Years ago, my friend Michael had a game. Take a movie or television show. Then imagine the TARDIS materializing. There are some stories you can look at and say, “This is a Doctor Who story; all it needs is the Doctor.” The game works best with a “base under siege”-type structure, so common to theContinue reading “On Non-Who TARDIS Companions”
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On the Second Season of The Tudors
Arriving today from Amazon, the second season of The Tudors. I bought the first season about a year ago on a blind buy. It looked like the kind of thing I’d like, and it turned out to be the kind of thing I do like. Oh, any resemblence between The Tudors and the reign ofContinue reading “On the Second Season of The Tudors”
On a Week-End Round-Up
Another week beginning, another week done to recap. 🙂 Last Sunday, I discovered that former British PM Harold Saxon has declared his candidacy to be President of the United States. My reaction? How does this even work? Not only is Saxon an alien from another planet, but his wife shot and killed him, and hisContinue reading “On a Week-End Round-Up”
On Tudor Costume Dramas
Late last week I was laid low by the flu, a ferocious illness that took my internal gyroscopes and hid them somewhere. I spent the two solid days in bed, and as such I decided I would watch some DVDs that I’d left neglected — The Tudors, the Showtime series based on Henry VIII’s earlyContinue reading “On Tudor Costume Dramas”