]

@burrunjor—

I’ve fixed all the stray and unbroken html in your above posts. It’s something to watch out for when you’re cutting and pasting from elsewhere.

First of all, thank you for making your points in a less inflammatory and more thoughtful manner. It’s very much appreciated.

Needless to say, I don’t really agree with them but there’s…[Read more]

Hear, hear, @purofilion.

@DenValdron — there’s no doubt in my mind that @burronjor was engaged in a trolling exercise and merely sock-puppetting the same crappy views that he’d been espousing on other sites.I believe @phaseshift and others were 100% correct in the way they treated them and I certainly make no apology for any of my posts on this…[Read more]

@Phaseshift    Go watch ‘How To Stop a Timelord.’   Regarding the prior discussion, I have no particular wish to re-engage in it, it was moving onto an unpleasant threshold.

I will make a general comment.  Recently I was in an argument over an American case.  Basically some numbskull jurisdiction fell under the sway of the NRA, and passed a law t…[Read more]

@PhaseShift     Great post. I couldn’t agree more with Letts and Dicks that the “brothers” relationship would have been so boring. I read about that backstory for the Eighth Doctor movie long ago, and like you was relieved that it remained only a backstory, because while I didn’t love everything about the movie, what we got was better than that s…[Read more]

@PhaseShift and @JimTheFish I’ll second the latter’s assessment…

Cheers

Janette

Basically, what @phaseshift said. First class post.

@phaseshift I apologise if I came off like I was just having a quick snipe at the new series. I was trying to say that one of the reasons I like this story is that their is no assistant, which gives it a unique feel compared to other stories, especially more recent ones which seem to focus on Clara more than the Doctor, not that it’s always a bad…[Read more]

@phaseshift — I also wonder if there’s a case for a series of blogs on the various producer eras of the show, or whether the Faces of the Doctor thread does the job of covering that….

@phaseshift — I think a blog is an excellent idea. Both Holmes and Hulke — and Dicks, I’d argue — deserve a bit of serious examination.

I also can’t believe we’ve not covered The Ark in Space in a BG gap rewatch yet. That’s surely something of an oversight.

@Phaseshift — good point about Holmes’s ‘second tier’ villains. They were always well-written, as were his ‘lovable rogues’ like Glitz, Garron etc. I think Holmes was always influenced by pulp tales/movies in his Who work and so his ultimate villains were somewhat in the moustache-twirling tradition and he wasn’t that interested in delving too…[Read more]